Mister iMac very hungry.
November 6th, 2006
I hate late nights at the office. Especially when they involve my iMac eating fonts in the middle of a project. I don’t know what causes it, but it’s fucking annoying—Illustrator crashes (losing whatever I was working on) and I have to reload whatever fonts I was using back into Suitcase. At first I was thinking it was because of a bad font, but after having it happen with only a fistful of good/known-working fonts from the office I’m at a loss.
Tomorrow night is supposed to be even later than usual due to a packaging job showing up on our door this morning that’s due end-of-day tomorrow, but my Tuesdays are usually hell anyhow. Oh well.
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November 10th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Hey, Tristan nice to see a blog on how it’s going in the real world. Regarding your problem with fonts, I was wondering if you were using cs or cs2? Also are you using a new iMac with the intel chip or an older iMac? Depending on the software and the system you could have different problems. One idea, and I’m sure you already thought of it, is it’s probably a bad plug in with Suite Case. If it is a bad plug-in (or maybe your system is’nt updated) you can try working with the fonts droped in your library file for a few days, if it doesn’t countinue to crash you know it’s Suite Case. It may be a big pain in the ass to drop what fonts you want to use each time, but it sure beats losing work.
However, the big question is why you’re using illustrator for typography in the first place??? Design all your art in illustrator and then place it in indesign and do all your typography there, it’s more stable and you can do so much more typographically.
-KEN
November 11th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Hey Ken.
So yeah, we’re all using CS2 at the office. I’ve got a refurb’d iMac G5. You’re probably right about suitcase being messed up, but there’s not much to do about it. I figured for a temporary solution I can just limit the fonts I keep in suitcase, but yeah definitely a pain in the ass to move them back and forth. I’m all updated on everything, so no idea what’s going on.
As for Illustrator, truth be told lately I’ve found that I’m using Illustrator for over 90% of the work I do. When it comes to doing one-time things like ads and small brochures (single sheet, two- or three-fold type stuff), you can’t beat the speed and versatility of Illustrator. It’s just so fast. And for packaging, you can’t beat it because you usually have to create the die lines/crazy folds yourself. All the rotating, odd sized panels, etc. don’t lend themselves well to InDesign use.
Now, I’ll use InDesign if I have a document that has 25+ links or is longer than just a couple of pages for sure though. The ability to place hi-res images in InDesign and work with them at screen resolution is great. Especially for catalogs, product brochures, etc. Yeah, the type tools in Illustrator aren’t as refined as InDesign, but it’s a trade-off.