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Photoshop CS3 and CS4 Snow Leopard Bugs Under Investigation

Adobe Photoshop project manager John Nack reports that his team is currently investigating three bugs that have appeared for users of Photoshop CS3 and CS4 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

1. The most crucial of the bugs appears to be unexpected crashing during Open and Save operations, a bug which appears to affect other applications besides Photoshop, including non-Adobe applications.

2. A second source of Photoshop crashes appears to be related to selection of Apple's new "Menlo" font, and so Nack recommends that users refrain from attempting to use the font for the time being.

3. The third bug, which would be classified as an inconvenience rather than a critical application stability issue, is the inability for Photoshop to open images dragged from other applications onto Photoshop's Dock icon.

Nack recommends that users follow Photoshop team members Dave Howe and Jeff Tranbury on Twitter for the latest updates on these issues.

Nack pointed last week to an official Adobe document noting that Creative Suite 3 is unofficially supported on Snow Leopard and had not even been tested for compatibility. After an outcry from users, he quickly clarified that, while not officially supported, Photoshop CS3 had in fact been tested and would run on Snow Leopard with only minimal bugs.

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36 months ago
Yep! I knew this was coming, got the save/load bug last sunday and knew that something was gonna happen.

EDIT: Wow, first reply!
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36 months ago
The 3rd bug has always happened though, right?
Dragging an image out of a Web Browser into the dock icon never worked before.
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36 months ago

The 3rd bug has always happened though, right?
Dragging an image out of a Web Browser into the dock icon never worked before.


It worked for me before I upgraded to SL in CS3.
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36 months ago
When using eye dropper and try to pin point, it changed to mouse cursor which is annoying. Can no longer drag n drop from web, have to drag to desktop then to psd. So annoying.
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36 months ago
That's quite funny… I just experienced the menlo crash bug. It had a symbol I was trying to use.
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36 months ago
These sound like issues that should have been picked up on by Adobe before SL was released. Has there been any "SL updates" from Adobe?
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36 months ago
So I guess for the majority of us who cracked Photoshop we won't be able to get this update.

dL
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36 months ago

These sound like issues that should have been picked up on by Adobe before SL was released. Has there been any "SL updates" from Adobe?


For CS4 possibly.....but then again knowing Apple it's best to wait until the shipping version to be sure a fix is going to work.

Adobe officially doesn't do updates to non-shipping products. So all of us with CS3 are probably out of luck.

Although Adobe kind of hints that some of these might be more Apple related than Adobe. I mean c'mon.....why wouldn't PS be able to handle a TT font? Apple must be doing something funky with that font.

-Kevin
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36 months ago

The 3rd bug has always happened though, right?
Dragging an image out of a Web Browser into the dock icon never worked before.

It worked for me in 10.4 and 10.5 with CS3. Actually, I do it all the time. :( Too bad.
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36 months ago

It worked for me in 10.4 and 10.5 with CS3. Actually, I do it all the time. :( Too bad.


Works for me too. 10.5 + CS3.
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