These are home remedies for software bugs. Anecdotally, some work. I have my own work-arounds. My point is that there are underlying problems that they don’t address. We shouldn’t have to turn off dictation and angle the deflector shields in order to use expensive software. Software that was working just fine untill it recived a very feature light update that broke it. ... View more

“Is the Dication feature turned off in your system? Is a printer connected and turned on? Illustrator needs a printer? Where do you save your files?” This is all completely irrelevant. Adobe’s software performance became unacceptable on many current pro machine after an update (probably GPU related). This is a bug not a feature. It’s not 1995, we shouldn have to unplug our Iomega Zip drives from the SCSI chain to get this stuff to work reliably. ... View more

I have a 12 Core 2.7 GHz Mac Pro (2013). The software is unacceptably slow with our without GPU acceleration (without is worse). It runs fine on my new (2018) 2.9 GHz MacBook pro. I'm sure that this is related to the GPU on the older machine. That said, the rest of CC runs fine (including photoshop, premiere and aftereffects). This bug is new to illustrator 23 which was (if we're honest) a very modest update to the application's functionality. ... View more

It's not just slower. It's MUCH slower. ... View more