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OS X 10.4.8 update is out! Can CS / Intel Mac users rejoice now?

joecab's picture

One of the fixes is "Improves the accuracy of Rosetta numerics and addresses Altivec translation issues on Intel-based Macs."

Dare we hope that this includes the long-rumored fix for the strange decimal fraction rounding in Adobe Creative Suite for we Intel Mac users? I'm almost afraid to go home and find out.

jcxm360's picture

Wahoooo

I'm rejoicing....... strange decimal has been fixed...

Scabby's picture

Awesome!

I didn't even know that rosetta was the cause of that problem, but it was driving me crazy, and I was going to ask what to do about in the forum.

joecab's picture

Yup, Rosetta it was. The bug

Yup, Rosetta it was. The bug still pops up a few times, but it's always limited to things like "8.7999999999999999" where the end will always just be 9's, and that I can deal with. Before we were getting the whackiest things like "8.805050505"

Ivan's picture

I somewhat experienced an

I somewhat experienced an increase in speed of CS2 as well. Am I imagining things?

joecab's picture

You know I felt it was a

You know I felt it was a smidge faster, but it's nothing I thought to measure beforehand.

Apfhex's picture

I dunno...

I'm having a lot of issues with Illustrator CS2 crashing in 10.4.8. Can't tell if they popped up after the update or if they also occurred in 10.4.7.

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