Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's why I keep CS2 on both my Mac and PC computers. I don't find the upgrade price that egregious. What the heck is a PSB file? Jim Didier Ludwig wrote: > Nathan > > Restricting the backward compatibility to force the people to upgrade is > an old, dirty marketing trick of the whole software industry (yawn). > Welcome to the club of the notoriously constrained users! > > Sometimes they leave a small, hidden hole to escape the problem; like > Steve says, try to change your file compatibility, it could help. > > Otherwise: ~u~p~g~r~a~d~e~ PS on your PC.... :-) > > Didier > > > > >>I had a weird issue the other day, which I hope some of the Photoshop >>experts here can explain. >> >>I use PS CS on my desktop PC at home (Windows XP). Until recently I also >>used PS CS on my Powerbook, and was always able to move PSD files >>seamlessly between the two computers. But recently I upgraded my Apple >>Photoshop to CS2. This is what I used to process all the images I made >>during the trip to Poland. When I came home, I transferred the files from >>the Powerbook to the desktop. And here comes the strange part: some of the >>PSD files I saved in PS CS2 on the Apple will not open in PS CS on the PC. >>Now, if this were the case with ALL of them, then I would simply conclude >>that the PSD files simply are not backward compatible. But it seems >>completely random; only about 10-20% of the images are affected, and there >>is no systematic difference between the images that will open on the PC >>and those that will not. The problem affects only PSD files; TIFF files >>that I created in PS CS2 open in PS CS with no problem, 100% of the time. >> >>Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening? Is it a >>compatibility issue between OSX and Windows, between CS and CS2, or a >>combination of the two? >> >>TIA, >>Nathan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >