Quark and OS X

[marig]

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I cannot find a definitive answer...

I purchased new Macs for our Design dept. They came with OS X --- no ability to boot to OS 9.

I hear scary things about running Quark 5 on OS X, from it not installing at all... to it crashing all the time. Will Quark 5 install & run properly on a Mac with OS X that has no ability to boot into 9?

I read that Quark 5 runs in the "Classic Environment" of OS X. I'm assuming this works like Outlook 2001 does on the mac..it starts up Classic when Outlook starts up. Or do I have to somehow turn Classic on all the time..

Lastly, do you think the demo version of Quark on their website a good enough test?? (I haven't tried it yet)

Thanks for any & all info.

 

[blueark]

I've just set up such a system about a week ago. Can't say I had any problems, and it's been functioning perfectly in a busy production environment. It does run in Classic mode, but you don't need to worry about that as it will start up when it's needed.

 

[twitchosx]

You should look around for some utilities or something that might allow you to boot directly into OS 9 if Quark 5 has problems in Classic. We use Quark 5 at work in OS 9 (no OSX on the machine) and it works fine and I have never had any problems with using the Classic environment at home on my Dual 800 which I run OSX full time. I even play games in Classic although some complain and say they wont run which I dont complain about. I dont expect to do stuff like that in Classic but I can use Dreamweaver and Photoshop and all kinds of stuff in Classic just fine. Not that I need to, I have all my apps for OSX. Still, I am sure lots of people are going to be upset that they cant boot directly into OS 9 and something is bound to be created to allow you to boot directly into OS 9.

Once Quark 6 comes out (fairly soon.. I have seen Quark 6 OSX beta builds around) it will be for OSX and you wont have to worry. Until then, you might check out InDesign. We are.