Terry & Claire Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not understood whether it's easy or hard > to flip back and forth between a document that runs better (or only) on > 9.2.2 and another one that runs best in X/Jag/Panther. For example, I want > to transition from PageMaker 5 to InDesign 2. PageMaker 5 might not run in > X/Jag/Panther. InDesign 2 does, per the box. Since it does, and since I'm > trying to be progressive, I should run it on X. But there are months of > work created on PageMaker 5 in 9.2.2 that I will be referring back to for > months to come.
See below in my fourth paragraph. I know nothing about PageMaker and InDesign. But a few minutes pokeing around the Adobe web site tells me that PageMaker 5 is relatively ancient and therefore will not run in OS X. You can find support forums at: http://www.adobe.com/support/main.html where you can ask specific questions about how to work on a PageMaker 5 file with InDesign. At: http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/pm_ind.html it says that InDesign 2 "opens PageMaker 6.5-7.x documents directly so you can convert legacy templates and documents easily." I assume that means it will not open Pagemaker 5 documents directly. So maybe you can copy and paste from an open PageMaker document to an InDesign document. Or maybe there is some little conversion utility package that will move the PageMaker document to an InDesign format. Or worse of all, you may have to move the PageMaker 5 documents to a later version of PageMaker, like 6.5, that runs on 9.2.2 before InDesign can deal with it. Let's hope that is not the case. Before questioning the forums, I suggest you just try running both PageMaker 5 in Classic and InDesign at the same time and see if you can copy/paste. > Another example is e-mail. Tons of e-mails are saved in > tons of folders on IE -- do I have to keep hopping back and forth between IE > in 9.2.2 and something else in X to continue correspondence threads that are > not yet wrapped up? For mail, I think you mean Outlook Express or OE, and not Internet Explorer or IE which is your web browser. Do you remember ever moving your mail from Netscape or Eudora to OE or from an old version of OE like 4.0 or 4.5 to OE 5.0? There was an import feature in your latest OE that took the mail folders from the older mail package. In OS X, the new Apple Mail can do the same thing. I do not know the details. I understand the process is a little more involved than moving from OE 4.5 to 5.0. Maybe you have to export from OE first of all, but the instructions are available from Apple in Help and maybe at their web site. As a strategy for your e-mail, I suggest the first thing to do is make sure that your ISP, your internet service provider's server saves your mail on the server for a number of days. You can do that by checking the OE settings. If you have OE 5.0, go to Accounts under Tools. Double click on your account name(s). That will open the Edit Account window, but do not change anything in Account Settings. Click on the Options tab. There you can see where you check a box to leave messages on the server and there is another box to set the day limit. If you have an older version of OE, the specific buttom pushes may be different, check with Help. After this, you can retrieve your mail with OE and work with it as you usually do. Then you can open your Mail in Jaguar and retrieve that same mail again and play with it until you gain confidence in what is going on. Later, you can move all your old mail to the OS X Jaguar or Panther Mail and use that exclusively. > > I guess I could have 9.2.2, Classic, AND Panther. Then I could move things > to Classic a little at a time without deleting them from 9.2.2 and see if > they work. You really have 9.2.2 and Jaguar (or Panther). You do not move things to Classic. Your 9.2.2 applications stay where they are. The 9.2.2 files stay where they are. Classic is the name for what happens when you are running OS X Jag or Pan, and click the icon for an old file or your old 9.2.2 application. OS X continues to run on the machine. OS X calls up some 9.2.2 software so that the old 9.2.2 application (PageMaker 5) can run. You can run OS X applications and 9.2.2 applications at the same time with windows of each side by side if you have the space on your monitor or overlapping. > However, to help encourage myself to step deeper into the > Panther waters, it seems like I should load it on my iMac and leave 9.2.2 on > the external HD. To me, at this point, switching to Panther is about as > daunting as switching to Linux or PeeCees (which I know nothing about). It > feels like completely leaving everything behind and starting over. You can make your transition slowly, as you get more and more used to Jag/Pan. Things should work well enough with the Jaguar that you already have. If you like playing a bit like that, then you can invest in Panther and things will only get faster and better. Best of luck, -- Al Poulin -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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