Illustrator CS is too slow

[Sakis_Pap...@adobeforums.com]

I remember those days, a few years age, when AI was a fast drawing Windows application. Unfortunately v10 was very slow although our computers in my company were decent and fully equipped with fast memory, CPU and disks.
This week i've installed AI/CS and i'm very dissapointed with its response. I was dreaming a new snappy user interface, something like PS, but it still has the old one and it is still very slow on screen updates and / or dialog movement.
Btw i've installed AI on various P4/3.x Mhz / 2GB computers, including an SMP machine. Nope, same old slow and odd looking application.
Why Adobe, why ?

PS: Is it so difficult to add some lines of code enabling AI remember maximized window pos ? I've read hundreds of posts asking for this.

[Bob...@adobeforums.com]

Sakis,

Do you keep your system defragged? Have you installed and have active more than 150 fonts? When you say you aren't getting speed, can you detail the area more and times involved? What operating system?

Bob

[Tyler...@adobeforums.com]

I'l back him up on this. I do have a lot of fonts installed, and my system is defragged with a large 10GB area that is used only for caching in Adobe apps. The slowness for me is not the fonts, but everything else. Responsiveness is important to me to at least make it seem as though the app is working fast, and CS doesn't have it.

Don't get me started on the file corruption issues..... I'll put that in another forum.

[Tyler...@adobeforums.com]

I didn't even suspect that possibilty - that older files converted to the new CS version could get corrupt due to the "update" of the legacy text that is asked of you when you first open an older file. In 2 separate instances I was not able to save changes to a file that was originally created in 10 and updated in to CS.

[Bob...@adobeforums.com]

Dan,

Illustrator 8's .ai format was based on EPS. Since then PDF is the base and, of course, the text engine in CS is far more sophisticated. I don't have many version 8 files still not converted to at least one of the higher versions, so I can't test that, but I'd be more concerned if your speed for opening and using version 10 or CS files was extra slow. They certainly aren't on my system, which isn't the most powerful out there today (it is a P4, 1.7ghz with 384mb RAMBUS RAM).

Bob

[Dan_...@adobeforums.com]

I noticed the same symptoms but only with files created with earlier versions, esp. AI8, then converted to the CS "new file format." (!!) Should we suspect the new text engine?

[Dan_...@adobeforums.com]

I did a little research as to why that legacy file choked CS: It had a series of paragraph blocks forming a quasi table; in 4 locations! CS just didn't want to do the work. It's thinking too much. Overeating, too, I suspect.

But try moving around the very busy sample map of Yellowstone in CS. Not bad. Kudos.