Can i access my Photoshop 7(PC) images on a photoshop program MAC version?

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Tyler_A._Williams
May 28, 2004
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I’m creating a product logo for a friend of mine, I’m using Photoshop 7.0 on a PC system running Windows XP. However one of the requirements for the commercial printer running of these logos is the images have to be MAC Format and I don’t have access to a MAC system. If I just send him the PC version images (created in Photoshop) on a burned CD will he be able to access and use them on a MAC system, also running Photoshop?

If he has a different version (I.e. 6.0) of Photoshop running on his MAC, will that cause any additional issues?

Thanks for your help.

Tyler
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Thee_DarkOverLord
May 28, 2004
PC Mac, Mac Pc. it doesnt matter, there are no crossplatform issues. How you burn your CD may count, but i doubt it.
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BobLevine
May 28, 2004
Simply a sign that the printer is at least five years behind the times.

Bob
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Robert_Oliver
May 28, 2004
Simply a sign that the printer is at least five years behind the times.

I’d go for at least 10 years behind the times.
May 28, 2004
I’d go for at least 10 years behind the times.

Indeed… if you are on a PC and using a printer that accepts only Mac files it’s really time to find a new printer…

All platform arguments aside there is absolutely no valid excuse for any printer or service bureau to not accept Windows files, or to take them cross-platform to a Mac, in this day and age. None at all.
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Don_McCahill
May 29, 2004
Closer to 15 years. Every Mac since the SE30 has been able to read 3.5 inch PC disks. Of course, the printer may think that PCs are still using 5.25 inch floppies.
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BobLevine
May 29, 2004
I was trying to be kind. Up to 5 years ago it wasn’t uncommon to see surcharges for Windows generated files. Anyone trying that now is committing business suicide.

Bob
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dennis_johnson
May 30, 2004
Also, what would a "Mac-only" image file format be? (Serious question, as I’m only a recent Mac convert.)
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LenHewitt
May 30, 2004
Dennis,

what would a "Mac-only" image file format be? <<

PICT – PC’s can seldom do much with a PICT file and very few applications will recognize them at all. The other side of the coin is BMP which doesn’t mean a lot to Macs.

Back in History, there was also the matter of byte-order. One platform expected the most significant bit at one end of the byte and the other platform was the reverse, but these days in doesn’t matter at all.
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Mac_McDougald
May 30, 2004
PICT –

PICT can be raster, vector, or both, much like .wmf.
PC CorelDraw, Canvas, others will do both forms.
PC Photoshop and other raster programs have done raster PICT since the gitgo.
PC PowerPoint and Freelance Graphics will open them. PC Illustrator of course, since the gitgo.

The other side of the coin is BMP which doesn’t
mean a lot to Macs.

First of all, .bmp is raster only, so it’s not really a "other side of coin" analogy methinks. But my old Macintosh with PS LE 5 does .bmp, so that’s a long time ago that Macs can deal with it. Mac PowerPoint can use them, etc. I’m sure other Mac raster programs must have included .bmp for a good long time now also.

Mac
Jun 1, 2004
PICT – PC’s can seldom do much with a PICT file and very few applications will recognize them at all. The other side of the coin is BMP which doesn’t mean a lot to Macs.

I would argue that a WMF is probably the "Windows version" of a PICT, not a BMP (which can be used on a Mac with no problems).
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Mac_McDougald
Jun 2, 2004
Yeah, both PICT and WMF are "metafiles".
BMP is raster only.

M

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