Comments on: Leaping to Leopard

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:03:53 +0000

I think most people will put up with the few little incompatibilities until the updates resolve those issues, so long as nothing too glaring pops up. The issue with unexpected quits on save might be one of those issues, especially if the quit happens before the save. I would be inclined to pull my hair out over that one!

By: Chris Kinsman

Chris Kinsman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:12:37 +0000

Adam, one more question. Did you upgrade Leopard? You should use 10.5.2 The size of the update is huge and will take a few hours just to download. Evidently, there “were” problems with the Finder. Aha! I knew it! Hopefully this helps your situation.

By: Chris Kinsman

Chris Kinsman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:08:22 +0000

I feel your pain Adam. I finally upgraded to CS3 and still had a lot of problems. Did you try my workarounds listed higher up on this page? For CS2 users there are several things you can try. One thing that helped me was opening CS2 for the the first time and creating a new document and saving it. Don’t open an old document. For some reason, when you go to print or save it crashes InDesign. Good luck and put the kittens to the side!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:05:22 +0000

The print to .pdf option is a huge issue for me, I have to constantly send files to be printed in seperations w/ spot colors, & I need to test everything before I send it out. This “little” error on whoevers part has left me frustrated to the point of drowning kittens.

As for the InDesign issues, w/ leopard, I think someone needs to be smacked across the face. When you buy a product, you expect it to function, If as a designer, I sold a web page to someone, then said “I’ll fix it later” I’d be living in a card board box. The only alternative is quark? Come on, quark is crap.

My rant– long night of InDesign crashes has left me bitter.

InDesign CS worked better…..

By: Chris Kinsman

Chris Kinsman — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:15:24 +0000

InDesign by far has had the worst problems of any program. My gut feeling is that the way CS programs interact with the Leopard finder is at the root of the problem. But that’s just my opinion. A major update to Leopard is due out soon. I have heard of at least 120 fixes and up to 500mb to download.

I think the latest versions for the CS3 applications are as follows:

InDesign 5.0.2
Illustrator 13.0.2
Photoshop 10.0.1

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:39:02 +0000

InDesign CS3 would crash everytime I tried to open a document (existing or new). I had just installed Leopard… not good. No patches were available and Adobe said that “they were working on it” but! I just downloaded the new patch I found on the Adobe site - posted 1/22/08 and it seems to work… in the early stages I can actually open InDesign CS3 and can use it!
Keep your fingers crossed…

Adobe InDesign CS3 5.0.2 update - all languages
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=3839&fileID=3591

By: Erwin Grigorian

Erwin Grigorian — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:06:17 +0000

I was having issues with InDesign CS2 crashing every time I tried to export a file to PDF. Changing to the Adobe Dialog box did the trick. Hope either Adobe or Apple puts out a patch for this problem soon.

Thanks for your help!

By: Chris Kinsman

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:11:48 +0000

FYI - I have another workaround that I discovered for InDesign CS2 and Leopard users:

Create a new untitled document in InDesign CS2 when you first open the program and just save it to the desktop. You must do this before you open any other document i n InDesign CS2. In a way you are creating a fresh document that can easily be saved without problems. After that you should be able to open other documents and save, etc. without problems.

By: Chris Kinsman

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:02:12 +0000

I’m glad some of my tips have helped. I recently upgraded to CS3 but still have problems with that as well! The time I spent trying to solve the CS2 issue finally took its toll, but I’ll continue to post workarounds as I find them. It seems that as soon as I think I find the solution, another problem takes it’s place. Sniffing around on the internet, I also found that if you try booting directly from the Leopard DVD and repair your disk and permissions, that this may help as well. Regarding font programs, I am not familiar with Suitcase, only FontExplorer. I tried to only use Apple’s Font Book, but I’m not sure if that actually helped or not. My guess is that there are some font conflicts occurring at the system level that may be causing CS2 applications to crash. Therefore, you might try disabling any font programs and use Apple’s Font Book.

By: John Stanfield

John Stanfield — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:20:07 +0000

Oh, sorry Chris…I just read your last post. I use Suitcase X1 and they just released an update for Leopard support. I’m curious as to whether or not this will help matters.