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There exists some LaTeX to HTML converters out there (a quick search will reveal quite a few). I used hevea several times, and the results were ok-ish, even though not great.
The LaTeX distribution I use every day has direct outputs to at least DVI (to turn later into PS with a separate tool) and PDF (the preferred solution), even though, in a distant past, there was no direct PDF output.
Thanks does that include any of the modifications (I don't want to redo all the edits (mainly curves, crop))?
My main problem is I need older version because plugins I use time to time I dont want to pay for them again, as it would be a crazy cost.
Also, I have problems with new version of After Effects and some footage only can be imported in earlier versions.
Not to mention new versions run slower in older machines, and new features are no longer that useful to me, the risk of slower performance is not worth the new features.
That's way sometimes, a one padi license is better than monthly subscription
Also, I have problems with new version of After Effects and some footage only can be imported in earlier versions.
Not to mention new versions run slower in older machines, and new features are no longer that useful to me, the risk of slower performance is not worth the new features.
That's way sometimes, a one padi license is better than monthly subscription
Aren't they just another subscription service? I'm looking to walk away from subscription businesses.
You can buy QuarkXpress for $349 through the Mac App Store, no subscription. On their online store, it appears you can only buy it with an annual support plan, but it’s not a subscription.
Sadly, under Tim Apple Crook compatibility has taken a big hit on the Mac side. Little by little Tim Apple Crook wishes to turn the Mac OS into iOS. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day that moron tries to force users to be only on the latest OS version for security updates, just like iOS. That's where the Mac is headed.
I have a late iMac late 2012 27” iMac fully loaded dedicated as a photo editing appliance. I haven’t tested my Lightroom 6 on Mojave yet, since I recently updated to Mojave, but hopefully it will function ok with it because I love the dark theme. So soothing on the eyes. But if I find Lightroom 6 is not operating properly with Mojave then I will downgrade to perhaps Sierra and leave it there. Once it's disconnected from the Internet that dedicated photo editing computer will never need security updates, or any updates. So my point to people using older software is to consider having a dedicated photo editing computer.
I'm planning on leaving my 2012 Mac Mini on El Capitain (everything works). I may move it to recording studio duty after I throw some SSDs in it and use my old Macbook Pro for REW room measurements (using UMIK-1 I just bought and tested with it and works great) and light browsing while on vacation, etc. (it's also at El Capitain). Or I can use it as the media server it's already being used as plus photo editing, etc. and other net surfing things where I'd worry about Windows malware. And that leads to the REAL question is whether I want to buy a new Mac Mini or iMac or whatever AT ALL at this point (I was planning to and even adding an external graphics card to have one computer with Mac/Windows available). I don't want my software locked down to only what TIMMY says is OK and I'm afraid it may come to that.
Maybe it's time to consider a dedicated Windows machine once again and leave the Mac Mini as the hub or as my new Logic Pro machine (with some SSDs added). My PreSonus is FireWire 400 and it'll still run on the Mac Mini with a 400 to 800 FW adapter (currently connected to my 2008 Macbook Pro running an older version of Logic Pro).
I just did something really cool yesterday that I've wanted to do with my aforementioned late 2012 iMac for a long time. I ended up installing a 1TB OWC Aura blade type SSD in the existing slot on the motherboard that contained the original 128GB blade SSD that was part of the original 1TB Fusion Drive. I then opened up my fairly new external WD 8TB drive enclosure because I knew inside there was a big prize, an 8TB WD Red 3.5” drive. I then installed that drive in the existing spot of the original 1TB drive.
I now have a very fast late 2012 iMac 3.4Ghz i7, 32GB RAM with 9 total TB of storage. I didn’t bother to try and create a monster sized Fusion Drive because I didn’t see the point with so much storage on both the SSD side and the HDD side. I'm getting over 500Mps read and just a bit under 500MBps for writes. For the WD Red Drive I'm getting over 180MBps for both read and write. Fantastic for both! Couldn’t be happier. I also partitioned the WD Drive right down the middle with two partitions at 4TB each. One for photo storage and the other for video storage where I now have my iTunes Home Sharing video and music library.
The great thing about releasing the WD Red drive from its external enclosure is that the connected external controller board when used as an external drive made real time use of the drive slow and problematic for iTunes, which has never really played well with external drives. For one thing, the now gone external controller board was simply too aggressive in sleeping the drive and too slow in allowing the WD Red drive to operate once it got the signal to from the computer. With that middle man gone the responsiveness of the WD Red drive running internally is an amazing difference.
***And now for the bonus upgrade I made. I also went ahead and replaced the existing Airport/Bluetooth card on the logic board with an OEM one from the 2013 iMac, and above, that supports ac wireless. So now I have also doubled my network speed. I can now, for example, easily stream original Blu-Ray quality 1080 videos where as with the original card it was simply to slow and problematic to make it practical and realistic.
