Few notes on CS6 upgrade . . .

[blue moon]

Upgraded to CS6 yesterday. It seems to run a little faster than CS5.5. It has few nice gizmos I have not had a chance to try out yet, notably, the ability to work on another piece of art while the printing process is thinking and supposedly the vector conversion engine has been significantly improved. With Illy now being 64 bit, it should handle larger files better. that's for the good parts.

On the bad side, I managed to crash a brand new computer with a clean install of the operating system after starting the CS6 for the first time. It also gave me registry errors and it would not start CS6 Bridge but kept starting the CS5.5 version. After uninstalling and reinstalling CS6 everything seems to be OK. So the lesson is, DEACTIVATE and uninstall the old version before installing the new one!!!

pierre

[Gilligan]

Upgraded to CS6 yesterday. It seems to run a little faster than CS5.5. It has few nice gizmos I have not had a chance to try out yet, notably, the ability to work on another piece of art while the printing process is thinking and supposedly the vector conversion engine has been significantly improved. With Illy now being 64 bit, it should handle larger files better. that's for the good parts.

On the bad side, I managed to crash a brand new computer with a clean install of the operating system after starting the CS6 for the first time. It also gave me registry errors and it would not start CS6 Bridge but kept starting the CS5.5 version. After uninstalling and reinstalling CS6 everything seems to be OK. So the lesson is, DEACTIVATE and uninstall the old version before installing the new one!!!

pierre

Probably that crappy computer.

[brandon]

Damn, they are on CS6 already? Has it already been that long since CS5? Really? Man, I remember PS 3.0! And I know there are people on here who were around before computers!

[Frog]

Damn, they are on CS6 already? Has it already been that long since CS5? Really? Man, I remember PS 3.0! And I know there are people on here who were around before computers!

Yep, and those of us who can write and do math the old fashioned way will still be around after the EMP attack the paranoid survival nuts warn is coming. 

[brandon]

Hahaha nice

[Gilligan]

Already?!?  Hell, I've been counting the days waiting for 64bit Illustrator!!  It couldn't come soon enough!

[blue moon]

AAAARGHHH!!! bridge is still acting up! Something with permissions is awry and it does not want to save the cache properly. I've installed and unistalled several times and it is still not right.

pierre

[blue moon]

OK, so it turns out that permissions are not the problem but something to do with the path where the cache is saved. Two thoughts, one there is a dot (period) in the path as part of the user profile (related to the domain name) or the path was too long. Once I changed the path to a different location it started working again.

pierre

p.s. for anybody wondering if all the permissions were right, yes they were. The domain user has admin privileges on this computer and was assigned the correct profile with full read/write accesssssss. . .

[ZooCity]

Pierre, I think you need to do a clean sweep of as the previous CS installs on your computer, then install the latest.  They usually have a cleaner for this and it's the way I've always done it.  Avoids the problems your seeing typically.

64bit? about effing time.  Can illy use more than one core now?

[blue moon]

I wish I would have know that before! That's what I get for being the new guy in the industry.

Everything is working fine now, it is running without any problems.

The 64bit engine seems to be a little faster, not necessarily how long it takes to get things done as there were no delays before, but it just seems zippier, nimbler.

It looks like Illy is hitting multiple cores as I doodle around to test it. The active ones go up a few percent, so that's a good sign.

Additional note, I don't care for the interface much. The text is smaller and harder to read. Some of the borders around the eyeballs are deleted and it just looks weird. The pantone book looks much better though. I thin they added a border around the swatches.

The halftone settings in the Photoshop did not return, it seems they are gone for ever. I was really hoping they'd put that back in. Oh well. . . .

The vectorizing tool is now a window and it will take a little bit of getting used to. For simple stuff we do, it does not seem to do any better than before (this is based on one quick test with a black and white shape).

Bridge is using massive amounts of RAM to go through caching all the images (at one point it used everything I had available and all the other programs ground to a halt). But since yesterday, everything is behaving rather well and all the programs are playing nice even with limited amount of RAM on the new computer (4GB).

pierre

[Gilligan]

Additional note, I don't care for the interface much. The text is smaller and harder to read. Some of the borders around the eyeballs are deleted and it just looks weird. The pantone book looks much better though. I thin they added a border around the swatches.

You're just getting old. :p





Thanks for the update!

[StuJohnston]

I want to take cs6 for a spin with a trial, would I have to uninstall cs5 to make that happen? I don't really want to have to do that, but I will probably be upgrading shortly anyhow. Just wanted a little free run of the apps before I drop the coin.

[blue moon]

based on what I have seen, yes, you should uninstall the previous version.

pierre

[ZooCity]

wait, they took out the bitmap to line screen? or do you mean that ps is no longer something we can print out of? 

the latter was true already in cs5 I believe (we are running cs4 still although I have a copy of five). I switched all film output over to illy awhile back in preparation for this. spot channels in ps and then a placed ps file into illy, vectors on top.  I found the ps file to preview a little cleaner than dcs 2.0.  I never liked printing from ps anyhow.

[tpitman]

wait, they took out the bitmap to line screen? or do you mean that ps is no longer something we can print out of? 

the latter was true already in cs5 I believe (we are running cs4 still although I have a copy of five). I switched all film output over to illy awhile back in preparation for this. spot channels in ps and then a placed ps file into illy, vectors on top.  I found the ps file to preview a little cleaner than dcs 2.0.  I never liked printing from ps anyhow.

Yup. I save the photoshop files as DCS 2 .eps and place them into illustrator, add any vector art I want there, plus my targets that match the ones on my platen jig, save as a .ps (postscript" file, and run out of Ghostscript for halftones and any overprinting.

One thing I see they've added to Illustrator CS6 is gradients along a path. Maybe something Corel already does?