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Originally Posted by Geobunny
While it does handle resource forks, I don't trust it. Last time I used Panther's Finder to zip up some Quark XPress jobs, the printer I sent them to (who are still using Mac OS 9) said the folder unzipped very strangely and none of the fonts worked. Turns out that because OS X works with resource forks differently, it zipped them up inside a folder called "._MACOSX" or something along those lines. OS 9 didn't have a clue what to make of it 'til I stuffed them up with DropStuff.
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The technical reason for this problem:
Mac OS X can zip up files with resourse forks, but, it is also the only thing that can UNzip those files. Stuffit might too...
If your printer was using OS 9, or windows, things would not have been put together right, or if they were using an old copy of stuffit to open them, or an old version of Mac OS X before .zip was built in.
-Owl