Adobe Illustrator (and Photoshop and InDesign) doesn't support Intel Macs.
WHY?
Adobe has thousands of programmers, buckets of cash, and a stranglehold on the graphics application market. So what the fuck is their excuse for this latest joke? Applications that are only sorta ported to the Mac platform work better than Illustrator CS1 on my MacBookPro. So if the Mplayer group can throw zero dollars at their OSX version of mplayer can make it work just fine, and Adobe can throw zero dollars at the problem and get nothing done at all, what am I to think?
What's even more irritating is that I was looking over the panic logs, and Illustrator CS1 (released Oct 2003) was using all Carbon libraries, instead of Cocoa libraries. What the fuck is that about? Why are they developing workhorse apps that are designed to work in pre-OSX environments? In Tiger, Carbon apps run in emulation mode, and will eventually be phased out (don't expect Carbon support in OSX 10.5). So those of us who have Intel-Macs get screwed until summer 2007, when CS3 comes out.
Probably the problem is this: some divergent anti-cooperation from Adobe and Apple. Apple wants to get rid of its Classic/Carbon heritage and get everyone to upgrade to new hardware and software. While Adobe is trying to milk all the cash they can from the graphics pros who are still using OS8 (a surprising number of people). Well, that's how it goes when your life is dependent on corporations for computational validation. Nobody wins.
And before anybody says "Duh, use Linux", let me remind you that there are STILL no decent vector graphics programs for Linux. Probably because nobody wants to agree with the license restrictions of PostScript or PDF, extraordinary and advanced graphics formats. As far as I can tell, the restrictions only require you to mention Adobe in your source code, so I don't see what the big deal is. But fuck, since I can't program a graphics application of my own, then I guess I can't complain about Linux's lack. Instead, I am forced to complain about the way corporate applications suck ass.
Thanks for your time.