Illustrator CS5 glitch 66 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 4 months ago | Thread started: Jan 12, 12, 1:57 a.m.

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• Horp

  Hello,

  I have a frequent problem with Illustrator CS5 and I wonder if anyone can help resolve it. If I have left it open in the background for a while, it wont work when I try to go back to it. It will throw the open document back into the foreground, but it will have the spinning beachball, or will be greyed out and beyond reach. I have no choice but to force quit it.

  Sometimes I may have left Illy in order to go and do something photoshoppy, so I may not have saved as it was only a temporary departure into another app. So I'm frequently losing five or ten minutes of work each time.

  Does anyone else experience this? and does anybody know of a fix for it?

  It doesn't seem to relate to any other particular app, ie: its not a clash with a font manager or anything like that.

  Our IT bloke suggests its because I may have too much stuff open at once but this isn't the case either. I can have only two things open and if Illy is left for five minutes in the background it wont come back to life.

  Any thoughts? Advice? Offers of support? Cash donations? Can I sleep with your hot sexy wife and cry like a baby afterwards?

  Stuff like that. Thanks.

  Jan 12, 12, 1:57 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  You can sleep with my hot sexy baby and cry like my wife afterwards, if you wish.

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  That aside, I sometimes get this with a print properties popup in Illy5 - if I click for too long (or click too quickly, I haven't quite worled it out) the print popup I expect to see flashes on-screen, then disappears behind Illy's printer dialogue and Illy itself, meaning I can't click it, nor can I click on anything else, as the focus is on the thing that's hidden.

  This generally requires a full machine restart, as Illy will do the exact sae thing if I just boot that back up again.

  In sum, offer you nothing other than my vague suspicion that Illy5's window stacking code is a little shonky.. oh, and my hot sexy baby, of course.

  • sorry - it disappears 'in between' Illy's printer dialogue and Illy itself, making it unclickable.– detritus1/6

    Thanks for the response old buddy old pal. At least I know its not just me then. I don't do any printing, so in my case its...– Horp2/6

    ... not exactly the same problem as yours, but at least I know there's no point in looking for downloadable fixes, as...– Horp3/6

    ... someone like yourself would already know of them. Bad work Adobe. Fucking useless product.– Horp4/6

    This has been my first external communication of the day. I don't think I did all that well.– detritus5/6

    IDIOTS!
    
    Pfft.– detritus6/6

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 12, 2:03 a.m. – Permalink

• Miesfan

  i prefer this
  

  • For me, Illustrator 8.0 was the best of times. Kai's vector effects were beautifully realised. Illy's own 3d is appalling.– Horp1/3

    yep!– Miesfan2/3

    I was happy with all versions up to 10. CS5.5 is so slow/bloated that I often avoid using it.– Josev3/3

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 12, 2:28 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  Call Adobe first. QBN isn great for adobe tech support.

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 12, 4:24 a.m. – Permalink

• antimotion

  By The Designers Republic: "I Would Save Freehand"
  

  

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 12, 4:54 a.m. – Permalink

• zoozoo

  are you using mac 10 lion?

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 12, 9:33 a.m. – Permalink

• moniker

  Keep your windows half glocked for better binary throughput.
  Failing that, just make sure your epicure preference pane is reset to original factory state.

  • Kick the v-tech in as well.– moniker

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 12, 10:16 a.m. – Permalink