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Windows 7 Has Landed - part 4 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Mike McNamee Published 01/02/2010

We next installed BabelColor as a likely candidate to cause trouble with a long list of available spectrophotometers - it worked flawlessly! Flush with success we attempted Monaco Profiler. Now this does not work on Vista because the dongle gets in the way of operation. Previously X-Rite could offer no solutions and we are talking about many thousands of pounds of investments here in both spectros and software. We tried in XP-compatibility mode, again with no success. Next we tried to download updated drivers for the HASP dongle key and blow me the thing burst into life! Installing the new drivers was open-heart surgery for geeks but nevertheless we got the brute going. Just to spite us, the DTP94 (Monaco XR) monitor calibrator still refused to work though! Overall we made quite good progress over our endeavours with Vista. The utility of Windows 7 is that it asked if you would like a better driver and then goes and fetches one, just the way things should work, but gratifying even so.

Making PDFs

One of the things that persistently bugs us with InDesign is that you cannot make a full magazine for Professional Imagemaker (ie more than 150 pages) without InDesign crashing. We rather hoped this might be fixed, but alas it crashed almost immediately so we are back to making four pdfs and joining them together in Acrobat.

We successfully installed Corel Painter, a program that will not run on our 64-bit/16GB Ram workstation (too much RAM allegedly).

Digital projectors

Windows 7 has a new interface for dealing with projectors - it just works! You are given the option of duplicating your screens, leaving the laptop off or extending the desktop across both projector and laptop (can't imagine why!). Gratifyingly the laptop graphics card recognised the Epson projector and rearranged the resolution to give a true shape of image, again a source of irritation on other systems.

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