Don’t take that tone with me

I hate to say it, but I completely regret upgrading to Snow Leopard on my main web development laptop. The issues have been pretty horrendous. The issues are so bad, I will either have to downgrade to Leopard or put certain programs on an older machine so I can still use them.

First, Fireworks no longer opens. This is a complete drag, as I use it for alpha transparency in png8 files. It’s a great trick that only Fireworks does (to my knowledge), but now I can’t use it.

If you double-click an .ai file to open the program, Illustrator always crashes. You can work around this by opening Illustrator first and them double clicking the file, but what a pain in the butt.

And now I’ve discovered a new issue. In Flash, many of my fonts are not recognized. I have an xml-driven site I’m developing, and Flash no longer can find an outline of the font I’m using. Therefore, the text no longer displays. So I either downgrade or start over on a client’s site. Arrrrggg!

The upgrade also has caused problems with Microsoft Word (albeit a very old version – Word:Mac version X… but one that was completely working). Old documents will not print. Oh it goes through the motions, but only a blank sheet comes out of the printer. Saving to PDF is also a problem. Once again, it goes through the motions, but sometimes the file just doesn’t show up. If I pull the .doc into Pages (Apple’s word processor), the layout is jacked to the high heavens. That never used to occur.

After quite a bit of reading on the Apple forums, it looks like I’m not the only one having major issues with Apple’s new operating system. It looks like maybe Snow Leopard doesn’t support Postscript Type 1 fonts. You gotta be kidding me. So now we designers might have to repurchase all of our older fonts? This blows.

Apple, you are better than this. Why did you have to go and pull a Vista on us?

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