InDesign on Mac Pro

I use CS1 perfectly fine on my 2.66. Illustrator and InDesign both work great(all things considered - Rosetta).

I switched from a G4 Dual 1,25 to a Mac Pro 2,66 GHz and the Creative Suite 2 works really fine. No Problems with Rosetta. It is really nice to work with InDesign CS2 on this machine and I really like to see what happens when the Creative Suite gets Universal.

Have you found that Adobe apps get 'tired' under Rosetta? I find that after a day of using Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, that they get crash prone, and the machine must be restarted. I have 3 gig of memory.

Actually, no. The only program I have had any "glitches" with is Dreamweaver (very minor though). Everything else has run smoothly. I did see a nice increase in speed when I upped the RAM though. I also did a re-install of the OS when the machine came in just so I knew I was working with a clean slate.

I'm observing the same tendency of these apps to crash after a prolonged period of use. I have 2GB of memory (Mac Pro 2.0 ghz).

The pattern is that one of the three will unexpectedly quit, followed by instability in the others (e.g. unexpectedly quit error trying to open Adobe Help; or the other apps themselves become unstable, quitting on the attempt to do basic things like create a new document, save to disk, etc.).

As you state, the only way to recover is restarting.

I think these are memory related problems in Rosetta. I actually got an out of memory error once, trying to place a TIF into an InDesign file. Activity Monitor showed almost no free memory at that point (the green part of the pie), and a large inactive portion (the blue part). Although quitting apps restored free memory, I couldn't get the Adobe apps to run at all short of a restart.

I'm using Apple installed ram; 3 internal SATA drives that were formatted by me (zeroing data); and the latest releases of Adobe software. Hard disk, processor and memory diagnostics (Techtool Deluxe via Applecare) all come up clean.

Gus,

Plan on installing 4-5-6GB RAM if you do. 2GB would be slow (and trouble), but 4-6GB of RAM should give CS2 and Rosetta "a fighting chance."

Choosing the drives to use for scratch or RAID, for boot drive, and whether you have any SATA drives you can move over.

I agree working under Rosetta is just going to take more than 2gb of Ram from all reports. i would at least be at 4gbs. i am going with 6gbs to start

Good topic, as I am in the same boat.

Now I have a DualG5 2.3 and a MacBook Pro Dual 2.16

And I must say, under Rosetta on the MacBook, I get LESS crashes than on the G5, go figure 😀

So, no fear, go ahead, CS2 runs just fine. I am ordering my Quad Pro tomorrow. Exciting times...

Humm, Could also be left over temp files from the programs or Rosetta itself. Are any of you running MacAroni? http://www.atomicbird.com/macaroni/faq.php#whatjobs

Rebooting also clears out the temp files and restarts logs.

Just curious since we may be getting a MacPro for one of our graphic artists at work before the UB's are ready.

Thanks!

I recently switched the the Intel based MacPro. I have been having so many issues with CS2. Most of my CS2 programs shut down or are constantly show that the memory is full. Does anyone know if there is any updates that can be ran to fix the problems? Below are the specs of my computer.

Machine Model: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2


Thanks,
Geronimo

I am finding teh same things as the folks above.

At teh end off the day where all the apps in my CS as being used along with Firefox, email, assorted other helpers...things start getting a little unstable. Shutting down and restarting seems to make everybody happy.

I am using a 2.66ghz machine with 2 gigs of ram and Adobe CS. I have had it for 2 months.

Still night and day better then my 1 ghz G4 with 2 gig of ram that I moved up from. My son has that machine now and teh other day I had to do something on it for him and could not believe the difference...how soon we forget.

Upgrading your RAM should help with your stability issues.

I spend all day in IDCS2 with a 2.66 MP with 3 GB of RAM. I moved from a Dual 1GB Quicksilver with 1.25GB of RAM. My QS was a great Mac but it was getting bit long in tooth so I took the plunge. I can tell you that ID runs just fine on the MP but I do have or had some issues. After going through the process, I would not use Migration Assistant. I ended up reloading the OS and Creative Suite. If ID freezes it is usually is when I export to PDFs. It probably a bit faster than my QS but probably not faster than a G5. This will all change when CS3 is released. Until then I am certainly getting work done. That said if you don't need to spend the money this year, I would wait till CS3 is released and buy the MP then. It will probably have 8 cores by then.

The reality is that even the current MacPro is over kill for InDesign if it were Universal. A headless iMac with Dual Core Merom 2.33 and a decent video card would be all anyone would need.

Exporting to pdf's seem to be my biggest issue right now. Which it shouldn't be with 3 gigs of ram now. Has anyone tried doing the pdf as a print to file rather than an export? Does that work without crashing the whole program? I am a little frustrated at the moment because I feel exporting to pdf should be the least of my problems with this new system.

For crashes on export to PDF (or packaging), the first suspect is linked EPS graphics. If you have any, delete them from a copy of your project & try again - if you can export/package, replace the EPS files with native Photoshop or Illustrator format.

That solved this particular problem for me.

There are still stability issues, but they are manageable enough for me to get some work done.