illustrator helpppp!!!

[designbp]

hi newbie with MBP 15"
1gb ram 2.16processor
1. installed creative suite and photoshop works but illustrator keeps crashin cant figure out...
2.this is my first personal machine so i want to learn more about it and how to best maintain it. IT guy in the agency is not always available...

am an art director so pls go easy on tech lingo need to keep up
cheers

[nixgeek]

Are you running the Universal Binary versions of this software? You might have to check Adobe's site to see if they have Universal Binaries available as a cross-grade for a small price.

For the record, Univeral Binaries run natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Since the processors don't understand how to interpret the code written for their counterparts, the Universal Binary was created as a way to run them natively on both platforms (it actually contains code for both architectures and OS X runs the code it needs depending on the CPU it is on). If the OS finds that you're running an application that was strictly for PowerPC, then it kicks in a translation layer called Rosetta that takes the PowerPC code and translates it to code that the Intel chip can understand. Of course, this can cause anomalies since the software sometimes sends instructions that only a PowerPC chip might understand but that Rosetta might not be able to translate, and this causes the application to crash. Remember that Rosetta is a transitionary technology to allow you to run old PowerPC OS X applications on an Intel Mac, similar to how the Classic environment allowed PowerPC Mac users to run OS 9 applications transparently through OS X (although Rosetta does a better job).

Hope this helps.

[fryke]

There are no universal binaries of those yet.

[designbp]

oh ok coz iwas really trying to read up more.. wats the solution tried reinstalling... anybody somebody ... havei been duped?

[macworks]

Illustrator is a bit unstable on these Intel computers. I've found it's more prone to crashing when I turn off a layer that has slices on it.

My suggestion is save often and try to see if there's something you are doing that's causing it to crash and try to avoid doing it that way. For example, if you want to copy and paste a bunch of stuff from one layer to the next and that's causing your crash, duplicate the layer in the layers palette instead.