With the new AirPort/Bluetooth card there was a temporary snag, which I expected might happen. I had to use a corded keyboard and I needed to plug in a network cable to the iMac, as both the Bluetooth and WiFi are not set up to work at that fundamental level (new drive with no OS installed) since it was not the original AirPort Bluetooth card that came with my late 2012 iMac. I didn’t have a corded keyboard available anymore so I went online in the middle of the night and found one new for $10 at my local Target and placed an order for pickup in the morning.
Once the keyboard was connected the next day I could now start up the iMac and enter the required keystrokes to go into Internet recovery mode, which quickly downloaded the basic interface and utility apps (Disk Utility) I needed to setup my new drive. The OWC SSD Aura blade drive was actually already formatted for the macOS. I then chose to restore my iMac from my High Sierra Time Machine backup. It set up the new SSD with the new APFS file format and once done all I needed to do for the new AirPort/Bluetooth card was to pair my Apple wireless keyboard, and that went flawlessly. For the WiFi side I didn’t have to do anything. I then redid the update to Mojave with the installer file already in my Applications folder.
A short time later after getting something to eat, Mojave was installed and everything was working flawlessly. This is really an epic upgrade for an iMac. This thing feels amazing now. I have never seen examples online of someone having this much storage. It was also relatively inexpensive. The newer OEM AirPort/Bluetooth card, for example, was $45. I was also careful to checked the power consumption differences between the new HDD and the old and original HDD to confirm there would not be much of a difference, and there wasn’t. Just 2 watts.
I've had this iMac since new and it's easily been my most favorite piece of electronics (well, alongside my plasma TV) and now she is set to continue providing great and reliable service for many more years, and long after inevitably stops supporting it. Anyway, thought you and others might be interested in that story while I wait for my dinner to cook.
I just bought a 512GB SSD to replace the 512 Hitachi 7200 RPM I put in back in 2009 to work on my first music album that replaced the 5400 RPM internal. Just backed up to a FW800 drive (yeah it's a 2008 MBP that still works quite well, oddly enough and should work much faster once this is installed (like all of $67 for the SSD now). I'm thinking of doing something similar with my Mac Mini (throw a 2TB SSD in there plus maybe 5TB 2.5" spinner to have 7TB on board and another 10TB external). It'll be a good media server for a long time.
I never really had a lot of problems with the external drives and iTunes, etc. because I keep "Caffeine" running and only let the monitor go to sleep unless I'm going out for a few days or something. The hard drives go to sleep, but the 2.5" ones spin up really fast compared to the 3.5" ones (I know because I tried using an 8TB 3.5" to put it all on one drive and it was awful. KODI would time out every time. I don't have that issue with two 2.5" drives.
My Mini is Gigabit connected so I'm not worried about that. I don't know if the 2008 Macbook Pro model could take a newer AC card or not (doubt it). For all I use it for (mostly Logic Pro and when i go on work trips or vacations for Internet access), it's not a big deal.
I think the iTunes issue with external drives is dependent on individual drives and their particular controllers and firmware. I've read plenty of instances where people have no issues but others do. On the iOS side with the TV app on my iPad, to Home Share from the Mac, that has been problematic in a couple of ways. Sometimes my iPad will simply not wake up the Mac, and more recently the connection between iTunes and the TV app drops for some reason after a few days, giving a could not connect error type message in the TV app. I would then need to restart iTunes and it would work again. Rinse and repeat. Who knows, maybe moving the iTunes library drive back inside the Mac will help in my case. Frustrating though.
At a certain level I've kind of given up on Apple and the whole Home Sharing thing. While I still use it often to stream my big video library to my iPad and the Apple TV for my wife, my primary non-mobile local video library viewing is now done from my Blu-Ray player that has an 8TB WD external drive plugged into it. That drive holds full quality MKV rips of nearly all my movies and TV shows that I own on disc. That setup, unlike Apple's constant fiddling with and breaking of Home Sharing, has been 100% reliable for a couple of years now. It simply always works. Apple has lost its way in numerous ways since Tim Apple Crook took over, like making things just work and easy to use.
Yeah I wouldn’t bet on your old MacBook supporting an ac wireless card. In regards to your mini I would look into the power consumption specs of the drives you intend to add, to be sure the small power supply in the mini can handle it. I'm betting it will, but just to be sure. In the past I owned three Mac minis. They were rock solid reliable and easy to work on. Great little computer, especially the older models that were easier to work on and more upgradeable.
It's an annual plan but not a subscription, but you have to pay every year...what bulls*** from Quarkxpress.
You can keep using the app without paying every year. The annual cost is for a support plan, or you could buy from the App Store for a one time fee.
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