Originally Posted by
philk
good afternoon all, i havn't had a chance to visit here for a while, but as a mac user myself, i think i can add some clarity.
At the moment, the best and most successful way to connect to a mac is through adobe illustrator, however, as margaret rightly pointed out, adobe illustrator is very expensive. She also stated that she doesn't want to work through emulation software like parallels however, for others, this is an excellent way of driving your craftrobo and works seamlessly.
The third way of driving the craftrobo from a mac is to use boot camp, this enables you to boot your mac either as a mac or a pc and once again works well.
There will shortly be a better option. Many of you are probably not aware, but graphtec america purchased silhouette in late 2009. It is our plan to eventually merge the two product lines together taking the best of both products.
The launch of the new silhouette software for mac and pc is the beginning of this new co-operation. There are still a few bugs in the software to iron out, for instance there are issues with a4 paper sizes versus us letter paper sizes, but this should all be sorted before christmas. As soon as this is finalised, you will be able to download the new software from us foc.
You will also be able to get the silhouette download cards from us at the same time.
Meanwhile, feel free to download the new software from the silhouette america website, but please be careful, there are a few bugs in it yet.
So back to where we started, my advice to margaret would be to buy a craftrobo, but download the silhouette software for mac.
I hope that helps
phil
graphtec gb limited