Check your fonts. I would removed all loaded fonts and trash your font cache.

Quote from: Joe on January 12, 2010, 11:18:38 PMTried sending one through Prinergy but Prinergy won't touch it. It says it is not a valid input file type.. Here is an XPS file though if anyone want to give it a try.

NiXPS has a viewer for the Mac but it's not free. NiXPS View v3.0 for Mac

I figured Prinergy wouldn't handle it yet. Probably won't for a while and like someone else said... knowing Kodak it will be an $8k option.

I personally don't think XPS will make any appearance around here and an actual dent in Adobe PDF's hold on the industry.

Wow... I hope this is not true.

Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 04, 2009, 10:09:23 AM

Quote from: RiotMac on November 04, 2009, 09:14:53 AM

Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 04, 2009, 08:12:59 AM

Quote from: RiotMac on November 04, 2009, 07:23:46 AMI haven't touched or even thought about using OS 9 in years. I think the last time I may have used it was with 10.1. We don't have a single Mac running OS 9.

I really don't think there are too many people running OS 9 these days. I can't believe why anyone would... it really sucks compared to OS X.

You'd be surprised. OSX is superior in almost every way, but that has little to do with why it's still in use. Some prefer it, because they are ignorant or have never used OSX. Some don't know any better, and some just have a hard time getting out of comfortable PageMaker or Multi-Ad Creator. Whatever the reason, as long as customers supply jobs to me in older apps, I will continue to output from them. And to do that, I need OS9. We all do things different. That's what makes the Prepress world turn.

Like Tapdn, most of our customers (probably 95%) submit print ready PDFs. If they don't submit PDFs they get charged. Only native files we get are Quark and InDesign and occasionally Illustrator. If a customer was going to submit an old version of PageMaker or something I would just walk them through making a PDF.

It is not that hard to educate your customer on how to make a print ready PDF. I supply our customers with ID export presets and Quark print styles.

Could not disagree more. A customer IF he/she is able, willing and smart enough maybe. I don't deal with people like this too often. I'm getting PageMaker, Word, Excel, Multi-Ad Creator, CorelDraw, PowerPoint and Publisher jobs from receptionists, retired gardeners and out of work mechanics.

I get a 176 page PM job 4 times a year that is one of the most clusterfuck magazines I have ever seen. The support and links are screwed up, let's not even talk about the 176 folders for each individual page. All the images are also in their own folders. I have a mess to sort for a couple hours at least. The file is no better. My point, this woman pays us $100 an hour to fix all this. It takes me a full day to do the job, then another full day to do corrections. She has been told time and time again, but does not care in the slightest. Do I really want her generating her own PDFs?

All I'm saying is, if customers are willing to pay, I'm willing to take a step back in the time machine.

whoa... that job is a CF!

I guess it is easier dealing with our customers. Most are legit designers, but we still do get some that are blood sausages as you would say! Those are the ones still submitting native files.

Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 04, 2009, 08:12:59 AM

Quote from: RiotMac on November 04, 2009, 07:23:46 AMI haven't touched or even thought about using OS 9 in years. I think the last time I may have used it was with 10.1. We don't have a single Mac running OS 9.

I really don't think there are too many people running OS 9 these days. I can't believe why anyone would... it really sucks compared to OS X.

You'd be surprised. OSX is superior in almost every way, but that has little to do with why it's still in use. Some prefer it, because they are ignorant or have never used OSX. Some don't know any better, and some just have a hard time getting out of comfortable PageMaker or Multi-Ad Creator. Whatever the reason, as long as customers supply jobs to me in older apps, I will continue to output from them. And to do that, I need OS9. We all do things different. That's what makes the Prepress world turn.

Like Tapdn, most of our customers (probably 95%) submit print ready PDFs. If they don't submit PDFs they get charged. Only native files we get are Quark and InDesign and occasionally Illustrator. If a customer was going to submit an old version of PageMaker or something I would just walk them through making a PDF.

It is not that hard to educate your customer on how to make a print ready PDF. I supply our customers with ID export presets and Quark print styles.

I haven't touched or even thought about using OS 9 in years. I think the last time I may have used it was with 10.1. We don't have a single Mac running OS 9.

I really don't think there are too many people running OS 9 these days. I can't believe why anyone would... it really sucks compared to OS X.

I had some serious problems with networking in 10.6 when connecting to our windows 2003 file server over SMB. Tons of error messages when copying data. Also with resource forks, specifically with fonts. Seems a lot of people complaining about it on apple's support forums. I had to roll back to 10.5.8 via Time Machine. Hopefully 10.6.2 will fix this problem.

Not sure if this thread will help you... it did not help my problem, but yours is different.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2131955&start=60&tstart=0

Quote from: DCurry on October 09, 2009, 07:49:14 AM

Quote from: RiotMac on October 09, 2009, 06:35:28 AMWe run CA on all our Prinergy servers with no problems.

What is CA?

Anti-virus software. 

http://shop.ca.com/virus/antivirus_plus.aspx

We run CA on all our Prinergy servers with no problems.

I think you will have to do all the updates. I know that if you put them all in the same folder Prinergy's updater will install all of them in order at one time.

I originally did an upgrade of snow leopard, but reverted back to 10.5.8 via Time Machine because it broke too many applications (mainly Prinergy Workshop) and I needed to get work done that day.

I had some more free time on Friday and this week so I decided to to a fresh install and then get my user prefs and applications from my Time Machine backup. Workshop, CheckPoint VPN, and Quark 6, 7, and 8 were all broke. Workshop due to the updated java, this was fixed by installing v. 1.5. I was able to fix CheckPoint as well as Quark's problems.

Overall everything seems to be working very well under 10.6 now. It does seem faster.

However, I am experiencing a slow down over SMB to our Windows 2003 server while browsing in Finder. If a folder has a lot of files in it, Finder is slow to display the files.

Joe,
It sounds like Kodak doesn't have your service contact setup or at least on eCentral. This has happened to us a few times. Seems like when it is up for renewal they forget to reactivate or something and I have to call and confirm that our contract has been renewed. 

No problems on the client side. The server side is another story. Ended up rolling back to 10.5.6 via Time Machine. TM makes that real easy. 

No problems with fonts. Kodak recommended that I copy all files over from an AFP share to the new SMB share. I believe this brought over all the resource forks. I then ran the SMB converter tool in Prinergy's Administrator. I did run into some problems during Prinergy's conversion process... it error'd out on .DS_Store files. I deleted all of them and it ran fine after that.

We switched over to SMB from AFP and things have been running very well. That will save you the $1500 or whatever ExtremeZ IP costs.

I think that Prinergy actually prefers the SMB protocol. We started out using AFP on a Windows server and then switched to our Xserve running AFP. Kodak's support of the Xserve running 10.5 was horrible. Lots of random problems/slowdowns/crashes. I decided to switch back to our Windows 2003 server and use SMB and couldn't be happier.