Photoshop Crash on Launch
On Mac OS X, Adobe Photoshop versions 7 and 8 (CS) will crash on launch if you have global font smoothing (antialiasing) set below 8.
I’m just writing this because I spent literally a month reinstalling, scouring the web for answers, and trying every kind of hack or trick to get Photoshop to run on my computer. What should have appeared is a dialog box saying, “Photoshop will not run with Font Smoothing set below 8 points. To fix this, blah blah…”.
Instead, it bounced a few times, then crashed:
Command: Adobe Photoshop CS
Path: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS/Adobe Photoshop CS.app/
Contents/MacOSClassic/Adobe Photoshop CS
Version: 8.0 (8.0x119) (8.0)
PID: 1049
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 < < 00000000>> 0x00000000 0 + 0
1 application 0x020c1cd8 0x2008000 + 0xb9cd8
2 application 0x020c183c 0x2008000 + 0xb983c
3 application 0x020c0dd0 0x2008000 + 0xb8dd0
4 application 0x020c0bb0 0x2008000 + 0xb8bb0
5 application 0x020bf254 0x2008000 + 0xb7254
6 application 0x02833c9c 0x2008000 + 0x82bc9c
7 application 0x02833914 0x2008000 + 0x82b914
...
Less than useful. Hopefully Google will cache this and save some other poor soul a load of torment.
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under Computing, Instructional, User Experience.
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March 17th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
Wow! that’s EXACTALLY what I was looking for! Thank god, it works now!!
August 22nd, 2005 at 12:14 am
ok, im wondering if this is the same problem im having.
randomly today i went to open photoshop, and RIGHT when everything loads and the splash screen dissapears, the program just closes.
im getting really frustrated cause i have work to do with deadlines that i need photoshop for.
is this the same thing that happend to you? how do i fix this!
August 22nd, 2005 at 12:47 am
This could be anything, really: Maybe you have a corrupt font that Photoshop doesn’t like. Photoshop doesn’t handle case-sensitive file systems very well… if you reformatted your hard drive using Tiger and selected “Case-sensitive HFS+”, you need to reformat it with the default setting. You could try trashing your prefs or making sure your permissions on all your directories are correct. Try creating a new user account and launching Photoshop from there. If it doesn’t work, you probably have to uninstall, then reinstall the app.
August 24th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
OMG. I have been beating myself to death for weeks trying to figure out why Photoshop CS kept crashing — I had set antialiasing to something like 2 pt because of some weirdness with font antialiasing in Safari’s built in SVG (it checks for and applies antialiasing before scaling the SVG).
THANK YOU!
August 24th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
BTW, the trial version of Photoshop CS3 exhibits the same behavior!