If your school uses a Mac-native exam software package (see here for a rundown on exam software and a listing of what some schools use), you should check with the IT department to be sure they’ll support Leopard for upcoming exams. If you’re at a SofTest school that allows use of Boot Camp for exams, you shouldn’t have any problems, because Boot Camp will no longer be beta software. However, it wouldn’t hurt to check in with them. Thanks for the heads-up on this issue, rbennett5.

If you’re using OmniOutliner, there are a few known issues with Leopard. MLS reader Ben Faulkner contacted the folks at Omni Group, and they gave him this response:

Thanks for contacting us! OmniOutliner 3.6.2 will run under 10.5 however there are a couple major bugs. The biggest being that OmniOutliner specific print options can not be changed, they’ll have no effect on the printout and it just uses the defaults. The other is that PDF rendering is broken, it renders the image as a thumbnail and blows that up to the dimensions of the pdf. The PDF file actually stored though is fine. There’s also some minor annoyances and possibly a few technical bugs that it would be rather rare to encounter.

Unfortunately I can’t say when this will be fixed. Technically it’s bugs with Leopard causing them but we may need to end up fixing them ourselves. OO 3.6.2 is “stable” though, I’m not aware of any crashes or hangs.

My experience with Omni Group has been that they’re usually very proactive about things like this. With any luck, they’ll have the glitches worked out before too long. Thanks for passing this along, Ben.

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