vasisaidthis

Amazingly enough, version 8 no longer sucks. Version 7 was awful, but v8 looks much more Mac-like and is quite a bit faster. Much as I love Preview, it has trouble searching scanned + OCR documents, and also doesn't seem to handle PDFs with built-in forms. Also, the Adobe Reader browser plugin has search built-in, which Apple's standard plugin doesn't. So there's definitely place for both Preview and Reader.

The biggest problem with Reader is installation. Rather than simply downloading the application, you have to download an installer, which then installs a "download manager", which then downloads the real installer, which finally installs Reader. WTF!?

But why oh why
is the download and installation process
for Adobe always so...
...fill in the blank yourselves.

I would like to use Apple preview to everything, but it fails to render some fonts correctly and hasn't got fullscreen mode. i have never liked acrobat reader on pc, but this version is ok, but nothing more. I really miss the bookmarks from preview

Adobe Reader 8.x squases fonts of about 90% of the PDFs I tested, no matter whether they were created with Distiller, Quartz or OpenOffice. Also, font antialiasing seems borked for most fonts. The same applies to the Windows installations I tried out, so it seems to be an issue with the font render engine in Adobe Reader in general.

I definitely hope those issues will be addressed in the next version of Adobe Reader. Most of my contacts use it, and I don’t feel like explaining to them that the product sheet I just sent them doesn’t look shitty, it’s Adobe Reader.

Adobe Reader 7.x rendered those PDFs fine, I should mention.

I really hate Adobe Reader. It looks like starting a complete Final Cut Studio when opening an PDF with Adobe Reader. It is simple horrible! I Love Preview I really love it. Also I did find a solution for missing fonts which is to dowload them or grab from my windows installation (Parallels, sorry I HAVE TO use it in my office) and there is a lot of instructions how to make them available for every App.
So far, I love my Mac!

When I open zipeg, it tells me it "cannot run…from Desktop", and that I should move it to /Applications. Not very Mac-like, and what do I do if I'm not admin and don't have access to /Applications?

>When I open zipeg, it tells me it "cannot run…from Desktop", and that I should move it to >/Applications. Not very Mac-like, and what do I do if I'm not admin and don't have access to >/Applications?
You can move it to any folder. Problem with running from Desktop is that a lot of users run it from Desktop than Trash it (while program still running) than empty trash and crash....

I use this for uncompressing 7zip files and it does the job well. Tried to use it to uncompress zip files that I was able to successfully uncompress using other utilities and had a few problems. I'm not sure if these issues have been fixed in more recent versions - I'll give it another go and report back.

O.K., very usefull to view before extract. But if I extract some tgz's, the result isn't working as a program against Apple's BOM (perhaps wrong attributes or so ?). For exsample iStumbler.
Because of this I can't use it as a default for all my downloaded programs.

More detailes? - qgeorge@t-online.de

Joerg.

Unless you're looking for a 100% free tool BetterZip is better.
If not, Zipeg might be a decent alternative.

Woops, sorry about that link, this is what I meant: http://vasi.dyndns.org:3128/files/apps/Filelight-0.2pre2.zip

(Didn't somebody say the comments supported Textile, or was I dreaming?)

yea! cuz 0.1 didn't seem to do anything.

It's scanning now. Looking forward to it not crashing and be responsive after going through a drive with a few thousand files.

Very useful program for visualizing HDD usage. Have used the several 'rectangular' versions of the same concept that are available for OS X and none of those are as attractive, as overall useful, or as Mac-like in my opinion. Be sure to follow the developer's link and download the 0.2 version instead of the listed 0.1 version, though. Someone should change that!

(Oh, and BTW the comments do support Textile, links should be in quotation marks though.)

Filelight for KDE is one of the greatest utilities ever conceived, and this Filelight clone for Mac is getting close to achieving such greatness. The ring (pie) chart is an intuitive way to represent disk usage, and I prefer it to clustering algorithms such as the one used in Disk Inventory X.

The 0.2pre2 version is a vast improvement to 0.1 with added tree navigation, refresh, file size display, and a progress bar. The only things that I noticed were missing compared to the original Filelight are depth control (how many layers to display at once) and the roll-over breakdown (name, size, percentage?) with lines drawn to the ring segments.

0.2pre2 had no trouble scanning my entire drive. Of course, calculating the size of groups of files takes time, so patience is a virtue. With that in mind, I've used a ton of these types of programs and mac Filelight seems to be on the faster side.

Vasi, I think you should go ahead and release 0.2!

Hey, SDL actually is included in the app bundle--you shouldn't have to install anything to play the game. If you're having trouble maybe there's a bug, talk to the developers.

Just curious, how can 0.3.4 be the latest version, when the version history on iusethis shows 0.4.2 ?