CS3 Updates can cause problems 
Over the past few months we have had issues with automatic updates for CS3 applications - in particular Illustrator. Once installed which can take some time, the CS3 suite will automatically download any new updates. These include of course the Illustrator update.

When updating illustrator the download hangs and as a result the programme no longer wants to load - quitting at startup, ok no problem I thought, I will just delete illustrator and re-load it, unfortunately this doesn’t work, it seems the the installer disk will only load all the CS3 applications at once, if you try to install just the illustrator programme it asks for a second disk which isn’t supplied!

So you end up having to delete all the apps via the uninstall on the CS3 disk and then re-install all the relevant applications, you can imagine how many times I have had to do this before realizing that the updater was at fault.

At the present time it is best to not update the applications once installed until Adobe decide to do something about this, but I have to say that most of the installations I have done only a few have suffered in this way the others seem to be fine, so It could be down to some settings or connections on the mac. This has also not been affected by the type of Mac either, Intel or PPC had the same effect.

If you know of any work around please email me or log in a leave a reply to this blog.  Pete (Pre-Press Manager)