Hi, I am new to this forum and starting to work with a company who still uses an old version of Preps (5.2). I will be working as a backup during the holidays or sickness. But I noticed that getting to learn Preps is hard so I was wondering if someone has a copy of 5.2/3 for me for educational/training use at home.
At the office they work with preps windows but at home I have a mac. I like to have a copy to start using it at home so I can learn quicker. I have looked around but it is hard to find an old copy. I hope you can help me.
Cheers,
Larry
The Netherland.
Seeing as it's a registered pice of software I doubt you will be able to find someone here willing to face the wrath of the red K.
I know I had a demo of 5.3 ganging but it may have needed a dongle. I did do a google search and it turned up some demo downloads. Obviously run a virus scan on them before installing but the demos should let you create impos and other tasks but I don't think it will let you output a job file. For learning, that should work just fine.
The demo won't let you print or save anything but you can mess around with it. You would have to have a dongle to use all of the features. I probably still have the software somewhere. If you install it and run it without a dongle attached it will automatically run in demo mode so I don't think the big red K would care.
I was thinking that was the case but since I've been on floating licence since the EVO install I couldn't test if removing the dongle would put it into demo.
I looked through my box 'o old disks and found apogee series 3 and NT install disks but no Preps, sorry.
It is indeed just for pure practice. Getting to know how to work with it. I do not have the intention to use it otherwise than for practice.
Joe, if you have the software somewhere laying around I would sincerely appreciate it.
Cheers, Larry
Click here:
https://resources.kodak.com/services/132dd12/download2rnt.php?file=Preps_5-3-3_Mac_Installer.dmg
When downloaded run the enclosed "Kodak Download Manager" and it will download Preps 5.3.3 for you.
Hi Joe, thanks a lot. Does it run on mac osx yosemite?
No. Nothing above OS X 10.6.8. It is a PPC app. They do not run on OS X 10.7 and beyond.
Ok, thanks
Hi Joe, I bought a secondhand imac G5 1.8 Ghz, 768 ram osx 10.5.8. The kodak download manager sign displays a stop sign in it and telling me that the Kodak Download Manager can not be used with this version of osx.
What is wrong?
Larry
My guess is that OS X 10.5.8 is too old to run the Kodak Download Manager. Download it using your Yosemite Mac and then install it on the G5.
It is om the G5 now and after installing I get, by clicking on Preps, an exclamation telling me that there is a problem with my license. I neem to contact the Kodak response center. But it will not run in demo mode. Preps Ganging does. But I want Preps to be running in demo mode. And running preps in download is fine by me.
Hmmmm....not sure. I guess try copying the license file over from the Windows install you already have and see if it will run in demo mode then.
I have a PREPS dongle of that era here (Mac).. (are they split Mac/PC or all purpose?... dunno).
You can have it... worthless to us. PM me your address and I'll mail it to you.
I am old, and never want to touch PREPS or Dynastrip again. :old:
OK, while I'm here .. old guy story. Shanghai-born press helper, been with us about 20 years.. I show him my latest watch acquisition; pristine 70s Chunlei (Shanghai).. $50, got in from a Serbian watch nut on WatchUSeek forums. Beautiful watch (IMO, which is all that matters.
He says: "Hey, one like that... my first watch!"
Me: "Guess what... my last!" :rotf:
LarryWol, I think I'll step back slowly from that offer, heartfelt as it was. May be some, ahem, legal/licensing issues we'd rather not trip over.
My episodic contact with the Big Red K has never been felicitous; better not to push my luck.
There are online tutes, am sure; I've used them in the past. Let me pursue it; I'll post links if I find any.
Wa-ay back (12 years ago) I used prepresstraining.com for PREPS stuff. They were based in Minnesota, but may not even exist now, as it was before the lynda.com onslaught.
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They're now called Premedia Training Solutions. My guess is a short-term sub would do it.
Topics listed here.... (http://prepresstraining.com/courses/creopreps5.html)
.... looks like you can buy that topic/suite, no time limit. If that's the case, would be well worthwhile, as you could log in and learn/revise as needed.
Good luck with it.
Frailer, thanks anyway for the offer. I will look into Creo Preps. Upsetting the big K is not worth it.
cheers Larry
Creo is owned by Kodak.
Quote from: Farabomb on July 06, 2015, 01:51:09 PMCreo is owned by Kodak.
Yup...and it is now Kodak Preps.
I suspect the videos have not really been updated, but they'd still apply to you OK.
Kodak exists in The Matrix; it is watching you.
Frailer, is this just tutorials or can I can play with it or participate? If I can play arround then it is worth the dollars. But if it is just tuts then has no use for me. I like to practice myself. That is why, after all my trouble, I was a bit dissapointed that the preps demo did not work.
Larry
Did you try copying over the license file from your Windows install of Preps? If not, it should be in the Preps folder on Windows. It may be a hidden file so you may need to turn on the feature to view hidden files in Windows Explorer so you can see it and copy it over to the Mac.
One other thing you could try is if the dongle on your Windows PC is a USB dongle is to move the dongle over to the Mac and install Preps on the Mac entering your registration info on the Mac. Then you can use the full version on either Windows or a Mac just by moving the dongle around where needed. We did that for awhile back when we still used Preps with a dongle.
I too remember the times of throwing the dongle across prepress.
Hi guys, i do not have a windows dongle. I got myself registered on the kodak partner place and could download 5.3.3
But the strange thing is that if I run the downloadmanager of Kodak it says that the downloadmanager can not be installed on this version of osx (10.5.8). A prohibited sign is shown... :angry:
The machine I am installing it on is a G5 1.8ghz, 768 mb ram, 10.5.8
Why the sign!!
I tried downloading it on my Intel laptop and then saved it on a usb stick and then trying to install it on my G5....no luck!
Pfff....
You already tried it once and it wouldn't run right? It is because OS X 10.5.8 is too old to run the download manager. Run the download manager on your newer mac and then copy the resulting .dmg file to your G5, extract the .pkg file and then install Preps from that.
Hi Joe, you are quite right. I tried it again with the software I downloaded from the partner place....
and the same thing happened. After clicking on the Preps icon and opening screen the message "There is a problem with your license" appears...
Hence why you need to copy the license file from your working copy of Preps.
Thnx Joe. Will try it.