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Dear all,

Recently I have received several enquiries from intending Templot users asking about using Templot on a Mac computer.

Typically they want to know whether it is or isn't possible, on which Mac versions, with which OS, additional software, etc., and lots of other Mac-speak which goes over my head.

I know, because you've told me, that Templot runs fine on the latest Intel-based Macs. But as to which Mac versions and model numbers that refers to, what extra is needed or comes ready installed, how much it costs, and where you put the oil in, I haven't the faintest idea. 

So if one of you who is a Mac-using Temploteer would be willing to write a simple beginner's guide to getting Templot working on a Mac, to which I can refer folks, I would be very grateful.

i.e. assuming you have just taken your first Mac out of its box and switched it on, the simplest most straightforward route for a beginner Mac user to get into Templot. With links to sources and suppliers of whatever is needed.

Not the full go-faster power-user solution.

I know this has been covered before in different topics, but I've found it difficult to distil that down to a basic step-by-step guide for Mac beginners who have no knowledge of Templot. I've been unable even to explain what appears on a Mac screen when downloading Templot, and whether such downloading is done using Windows or the Mac OS.

Many thanks for any help.

regards,

Martin.

Martin,

I use Templot on my Mac computer using OSX 10.5 "Leopard" system.  This system incorporates a facility to divide the hard drive  (called the 'boot camp' facility) which I have used to install windows vista home basic system.  This cost about £180 from PC World.

I downloaded Templot into this partitioned drive and find no difficulty in using it.  There was an initial problem over the use of the function keys in windows but this was sorted using the preferences tab in the vista program to restore the windows response to the relevant keys.

This solution is perhaps a bit of a cheat in that it is essentially a windows vista system on a partitioned Mac hard drive and it may not be quite what you had in mind in your request.
If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours,   Graham Astill

There was an initial problem over the use of the function keys in windows but this was sorted using the preferences tab in the vista program to restore the windows response to the relevant keys.

Graham Astill wrote: 

There was an initial problem over the use of the function keys in windows but this was sorted using the preferences tab in the vista program to restore the windows response to the relevant keys.

Hi Graham,

Can you shed a bit more light on how you did this: where is the preferences tab, for example.

Simon

I followed the Apple boot-camp set-up guide (which my son down-loaded for me) which says at page 18
"In windows, click the Boot Camp system tray item and choose Boot Camp Control Panel.

Click the Keyboard tab.

Select or deselect "Use the F1-F12 keys to control software features"."

I am not in windows mode at present so I cannot direct you to the Boot Camp system tray item but if you have trouble finding it, e-mail again and I will open it up and have another search.

As another response commented, a Mac compatible Templot would be a far better solution  but would no doubt entail an awful lot of work.

Good luck, regards,  Graham Astill

• I only obtained Templot last week and I have a 2 year old iMac that I purchased new so it isn't running Leopard I am sure! It is an Intel Dual Core machine and I purchased Parallels which I have used successfully for another Windows application for the last two years. Must check but it will be some version 10 point something OS.
• I downloaded the Templot file in my Mac environment using my internet browser Safari. I saved it into my Parallels Shared folder that I can access from within Windows XP environment once Parallels is launched.
• I then went to Parallels, went to the shared folder and found the downloaded file - yipee!
• Double clicked file icon and the file launched with all the usual install type of things that we would be all used to.
• Then I double clicked the Templot hard hat icon (all this is still in XP in Parallels by the way) and up came the start screen and then I entered my ID number that Martin had emailed me and away we went.
• On my first session I then looked at the video clips using by simply switching over to Safari and then flipping back to Parallels to do things.
• I converted the default point to EM and made it a straight B7 and printed it to my PDF creator (which is the only printer I have available in XP at the moment).
• I saved the pdfs also into the shared folder and accessed them in the Mac environment using Preview and successfully printed the printer calibration files etc and then printed out the point diagram onto 1 and a bit A4 sheets.
• By the way, the Function keys worked fine with no additional tweaking either (eg F2 for instance)

I know, because you've told me, that Templot runs fine on the latest Intel-based Macs. But as to which Mac versions and model numbers that refers to, what extra is needed or comes ready installed, how much it costs, and where you put the oil in, I haven't the faintest idea.