[softwarelist] Re: Win OvPro

[David - this is resent because I sent it from a non-list subscribed
email address; no need to forward the old on one!]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:03:57pm +0100, Jack Evans wrote:
> On 25 May, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In message <5060fbe58ddave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Symes
> > <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> > >Ah Well! Stuck with RO and MS Windows for eternity. Dave
> 
> > That is one of the jokes, I would cheerfully throw away Windows, but I
> > use OP and there is no Linux version of it, I also can program most
> > effectively on Windows.
> 
> > I know I could move to Linux (or the Mac) but it would take a lot of
> > time and effort.
> 
> Pity, David but I understand. As an alternative has anyone tried running
> OPW on a Mac emulating Windows with Parallels or Fusion?
> 
> I depend heavily on OP running on an Iyonix right now but for the future
> want to ditch Windows in favour of the Mac OS - as a possible soluiton,
> -would that be a bridge too far?

Ovation Pro works great with Parallels. There is one thing though that I        
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
have found: you really need to use it with a network printer as                 
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
otherwise when you print it goes postscript -> Windows Printer Driver ->        
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
OS X Printer Driver and all of that filtering can really mess things up,        
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
particularly with colours. We've just bought a network colour laser             
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
printer just for this reason.                                                   
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
FWIW, Ovation Pro prints far better on it than Word on both a                   
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
virtualized windows or Word on OS X. I suspect that wouldn't be too much        
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                           
of a surprise!

-- 
Toby
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