Papers Compatibility with OS 10.8 Mountain Lion

Papers2 Compatibility with OS 10.8 Lion

Papers 2.3.2 is compatible with OS 10.8 Mountain Lion, and is recommended for all users. You should be able to update your version using the automatic updates built in Papers 2 (menu item 'Check for Updates...' in the Papers menu). Or you can download it manually if needed: http://mekentosj.com/papers/download (make sure you copy the program from the disk image to the Applications folder. Then open the Applications folder, and double-click on Papers).

Note that with any OS update, the first few weeks of use can still reveal more issues, which might thus still be present in Papers 2.3.2. Please report those issues as usual using our Discussions area, or by sending an email to feedback at mekentosj dot com.

Papers 1.9.8 Compatibility with OS 10.8 Mountain Lion

We recommend that users update to Papers 1.9.8 for OS 10.8 Mountain Lion compatibility.
You can download it from our website via this link: http://downloads.mekentosj.com/papers_198.dmg

Unfortunately due to changes in the OS Papers1 can crash on 10.8 Mountain Lion if you try to highlight a sentence in the PDF during the match procedure. We hope to release a bug fix at some point but as Papers2 has our priority at this point I cannot yet promise when this will be.

Special case: Papers2 on a clean install of OS 10.8 Mountain Lion

The following is only relevant if you decide to completely erase your hard drive before installing OS 10.8 Mountain Lion. If you simply update your system to Mountain Lion, you do not need to do anything special, Papers2 should just work.

We realize some of you may decide to completely erase their hard drive before installing OS 10.8 Lion, or may move their Papers library to a brand new computer that comes with Lion. In this particular case, the procedure is very similar to moving your Papers library to a different mac.

1. Before the clean install, back up your Papers library folder to an external drive.
2. Install OS X Mountain Lion
3. Download Papers2 again: http://mekentosj.com/papers/download
4. Move your Papers2 library back to your computer
5. Start Papers2, you might be asked to confirm the activation on your new machine, but Papers should remember your serial number.

For more details about moving your Papers library to a new or different mac, see this knowledge base article