Illustrator CS2 crashing on Pathfinder operation
Ivan | Wed, 2006-11-01 07:19If you are running an Intel Mac and suffer from Illustrator quitting whenever you apply the Pathfinder commands — there is a quick and dirty solution.
You need to have InDesign installed. You can simply copy the objects from Illustrator into an empty page in InDesign. Ungroup them and apply the required Pathfinder operation within InDesign. Menu point Object/ Pathfinder/. Now you can copy the transformed object back to Illustrator.
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Unfortunately, the Pathfinder options in InDesign are nowhere near as good as in Illustrator. But a decent workaround nonetheless.
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A call to Adobe yielded a simpler solution, albeit a strange one. Make sure the Appearance pallet is closed when Illustrator launches and pathfinder functions will work fine.
Close Appearance and relaunch Illustrator. If you need to use the Appearance pallet open it, but close it before you quit, so it won't be open when you launch Illustrator next time.
Your solution works great. I'm very greateful...
I got the same solution from the Adobe forums and it more or less works. You DO have to make sure to keep the Appearance pallet closed or else it will start crashing again.
And Illustrator still crashes on me doing other things but not as often.
No crashes for me since the fix.
wow, you totally saved me. i thought i was screwed!
I'm just not going to update to 10.4.8. I like 10.4.7 it keeps illustrator working grand. If the next update fixes this problem then I'll update. That palette thing is a cool solution though, I'll let people know thanks.
No one answered my question on this in the forum, but Ivan posted an entry on it! The InDesign method is what i have been using, but it's a pain. I hope TnTonic's solution works. Thanks.
You inspired me..
more and more things happen (or not happen) to make me regret having bought this new macbook pro...
so here goes the tip from adobe itself
Solution 1: Restart Illustrator with the Appearance palette hidden.
1. Start Illustrator.
2. Deselect Appearance from the Window menu.
3. Quit and restart Illustrator.
Note: You can show the Appearance palette after you have restarted Illustrator.The adverse behavior may re-appear in subsequent working sessions and you may have to repeat Solution 1.
But even better, they said:
Solution 2: Run Illustrator in Mac OS X v10.4.7 or earlier.
vectorchaser's solution works great (the other solutions not were not so good)
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since the 10.4.9 update for intel-macs the problem seems to be solved. tested on a mbp c2d OSX 10.4.9, Adobe Illustrator CS2.