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Adobe Reader 9? Still not Universal. You have to deal with PPC or Intel versions.

<roy stalin>Lookin' real good there guys, lookin' real good</roy stalin>

All that idiot collective is missing is to package a VISE installer in a sitx'd, binhex'd, tarballed disk image, and their failure would be complete.

What, Adobe's 2008 New Year's resolution was "We're a-gonna fuck everything up in every possible way at every possible turn"?

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Comments

I feel for you, John. Today's Adobe installation retardation for us was when we needed to install CS3 Design Standard on the second of two identical Mac Pros running OS X 10.5.3.

The first one took forever, as it usually does, due to the large number of updates required to fix [some of] the bugs in the initial install. Rather than repeat that process on the second one, we decided to clone the first one.

Things seemed to be OK on the second computer, until we saw that Illustrator would crash as soon as one tried to open a file or create a new file. But not for all accounts on that computer... no. While a managed, mobile, admin account worked OK on the first computer, it failed on the second.

Long story short, deleting and recreating all the printers on the second (cloned) computer fixed the problem. Of course, that's the first thing that one would think of.

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

PS: Many thanks to the poor schmuck who experienced this first and posted about it somewhere, otherwise we would still be trying to figure this out.

Posted by: Wrinkle_In_Time | July 4, 2008 10:34 PM

And its not like its impossible to do. We have combined the PPC version and the Intel version using Apple's dev tools for our SOEs that we build for clients. seems to work okay. Updates will probably break it. damn adobe.

Posted by: e_whizz | July 9, 2008 3:57 AM