Adobe Illustrator CS5 Crashing

There's also Affinity Photo on the MAS. It has gained some very good reviews. I'm not a shill for the company: just a satisfied customer!!

I have CS6, and have been using Adobe products in professional print publishing since the late 90s. But when they introduced subscriptions, I decided to look elsewhere for when CS stopped working. Ironically, now that PDF workflows are so embedded, there's no need to rely on specific software products for content creation.

The Affinity team also have a DTP app planned for the end of the year, apparently. For me, CS6 still works on EC, but it won't work on OS X 10.12, because EC is the last OS to support Java 6.

Thank you. I was just reading about Affinity Photo when I got your email. It took me awhile to learn Photoshop. Do you think it's an easy-enough transition from Adobe Photoshop to Affinity Photo?

Yes. They've deliberately made it easy: lots of the keyboard shortcuts and terminology are similar. There's a free trial on their website. But it's £40 ($50?) to PURCHASE outright on the MAS. And they are very good at providing free updates.

OK, this is sounding better and better. Thank you very much for your helpful responses.

there are several alternatives to Illustrator,

they may not all be mac compatible buy could possibly be viable with Windows boot if you have it or though Wine for Mac

http://www.creativebloq.com/illustrator/alternative-to-illustrator-1131664

If your looking to replace photoshop there is also GIMP -, totally free. While terribly named it's hugely popular with game modders who work with open source and free software

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

SO every time I go to save or pdf my CS 5 ai file 15.1.0 the program crashes. A remedy

I read said change the default printer to pdf maker - but it doesn't work. ALL my

ai files crash when saving.

This has never happened before with this program an not on this computer.

I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 - came with the computer less than a year

ago and I bought CS 5 because it works with this OS.

I can't be on cloud because I work remotely often.

Now since I've made pdf maker my default - PREVIEW crashes on OTHER

documents! *** is going on here? If Adobe is trying to get me to upgrade

they can just forget about that.

Adobe has never claimed CS5 will work with Yosemite, let alone El Capitan and as Apple continues to change core tools under OS X and in doing this some software will become either inoperable or incompatible.

Photoshop CS5, 5.1, 5.5 and 5 extended are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.7 to 10.6.8, after that it's a crapshoot as to it working or not.

And you can work remotely with cloud.

I'm not trying to sell you cloud, I hate the ********* thing but is the only thing supported by Adobe for OS 10.11 and it is the only thing they will ever fix in the event something is broken. CS 3,4,5,6 will work for some, not for others. Adobe is not going to address a CS5 issue, they won't even support CS6 any longer and if Apple releases a version of the OS that remedies incompatibility it will not be because they knowingly or intentionally did so.

If you can roll back to an instance of your OS that was stable with CS5 it may be your only choice for compatibility, you will need a Time Machine backup with that instance available to you. Otherwise try one of the following

Create a new administrative account, boot into that account, run CS 5

or

Remove CS5 with the Adobe Cleaning tool on their website, reboot, remove all external storage devices and reinstall CS5 from the original media and then update.

it is highly advised you BACK UP YOUR COMPUTER before you do anything.

Catherine Mccabe wrote:

SO every time I go to save or pdf my CS 5 ai file 15.1.0 the program crashes. A remedy

I read said change the default printer to pdf maker - but it doesn't work. ALL my

ai files crash when saving.

Now since I've made pdf maker my default - PREVIEW crashes on OTHER

documents!

The Adobe PDF print queue hasn't worked for years. I think Snow Leopard broke it! But you shouldn't need the print queue to create PDFs from Illustrator or most other Adobe apps.

I urge you strongly to look for alternatives to the old software you are using. As said earlier, Affinity Design is a decent professional replacement for Illustrator; Affinity Photo is a decent, professional replacement for Photoshop. Other apps from that stable are scheduled in the next year or so. If you need a PDF print-to-disk print queue, use CUPS-PDF. That's free.

I found a workaround that might help.

In my situation, I only experience the eyedropper crash when sampling a gradient fill. (No crash when sampling a solid fill.)

I have found that If I create a swatch for the gradient, I can sample the swatch without incident, to duplicate a gradient's attributes.

None the less, I still save more often than I used to...

Good luck!