Is Preps 5 worth the $1000 upgrade??

[BobB]

Has anyone upgraded to Preps 5 yet? I initially thought the upgrade would be around $500 and was floored when I found out that it is $1000. If anyone is using Preps 5, is it worth it?

Bob

[DCurry]

I tried a beta of it for about 20 minutes a couple months ago - has some good new features for adding template marks. I only used it for such a short period of time because it would not run if you also had Classic running, so it wasn't worth any more of my time to check it out. $1000 seems pretty steep for an upgrade, though.

[MarcPinnell]

It was for us. Our shop is moving to 100% OSX and this was one of the last - or maybe the last - piece of software still running in OS9/classic. It has several new features - some good, some useless. I find the new SmartMarks a waste of time, but I do like the colorized templates and some of the other small improvements.

So, if you are moving to OSX exclusively then yes it is worth the $1000. If not, then it probably isn't.

[Rheboi]

We're running Brisque 4 at the moment - will an upgrade to 5 mean new hardware or is it purely a software upgrade?

Also I noticed that reg marks in 4 will print in the print area, with our previous quark imposition plug-in it never allowed that to happen

[Scott]

NO

Unfortunately you may have to anyway.
I've been pretty annoyed with Preps lately. A thousand buck for just an OSX friendly upgrade with a few new tricks? Smartmarks my ass. Please. Excuse me, but I've become very anti-creo lately. :evil:

Scott

[alsal]

Preps 4.2.3 runs fine in classic mode. And apparently the PXT extension is buggy at best. So FontWizard is the solution for rampage users.

I don't see a real reason to upgrade right away.