Cyrillic converters for Mac platform plus a personal statement

[George Fowler]

Benjamin Sher wrote:

>                I then asked them to suggest other places. Nobody seems
>to have a Mac Converter. I checked the Russian Software Digest site,
>which I have just spoken of. Nothing. There are expensive solutions,
>but I certainly would NOT recommend them unless you are a
>professional publisher and insist on using your Mac. There is a
>software program called SoftWindows made by InsigniaSolution (the
>man from World Language Resources said) that allows you to run many
>Windows programs on your Mac. It costs about $125 and makes sense
>only if you plan to use for many other programs on your Mac.

SoftWindows is of course overkill, and actually it doesn't help, because
you would still have to convert between Mac and Windows, even though you
wouldn't have to leave the same machine!

There are inexpensive commercial solutions on the Mac side, aside from the
shareware solution I mentioned in the previous message. MacCampus
(http://www.maccampus.com/) sells its Converter Windows <-> Mac for $59.
This is available in the U.S. from Slavica as well (email:
slavica at indiana.edu; http://www.slavica.com/). I have not used it, but
MacCampus makes first rate stuff, so it very likely works. Smart Link sells
some Russian-made software and fonts in the U.S.
(http://www.smartlinkcorp.com.). Their product Dialect also does
Windows/Mac conversions, as well as Russifying your U.S. system software. I
have tried this, and it works, but I don't use it because it conflicts
badly with Eudora on my system (I have NO idea why, and others use both
together comfortably). Dialect Pack 1 costs $145, which seems too high to
me, but does include several Postscript fonts.

George Fowler

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