Creator versus indesign

[Steve Mills]

On Mar 15, 2008, at 13:24:09, lagasses wrote:

> 1)
> I know the ad builders used to complain when they had to work an ad  
> in a quark file, because Multi-ad (We are still using 4.xxx) used to  
> find missing photos or graphics on a server itself - and quickly -  
> when we hit the find it button, whereas quark couldn't and made you  
> go looking for it.
> Does the new multi-ad still search ALL connected hard drives for  
> missing photos/graphics and QUICKLY.

All versions of Creator will search all mounted volumes when you click  
the Find It button.

> 2)
> And does InDesign search hard drives for missing photo/graphics or  
> is it like the Old Quark (we use Quark 4 & 5).
> As a side note:
> I did download an xtension for Quark that searched connected hard  
> drives for missing graphics, but it took almost an hour sometimes  
> and you could see the xtension burying itself into the hard drive  
> checking all folders and files. I finally threw it out because it  
> was easier doing a search with the OS. Maybe the new Quark works  
> better? Anybody know about that?

No idea.

> 3)
> Because we are still using Creator 4.1 in OS9, will the new Creator  
> in OSX (which were also switching to - on intels) open the old  
> creator files with no problems?

Creator 8 (and 7 and 6) can open Creator 4 files, and in most cases  
Creator 3.8 files or somewhere in that ballpark. Just be aware that  
Creator 6 and greater no longer does embedded graphics, so any C4  
files with embedded graphics will be extracted into a folder.

> 4) I assume the Matrix tool is still there?
> Yes, when we have time, we will check out the creator site.


Yes, and even more powerful than it was in C4 (although it's a menu  
item, not a tool).

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