Error loading photoshopimport.aip plugin in Illustrator CS4

[Jeffbot]

Hello, I'm currently using Illustrator CS4 and just updated my Mac to OS X Yosemite.  After installing the new software, I've got some bugs with Illustrator.  Namely, upon opening the program, I get the message "Error loading plugins". The plugin in question is "photoshopimport.aip".  I'm not sure if this is related to the next issue - I'm no longer able to open .tif files in Illustrator and says that they are "an unknown format and cannot be opened".  I have uninstalled and re-installed all Adobe programs, but I still get the same error messages.

Naturally, most of the work I do is in Illustrator with .tif files.  Can anyone offer some help with these problems?  Is this a case of the new OS X and CS4 having compatibility issues?  Am I going to have to bite the bullet and upgrade to a newer version of Adobe?  Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

[Grigoris Gazetas]

So, we don't have a solution for it yet, right?

The real question is, will it be one?

[Monika Gause]

Grigoris Gazetas schrieb:

So, we don't have a solution for it yet, right?

Downgrade the system.

[Grigoris Gazetas]

This is probably what i am about to do unless this takes place only with .tiff files.

Does anyone know if this happens to other file types too?

[jhooley]

Downgrade from Yosemite?

[Monika Gause]

jhooley schrieb:

Downgrade from Yosemite?

If you want to use Illustrator CS4: yes.

[pauljohnluap]

Why would downgrading be required? I've been happily using CS4 Illustrator (don't even have photoshop) and Yosemite for months and just today for no reason that I can determine these problems popped up.  Downgrading is not really straight forward.

Has anyone else tried deleting the "lproj" files? Does anyone have any ideas other than downgrade your OS or upgrade your illustrator?

[fantozzi_cz]

I solved the problem. There was a problem with language "lproj" files.

My OS X Yosemite is in English, my Adobe CS4 is in Czech language. You have to delete all "lproj" files except the original one CS4.

Go to Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4/Adobe Illustrator CS4 then click right button and open "Show Package Content". Now go to Contents/Resources and here you have to delete all "lproj" folders EXCEPT THE ORIGINAL ONE (in my case "cs.lproj").

I think the problem was different OS X language/Adobe CS4 language.

Now everything is fine for me.

[josephr777]

I solved the problem. There was a problem with language "lproj" files.

Hi fantozzi.cz,

Are you able to open PSD files, or did this just stop the crashing?

Thanks!

[oscarand]

I seldom have to import Photoshop files into Illustrator CS 4. I've have the same problem as everyone else but what I did was save my original tiff as a Photoshop .eps file and it imported into Illustrator with no problem at all. Hope this helps.

[pudeljumpr]

I am having the same error. While I have not tried to open files and I don't know how messed up that is, the main problem I am having is that when I try to pick a font, I cannot see the font names. It is as if all the names are in white type. There are there, but you can't see the preview names. This is really annoying. Anyone else having this problem?

[Monika Gause]

Has been discussed so many times, please search the forum.

[Larry G. Schneider]

System Preferences>Accessibility>Display>check Reduce Transparency

[pudeljumpr]

Thanks Larry. That helped.

[cathymrose]

I have this Plugin error message, too. Sometimes it says both PhotoshopImport.aip AND PhotoshopExport.aip

I have had to convert my psd files to another type of image file in order to place them into Illustrator. It seems suboptimal. It's not crashing, though.

[LAPart]

Solution is here:

Download:Java for OS X 2015-001

Java for OS X 2015-001 installs the legacy Java 6 runtime for OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and OS X 10.7 Lion.

This package is exclusively intended for support of legacy software and installs the same deprecated version of Java 6 included in the 2014-001 and 2013-005 releases.

This worked for me.

[Guest]

The Java download - see LAPart - didn't work for me.

[da84932817]

Going to the folder /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4/Plug-ins.localized/Photoshop Formats/ and just deleting the PhotoshopImport and PhotoshopExport plugins to the trash worked for me. I'm going to keep them in a folder somewhere else incase they're ever needed, but I've never used them knowingly anyway, and simply removing them from the folder let's Illustrator start up normal for me.

[lynflyn]

This didn't work for me.

[Monika Gause]

  schrieb

This didn't work for me.

On which system and which version?

[Tootarama]

I've upgraded to the El Capitan OS and am having the same issues, rather frustrating because I already paid a buttload of money for CS4 and would never want to rent a program after already paying for the programs, as da84932817 has mentioned above. I really hope that Adobe comes up with a solution to this issue soon because I now feel stuck. I was so excited to be able to use the programs on my new iMac and now I can't even open the programs. BS!

[DaneOLeary]

I'm having this problem now too. 2015 rMBP with El Capitan, trying to use CS4 with Photoshopimporter and Photoshopexporter errors popping up each time I open Illustrator. I guess we just have to accept this and work around it as best we can until we decide to update to CS5 or CS6?

Anybody know if this is a problem happening with CS5 too?

[Larry G. Schneider]

Check post #22 in this thread.

Illustrator CS4 crash with Mac OS X.10 Yosemite

[artb74663510]

YES!!! Indeed Larry, post #22 on the tread Illustrator CS4 crash with Mac OS X.10 Yosemite works!

[Guest]

I have the same issue… Except I'm in El Capitan

I have tried everything that this thread has mentioned.   NOTHING HAS WORKED.

I will not downgrade my system, and I do not have the money to upgrade to CS6.

This being said, Adobe needs to step up and fix the plug-ins.

I wonder… Could we simply strip the plug-ins from CS6, and replace the ones in CS4.  Theoretically that should work, since the issue was with older plug-ins.

Now… If I can only get my hands on those plug-ins.

[Guest]

I also do not have the money, time, and Internet access to be able to update to the creative cloud.

There is no reason, no reason at all, that I should have to pay $20 a month to be able to access programs that I've had on my computer for years now.