Some years back I had to do a poster for an event where I work, and it was going to be printed fairly large. I had a 500mz G4, which, when new, was a so-called “supercomputer,” but in recent years it was underpowered even compared to a Mac Mini. I worked on the file at a small dpi, say 300 dpi, at fairly small size. Then, when done, I autotraced it in Adobe Streamline and increased its size to the poster’s final dimensions. I then rasterized it in Photoshop–at the larger size–and did the coloring on the larger file. When it was printed, it looked sharp and fine, but most of the work had been done at a smaller original size.

Obviously, if you have an older, PowerPC Mac, this does not apply to you. But, if that’s the case, you likely aren’t able to run at 1200 dpi resolutions anyway. Since you’re on an Intel Mac as well, the bottom line is as follows: it runs faster on Windows.

Have you tried it, or having tried it, does it give you problems?

Also there’s the Corel’s Painter Factory site, which has a forum that you can post these bugs at and have the developers/programmers read them.

Hope that CCI (Comic Con International) has some good news about MS 4 — like an universal binary.

I was indicating that, since it crashed during a save, the file itself, no matter how many times I saved it from start to finish, had become corrupt. Luckily, since I DO save iteratively, only the last version’s revisions were lost.

I’m sorry your having problem’s with your mac. I know you probably have thought of this, but a quick genius bar appointment could fix your problem. They will take older macs even if you don’t have apple care. I took my old eMac and were able a few issues i was having, and didn’t charge me a dime.

http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/

-AppleGuy

I had been wondering if you had ever had any problems with it, and I guess now I know. Sorry about the lost work – we always learn the hard way to save all the time, but then somehow it still comes back to bite us, right?

Seriously, though… that sucks.