CS6: Bugs; issues; workarounds…

JimCampbell · 07-07-2012, 11:17 AM

Anyone else upgraded to CS6? I wasn't going to, but I upgraded to CS5.5 to get the deductible expense into the 10/11 tax year and they offered me a free CS6 trade-up…

Had it installed for four hours and filed a bug report: using a Magic Mouse, Illustrator routinely fails to register a right click, treating it instead as a normal click. This is very frustrating if your workflow includes: double-click word to highlight; right-click to bring up 'Recent Fonts' contextual menu, since it means that you don't get the menu, you highlight the whole paragraph instead…

Other than that, no nasty surprises yet. Will keep you posted.

Cheers!

Jim

JimCampbell · 07-07-2012, 12:59 PM

OK… second bug report filed with Adobe. This one is equally annoying…

You have multiple document windows open (I have a library document with some pre-made elements like wavy tails, musical staves, and so on, that I keep open behind the working page). CMD-TAB to another application (say, Word, to get your copy). CMD-TAB back to Illustrator.

Whatever document you had frontmost in your stacking order will no longer be at the front and the other document will now be at the front. This doesn't happen if you use tabbed documents, but I loathe tabbed windows!

~~EDIT TO ADD: Update pushed out via Adobe Update Manager seems to have fixed this one.~~

EDITED AGAIN: Nope. Still does it, just not quite as often.

Cheers

Jim

JimCampbell · 07-07-2012, 03:09 PM

Do a test run on all your CS5 actions when you load them into CS6: my TIFF export action, used for batch exporting page files doesn't work correctly -- my CMYK SWOP2 TIFFs with LZW compression export as RGB TIFFS without LZW.

*sigh*

Jim

JimCampbell · 07-07-2012, 05:22 PM

On the plus side, I should say that the complete re-write of Illustrator's code does mean that the application feels much snappier in operation. File saving, in particular, has been something of a bottleneck for me and is much faster than previous versions.

(Also worth mentioning that Photoshop CS6 introduces its first truly worthwhile feature in many, many versions -- it saves out an auto-recovery version of your file at user-specified intervals as frequent as every five minutes. I have no idea why Adobe thought that this feature was less desired by users than an entirely redundant 3D modelling and rendering module.)

Cheers!

Jim

Piekos · 07-09-2012, 07:59 AM

And everyone on the interwebs laughed at me when I said I was buying 5.5 just a few months before 6 came out...

vartemis · 07-09-2012, 08:05 PM

I got 5. Everything works the way I want it. All my scripts work, my files open, everything exports correctly. Unless there is some amazing change that revolutionizes my workflow, I can't risk it. I don't want to waste hours trying to debug problems I'm having.

j

JimCampbell · 07-10-2012, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vartemis

I can't risk it. I don't want to waste hours trying to debug problems I'm having.

I'll be honest, I live in mortal fear that the comic work will dry up any day and I'll be forced to get a proper job. If that day comes, I want to at least be able to show that I'm conversant with the current versions of the industry standard design software!

Also: Adobe is ending upgrade pricing from all but the most recent versions of their software, so you'll need a copy of CS6 to upgrade to CS7; anything else and you'll almost certainly have to pay full price. For simple budgeting/accounting purposes, I'm happier finding a couple of hundred quid every 18-24 months than a grand or more every 36-48 months…

Cheers!

Jim

JimCampbell · 07-19-2012, 08:06 AM

Just slogging along with this… another thing I do like: Mac users on Lion (10.7.x) might be pleased to know that Adobe's interface overrides Lion's stupid scrollbar behaviour and gives you proper, traditional-style scrollbars.

Cheers

Jim

07-07-2012, 11:17 AM	#1
JimCampbell Letterer Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 1,052	CS6: Bugs; issues; workarounds… Anyone else upgraded to CS6? I wasn't going to, but I upgraded to CS5.5 to get the deductible expense into the 10/11 tax year and they offered me a free CS6 trade-up… Had it installed for four hours and filed a bug report: using a Magic Mouse, Illustrator routinely fails to register a right click, treating it instead as a normal click. This is very frustrating if your workflow includes: double-click word to highlight; right-click to bring up 'Recent Fonts' contextual menu, since it means that you don't get the menu, you highlight the whole paragraph instead… Other than that, no nasty surprises yet. Will keep you posted. Cheers! Jim

07-07-2012, 12:59 PM	#2
JimCampbell Letterer Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 1,052	OK… second bug report filed with Adobe. This one is equally annoying… You have multiple document windows open (I have a library document with some pre-made elements like wavy tails, musical staves, and so on, that I keep open behind the working page). CMD-TAB to another application (say, Word, to get your copy). CMD-TAB back to Illustrator. Whatever document you had frontmost in your stacking order will no longer be at the front and the other document will now be at the front. This doesn't happen if you use tabbed documents, but I loathe tabbed windows! ~~EDIT TO ADD: Update pushed out via Adobe Update Manager seems to have fixed this one.~~ EDITED AGAIN: Nope. Still does it, just not quite as often. Cheers Jim Last edited by JimCampbell; 07-09-2012 at 07:55 AM. Reason: As noted.

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07-07-2012, 03:09 PM	#3
JimCampbell Letterer Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 1,052	Do a test run on all your CS5 actions when you load them into CS6: my TIFF export action, used for batch exporting page files doesn't work correctly -- my CMYK SWOP2 TIFFs with LZW compression export as RGB TIFFS without LZW. sigh Jim

07-07-2012, 05:22 PM	#4
JimCampbell Letterer Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 1,052	On the plus side, I should say that the complete re-write of Illustrator's code does mean that the application feels much snappier in operation. File saving, in particular, has been something of a bottleneck for me and is much faster than previous versions. (Also worth mentioning that Photoshop CS6 introduces its first truly worthwhile feature in many, many versions -- it saves out an auto-recovery version of your file at user-specified intervals as frequent as every five minutes. I have no idea why Adobe thought that this feature was less desired by users than an entirely redundant 3D modelling and rendering module.) Cheers! Jim

07-09-2012, 07:59 AM	#5
Piekos Blambot Font Guy Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New England Posts: 1,270	And everyone on the interwebs laughed at me when I said I was buying 5.5 just a few months before 6 came out...

07-09-2012, 08:05 PM	#6
vartemis Onomonopiaphile Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 483	I got 5. Everything works the way I want it. All my scripts work, my files open, everything exports correctly. Unless there is some amazing change that revolutionizes my workflow, I can't risk it. I don't want to waste hours trying to debug problems I'm having. j

07-19-2012, 08:06 AM	#8
JimCampbell Letterer Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 1,052	Just slogging along with this… another thing I do like: Mac users on Lion (10.7.x) might be pleased to know that Adobe's interface overrides Lion's stupid scrollbar behaviour and gives you proper, traditional-style scrollbars. Cheers Jim