I used to work in a printing company that has Mac OS X from 10.2 to the latest version. All of them worked just great, but, sometimes this one intel g5 simply didn’t ’want’ to print for some reason. When we had a problem like that, we opened the file back in a non-intel machine and it would print just right and easy.
I guess that if you upgrade to Leopard your CS3 suite will work just fine, but, question is: Do you really need (or want) to upgrade?

Good luck!

André

p.s.: You are going to laugh: I am still running Mac OS 9.2.2 = IT WORKS!

Wow... Mac OS 9.2.2!.. nice work.

I have all Power PC Macs G5, also other reason for asking as wanting to get another NEW Mac... and they now all are Leopard.
Needs and wants... immm need it as I want to do other stuff that is only available in Leopard, so I guess need? ok want

I am on a PowerMac G5 2*2.5G Hz and have had a fair amount of problems with the CS3 apps, esp. InDesign. Erratic crashes especially when doing stuff in Open, Import, Save dialogs. Using the workarounds that have been found by smarter people than me, one can cope, but it is a hassle: I have to restart ID often because of sudden disappearances, contain the amount of fonts active, be careful not to drag–and–drop images, and so on.

Word is that Intel-machines behave better, though.

I do feel that the combination PowerMac/Leopard/CS3 is not ideally suited for production work. You’re better of staying on Tiger. Or upgrade to Intel : )

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Bert Vanderveen BNO

All my experiences with machines that have been updated to Leopard have been somewhat disastrous, from permission issues through crashes, to general OS instability. This does not, generally, seem to be an issue with new machines that ship with Leopard, only machines that are upgraded from Tiger or earlier versions.

Makes me think that Leopard is made for intel macs? And if you are going to add another new mac it will be Leopard. I guess you are going to do it no matter what (I wish I could...;..). Good luck, Leopard has the “Time Machine” to ’undo’ any changes to the system; that seems handy. Question is, does it work?

Oisin...machines that were upgraded as in “10.5 was installed on top of 10.4” or upgraded as in “10.4 was deleted and 10.5 was installed”?

If it’s the former, then it’s no wonder you have problems. The upgrade process for OS X is quite nice, however, it’s not perfect and a huge amount of cruft is still left over to cause problems. I never upgrade when I install a new OS; I back everything up and do a complete erase and install of the new version. Start fresh. It takes longer to get up and running that way but it saves problems in the future.

I’m pretty happy with my PowerMac dual 2.3 + 10.4.11 + CS3, as long as I give it enough memory. It’s amazing how 1 Gb doesn’t go very far these days (I remember the days when a Zip disk could back up the whole computer)!

Kakaze:

Both upgrades and erase-and-install installations have been plagued in my experience. The only time I’ve seen it go well was a completely nuke ’n’ pave, i.e., the entire hard drive was formatted (it was a server at work that was being sold off for some reason, so they overwrote it 35 times—best not to leave any valuable information on there) and a clean install was made.

I suspect it has to do with the fact that standard user ids and groups have been changed, but I’m not sure.

Mili:

Indeed! I remember doing work on a 40 MB hard drive. 16 MHz processor that beast had.

Like you, I’m perfectly content with 10.4.11 on my Mac Pro. :-)

Thank you... Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat/Distiller using everyday, if Leopard has issues with a Power PC then I think I will wait for 10.6? Tiger is working wonderfully, and in the case of: if it aint broke don’t fix it.

I remember working on an Apple IIe, large thin floppy disks for saving and backing up our digitizing!!... that was only 22 years ago... another 22 years we will be laughing at our terabyte hard drives and a crazy thing called RAM.

Also should I upgrade... I would back everything up, wipe the drives clean (pull out the dishwashing liquid) and do a clean install of Leopard, I would expect to write off a day doing this... and the heart would be racing at 97%.... 98%.... 99%.... 100%... completed!... phew!

Oisin: erase and install is a complete “nuke ’n’ pave” of the drive. There will be no user ids or groups until after you’re done. Unless you’re thinking of an “archive and install” which preserves everything on the drive and creates a new system folder. I’ve done one archive and install since switching to Mac and less than a week later I had to erase and install because things were just wrong.

Concrete: Leopard works perfectly on my G4 PowerBook along with CS3. I’ve heard of relatively few problems regarding Leopard on PPC Macs.

Kakaze@ : thanks, I phoned a colleague yesterday who did a clean install not long ago, he was in the middle repairing permissions at the time and said.. hold off. Another colleague said to wait at least for 10.5.3.

I am in no rush, for once I have slowed down and reviewed the issues. I currently am issue free on Tiger.. so i will wait just a little.