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Well, here goes. An unbiased first impression. First, we're having an issue converting the templates. The Preps rep thinks it may be because each template ( about 60 ) has sub-templates for different page counts and positions of the half web flats. So I made a test template. From that point on, everything was ok. placing a job was no faster or slower than on the Macs.
I saved one pdf in particular to test Pitstop. This file takes at least 10 minutes to open on the Macs ( G5 OS X Tiger Acrobat 7.09 Pitstop 7.1) There are a a ton of vector gradients, all with Device n issues. Once open and pre flighted and we try to run an action, we get the old 'raise without a handler' error and 'Acrobat must close', which it does, problem not solved
The doc opened in less that a minute on the PC. Ran the action, got the error.
But did not get the 'Acrobat must close'. (By the way, it's Acrobat 8 on the PC.) This allowed me to make a postscript and re-distill without having to locate the page and go through the re-opening process. I really liked that.
Most of the time pages like thatcrash the G5's and our two G4's freeze up when trying to open the pdf. ( get many of of these from one particular designer who insists on building vector gradients in spot colors rather than bitmapped gradients in cmyk ). Other than that, ( remember, no RIP interface yet ) Everything went smooth as silk on the PC. I haven't made a final judgement yet, but right now, I'm far more open to the change over.We'll be on line to all the servers Monday when REAL testing will kick in.
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