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#1 Qwert Man

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Posted 11 May 2008 - 09:21 PM

I love Illustrator (CS3). It does lots of cool stuff. I also hate it. It's slow, sometimes won't let me save, and half the time will only send blank pages to the printer. Does anybody else have these problems?

#2 make_edit

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Posted 16 May 2008 - 06:07 PM

Yea illustrator is still very buggy. I would have thought that they would have worked all the kinks out by now. I find that even though your images are raster, photoshop definitely works more smoothly and ,of course, you have a larger variety of filters n' such with it too. In tandem though, you cant beat 'em!
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#3 ivan_s

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Posted 17 May 2008 - 03:27 AM

I've never had a problem with Illustrator. I've always seen it as a solid piece of software. Try re-installing it. :)

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Posted 17 May 2008 - 11:00 AM

I love Illustrator (CS3). It does lots of cool stuff. I also hate it. It's slow, sometimes won't let me save, and half the time will only send blank pages to the printer. Does anybody else have these problems?


Illustrator is quite hungry for resources. What kind of computer do you use it on? If it is not very powerful I'd say it is the source of your problem.

#5 johnslmae

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Posted 18 May 2008 - 07:07 PM

If you're using foreign files in illustrator try to keep them organized. Just like any adobe program it willl run much more smoothly if you stay on top of your files.

#6 markre

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Posted 23 May 2008 - 01:32 PM

yes is good program...but a bit slow...even with new pc
Hey this ain't about rocket science...try NASA for that...
why...the end is here

#7 switch_cs

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Posted 24 May 2008 - 04:07 PM

Or maybe you could try closing some unused but running applications if you're using Windows...

#8 Qwert Man

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Posted 25 May 2008 - 03:47 PM

It's not my PC, I have centrino duo 1.73ghz + 2gb DDR2 + Nvidia GeForece Go 7600. Whatever the problem was, I'm not having it anymore. A long time ago I did a re-install and that didn't fix it, so I don't know why it just now started working well (could have been service pack 1). Still a little slow on saves, though.

#9 asassat2

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Posted 28 May 2008 - 03:12 PM

i reallly need illustrator! :-(

#10 tombo717

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Posted 05 June 2008 - 02:22 PM

I have never had this problem with cs3 and illustrator it might me your printer or computor

#11 Gorgon

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Posted 07 July 2008 - 03:27 AM

Illustrator is compulsory for me. I cannot do any work without it. For me it's not too slow. My pc specs almost as yours.

#12 Guest_silvan_*

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 11:48 PM

illutrator is the real deal for doing basic designs, finishing with photoshop. adobe are some clever guys!

#13 geek

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Posted 24 January 2009 - 12:10 PM

I have no problem with Ai CS3 and even I run photoshop and DW together, it still runs smoothly. Maybe you need to upgrade your RAM, Processor and Graphic Card.

I heard CS4 has lots of issues. I will only upgrade to that once it is stable. (maybe 2 yrs from now)

#14 willylorbo

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 12:09 PM

I don't have any bug problem with illustrator!
I've never had one! :)

#15 jecrt

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 04:59 AM

I keep Illustrator, PS, ID, Quark, firefox, thunderbird, acrobat distiller AND acrobat open prety much all the time and NEVER have a problem with Illustrator. Even with art containing thousands of points. I'm on a DP G4 mac still running 10.3.9. It must be some sort of software interference.

I do have friend running it on Vista that always complains that it's slow. I tend to blame it on vista though.

#16 yossmoss

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Posted 01 February 2009 - 09:46 AM

well, 1st of all you should buy a legal copy to prevent bugs ;)
i also run the whole adobe pack on a bit stronger pc then usual, and i get no bugs or extremely slow activities.

maybe you have your jpg`s or whatever embeded into the file and it makes it very heavy, its much better to work with links.

hope it helps

#17 jecrt

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Posted 01 February 2009 - 03:57 PM

well, 1st of all you should buy a legal copy to prevent bugs ;)
i also run the whole adobe pack on a bit stronger pc then usual, and i get no bugs or extremely slow activities.

maybe you have your jpg`s or whatever embeded into the file and it makes it very heavy, its much better to work with links.

hope it helps


You still get bugs on released versions. Just look at EVERY version of Quark (except 5...) I don't think anyone said they were using illegal copies anyway.

#18 yossmoss

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Posted 01 February 2009 - 06:59 PM

arent we talking about illustrator?

i dont get any bugs...

#19 LPC

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Posted 07 February 2009 - 03:22 PM

I keep Illustrator, PS, ID, Quark, firefox, thunderbird, acrobat distiller AND acrobat open prety much all the time and NEVER have a problem with Illustrator. Even with art containing thousands of points. I'm on a DP G4 mac still running 10.3.9. It must be some sort of software interference.

I do have friend running it on Vista that always complains that it's slow. I tend to blame it on vista though.


you must have a pretty nice setup, I can hardly run anything else with illustrator open at the same time :(

#20 jecrt

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Posted 07 February 2009 - 06:36 PM

you must have a pretty nice setup, I can hardly run anything else with illustrator open at the same time :(


nah, not really. It's not sluggish, but I wouldn't say it's fast.1Ghz dual processor with only a gig of ram. I'm still using my mirrored door G4 with OS 10.3.9.

do you have your scratch disk set to the same drive that the software is on? If not, try it (if you have the space/memory) It actually helps a lot.




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