CS4 & OpenGL on OSX 10.5.5

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Siriunson
Nov 25, 2008
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I have read the Tech note:GPU and OpenGL Features and Limitations in Photoshop CS4, but do not see the issues I encountered on my set-up.

I have had to switch off OpenGL because I was regularly getting the following issues:

• Using marquee tool in normal mode, clicking on canvas created fixed sized selections. Repeated clicks created different fixed size selections.
• Attempts to transform selection created increasingly-large selections that had only the bottom-right handle on canvas.
• Free transform tool – exactly the same issue as transforming selections. • Dragging layers between windows not working.
• New window arrangements not working until selected at least twice. • Regular crashes.

I have cleaned my system with Applejack, trashed & rebuilt prefs, reinstalled but problems persisted until OpenGL was switched off.

My card is OpenGL compatible – ATI Radeon HD2600 with 256MB RAM. My machine is an iMac 2.8GHz with 4GB RAM.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Nov 25, 2008
For the Tools: Try Resetting each tool.

Then check your Prefs./Performance

Reduce the number of Cache Levels to 4

Set the amount of Memory Usage to about 60%

In Open GL/Advanced Drawing: UNcheck Vertical Sync.

then Quit and Re-launch Photoshop.
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Ram
Nov 26, 2008
Ann,

Are you seeing this in your post #1 above?

For the last several days, the forum software seems to be combining the slash / with the immediately adjacent letter (before or after) if there is such a character in some other language, like the Polish L/ l/, the o/, etc

Edit: Now it’s only doing it with the slash following the letter.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Nov 26, 2008
I don’t see that here.

Check your Browser’s Language Prefs:

I have Safari 3.2.1 set to use Western ISO Latin but Unicode UTF-8 seems to be OK too.
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Chris_Cox
Nov 26, 2008
Nope, not seeing the messed up letters here.
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Ram
Nov 26, 2008
Thank you for verifying that, Ann and Chris.

Tried other browsers, and only Firefox is doing it, regardless of the text encoding chosen.

It makes sense for Firefox to be the culprit, as this happened at around the same time of the automatic update to Firefox 3.0.4.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Nov 26, 2008
Just checked Firefox: it is causing the same error here too.
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Buko
Nov 26, 2008
Just checked in FF 3 looks good.

So does Safari.

Upgrading to FF 3.0.4
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Ann_Shelbourne
Nov 26, 2008
I have FF 3.0.4 — and it displays the GL error as shown in Ramón’s image.
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Ram
Nov 26, 2008
Thank you, Ann. There’s no doubt now. It’s Firefox 3.0.4.
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R_Aviles
Nov 26, 2008
I have Firefox 3.0.4 and I do not get the messed up letters.

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 3 GB
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.5.0
Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
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Ram
Nov 26, 2008
I have Firefox 3.0.4 and I do not get the messed up letters.

But, unlike Ann, Buko and I, you’re on a Mac-Intel box…

…and running Leopard, too!
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Buko
Nov 26, 2008
OK this is wierd Just installed 3.0.4

and I don’t see the messed up letters.

running Tiger on a G5.
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Ram
Nov 27, 2008
Further experimenting reveals it’s in the way Firefox 3.9.4 reads the Page Style.

If I go to the View menu > Page Style > and select No Style, the slash appears correctly, separately from the letter.

Maybe the page style sent by the forums is affected by whatever I have set in my forum preferences?
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Ram
Dec 4, 2008
Hiccup. Sorry.
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Ram
Mar 11, 2009
Still seeing the anomaly here. Firefox 3.0.7, Tiger 10.4.11.

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