Using Adobe Products with Snow Leopard (Mac OSX)

The second "Files may not open in original authoring application" is awfull. Has Apple really tossed in the hat and given up on one of the Mac's most marvelous features?

I can understand why Unix would remain hung up on a rigid link between file extensions and applications. Geeks like things to be rigid, complicated and mess. It affirms their geekiness. And I can understand why Microsoft wouldn't follow Apple's lead in this. Microsoft is clueless when it comes to developing a likable user interface.

But why would Apple give up something this useful for something so frustrating? Will users have to endure all RTF files opening in Word? Apparently so. As poorly designed as it is, RTF has become the standard for exchanging formatted text. And will we have to choose if a jpg opens in Preview, Photoshop or whatever? Terrible. I may adopt a policy of posting a change suggestion about this with Apple every time it bugs me.

Why can't Snow Leopard do what Macs have always done and reopen a document in the application that saved it? It's like four bytes for that bit of identification. It's not like that's going to fill up the hard drives we have today or that the process of figuring that out will slow down our 2+ GHz machines.

And if that wonderful little bit of identification gets lost moving through a Linux or Windows server, so what? I't merely put us occasionally in the sort of situation that this dreadful new idea wants to impose on us all the time. "Don't like getting mugged every time you go down that street," Apple is saying, "well we fix it so you get mugged every time you go down any street."

I don't give this idea two thumbs down. I give it all ten fingers and a loud Bronx cheer. Way to go Apple. You just stripped Macs of one of their nicest features and for what, to fit in with the Windows crowd? How pitiful.

indesign crashes in 10.6 if you try to print

Did Adobe already get to know about the phenomenon of a VERY slow Distiller in Mac OS X 10.6? By "slow" I mean 94 seconds vs. 7 seconds (same ps-file, same settings, Distiller 9.1, 10.6 vs. 10.5.8). There's one mention in Adobe forums, couldn't find more, so this maybe isn't a widespread problem? It is one here, actually ;(.

Re: Photoshop Elements 4 (for Mac)

Simple question: does it work with Snow Leopard?

Thank you.

Why can't Snow Leopard do what Macs have always done and reopen a document in the application that saved it?

Not sure what is going on in your experience but mine open up just fine in the document application that saved it.

Steve

Another simple question: InDesign 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 does not launch in Snow Leopard. Is there going to be a fix, or do I have to purchase an Adobe Upgrade? And if so, what should I buy???

When I go to start indesign CS4 it crashes when I open a new document- what upgrade should I buy or can I get to fix it- I tried reinstalling it and it doesn't fix it.

The "Save As Adobe PDF" Automator action works in other apps (e.g. Safari, Mail, etc.), but when used from InDesign (File > Print > Printer... > PDF > Save As Adobe PDF) it fails every time!

Since installing MacOS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard as you all know by now - Adobe Acrobat allways crahes when I try to print a PDF of any content or source. Well it doesn't perticulary crash it just closes itself without any errormessage - except for the mandatory apple report. As I've read someone had the same or kind of alike problem.

The question:
Is there any information as to why that happens, or any fix?

with regards
Jörg Lehn