Comments on: The road to Leopard – Part 2

By: Richard Harper

Richard Harper — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:19 +0000

i am running Leopard OSX 10.5.3 on a PPC G5 1.8 . painter installs fine and activates ,but then crashes within 2 seconds , it says initializing plugins then tracker settings.xml and promptly stops . i have tried everything i can think of short of a total reinstall . is there someone out there that has it working on the ppc in leopard? or is it my mac that is having problems?

By: Apta

Apta — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:46:54 +0000

We’ve now had the 10.5.3 update to OS X and I was wondering if CS2 apps are still problematic on Leopard?

By: Jon Schmitz

Jon Schmitz — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:28:06 +0000

I have the Adobe CS2 Creative Suite on my iMac G5 10.3.9 OSX. Will any of them work on my new Macbook shipped with 10.5? Thanks.

By: Dave Cutler

Dave Cutler — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:40 +0000

I’m a digital illustrator using PAINTER 7 on a G4 with 10.3.9. I’m about to get a new G5 and need to know if (1) Painter 7 will work with Leopard, and (2) if I finally upgrade to PAINTER 10, is that working fine on Leopard. It’s my method of working so it’s critical I find out, and I can’t seem to get straight answers anywhere. Thanks for your help.

By: Sower

Sower — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:14:19 +0000

Love the leopard This site is informational! Wow

By: jfgonzalez

jfgonzalez — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:43:38 +0000

Coming into this a little late, but I wanted to thank you, Terry, for the informative blog and your suggestions on upgrading. I followed your advice and have been testing Leopard on an external drive and (knock on wood) so far, all my apps are working. What’s even more shocking is with the exception of Photoshop CS2 crashing when I try to run Web Photo Gallery, it’s working for pretty much everything else. All my CS2 products have been behaving themselves. I plan to use them more heavily in a normal production environment next week, so the jury is still out.

With all the problems I’m hearing people have with CS2 and, to a lesser extent, CS3, I’m wondering what the hardware environment these problems are on? G4 or 5 processors vs Intel based Macs? Just curious. I’m running an Intel iMac myself.

By: glasater

glasater — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:51:22 +0000

Just tried to open PSCS3 on a MacBook Pro with a new Leopard OS installed. PSCS3 had been installed in Tiger with upgrades current.
Got a message saying PS was locked and to open “get info” for help.
This did not do anything useful.
The only help I could find is to reinstall Leopard with PS open. (Archive first)
This is such a pain that I am going back to Tiger until someone figures this one out.

By: Dave Gustavson

Dave Gustavson — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:12:09 +0000

In Tiger I was still able to use my long-standing method of printing PostScript files. Namely, I could just drag a PostScript file onto a Desktop Printer and the file would be downloaded, executed, and printed properly.
After upgrading to Leopard and setting up my printers once more, this behavior seems to be broken! Now the printer interprets the file as something nonPostScript and prints many many many sheets with only one or two garbage lines printed on them.
How can I print PostScipt files under Leopard???
I have many scripts that generate PostScript files, including even fancy customized Cmas cards, so it’s important for me to still be able to download and print PS files!
Even my scripts for automatically printing PS files relied on moving the file to a desktop printer queue. Aargh.

By: Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:29:59 +0000

Corel Painter will not open since loading Leopard. I have reinstalled it and it still will not work. So far Corel support has sent me a batch of stock references which do not address the issue.

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:36:34 +0000

Hi Terry,

Just wanted to share my findings. I got a chance to test out a Leopard install on my G5′s external firewire drive over the last few days. GoLive CS2 runs great No display problems encountered in layout mode like other posts out there have claimed.

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:44:19 +0000

Russ,
Thanks, but I tried that. Still no Dymo access. The printer shows up just fine and I can add it, but the Dymo app doesn’t seem to see it. Also when I print to it from other apps, the margins are WAY OFF.

By: Russ

Russ — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:11:10 +0000

Terrywhite
I had a similar problem, BUT, I UNPLUGGED my Dymo printer USB Cable. Then I reinstalled the 7.7 software. At some point the installer asked me to plug in my printer. I did, and then it showed up in the printer list.
Did you unplug the printer during the install process?
Russ P.

By: Sharon Joiner

Sharon Joiner — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:11:02 +0000

Re: making pdf files. I’m glad to know that the I was not doing something wrong when trying to print to pdf after my upgrade. On an off-chance, I tried printing to a postscript file (the little PDF pull-down menu in the lower left-hand corner of the print dialog box should have that as an option), and then ran the postscript file through Distiller (I used to do this as a matter of course a few years ago, because it gave me smaller pdf files). It worked for me the one time I’ve done it since upgrading.

Unfortunately, I have been having some issues with PhotoShop CS3. As near as I can determine, I get crashes if I do things too fast. Apparently something isn’t dealing too well with queueing up commands (this usually happens when I realize I did something I hadn’t planned to do and try to cancel it). Other than random crashes (which come at the wrong time), everything I’ve tried in PhotoShop works.

Sharon

By: James Brent

James Brent — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:38:32 +0000

Terry,
Thanks for your advice. I got a copy of carbon copy cloner and copied the iMac drive to backup drive. I then proceeded to load 10.5 on the iMac drive. everything is working fine accept Flash Player 9 and Quicktime for news clips. All programs Quicken, Neo Office, iWorks, and Lightroom print module is even working. I actually made a print (just B&W to save ink). Plus Photo Elements 4.0 for Mac is even working.

I like cover flow in the finder and also the improved Mail.

We all appreciate your input and help getting this new OS up and running. Hopefully the few bugs will be patched shortly.

James Brent

By: terrywhite

terrywhite — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:41:31 +0000

Denis,
I tried these steps and still get no love from my Dymo. Same error as before. Here’s the response I got from them:
Dear Terry,

Unfortunately, we will have a rev of DLS that supports Leopard as soon as possible after it ships. It will probably be a 7.7.1 point release. We have been testing and found a handful of changes in Leopard that we had change DLS to accommodate.

If you have any questions e-mail us back. Thank you.