Greetings,
Original question and replies:
>>1. Does anyone know of any image and graphic software, that runs >>on
Solaris, like the Adobe products that can read the Adobe >>formats?
Most of you recommended GIMP from http://www.gimp.org as a really good
image editinging/conversion tool. This would be fine as a replacement for
Photoshop. Image Magick was also mentioned.
No one recommended a replacement for Adobe Illustrator or a tool that could
read/import the Illustrator format.
>>2. Have any Solaris 2.6/Adobe users addressed the printing issue >>successfully.
Special thanks to Peter Wargo for setting this straight. He is running
Photoshop 3.0.1 and Illustrator 5.5 in the same environment that I will
be going to (Solaris 2.6/2.7) and has had no trouble printing using Jetadmin
and HP printers. He did recommend Jetadmin 5.15 or higher on *each* system
stating that "some features of Jetadmin don't work from a central server".
Some suggested saving the file as EPS or postscript and printing from the
OS. I thought of that but users weren't thrilled.
>>3. Has anyone tried the (Wintel version of) Adobe products on the >>Sun-PC
PCI card and if so how are the graphics (WYSIWYG?)? >>(We run Ultra 10
workstations.)
Apparently nobody has tried this.
Finally, to clarify the statement regarding end of support for Photoshop
and Illustrator:
I don't think it appropriate to drop a name on the list but the person
I spoke with at Adobe stated that Adobe Unix tech support had been inundated
with calls about new versions of these apps. for Solaris for a long time.
They (tech support) finally got Adobe to issue a statement that they could
pass on to customers stating that all development for these 2 apps. on
Unix is stopped with no plans for future releases. Now for the caveat:
This statement came from the same person who told me that I would not be
able to print from Photo and Illus on Solaris 2.6!! So the status as I
know it is:
For Unix/Solaris platform
Photoshop 3.0.1 - last release on Solaris - development stopped; no plans
for future releases
Illustrator 5.5 - last release on Solaris - development stopped; no plans
for future releases
Framemaker 5.5.6 - continued development and support - no plans to stop
development and support (note that ALL platforms are at the same release
level http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/framemaker/prodinfo.html).
Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (Exchange, Distiller, etc.) for Solaris "future uncertain
- marketing needs to look at demand for the creation of PDF files on the
Unix platform"
This also bothers me a great deal. We rely on the PDF format a great deal.
As you can see there is no mention of Acrobat 4.0 (the latest) for Unix
at: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/price.html
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 (free PDF viewer) IS available on most popular
Unix platforms. See http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
FYI: According to the Adobe website all of the apps. listed above ARE Y2K
compliant.
Thanks to:
Peter Wargo (yeah Pete!!)
David Evans
Anthony David
John McIntyre
John Coleman
Johnny Hall
Regards,
Michael J. Connolly
CAD System Administrator
C&K Components, Inc.
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