I suggested Parallels or Fusion because you implied that you were ready to make the switch except for one program. I was assuming that you did more with your computers than run Acrobat, so why would you be running Windows 95% of the time?
I'm at an environmental lab and we use FileMaker as our database, it generates reports, etc. We generate hundreds of pages daily, and have a program called "sharpdesk" (antiquated but awesome) that installs like a driver that we print to. With that, we print PDFs word and excel files to, and then rearrange and merge the pages (approx 30-40 per report). We don't use acrobat now, we just print to sharpdesk.
The only Mac program that gets close (forget the name) allows for exporting PDF and word, but not excel to rearrange- id have to manually convert the excel document to pdf, then manually add it to the other files- doable, but time consuming x 100s of reporte a week. Adobe doesnt allow word or excel on the mac version (only windows). So there isn't a viable solution. It isn't 95% of the time- that was an exageration, but it's probably 80% for my other employees that handle reports (Im the marketing guy so I don't).
My qa/qc officer and her assistant (2 most important report writers), and president all have macs at home and would love to have it there, but there is no realistic time saving option unfortunately.
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Wish my company in the UK would let me use a Mac, heck I would buy the machine myself and donate it to them if they would!
I suggested Parallels or Fusion because you implied that you were ready to make the switch except for one program. I was assuming that you did more with your computers than run Acrobat, so why would you be running Windows 95% of the time?
I'm at an environmental lab and we use FileMaker as our database, it generates reports, etc. We generate hundreds of pages daily, and have a program called "sharpdesk" (antiquated but awesome) that installs like a driver that we print to. With that, we print PDFs word and excel files to, and then rearrange and merge the pages (approx 30-40 per report). We don't use acrobat now, we just print to sharpdesk.
The only Mac program that gets close (forget the name) allows for exporting PDF and word, but not excel to rearrange- id have to manually convert the excel document to pdf, then manually add it to the other files- doable, but time consuming x 100s of reporte a week. Adobe doesnt allow word or excel on the mac version (only windows). So there isn't a viable solution. It isn't 95% of the time- that was an exageration, but it's probably 80% for my other employees that handle reports (Im the marketing guy so I don't).
My qa/qc officer and her assistant (2 most important report writers), and president all have macs at home and would love to have it there, but there is no realistic time saving option unfortunately.
Assume that this report is US only?
Wish my company in the UK would let me use a Mac, heck I would buy the machine myself and donate it to them if they would!
Not sure... I'd assume worldwide only because for income it says "converted to us dollars"