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From: dorayme on 3 Mar 2010 01:38
An odd thing. I double click an Illustrator file (I suppose it is
a bit big: 40MB) and the program itself opens. But, by the time
it has finished launching, the original point of opening it is
entirely lost by my G4. It seems to have forgotten why it stepped
out into the street!

Another double click on the file opens it quickly. I cannot
remember if this used to happen before I upgraded the memory to
1.5 GB from 1, but anyway, I wonder if it is RAM related?

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dorayme
From: Davoud on 3 Mar 2010 10:03
dorayme wrote:

> An odd thing. I double click an Illustrator file (I suppose it is
> a bit big: 40MB) and the program itself opens. But, by the time
> it has finished launching, the original point of opening it is
> entirely lost by my G4. It seems to have forgotten why it stepped
> out into the street!
>
> Another double click on the file opens it quickly. I cannot
> remember if this used to happen before I upgraded the memory to
> 1.5 GB from 1, but anyway, I wonder if it is RAM related?

Don't know, but I suspect it is Adobe related. It happens to me
occasionally with dual-core and quad-core Macs with four and eight GB
of RAM, respectively. Illustrator and Photoshop TIFF. I'm running CS3.

One gets the impression sometimes that Adobe is taking advantage of its
monopoly and expressing its dislike for Apple (the company that created
Adobe) by giving Mac users second-rate software.

Davoud

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From: Tom Harrington on 3 Mar 2010 11:47
In article <doraymeRidThis-804BAD.17381203032010(a)news.albasani.net>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> An odd thing. I double click an Illustrator file (I suppose it is
> a bit big: 40MB) and the program itself opens. But, by the time
> it has finished launching, the original point of opening it is
> entirely lost by my G4. It seems to have forgotten why it stepped
> out into the street!

I've had that problem with Adobe apps. I don't know what they're doing
but only Adobe apps were ever affected. I'm not aware of a solution.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: dorayme on 3 Mar 2010 17:14
In article <030320101003252605%star(a)sky.net>,
Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
> > An odd thing. I double click an Illustrator file (I suppose it is
> > a bit big: 40MB) and the program itself opens. But, by the time
> > it has finished launching, the original point of opening it is
> > entirely lost by my G4. It seems to have forgotten why it stepped
> > out into the street!
> >
> > Another double click on the file opens it quickly. I cannot
> > remember if this used to happen before I upgraded the memory to
> > 1.5 GB from 1, but anyway, I wonder if it is RAM related?
>
> Don't know, but I suspect it is Adobe related. It happens to me
> occasionally with dual-core and quad-core Macs with four and eight GB
> of RAM, respectively. Illustrator and Photoshop TIFF. I'm running CS3.
>
> One gets the impression sometimes that Adobe is taking advantage of its
> monopoly and expressing its dislike for Apple (the company that created
> Adobe) by giving Mac users second-rate software.

I am pretty sure this did not use to happen on my machine either
with a previous Illustrator (for OS9) or with the CS for the QS
Tiger machine under normal conditions (I will keep this simple)

One thing I notice is that in opening the program lately, it is
asking for a font I do not have: Myriad Roman. So a dialog box
comes up saying as much and I just say continue and the prgm
opens fine.

But the intervention of this hiccup might be causing a ruckus in
the Illustrator Church hierarchy. It might be reported that
dorayme is thumbing his nose at a sacred object* and this message
is getting passed up the church hierarchy and back down and
somewhere along the line, some authority has spitefully added
that the program should open ok but not the file this heretic has
asked for. Give this individual some grief!

Or maybe you are right, Adobe does not fully understand Macs. In
fact, I am sure you are right! There are quite some unMac like
things about it. In my OS9 compat version, it would bloody well
crash if I used "collapse into the space bar height" on the
windows. This collapse feature was a sacred object to me and I
saw Adobe thumbing their nose at me. So things like this way back
started the fight between me and some of my programs. But we
generally get along... <g>


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*Myriad Roman is to Illustrator what the body of Christ is to
some Christian rituals. I have lived and been irked by my lack of
this font for a long time, it seems so native to the program. I
have been meaning to get it but keep putting it off every day for
years on end. Now it is a battle of wills between me and the
program. This program has a rebellious streak even though it
knows I use it to produce the most breathtakingly beautiful
things. I really don't want to feed it Myriad Roman. It is a
Battle of Wills now.

--
dorayme
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