The Good About Leopard

It may seem like I am griping alot about how things DON’T work in Leopard. But the good news is that much of what I use my Mac for does work just fine. And while I do continue to have problems with Retrospect and my SMB shares not mounting or backing up, many older applications work just fine.

For example, I am currently woring on a document I am creating in Adobe InDesign CS2. It is working just fine along with all the fonts I have loaded in Linotype FontXplorer. I am also using Adobe Bridge CS2 to manage the images in this project and I am easily working with the images in Photoshop CS2 and then putting them back in Bridge. From Bridge, I am using a simple drag-and-drop to place the images in InDesign. Again, no problems.

Today, I also fired up Quicken 2003 to pay some bills. This worked without a hitch, although I would be surprised if it didn’t. All I use it for is simple math in the checkbook register and it isn’t too taxing to subtract $500 from $501 to get $1.00! And now that I think I got my firewire drives formatted, Time Machine is backing up my system volume. I will know in a couple of hours if it succeeded or not. Safari and Firefox also work as expected.

One notable change is the Printer Setup Utility: it is gone! To manage printers, you must now go to System Preferences and select the Printers preference and manage your printers from there. The interface looks quite different than Tiger but it works about the same.