upgrade advice on flexisign expert 8.6 for my imac?

[Neil Davey]

We use Flexi 8.6 on our iMacs running OSX 10.7.2.

I don’t think SAi will be releasing a Version 10 for the MAC anytime soon, even never.
Can’t help ref the plugins although CS2 won’t run on Lion.

We run Parallels on ours but thats to run our EdgeFX.

[Richard Daniel]

We upgraded one of our machines to the latest Flexi as Lion isnt compatible with the older flex (for Power Pc’s) & Apple have abondond Rosetta which used to run PPC on Intel. The difference between the 2 is marginal and imo not worth £600.00 they want to upgrade each copy.

I run Windows on a mac a few years ago using Boot camp, after 2 months it got a virus and wouldn’t boot the windows partition any longer. – I have seen there are Apps around so you can run XP/Windows 7 as an app. but have heard their painfully slugish.

[Jon Marshall]

Not really, I have parallels on my Imac i5 at home and I’ve put Win 7 on it and Flexi 8.1 and it runs very well.

[Richard Daniel]

Jon.

Its been a few years since I looked into it, so it makes sense that its probably improved.

In terms of design, do you create work using Illustrator on mac, create outlines then open in Flexi?

I’d like to look into it as I think the PC version of Flexi is a big improvement on the Macs. One of my concerns is the font management. – Can Parallels see the fonts open on the mac, or do you need to install the fonts again on Windows?

[Philip Houston]

Hi Jon,
My imac is 2.8Ghz intel core 2 duo with 4mb ram & 300gb HD.
Will parallels run ok on this setup?

Also, question about the fonts is also relevant.

Philip

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