Very Pleased Aperture Customer

Ok, so there are a lot of posts about the faults of Aperture, so I thought I would chime in on the fact I really like Aperture, for what I bought it for.
Let me first say that I had been using iPhoto and Photoshop Elements up until now. To be honest I found Photoshop CS2 intimidating, and really overkill for what I wanted to do. But with the new D80, I wanted to be able to shoot in RAW, and handle it better than iPhoto can (or is designed to). I don't need the power of Photoshop at my current skill level.
The other feature I needed was the ability to version files. Mostly for the ability to crop for printing and web without having to duplicate the actual image in iPhoto. One can argue that $300 is to much to pay for this, but I disagree. This was honestly the only 2 reasons I bought Aperture. Maybe there is an app out there to do it, but I love Apple and their tools so I decided it was worth it.
I live in Sweden, and I had my brother in law purchase the program for me, and in the meantime Apple decided to release the trial version. So I have been using it now for 5 days, and I have really grown to love the application.
I am sure there are things wrong, and it will never replace PS (in it's current form) but for the money I find it to be great for what I need.
Let me be honest and say I am not a professional photograper at all. But I really am loving playing with this and trying new things with the camera.
So, thanks to Apple for this great upgrade to iPhoto!
Chris

I've actually never used that feature - so I gave it a go.
I chose various images in a project where some are cropped, some are not, some masters are RAW, some are JPEGs.
Printed contact sheet with the default sample preset to PDF...and lo and behold! Several of the images are distorted.
So, yes, I have to say: problem confirmed here as well.
Pity, I was so pleased when I exported the previously troublesome JPEGs without the distorted lines on them.
chaos pilot
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