Comments on: Is Snow Leopard Ready for Prime Time for InDesign Users?

By: laura

laura — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:46:28 +0000

Jena, you rock! I removed the PPT Type Library as you suggested and now PPT works in SNow Leopard!

By: Andrey Mac

Andrey Mac — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:16:31 +0000

hey
Thank for your article
It’s work on my computer
again
Thanks

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:43:22 +0000

Having just upgraded to OSX 10.6, on a Mac Pro Quad Core Intel I haven’t encountered many problems so far. My old version of Quark 6.5, which I now only use to view old work, needed to be “reactivated” which was a bit alarming when the dialogue box came up, but apart from that, everything else seems fine.
Even printing from InDesign CS4 and and old version of Office for the Mac to an old EPSON Stylus Photo 890 seems okay. I have found that my old version of Word in versions of OSX Leopard and Snow Leopard runs really slow if it is activated AFTER Suitcase. However, since it is only used for text to be copied and pasted into InDesign layouts, I’m not about to upgrade unless I have to.
Best way round is to launch Word before Suitcase and all its fonts become active.
The biggest issue has been with the System fonts – Helvetica Neue, in particular – conflicting with my own library. InDesign documents featuring Helvetica Neue 75 Bold were saying it was missing, even though it was active. It wouldn’t even appear in the font list. Removing the Helveticas from the System Folder has solved this problem.

By: baldyauldeejit

baldyauldeejit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:59 +0000

“Wait a second! What crippling problem?”

I’ll tell you what crippling problem. Four words: Helvetica Neue Type 1

By: mikeyg

mikeyg — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:23:40 +0000

Have a question for anybody that has upgraded to the new iMac 27 inch and has problems with CS3. I can’t seem to get it to work. It works fine on my G4 running OS 10.4.11. I did a migrate and would give me license error. Would not work on either machine and would not let me deactivate. I uninstalled the the programs from imac and still had issue on G4. Reset the imac back to factory. Did a erase and install of all discs. Now G4 works but afraid to try and install on imac.
Anyone else have this issue?

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:56:42 +0000

Just an addendum:
Adobe CS3 did have issues after upgrading my Macbook Pro to Snow Leopard and needed to be re-installed, but seems to be ok for past 2 weeks although I don’t use it as often or as intensively as on my desktop computer.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:31:41 +0000

Just an update: My iMac has been having so many issues after installing Snow Leopard (even though just over 1 yr old) then re-formatting and trying to revert to OSX 10.5 not helping much, that Apple is giving me a new system. Thank goodness I paid for for the extra Applecare coverage.

PS. The strange thing is that Snow Leopard is working on my MacBook Pro with only minor issues and that machine is nearly 3 yrs old. Oh and other than shortly after installing it the battery exploded (ok expanded so it is much larger and won’t fit) but am not sure these are related, because I guess this is happening to many people (the 15inch batteries were recalled and replaced). I got different stories about whether it would be replaced or covered and finally had to buy a new battery myself because I was sick of the runaround.

PPS. Is anyone having trouble with Snow Leopard not finding fonts on your system even though they are installed in Library/fonts and System fonts? I have had the system say that Monaco could not be found upon opening a browser and it goes into my Time Machine backup to try to use the font from there AND the font IS in my Fonts folder? weird.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:09:25 +0000

Fine here on a late-08 MacBook Pro. Cloned my Leopard install (itself a clone from a hard disk upgrade) to an external and upgraded in place, which I almost never do. The only option I checked was to install Rosetta.

CS3 runs fine, as does the old free Linotype Font Explorer X. Office 2004 had display issues with my old monitor profile (palettes turned dark grey) but a fresh one fixed it. I have experienced Office’s spontaneous logout issues, but I mostly avoid the suite anyway.

As for the Epson 2200, I deleted the Gutenprint drivers and reinstalled Epson’s driver. The color is OK, but a bit darker than Leopard given the same settings–almost like it splits the difference between 1.8 and 2.2 gamma. Print is the same no matter what monitor profile I use, which is correct behavior. Weird thing is InDesign and Photoshop now print identically. They don’t in Leopard.

I did launch a Quark file (QXP 7.5, runs fine otherwise) to see the Helvetica Neue issues. It was a mess with Font Explorer X, 1 more weight worked with the Suitcase Fusion 2 trial, and it actually looked OK with Font Explorer Pro. IIRC, the font menu appeared different with each font manager in both ID and Quark (!).

Some people on the Apple forums claimed turning off file sharing fixed the Save As dialog problems.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:51:25 +0000

I didn’t upgrade but moved from PC to Mac right at the time that Snow Leopard came out, so my machine was Snow Leopard. My InDesign docs were using Helvetica Neue (T1) and when I moved to Mac I switched to Helvetica Neue LT Std (Open Type). For each document I opened, I was presented with missing fonts and I manually matched up each weight. After that, I found that in some text boxes the text was entirely DELETED. No, the text is not overset, it’s gone. There is a hash mark (end of text) symbol in the text box. My docs have many tiny text boxes, some containing only one word. Most of them are fine, but in some (seemingly random) boxes, the text is just gone. Nightmare.

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:33:55 +0000

@ Dwayne, I did not run permissions before and after — How does one run permissions? Apple doesn’t mention it in the Install Instructions…

@emg, I just meant that I will no longer allow automatic updates in the future. I will control if, and when, any upgrades are installed and one at a time to ensure there are no issues.

For others, just wait…no doubt you will probably have problems. Mine seemed to be OK at first, too, but only after a while or perhaps it was the 10.61 update everything wreaked havoc. I thought it was a good update as I got more hard drive space back and it seemed faster and smoother, but ONLY at FIRST, until things started not working anymore, one at a time….

Glad to hear it went smoothly for some. Perhaps it is my version of iMac although it is only 1 yr old. Yes, I need this machine for my work so it has been a frustrating process.