Adam? Yuri? Alex? Cyril?

We have not had any reports of FontLab Studio 5 creating problems when running under Rosetta. The plans for universal binaries are further ahead since it’s a major development effort.

Regards,
Adam

Adam,

have you had reports of FLS 5 *running successfully* in Rosetta?

Best,
Kai

>have you had reports of FLS 5 *running successfully* in Rosetta?

Not yet. People do not like making reports if everything works for them. :)

Regards,
Alex Petrov

“Not yet. People do not like making reports if everything works for them. :)”

Likely not enough time has gone by to tell. Perhaps there are not many type designers using the newest systems with Rosetta. I would guess that type designers, being less than deep of pocket as a rule, don’t jump on the latest hardware unless, like Randy, they have an unwelcomed breakdown in what they have been using.

ChrisL

I’m agree with you Chris.
I think we all should keep monitoring the following page:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23838.html

Regards,
Alex Petrov

News flash: After some prayer she booted up again and seems to be stable. This buys a little more time. Just made a fresh backup :-)

Randy

Randy,
I nursed my 8500 along for 10 years. It still works fine but does not do OSX or the newer software so I had to bite the bullet last year and get a G5. Hang in there dude! :-)

ChrisL

I’ve been working with FontLab Studio 5.0.1 on a MacBook Pro for the past week, and only had *the* occasional crashes. So, I guess it’s all good ;^)

I wonder if an update to FontLab Studio 5.0.2 changes anything?
http://www.fontlab.com/The-News/Announcements/FontLab-Studio-5.0.2/

A.

Miguel -
Outside of the occasional crash, how is the overall performance?
Does it pause or lag?
Does it choke when generating Python results?
Anything else?

Due to travelling, I need a laptop I can run FLS5 on all day without snags.
It seems crazy to buy one of the old G4s.

Thanks so much.

Eric, I’d say go ahead and get one.
The performance is good. No pauses, lags or chokes for me. But don’t expect it to fly...

I’ve upgraded to v5.0.2 and so far so good. I did noticed a couple fixes.
I’ve been doing a good amount of stuff with Python, most of which with Robofab, and no problems there either.

I can’t even remember the last time FontLab hung or crashed. But I’m one of those people that uses its most useful shortcut (Cmd+S), so take it with a little bit of salt.

Like Miguel, I have the command+S habit inherited from 4.6. FL-5.02 is definitely more solid than its predisesor. I am running on a G-5 desktop so I can’t comment on the new Intel versions.

ChrisL

Miguel -

Thank you kindly for your insight - I’ll be getting one shortly.

> I have the command+S habit inherited from 4.6

While I have it (well, its equivalent) inherited from Basic programming on a Commodore-64 in the middle of a civil war where we’d lose electricity an average of twice a day. It’s funny how old habits die hard: I received my new laptop yesterday, and in testing to see how the keyboard feels I instinctively typed “RUN”-Return and “LIST”-Return. I haven’t actually needed to use those for like 20 years.

hhp