[OS X TeX] Re: Fonts in Illustrator with Tiger

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Jul 15, 2005, at 17:01, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> That said, I'm not very happy with CS2: I was expecting it to be  
> faster and more Apple-HIG-compliant than Illustrator 10, but that's  
> not the case. It seems to only add bugs, and more modifications to  
> the OS X routines (like replacing the printing window by a  
> completely new one, for no reason).

Gee, hard to believe Adobe would do that ;).
>
> For example, I've been spending the last hour or so (and it's  
> 1:45am here on a Friday night!) trying to determine why a  
> Mathematica-generated EPS file cannot be opened in Illustrator CS2:  
> Illustrator silently fails to open it, and looking at the  
> console.log I can see:
>
> Adobe Illustrator(480,0xa000ef98) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a  
> pointer not malloced: 0x139f7ea8; This could be a double free(), or  
> free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting  
> environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug

This sounds to me like a bug in Illustrator; it's trying to free  
memory that it doesn't own, and this will probably cause a crash  
sooner or later.  Or maybe it will just corrupt your work.  Does  
Adobe have a means to report bugs?

Adam

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