

If you're not seeing any drive icons on your desktop, that would be because they're off by default. dmg will have an icon of a plain white external drive on the desktop, like this: It's not physical drive like an external hard drive or other device, but the OS pretends it is. dmg file, it puts a pseudo drive icon on the desktop. dmg, which means Disk i Ma Ge) is still mounted on the desktop. Generally, the OS is telling you that the. You will find that Preview will not always be able to display all PDFs properly, whereas the latest version of the Reader always can. Also, as people create PDF files with newer versions of Acrobat Pro, Apple's Preview is always behind since they have to figure out how to update Preview to properly display PDF files written in the new format, which also often involved new features. Apply the same all the way up to the current 10.8, Mountain Lion.Īnyway, the Reader will work just fine in your current version of OS X as it is the latest version of the Reader. So as an example, 10.3 was not free for users of 10.2. Each point release is actually a major paid release, not just an update.

That also is a point of confusion for many computer novices, or those who have switched to the Mac and don't quite get the numbering Apple used for OS X. The version of the Reader you have/had, wouldn't even run under older versions of OS X. You need to check the specifics of which versions of OS X it will run under. Like many vendors who state it that way, they mean OS X in general. I then read that it was for Mac OS x, less than the 10.7.3 operating system that we have on our iMac.
