Adobe Community: Mac CS5: Why is Illustrator not 64-bit?

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1. Wade_Zimmerman,

May 4, 2010 12:16 PM in reply to bdkennedy1

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What?

It is all 64 bit! what are you referring to?

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2. bdkennedy1,

May 4, 2010 12:24 PM in reply to Wade_Zimmerman

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When I open up System Profiler in Snow Leopard and look at the list of Applications, only Photoshop and Media Encoder are shown as using the 64-bit kernel.

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3. johan stalpaert,

May 4, 2010 12:21 PM in reply to bdkennedy1

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Right. Photoshop is 64 bit, but Illustrator is NOT.

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4. bdkennedy1,

May 4, 2010 12:28 PM in reply to johan stalpaert

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Hmmmfff. I was under the impression the whole suite was 64-bit.

Not cool.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Hu_mdc45iQgJ:cs5. org/%3Fp%3D172+MAc+64-bit+illustrator&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client= safari

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5. Harron K. Appleman,

May 4, 2010 12:30 PM in reply to bdkennedy1

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As I understand it, although all CS5 applications are supported in 64-bit environments, only Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects are native 64-bit. All others remain 32-bit. (Actually, Premiere Pro and After Effects are exclusively 64-bit -- 32-bit versions are not included.)

Why? I can only guess.

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6. Wade_Zimmerman,

May 4, 2010 12:39 PM in reply to Harron K. Appleman

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I am wrong and Harron and you are correct only PPro, After Effects Media Encoder and Photoshop and not part of the Suite but Light room is 64 bit and was apparently the first Adobe app that went 64 bit on the Mac.

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7. johan stalpaert,

May 4, 2010 12:49 PM in reply to bdkennedy1

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So when Steve Jobs writes that Adobe is slow to adapt , quote : "For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5", he might be right after all!

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