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October 21, 2014
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Error loading photoshopimport.aip plugin in Illustrator CS4

  • October 21, 2014
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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.

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    oscarapr
    Participant
    June 30, 2017

    Solved it with this fix. Now I'm able to import tif and photoshop files. Hurraaa

    https://www.google.com.do/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwjBiqCG4uXUAhVGSyYKHaLQDYQQFgg2MAI&url=http…

    gapos1989
    gapos1989
    Participant
    January 4, 2018

    This originally worked for me in that I could open my files with psd or tiff files in them.

    BUT whenever I tried to PLACE an image, it crashed on me every time.

    Using Mac OSX 10.10.5 and Illustrator CS4 v. 14.0.0. (Does anyone know if this version of illustrator is the latest?)

    Has anyone been able to place psd and tiff files from photoshop into illustrator using MacOSX 10.10?

    I tried all the other suggestions and nothing worked for me.

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    Anonymous
    June 3, 2016

    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.

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    Anonymous
    June 3, 2016

    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.

    Larry G. Schneider
    Community Expert
    Larry G. SchneiderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 3, 2016

    Did you try the solution I listed in post 43 above? It is the easiest fix.

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    DaneOLeary
    Participant
    January 14, 2016

    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
    Community Expert
    Larry G. SchneiderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 14, 2016

    Check post #22 in this thread.

    Illustrator CS4 crash with Mac OS X.10 Yosemite

    artb74663510
    artb74663510
    Participant
    January 19, 2017

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

    Tootarama
    Tootarama
    Participant
    October 16, 2015

    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!

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    da84932817
    Participant
    September 22, 2015

    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
      lynflyn
      Participant
      November 21, 2017

      This didn't work for me.

      Monika Gause
      Community Expert
      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 21, 2017

        schrieb

      This didn't work for me.

      On which system and which version?

      LAPart
      LAPart
      Participant
      September 8, 2015

      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.

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      Anonymous
      October 21, 2015

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

      cathymrose
      cathymrose
      Participant
      April 1, 2015

      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.

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      pudeljumpr
      Participant
      February 28, 2015

      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
      Community Expert
      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 28, 2015

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

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      oscarand
      Participant
      February 22, 2015

      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.

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      fantozzi_cz
      Participant
      February 10, 2015

      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
      josephr777
      Participant
      February 18, 2015

      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!

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