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Just got this email from support. Thanks for the heads up support team.

QuoteDear Valued Customer,

Esko Artwork would like to inform you that Apple will release Mac OS 10.5 Leopard this Friday 10/26/07. Esko Artwork had done some preliminary test using this version of Mac OS 10.5 and found that there are some incompatible issues with this version of Mac OS 10.5 and latest version of AWS products. Esko Artwork is currently addressing these issues and we should have them fix in the next release.

Here is a list on what we had founded from our preliminary test done using the latest AWS products and Mac OS 10.5. Please notes that these are test that were done in our environment and may not yield the same result in your environment.

- ArtPro on 10.5
==> ArtPro crash while closing the program (will be solved in 8.6 rev2)

- Nexus on 10.5
==> OK

- NexusManager on 10.5
==> OK

- Odystar on 10.5
==> OK

- Odystar Inspector on 10.5
==> New Canvas, archive does not work

- Neo 1.1.6 on 10.5
==> OK

- Neo 1.2 on 10.5
==> NDS configuration does not work

- inPDF on 10.5
==> inPDf installer ends up with a failure (it doesn't write plug-in into the plug-ins folder of Illustrator)
==> Work around for this: copy those plug-ins manually placed it in the plug-ins folder of Illustrator

- WebWay 5 on 10.5
==> AP Viewer crashes during startup and other components crash on quit

- DotSpy 3.0 on 10.5
==> OK

Esko Artwork ask that you would hold off on doing the OS 10.5 upgrade for now if you could but if you have to buy a new Mac and it come with 10.5 then proceed and let us know if you found any incompatible issues. We will continues to do more testing and fix incompatible issues as we discovered them just like we did when Tiger and or Panther OS came out.


Regards,
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Support Department
EskoArtwork
Tel. +1 215 826 4520 - Fax +1 215 826 4515
219A Rittenhouse Circle - Bristol, PA 19007 - USA
http://www.esko.com
support@aws-us.com - http://www.artwork-systems.com

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I think this might have been posted at PPF previously but I think it's worth a sticky here. Send it to your customers too.

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