Preparing for Lion - solutions for life without Rosetta

4 Jul 2011 17:50:04

Mark Ford

British Birds My copy will no longer run with Lion.
The developer has a discounted upgrade path so in case I am not alone here is his message:

The price of version 9 is £39.95, we will offer it to you for the very special upgrade price of £24.95 in exchange for your old disk.<br />
You can see details of this latest programme here:- http://www.birdguides.com/estore/browse.asp?id=1809<br />
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If you would like to take advantage of this special upgrade price, then please call Sales on freephone 0800 91 93 91 quoting the code DRB9UP and they will sort that out for you.

[italic]1) Any old British birds versions will be allowed the special upgrade offer to Version 9 to work natively on Lion.
2) Any old European BIrds programmes can have a special upgrade offer to BWPi 2.0.2
3) BWPi versions upto 2.0.1 need to upgrade to the current version 2.0.2 which runs natively on Leopard, Snow leopard , and Lion. – various upgrade offers depending on which version they have.
4) BBi works natively on Leopard, Snow leopard , and Lion.
5) DVD-ROM Guide to British Butterflies works natively on Leopard, Snow leopard , and Lion.
6) British Birds version 9 works natively on Leopard, Snow leopard , and Lion.

If anyone has any problems with any of our programmes, please just ask them to let me know.
Kind Regards, Pete

Pete Ellison BirdGuides Technical Support [undisclosed email] [undisclosed telephone][/italic]

Re: Preparing for Lion - solutions for life without Rosetta

5 Jul 2011 16:57:06

Trevor Hewson

Yep, I've got BB version 8 and have been offered the same 'very special upgrade price'. The real problem though is going to be Appleworks. I weaned myself off it some time ago for new work but I do have an awful lot of documents which I occasionally need to refer to or copy from. Okay, word processing and spreadsheet Appleworks documents can be opened in Pages and Numbers but, as far as I am aware, there is nothing that can open Appleworks Draw documents, which is what we all used for page layout purposes.

I am seriously considering the 'print to PDF' facility as a way of converting these documents into a form that will be readable under Lion. Does anyone know of a less sledgehammer-like way? If not, I may be on the lookout for some help to build an Automator script to enable the documents to be converted by the folderload rather than individually.

Re: Preparing for Lion - solutions for life without Rosetta

5 Jul 2011 18:09:47

Mark Ford

Apple Works

Hi Trevor - this may help:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html

Re: Preparing for Lion - solutions for life without Rosetta

5 Jul 2011 19:51:01

Trevor Hewson

Thanks Mark, I've bookmarked that. Certainly for a few important documents, converting the CW draw document into a CW WP one which will open in Pages does seem to be a viable option and gives a fully editable version. I don't see any way of doing that conversion in bulk though so may still try to do an Automator 'print to PDF' script for all those documents in the 'just might be needed one day' category!

Re: Preparing for Lion - solutions for life without Rosetta

7 Jul 2011 20:33:58

Mark Ford

Although they don't need Rosetta to run TechSmith software [Snagit on Mac; Camtasia for Mac; Jing and Camtasia Relay] need updating.
To do it Help -> Check for upgrade and follow instructions. I only have Jing and the process was quick and painless.

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