Expert: Amy - 9/25/2007

Question
QUESTION: Hi,
Can you help?  I'd like to get 8.0, but am wondering if it will work okay on my XP Home system.  (I read a comment from someone saying Vers 10.0 on XP is "extremely glitchy", and am wondering if am going to have same problem w/ 8.0.)

Thank you!

ANSWER: hi Ralph,

I can tell you that I have run version 9 on my Windows2000 then my XP machine with absolutely no problems.

I don't know how you're getting a copy of 8 but could you get 9 instead? I can vouch for that one. The only machine I ever ran 8 on was an NT machine and it was horrible but that's NT's fault.

If you can deal with the lack of functionality of 9, I think it would run fine. I ran it for several years and finally upgraded this year because 9 did everything I needed it to do.

Then someone bought me CS3 and I couldn't refuse!

So in short, although it's no longer supported, 9 always worked fine for me.

-Amy

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QUESTION: Hi Amy, thanks for the quick response.

I'm afraid of vers 9 after reading review on Amazon.com by snowleopard:  
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B00005QVPY/sr=1-1/qid=11906896

Hmmm ... I think vers 8 was built for 95, 98, 2000, & NT, right?  What was terrible when on your NT?

Thank you!

-R

-R

Answer
Hi again.

What is it that you plan to do with Illustrator / why does the switch to PDF PS compatibility worry you? The only things that this changed for me (designer) is that I was no longer able to edit files in a text editor. I've never had a file "not RIP."

Are you a vinyl cutter or a t-shirt printer? If you are, I'd go on the boards and look for reviews from that industry. I think 9.0.2 was great and still use it when I do designs for t-shirts or vinyl.

8 on my NT machine crawled like a drunk baby and I had a lot of problems with network permissions that we never could seem to solve. My work had to grant me special permission to use my machine as Administrator in order to work with it... and even then, it would hang.