Re: Moving from IBM to Mac

[William Gaffga <wilg -at- gibbscam -dot- com>]

FM 7 on Mac Os under Classic runs very well. However, The Mac version 
(7.0) is no longer available from Adobe's site. I don't know where 
you'll get it. Also, only the standard version of WebWorks Publisher is 
available on the Mac, the Pro version doesn't exist. If I recall 
correctly, the Java Help is created from the Pro version. Now, JavaHelp 
is platform independent 
<http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/faq.html>, but I don't know what 
tool is supported on Mac OS X as I don't develop Java stuff. You might 
want to start looking here 
<http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/industry.html>.

One big issue when moving from Windows to Mac or *nix will be fonts. 
Unless you are using OpenType fonts now, you will need to get new fonts 
or change your documents to use available fonts. Other than that, I 
have not experienced any issues between PC & Mac with fonts (except 
when someone tries to override our fonts or improperly adds content in 
another font we don't have ... then you have to chase down the 
offending font and eradicate it. Sometimes that is a real PITA.)

HTH.

Will.


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