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The ChemBioDraw (ChemDraw) plugin 11.0 does not work with Safari 3.0 under Mac OS X 10.5.

MathWorks products R2007b and R2007a (including Student Version) have been qualified on Mac OS X 10.5.
However, there are two significant issues with running Simulink on Mac OS X 10.5:
-- Simulink may crash when dragging a block from one window to another. A patch is being developed to address this issue and will be available by November 1st. See Bug Report 409715 (http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/details.html?rp=409715) for more information.
-- Poor visual display of some Simulink windows. Specifically, incorrect colors are displayed on some Simulink menus, icons, and toolbars. This is strictly a visual issue, there are no functional issues and tool tips are not affected. This issue does not affect the Simulink editor. This issue will be resolved in R2008a. See Bug Report 408066 (http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/details.html?rp=408066) for more information.
There are no significant issues with MATLAB on Mac OS X 10.5

Anyone tried to see if Equation Service still works? I get kinda worried considering its last update was years ago.

Has anyone tested this to see if it works under Leopard?

From the developers website

"Based on testing of EndNote with OSX 10.5 Leopard, EndNote X and X1 have not shown any major compatibility issues. The EndNote program appears to act as designed when performing all basic functions. If further information becomes available, it will be posted here.

Endnote X1

It is not possible to use the Spell Check as designed. This is due to a change in the spell checker included in Macintosh OS 10.5 Leopard, and we anticipate it will be resolved by Apple.

EndNote 9

It is not possible to use the "Connect" option in EndNote 9. We do not have a workaround to enable this feature at this time.

Note: PubMed or Web of Science are not affected as they connect using unique methods."

Both ifort and icc Version 10.020, as well as MKL 9.1 work fine here.

intel compilers are not fully integrated with leopard and xcode 3, we have to wait few days untill 10.1.xxx is out. Today, you can have problem with lam-mpi for intance.

As far as I can tell, broken in Leopard.

Apparently it works fine (ImageJ version 10.2 on OS X.5)

No major problems with the latest release of LabVIEW. Most noticeable issues are with text rendering of front panels when using the "system" controls and indicators. This also shows up when editing properties for controls (using the Properties item from the control's contextual menu). These appear to be purely cosmetic problems.

The plugin does however work with Firefox.

GridStuffer is not behaving properly in Leopard, and may crash. I have a build that kind of works now, but it still have some other issues that make it not ready for public consumption... Sorry!

The chemical drawing editor Marvin from ChemAxon seems to function fine.

As far as simple use (opening databases, pasting references into Word, connecting to PubMed and downloading references) it works just fine in 10.5.

Just an additional comment here...

I use Mathematica 6 extensively in my consulting work and in the continued development of A WorkLife FrameWork (http://Scientificarts.com/worklife). I haven't encountered anything Leopardish that affects the behavior of Mathematica 6. All is fine...

There is the (what I think) design flaw in Leopard of including a Spotlight lookup field in the Help menu (and which is in all applications now). This completely destroys the menu's layout because it resizes the menu and assigns a font size that is different from other menus. Also, if there is any text in the lookup field all other menu items are preempted by the list of found items.

This is a pure user interface flaw on Apple's part (and there are sadly others in Leopard) which overrides an application's design. It seems to be a feature-by-committee reminiscent of the classic windows user interface design methodology. Hopefully it will get fixed by Apple in a coming-to-their-senses update...

David Reiss
http://Scientificarts.com/worklife

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Tue, 2007-11-06 21:39 — ardelair New
Mathematica 6
No problems found so far in Mathematica 6. I haven't done extensive testing, but I've not run across any issues.

Coot 0.3.3 does not work with Leopard, but version 0.4 installed via Fink, does work. Follow the directions at this page: http://xanana.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Installing_Coot_on_OS_X
Make sure you first follow directions at this page to activate the unstable branch of fink:
http://xanana.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/How_to_Activate_the_Unstable_Branch

Here is a site were you can download X11 updates

http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin

I have Igor Pro 6.00 running under Leopard. All my experiments seem to be opening without incident, and so far I haven't experienced any problems.

Native Instruments have a web page highlighting compatibility issues with Leopard.

"Based on internal testing with Mac OS X 10.5, Native Instruments has found two potential compatibility issues with its products.

Installation - the installer versions included with some NI products will not work under Mac OS X 10.5, causing the installation process to fail. This may also include previous versions of Service Center included with a product.

Native Instruments has released a universal installer patch for Mac OS X 10.5 that fixes this issue for all affected products. Please download and apply this patch when encountering any installation issues. The patch is available for download here.

Operation - in some NI products, calling up certain message windows will cause the application to become unresponsive under Mac OS X 10.5. This includes "Yes/No"-type confirmation dialogues and "File not found" warnings. To which extent such messages are likely to come up during normal usage depends on the individual product. "

Both icc & ifort compile fine, but the executables crash with a seg fault .. any tips? I installed XCode 3.0 too, by the way.

On our campus we have several versions of ChemDraw (versions 8, 9 and 10). After upgrading some of our computers to Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and some testing we realized that versions 8 and 9 of ChemDraw show the following problem under 10.5 (tested on several machines and 100% reproduceable):

1. When opening an existing .cdx file and saving this file after modifications under the same name with the Save command, everything is fine.
2. When modifying an existing .cdx file and trying to save the file under another name with thecommand Save as... ChemDraw crashes.
3. When creating a new document and trying to save it ChemDraw crashes.
4. ChemDraw version 10 seems to work fine.

It looks as if versions 8 and 9 are unable to create new .cdx files under Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.
Did anybody experience the same problem and if yes, is there a solution/an update available?

Regards,
Alex

Thank's Drew.

I contacted them already but wanted to post it on macresearch.org in case someone else comes across this issue. When I have news be assured it will appear on this thread as well.

Alex

I also encountered the problem with ChemDraw 8 when upgrading to MAC OS 10.5. When trying to save new chemdraw files, chemdraw crashed everytime. I was able to fix this problem by going to Preference, Open/Save tab, and selecting Use default file format and select "chemdraw" file format. Hope this helps.

Elisa

Thanks for this.

Leopard OS. Recently upgraded to 11.0 and encountering problems copying large files (ca. 20 mb) and pasting into a word document. Get an "out of memory" error message. Haven't yet contacted technical support.

Please help.