I have some customers claiming I should be able to open their Mac zip disks. They tell me they saved their files as something my PC will read....but every time I put their zip disk in the tray...the screen reads "DISK NOT FORMATTED...WOULD YOU LIKE TO FORMATT NOW?"
So, if their is such a program to read Mac, what is it and where does one go buy it?
Thanks in advance
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They may be saving the images in the right format but there still using a Mac formatted disc. They (or you) can format the Zip as a Windoz disc and that should take care of your problem. Macs can read either format, pc's can't without some conversion software.
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I've been using a product called "MacDrive 98". http://www.media4.com/ It runs memory-resident and works with mac-formatted media quite seamlessly. Most times, you don't even know it's working. If you put in a Mac-formatted disk, it just shows up in explorer as any other disk, but it puts a little apple atop the drive icon to indicate it's a mac disk. You can buy it at Egghead or any of the online software retailers, as well as probably your local Best Buy or the like.
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I know you have recently aquired Gerbers Omega software..I run GA 6.0 I have problems with mac files occasionally. I have Conversions Plus from Dataviz.com. I also have Freehand 8.0 and Adobe Illustrator 8, and find if as normal for use in GA software I am in receipt of a mac file in eps or ai that I have problem accepting in the Gerber software, for whatever reason, I open it in FH8 or Illustrator change it to something acceptable and off you go. You can also ask your customers using Mac to save files in those programs for use in PC as you can in a PC for the Mac. I have also found e-mailing files from Mac to PC was easier than loading from a diskette or CD. I understand that some of your files maybe too large if you are printing on your Edge....I have Zip drive but never use it...have a CD burner instead....much cheaper media and 650mb of capacity....worth a look next time you go shopping Dave!
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posted April 18, 2000 08:56 PM
We have had great success with this. Newer MAC operating systems can either format or write to PC formatted media, or both and if they export eps or ai or tif files we have imported no problem.
We also use "MAC in DOS", a clunky and slow cross platform file processor that works if we get a MAC disk.
We also have "Conversions Plus" which adveritised we could "convert virtually any file" accross platforms but they are word processing guys I guess cause only the most common graphic file types are supported.
The biggest problem we have found is the attitudes and the lack of savvy about vector files. Specify an eps file and they will give you a bitmap embedded in an eps file!
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posted April 18, 2000 11:22 PM
make it easy on yourself! Insist on a pc formatted disk. I get files from designers all the time, in fact I just got a cable modem so that they can simply be e-mailed no matter the size. I usually will have them export it to an illustrator EPS file which most applications can open (Corel, Flexi, or worst case illustrator itself (which I cany stand )). But the trick is to have them put it on a PC disk or zip. thats all... have fun
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posted April 19, 2000 02:42 AM
http://www.ardi.com/download.html Dave, The program is called executor. it converts your pc into a mac (or puts a mac operating system on your pc) so you can read mac disks. you can also set it up to run mac based programs. This is a 30 day demo. Havin' fun, Checkers
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posted April 20, 2000 10:40 AM
Dave, if your computer can read the disk in question than Adobe Illustrator 7 or 8 can more than likely open the files. Just double click on the file in Windows Explorer having installed Illustrator first. If you can't read the disk, have your customer save the file as a PC file. If you still want to open MAC Disks on a PC, they make several programs that will do that.
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posted April 20, 2000 12:10 PM
Have the customer Email an .eps or .ai!!!! Called on a customer who has a logo to be done on their wall...they use a Mac and noone was in who could make a copy on a floppy disc in PC format. We agreed that they would email me a copy... the copy came in as a .jpg ... it was all lines and no color (unusable). called and had them send it as an .eps... PREFECT! Emailed copies eliminate the problem with disc formats. Werks fer me!
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