Adobe Photoshop 2.X –URGENT–

Roy,

Considering you would need a machine running Windows 3.1 to run Photoshop 2.5 on, I doubt you will have any success.

I believe it will run on a WinNT box and I have one of those.

But, perhaps you know more about it than I. What’s the oldest version of Photoshop I can run on a WinNT, Win 2000, or Win XP machine?

I’ve got a bit of a problem that apparently only a version of Photoshop with really old .ps encoding can resolve.

Caz

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Roy,

Considering you would need a machine running Windows 3.1 to run Photoshop 2.5 on, I doubt you will have any success.

LenHewitt

I believe it will run on a WinNT box and I have one of those.

But, perhaps you know more about it than I. What’s the oldest version of Photoshop I can run on a WinNT, Win 2000, or Win XP machine?

I’ve got a bit of a problem that apparently only a version of Photoshop with really old .ps encoding can resolve.

Caz

Roy,

Please do not start a new thread for the same topic.

I’ve moved your new thread to join the old one.

Bob

Roy,

Why don’t you describe the actual problem so that you can tap the collective wisdom for a solution, or a different solution, than virtual time-travel into PS’s past…

Art

Roy,

Photoshop 2.5 *might* run on WinNT 3.x – I doubt it will on WinNT 4

What’s the oldest version of Photoshop I can run on a WinNT<<

WinNT 4/Win95 Photoshop 3.5
Win 2000/XP Probably 5.5 (although a few folks have reported running Version 4 and 5)

4.01 will run on xp len.

Thanks Bob. And, Thanks Art. So, anybody know where I can get a copy of 3.5?

For anyone who might be able to help, here’s the problem:

We have a home-grown, 32 bit, windows program which utilizes a SQL database. We use this program for quoting, rating, binding, and issuing insurance policies. It has for many years used .ps files to create certificates of insurance which are populated with data from the active blob in the application. These certs were created by Photoshop 2.X and they work fine. However, the edition date of the certs has changed and the layout and data included has changed. The forms need to be modified or recreated. We attempted to generate new .ps files from a new version of photoshop but when put into the program, the crash the software while populating with data from the blob. We attempted to create .eps files, which we CAN get to work, however we cannot get the layout and formating of data within the necessary fields to work properly. Mostly it has to do with the inability to get long strings of data to retain font size and word wrap within a large ‘remarks’ field. (Among other things.)

My programmer is a VERY smart guy, but he’s been working on this for a while and simply cannot get the .eps files to handle the data the same way the old .ps files did, and cannot get our program to keep from crashing when using newly encoded .ps files from a contemporary version of Photoshop. So, I’m trying to find an old enough version that he can recreate the COI’s in .ps format so they will work with our FERDI program. (Throwing FERDI away is, unfortunately, not an option.)

Thanks for the help.

Caz

do you have the psd files set to "maximize compatability" when saving from the new version? and/or make sure they are flattened before saving?

Roy,

I think you are much better off fixing the FERDI program rather than trying to track down that old of a version of Photoshop. Even if you do find it, it probably won’t be usable next time you need to make an update.

Your programmer can do two things. He can get the free Adobe Photoshop SDK (he’ll need to sign up and request it) which includes the file specification for the PSD file format. Or, you can save the images as a TIFF file and he can rewrite his FERDI routines to load a TIFF file instead. The TIFF specification is readily available (see:
http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/faq.html) and there are even code libraries available for TIFF depending on what programming language he used with FERDI.

I wouldn’t go with EPS.

As for version 3.x, I’m not sure that would solve your problem either. Version 3 and Version 2 had differences in the way the image data was written out. Programs written for version 2 probably would have problems with version 3 files.

Roy,

If I understand your problem correctly, I think your slickest and easiest to implement solution would be to look at or just adopt the newest version of Acrobat and skip the Photoshop stuff entirely, which I think you were just using as middleware. Essentially, the rest of the world, including Adobe, caught up with your application and has roared on by. I think you’d be better off using up-to-date tools and technology to solve the problem.

Acrobat supports forms automagically — just shoot the data in and generate the .pdf. And if you need a nice "certificate" background, it can be incorporated as a layer in the .pdf or as a background to the form.

If you’re sure you want to do things more like you have and really want to use PS, I’d go to a current version and use its support for scripting to grab and insert the data and then save as a .pdf. But I think that’s the more complicated way to go; Acrobat has all the capability you describe built in these days.

Art

what art said.