These are the minimum requirements for reasonable performance of the described products. They will help you decide whether the equipment you are currently using remains viable. If you are considering new equipment, bear in mind that these requirements are minimum, not optimal. Exceeding these specifications will in general lead to enhanced performance.
Note that installing Esko software on a terminal server (Microsoft, Citrix,…) is not supported.
Note that windows 8 and windows server 2012 are not yet supported in Suite12.
See more notes here.
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DeskPack Clients for Adobe® PhotoShop® for Mac
Flexo Tools 7.0 and Ink Tools 7.0 and CT/LP Plugin 7.0
DeskPack Pages
- Mac with PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel processor
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x (from Deskpack 7 R3 onwards), Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard, from Deskpack 7 R6 onwards)
- Memory: 512 MB Ram (1024 MB recommended for viewX and Flexo Tools)
- Harddisk space required host application and plug-in: at least 200MB
- 1 available USB-port
- CD-ROM drive
- Network card
- Creative Suite CS3 or CS4.
DeskPack Clients for Adobe® PhotoShop® for PC
Flexo Tools 7.0 and Ink Tools 7.0 and CT/LP Plugin 7.0
DeskPack Pages
- Operating system (4) (7) : Windows 2000 SP 4 or Windows XP SP1 or SP2, Windows Vista (20) , Windows 7 is not supported in the current version of the DeskPack Clients for Adobe® PhotoShop® for PC
- Processor: Intel Pentium III or 4 processor or equivalent
- Memory: 512 MB (1024 MB recommended for viewX and Flexo Tools)
- Harddisk (18) space required for Esko software installation: 200 MB
- Formatting type for installation partition: NTFS
- Video card resolution: 1024 x 768 resolution
- Video card color depth: 24 bit
- Network: 10/100Base-T Ethernet, Gigabit also supported, TCP/IPv4 protocol
- DVD-ROM drive
- OS and Keyboard language: All languages with Unicode character set are compatible, but support can only be guaranteed on English, French and German OS/Keyboard versions
- If you run other applications as well on this hardware, make sure to check compatibility with the specifications of all other applications as well.
- Creative Suite CS3 or CS4.