Mac OS8.5 Supplementary Info

 About Mac OS 8.5 This document provides information about Mac OS 8.5 that supplements the information in your installation manual and on-line help. For up-to-date news and compatibility information, please see the Mac OS Late-Breaking News web site at <http://www.apple.com/macos/latebreaking/>. Notes about Mac OS 8.5 • AppleScript and Mac OS 8.5 Mac OS 8.5 incorporates many new scriptable features and changes the behavior of some existing features. These changes may require some scripts to be updated. • Creating Desktop printers for Non-AppleTalk Printers Use the Desktop Printer Utility to create Desktop printers for non-AppleTalk Printer such as Infrared and LPR (TCP/IP). Double click on the utility, select the printer type and the correct PPD file for the printer by clicking on the change button. For LPR printers, you need to provide the Domain name or IP address as well as the Queue name of the printer or server. Close the dialog to save and create the desktop printer. • Monitor Resolution changes after Mac OS 8.5 install After performing a clean install of Mac OS 8.5, your monitor resolution may have changed from its previous settings. You can change your monitor resolution back by using the Monitors & Sound control panel. • Slow screen redrawing If a desktop picture is redrawn slowly after closing a window, your computer might be running low on memory. Set the Appearance control panel to display a pattern, instead of a picture, to speed up the redrawing process. • Unusual or inconsistent appearance Some applications may exhibit unusual or inconsistent cosmetic anomalies when used with Mac OS 8.5. These should not impact the performance of the application. Contact the manufacturer of the program to see if an updated version of the program is available. Notes about compatibility • America Online (AOL) Customers To enjoy QuickTime content on the web while using America Online, simply drag a copy of the file "QuickTime plugin" into the AOL Plug–ins folder (located in the same folder as the AOL application) and relaunch AOL. !"#"! • Anti-Aliased Text and Mac OS 8.5 If you turn on "Smooth all fonts on screen" in the Appearance control panel, you may notice some visual anomalies in some applications. This might include problems in the appearance of highlighted text (particularly when your highlight color is black), text that switches back and forth between smoothed and unsmoothed, or text that is not drawn correctly in front of a colored background. Contact your application vendor for updates to address these problems. You can reduce the anomalies in highlighting by choosing a light highlight color. The width of text on the screen may be different when smoothing is turned on, which may cause line breaks in your documents to change. • Apple CD-ROM extension and non-Apple CD-ROM incompatibilities If your computer or CD-ROM drive is not manufactured by Apple, or you have an Apple CD-ROM drive an…