I finally had to purchase office 2011 for Mac. Too many problems with comments, hyperlinks and other peripheral items with an older version that relied on a conversion utility to read dock files. Since it's my livelihood, I decided not to experiment with open office or other alternatives. So that opened the way for an upgrade to opsys 10.7, Lion. Good enough. Except that obsoleted my trusty Spider 2 Express calibration tool, which has kept my monitors palette right in sync with my printers for years. Seems it only works on Macs with 10.6 and earlier.
Since I had so much good luck with that product, i purchased Spier Pro 4 from B&H for $169. It nailed the color palette, and since it also sets luminance, I didn't have to do the fiddly workaround to set the brightness that I previously employed. What's more, it will calibrate a second monitor, so my Apple Cinema Display 21 now matches the iMac 27. Not absolutely necessary, since I use it mainly for tools and function windows with PhotoShop, but a nice convenience. I'm pleased. That brings us back to the Spider 2 Express. As I said, it does a good job on color calibration, at least it did on all my Macs. I think it works on all PCs, but not sure about that. It's free to anyone in the U.S. who wants to pay postage. Hate to discriminate against those in other places, but you probably don't want to fool around with potential custom problems and postage that almost exceeds the worth of the item. Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
