How do I work seamlessly between OS 9 & OS X on my Mac? 1

[grothbaum]

We have a postcript level 1 imagesetter (go ahead, laugh). Company won't buy a new printer. We're purchasing Adobe CS anyway (OS X compatible) but I still need to work on OS 9 to be able to print a lot of Quark 4.1 materials on the old printer. Unless my source was wrong, I'm supposed to "switch" between 2 operating systems every day to do this. I forgot how this works since I still haven't started using OS X (there was no need before). My Mac has both OS but we need to upgrade to Panther. Can I work on 2 documents that are compatible with different operating systems at the same time or do I have to quit out of one to work with the other? Don't know how "classic mode" works--if this is how it's done--and my concern is to be able to print Quark 4.1 files no matter what OS system I use (I'm afraid of files going "unusable" on me). Sorry if this is too long--I'm a first time member. Really appreciate the help

 

[jimoblak]

Classic is considered a layered operating system. It runs on top of OSX.

You can easily work on Quark 4 in Classic and instantly switch to InDesign CS in OSX. You do not need to reboot to jump from operating system to operating system. They run concurrently.

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[grothbaum]

As I mentioned in my question, I'm a first time user in a forum. Not sure I'm following the correct procedure to thank my helper, but here it goes anyway:
Wanted to thank Jimoblak for a very speedy and professional response. I've been very isolated in my job as a Mac user and have had to rely on myself exclusively, which sometimes is exhausting. I've read some of the comments about this site and I agree. You're a class act and a breath of fresh air. Thank you

 

[rrsub]

Panther and Classic work way better than Jaguar did for us.