Snow Leopard & CS3

[rkdiddy]

Long story short...

I'm having one heck of a time with a Licensing Error of my CS3 suite. It first happened on my MBP (upgraded to SL first). I did a fresh install and then did restore from a TM back-up. As soon as I opened Illustrator I received an error that the licensing was no longer working. It said I needed to reinstall or or update. I tried both with no luck. Then, did a search online and found there was an Adobe program to fix the licensing issue. Tried all the suggested methods - no luck.

I ended up doing a fresh install and reinstalling all of my programs - PITA. So far everything is working on my MBP.

Next, was my Mini. Everything worked fine at first, then I received the same error. Went through all the same steps - no dice.

I'm now in the process of re-installing everything.

 

[Rt&Dzine]

I hope you got that all worked out rkdiddy.

Has anyone been using InDesign CS3 intensely with Snow Leopard? Any issues?

 

[rhett7660]

Why are people saying CS3 doesn't work on SL? Work fine here (been running it on SL for 1 week now).

Have you been able to use all of the programs under the CS3 suite? If not, which ones have you been running?

 

[panoz7]

Have you been able to use all of the programs under the CS3 suite? If not, which ones have you been running?

Can't speak for Compile 'em all, but I've been running the entire CS3 design suite under snow leopard and have had surprisingly few problems so far. I've probably spent 60% of my time in illustrator, 20% in indesign, and 10% each in photoshop and flash, and haven't had any major glitches. Indesign crashed on me once, but it used to do that occasionally in leopard as well, so no real change there.

I've had some problems with font management, namely linotype font explorer is having issues. I might have to upgrade to the new payed version. Beyond that I've been pleasantly surprised with snow leopard. All of my printers installed really easily, my scanner works just as well as it did in leopard, and network drives seem to be working perfectly.

I refuse to upgrade to CS4. I was completely happy with CS2 and only upgraded after I got an intel mac. I don't see any super compelling new features in CS4 other than in flash. Hopefully CS5 will be out soon, an adobe will have focused on actually improving performance and stability instead of just adding features that I never use.

 

[rhett7660]

Can't speak for rhett7660, but I've been running the entire CS3 design suite under snow leopard and have had surprisingly few problems so far. I've probably spent 60% of my time in illustrator, 20% in indesign, and 10% each in photoshop and flash, and haven't had any major glitches. Indesign crashed on me once, but it used to do that occasionally in leopard as well, so no real change there.

I've had some problems with font management, namely linotype font explorer is having issues. I might have to upgrade to the new payed version. Beyond that I've been pleasantly surprised with snow leopard. All of my printers installed really easily, my scanner works just as well as it did in leopard, and network drives seem to be working perfectly.

I refuse to upgrade to CS4. I was completely happy with CS2 and only upgraded after I got an intel mac. I don't see any super compelling new features in CS4 other than in flash. Hopefully CS5 will be out soon, an adobe will have focused on actually improving performance and stability instead of just adding features that I never use.

Thank you for the update! I am ready to upgrade, have disc in hand but have been kind of leary in doing so because I rely so much on Adobe products.

I am like you, I have no want or will to upgrade to CS4. Waiting for CS5 and to am hoping it works on stabilizing the products across the board as well as brings them into the 64bit realm for Mac.

 

[amaltemara]

Thank you for the update! I am ready to upgrade, have disc in hand but have been kind of leary in doing so because I rely so much on Adobe products.

I am like you, I have no want or will to upgrade to CS4. Waiting for CS5 and to am hoping it works on stabilizing the products across the board as well as brings them into the 64bit realm for Mac.

I'm having a major problem with Snow Leapord and Photoshop / CS3. I have a .psd that has an embedded smart-object, and when I open it, I get an error 'Could not complete your request because of a program error'.
When clicking 'ok' the error comes right back, so I can't do anything with the file.