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Mac OSX Leopard Bug Reports
December 20, 2007

We interrupt this “long Green blog” for a bug report. There are growing reports of issues with the latest Mac OSX software including PDF issues. This is clear on the online forums. On the Apple Leopard support page there are over 400K installation and setup discussions, over 375K Mac OSX Leopard discussions, over 200K mail and address discussions and over 170K online and networking discussions.

The is also issues being dissussed on the Adobe page on both the Leopard support page as well as the Acrobat page. Other sources are reporting networking and security issues. While many of the issues outlined here may not be related to our business - some are very relevant. One relevant issue is the loss in the funictionality of the Adobe PDF 8 printer as well as the PDFMaker tool (Microsoft Office PDF buttom).

This means it may become harder for us to make PDF files for our PDF workflows. More importantly it may become harder for our customers to make PDF files and may result in PDF files made via the Mac OSX Quartz engine (PDF button in the left side bottom corner of the print dialog box), not the best PDF tool and not exactly the direction we want to take our customers.

There seems to be a permissions problem which is discussed on the forums and some software that is supposed to work but I am hearing mixed results. I contacted Adobe and here is thier response.

“From what I best understand, the issue stems from a failure of Apple’s OS development team to maintain application compatibility from Mac OS 10.4.x to 10.5.x. There are a whole bunch of these types of issues. I believe that we will be issuing an Acrobat update to work around the Mac OS deficiency, although I don’t have a date for that. In the meantime, there are two workarounds. The first is to create PostScript to file as opposed to the AdobePDF printer and manually distill it. The second is a variant of the first, but in this scenario, you use the “watched folders” capability of Distiller to automatically pickup and distill PostScript files saved to a designated 'watched folder.'”

There are also rumors out of Apple beta testing the next "bug zapping" version Leopard aka 10.5.2. So you may want to wait for the updates to Acrobat and Leopard before installing the new Mac OS.

Posted by Howie Fenton on December 20, 2007 | Comments (1)