Snow Leopard - glitches, updates and other essential info

[chriskleeman]

Got my Snow Leopard yesterday, I'm with you Mayo, mine will sit in the box for a little while yet... it is a pretty picture though!

CK

[sandbox]

I've read somewhere that all the odd printer drivers that used to be installed will now need to be downloaded. One of the space saving iDeas iGuess

[RNKIII]

Actually, you now have a choice...   load just those that it 'finds' connected to your computer / network; just a selection of 'current/active' printers; or "Everything in the known universe"    

Bob K.   rnkiii

[Xairbusdriver]

Apparently, however, Apple does not actually include quite that many! Some older models are not on the disk and must be gathered elsewhere. I'll see if I can find that info...

Some comments from the Apple Forums:

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Apple doesn't write printer drivers. The companies that produce the product write drivers. The Gutenprint project does write some drivers for CUPS, the printing system that Mac OS X uses.
When companies provide drivers to Apple, they are sometimes included in the OS releases.
Printer manufacturers want to sell printers, not provide infinite free support to products they've long stopped selling.

<Here's a list from Apple>.

[Mayo]

Mangled Mail? That’ll Be the New Cat

Some people are having problems sending mail if they use Apple's email client...

[Xairbusdriver]

10.6.1 is supposedly in the hands of developers as we write...

[Xairbusdriver]

Interesting article on the operation of the <anti-malware functions in SL>. Bottom line: not much, when it will surely become necessary.

[Texas Mac Man]

Read these installation reviews. So, how did your Snow Leopard install go? (success, problems, tricks, advice, etc.)

[Shades of Gray]

While Adobe stated that CS4 was compatible, as it turned out, Acrobat Pro was not fully compatible. Have to remove Adobe PDF from the Print/Fax System Preferences. Changes how that was done. Hadn't seen anything from Adobe until people began experiencing problems. As did I (printing to Adobe PDF 9.0 Printer went through the motions, but nothing ever appeared).

[Xairbusdriver]

<Great TidBITS article with many tips and alerts about changes, what works, updated apps for SL.>

[Paddy]

A clarification - the EXPORT TO PDF function from all Adobe CS4 apps continues to work as it should - this issue affects those creating PDFs from NON-ADOBE products who also have Acrobat Pro installed. I haven't seen anything on this issue from those who don't have Acrobat Pro installed - for them, Apple's print to PDF function should work fine.

More info on the Acrobat Pro PDF issue here:

http://indesignsecrets.com/acrobats-adobe-...now-leopard.php

(read the comments too - there are some responses from Leonard Rosenthol at Adobe)

Adobe's explanation:

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Why the change? An Adobe TechNote provides a brief explanation: “Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)’s enhanced security features prevent Adobe’s PDF Printer from functioning as it did in previous versions.” Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe’s PDF guru, provides additional details:

In a nutshell, Snow Leopard no longer supports the necessary OS features we need to install a Distiller-based printer.  It’s just as well, as that print path (of PDF->PS->PDF) is REALLY SLOW and full of a HUGE number of bugs for many years now that we couldn’t fix due to how the Apple printing system works ?. With Snow Leopard, you now have a new PDF Workflow entry (the things in the “PDF” menu in the print dialog) called “Adobe PDF” which will convert the Apple-based PDF into an Adobe-based PDF using your supplied/chosen Job Options.  It does so via native PDF transcoding – no Postscript here!! So we still provide a method for creation of Adobe-quality PDFs – but it’s FASTER and MORE reliable!

So - it's supposed to be a good thing, though clearly, it isn't working as intended for everyone. Some have had it work fine - others report crashes.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/483911?tstart=0

I haven't install SL yet - my son put it on his MacBook 2 days ago and apart from a font issue (I needed to go through and resolve duplicate fonts in Font Book) and having to delete his World of Warcraft cache, no issues to report. (He was so upset about the WoW thing - his frame rates dropped badly until that cache was deleted - that he still refuses to acknowledge that SL has improved anything! )

[Bruce_F]

I think I may have found the reason Firefox was so sluggish on my computer running Snow Leopard. I just deleted GoogleBar and Googlepedia which I wasn't using much.

Now Firefox seems pretty much normal again!

One reason I suspected GoogleBar is because it wasn't installed on the Firefox my wife uses and I noticed no slowness while using her login.

[Shades of Gray]

On top of all the other problems with Adobe products, now I cannot print in InDesign or Illustrator. I get the spinning ball and have to force quit.

[Xairbusdriver]

Well, I bit the bullet last night and I'm still spitting out the pieces! Mail refuses to use or keep the password for my ISPs smtp server. Keychain is the main or biggest culprit, I think. Even iDisk keeps telling me I don't have a valid password set or Keychain doesn't like it.

Fortunately, Judy's MBP is still inn10.5 and even Mail 3.5, so it can send and receive mail just fine. Using the exact same smtp password that the new setup claims won't work, BTW. And her machine will never see Snow Leopard until this matter is cleared up. Should her's become as crippled as mine, email-wise, I wouldn't be able to find a doghouse big enough or far enough away!!!

So, to those who email me, I'll have to use a PM, webmail or smoke signals!

[sandbox]

The Apple Mail "won't send" issue was resolved with the upgrade to 10.6.1

there is a report...to me....that Airport Extreme doesn't work in 64 bit mode but will in 34 BM

My iGlasses application opens when i use Firefox, but I can't access any controls. It pops up on the desktop and when I close Firefox it disappears.