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Indesign CS3 won't open in Leopard.
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Hard to believe that the father of Adobe (by marriage) was Aldus who did Pagemaker which is the father of InDesign...
It's not like they have had no mac experience in their past... So they kill Pagemaker and then what? Their whole Mac product line takes a back seat to Windows?
I did see that Adobe Reader 8.1.2 is being pushed as an update. Oh, wait, that's for Windows...
No problems running InDesign CS3 for me after upgrading 2 machines to Leopard (PowerBook G4 and a MDD Tower).
Seems like a lot of the people on this thread having problems are Intel-based machines?
Seems like a lot of the people on this thread having problems are Intel-based machines?
same problem here on an imac alu 2.4
used the adobe installer to uninstall Indesign, haven't reinstalled yet.
used the adobe installer to uninstall Indesign, haven't reinstalled yet.
Has anybody did a repair permissions in Disk Utility after installing? I'm not positive that would help but it ultimately can't hurt either way...
i suggest you loose your crappy attitude, especially as you have a bunch of people offering suggestions on how to help.
if you are foolish enough to install a brand new operating system version .0 on day one before any patches to either the OS or the software have been released, in a production environment, where you NEED stuff to work, then you deserve any headaches that may come your way. is leopard supposed to work flawlessly? of course. has any operating system version .0 EVER worked flawlessly? not in my experience.
I installed the CS3 Design Premium pack in Leopard and InDesign is just running fine, no problem at all.
Don't worry Adobe will have a fix in January or February.
Oh - I know - isn't that the best line ever? Pay a premium for the software, but don't expect support. They've only had a year and 4 months to play with it, four seriously...
I guess...
I guess I could have a better attitude but I really had to talk myself into getting the upgrade for CS3 Web Premium after not falling for the CS2.5 update. I even thought of buying the 2.5 update for cheap on Amazon to save $100 but when I finally got the ok to order the upgrade, the 2.5 upgrade price had *risen* on Amazon and I'd have only saved something like less than 30 bucks. Hardly worth it, but I felt disrespected after being both a Macromedia AND Adobe customer for years. Paying the second most expensive cost for upgrade? OUCH!
Expecting better support isn't, or shouldn't be unobtainable or an odd expectation. Heck, buy a Ferarri and go to a dealership and be met with blank stares and some troll looking guy that smells like a sewer telling you to 'leave your car, I'll get to it in, uh, January'... Happy you won't be...
Didn't we play the same waiting game with Adobe for Tiger support? Can't remember... Wonder how long the 'Vista Victims' have to wait for updates...
I guess I could have a better attitude but I really had to talk myself into getting the upgrade for CS3 Web Premium after not falling for the CS2.5 update. I even thought of buying the 2.5 update for cheap on Amazon to save $100 but when I finally got the ok to order the upgrade, the 2.5 upgrade price had *risen* on Amazon and I'd have only saved something like less than 30 bucks. Hardly worth it, but I felt disrespected after being both a Macromedia AND Adobe customer for years. Paying the second most expensive cost for upgrade? OUCH!
Expecting better support isn't, or shouldn't be unobtainable or an odd expectation. Heck, buy a Ferarri and go to a dealership and be met with blank stares and some troll looking guy that smells like a sewer telling you to 'leave your car, I'll get to it in, uh, January'... Happy you won't be...
Didn't we play the same waiting game with Adobe for Tiger support? Can't remember... Wonder how long the 'Vista Victims' have to wait for updates...
MacBook Pro here. Did a clean install of Leopard and CS3. Got this problem with InDesign. Uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign.....same problem. Help!
Of note: Photoshop and Illustrator are fine. Updater doesn't see InDesign, regardless of where the updater is.
Of note: Photoshop and Illustrator are fine. Updater doesn't see InDesign, regardless of where the updater is.
just a question in general, could it be that those who have ID working have Original and genuine copies of CS3 and those who can't get it to work have a downloaded or copied version (non genuine) copy of CS3.
If theres anyone who does have a genuine copy and doesn't have it working, then thats leaves that possibility out.
If theres anyone who does have a genuine copy and doesn't have it working, then thats leaves that possibility out.
good point Smarty1
This will give us a good indication. My friend who i was helping with this issue over the phone has a copied version. ANybody else want to let us know what they are trying to use... or shoudl i say, as smarty1 put it. "anybody having problems with a genuine copy???"
Thanks
This will give us a good indication. My friend who i was helping with this issue over the phone has a copied version. ANybody else want to let us know what they are trying to use... or shoudl i say, as smarty1 put it. "anybody having problems with a genuine copy???"
Thanks
Have uninstalled and reinstalled Indesign 2 times now, no change.
Unfortunatley, a "wiped clean" harddrive isn't an option, so unless someone can find a working fix, guess I won't be doing page layouts on this machine.
Unfortunatley, a "wiped clean" harddrive isn't an option, so unless someone can find a working fix, guess I won't be doing page layouts on this machine.
So I totally zero'ed my HD and restored everything from a Time Machine backup. I'm going to re-install CS3 tomorrow and see where that gets me.
the thing is no one's answering! haha...
maybe there aren't any genuine users with problems...
I'll ask again
IS THERE ANYONE USING GENUINE (non copied) CS3 AND GETTING AN INDESIGN PROBLEM?
If this is so, then those who have the problem are using non genuine copies, so no wonder...
InDesign is opening and functioning 100% normally on my gfs macbook c2d. It is a "test version" if you catch my drift... (she's a student)
haha, yeh i get your drift...umm this is still on leopard right?... So its not because of the genuine/non genuine stuff.
Thanks...
After zero'ing my HD and starting from scratch I've just gotten my legit copy of CS3 running with no problems. Me and a friend also wiped his HD, re-installed Leopard, re-installed his non-legit copy of CS3 and that is also running fine with no problems, even though it had to be unlocked on a 10.4 machine and copied back over.
The important thing is to delete all of the preference files in your user folder, and the Adobe folder in ~/Library/Application Support. The Adobe installer refused to run without the Adobe folder in HD/Library/Application Support/ removed.
The important thing is to delete all of the preference files in your user folder, and the Adobe folder in ~/Library/Application Support. The Adobe installer refused to run without the Adobe folder in HD/Library/Application Support/ removed.
im not quite following you on this.
when you are installing adobe on a leopard thats clean install, there is no adobe folder anyway. are you saying that you installed twice on a clean install? ive tried that after uninstalling adobe cs3 to reinstall.
but on glad some one has it up and running.
when you are installing adobe on a leopard thats clean install, there is no adobe folder anyway. are you saying that you installed twice on a clean install? ive tried that after uninstalling adobe cs3 to reinstall.
but on glad some one has it up and running.
I actually restored my data from a time machine backup and it put that folder back in there. Since the installer stopped giving errors and ran after I trashed that folder, I'd say something in there is what's causing the problem.