This is an issue I have explored very deeply for months and have had no luck yet. Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop CS3 are extremely buggy in Leopard 10.5. These bugs were not fixed as it was hoped with either of the updates 10.5.1, or 10.5.2. I am currently running 10.5.2 which I installed with the downloaded combo updater, as some forums have suggested is more effective than the auto Software Update utility. Below I have listed my specific issues with Illustrator CS3:
I appear to have font problems that slow AI to a paralyzing halt anytime I use the Text tool. I get a spinning beach ball every time I try to select anything with the Text tool, or when I try to select any text with the Select tool. It usually takes a few minutes for the application to recover every time this happens.
I am using Font Agent Pro 3.0 to manage my fonts, of which I have about 2,000. Of course, they are not all active, I only have about 150 fonts active at startup. So far, the only temporary solution has been to deactivate ALL of my fonts except for my system fonts. It is NOT a corrupt font causing the problem. I have scanned my system a dozen times with many different apps and all my fonts are clean. The best solution so far has been to uninstall Font Agent Pro and use Font Book, since it's the only way I can use any non-System fonts without paralyzing AI. I have also attempted to Manage System Fonts thru FAP to see if that would help, but it did not.
These problems are also present, in varying forms, in Photoshop CS3 on Leopard. If you really want to tackle this, I suggest familiarizing yourself with the following forums which have exhausted this issue.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13@@.3c05dbf7/95http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=433151http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=433804I have tried updating my Adobe apps unsuccessfully:
See the related question, it is very likely relevant:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Photos_Graphics/Illustration/Adobe_Illustrator/Q_23254137.htmlSystem:
Mac Pro
Intel 2 x 2.66 Dual-Core Xeon
2 GB DDR2
OS 10.5.2
All Apple updates are current.
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