I know for a fact that today's release of Mac OS X 10.7.3 fixes completely and for good the bugs that were causing the computer to blow steam like crazy and become far too slow when many paizo pdf files were opened in Preview.
It works as it should now, certainly far smoother than Adobe Reader does.
Hope that helps.
Until you read yesterday's and today's news and find out about all the new bugs the crept in. Especially for the Rosseta breaking 10.6.8 security update.
Not the best quality control going on over at Apple form software right now.
Until you read yesterday's and today's news and find out about all the new bugs the crept in. Especially for the Rosseta breaking 10.6.8 security update.
Not the best quality control going on over at Apple form software right now.
Can't speak for that (who uses PPC software anymore anyway?), but the Preview bug is fixed.
I do. My father in academia. Several legacy education programs used at my work. Actually that makes up the bulk of people still using PowerPC software. Schools and academia. Two groups that, through a combination of a lack of time and money, don't upgrade software every two or three years. This leads to a progressive falling behind, and especially in school settings generally the person who made the original document is either not around anymore or has not way of actually moving the content forward.
You also see the same issue crop up in business both small and large on the Windows side (because Windows was the adopted software of business). Sometimes there just isn't a viable path forward.
If I'm not mistaken, Apple had declared PPC software support at End Of Life status as of 10.6.
The Education institutions had been upgrading hardware for years. It's the failure of their IT departments to put the hammer down on the software support vendors for not keeping up to snuff.
IF the software wasn't going to be upgraded, then the schools in question should have kept their systems on 10.5.
If only vendors could get pushed around like that. Maybe then we'd have had faster upgrade to our primary internal database system which goes loopy if you try to use anything other then Firefox 3.5.3. And yes, our IT has been bothering them about this since Firefox 3.6. Two years of gnat sized hammering later... they "say" the next version will support Firefox 10... amazing, just in time for Firefox 12 to come out of beta.
This is not uncommon at all as eduction vendors do not give a s*** about anyone smaller then well funded/large public/private universities, or large state K-12 educational systems. Everyone else takes a back seat. And it's not just software, but books and materials publishers as well.
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For your knowledge 10.6 is the last Mac OS which supports PPC code. To have that support vanish in a security update yanked the rug out from many who had been staying on it, for nearly 3 years now. Fortunately Apple fixed what they goofed.
10.6 is going to be hanging around in pockets or as secondary boot drives for at least a decade, about as long as people have kept other legacy systems alive. Unlike OS 9 it seems that it may be possible that 3rd party support in the form of Virtual Machine packages will be able to step.
Now if Apple was willing to open some of the code base of older per Intel Mac OSs to 3rd parties for creating such VMs perhaps we'd find a good solution. It's not like an i5 processor doesn't have the juice to power it's way through emulation of a 68k processor.