Printready server and MacOS X 10.6.x

[prepressguru]

Hi gang

Looking for feed back using 10.6.4 with printready 4.5.1.x

I have updated 1 mac with 10.6.4 but what I am noticing is when this mac access the printready volume were the jobs are stored and try to access a set of fonts for a job, the 10.6 mac see's them as generic files and will not load them. The rest of the macs with 10.5 all see them correctly.

To make the situation worse. If the 10.6 mac is the one copying the font files to the server. It works fine.

I might just go back to 10.5.8

Any thoughts?

p

 

[jaci]

Don't know if this will help, but we just ran into a similar problem.
Our fonts were stored on a windows server. we had no problem with tiger os loading the fonts into suitcase,
but on Snow Leopard the fonts came in with no data and as generic files.
We were told that the server was removing the resource fork information of the font or that 10.6.4 was not able to read it across the network, so the fix was
1. Transfer the original font files to a flash drive or cd.
2. Take them over to the computer with Snow leopard... Since we are using Suitcase fusion to manage our fonts, we installed ours under Macintosh HD>Users>Shared>(created a new folder for them)
3. We then cleaned up the font sets using font doctor, and then installed them into Suitcase and they work beautifully.

You could also install the fonts under user-library-fonts... but if you are not using a font management program, those fonts will be active all the time.

Hope this helps.
Jaci

 

[prepressguru]

Hi Jaci

I got some feedback from Heidelberg. They have a tech note stating 10.6.x saves files to SMB volumes differently they 10.5.x. You can change this method and allow 10.5.x and 10.6.x OS work better. I have not tried it yet but makes sense to what I am seeing.

p

 

[pmartin]

Check this link out. Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: About named streams on SMB-mounted NAS, Mac OS X, and Windows servers; "-36" or "-50" alerts may appear Click on the section "Disabling Named Streams".

I had the same problem after upgrading, but tried this trick and it's been working with no problems for the last 2 weeks. Pretty simple to do and all my fonts showed back up.

 

[prepressguru]

I got it working. HD has a tech dock on the procedure. My problem now is with Quark 7.5 crashing with 10.6. Quark is not supported under this OS and I don't want to upgrade to Quark 8 because we do not have any demand for it.

p