I know many of us here are designers and creative professionals. Indesign CS3 has crashed on me 3 times this morning! What the hell?

Do any of you run it on a PowerPC G5? Is that my problem??? LOL

It never seems to crash on my 8 core Intel Mac Pro at home, but this is my work computer and my department isn't planning an upgrade anytime soon... I'd simply use CS2, but the entire division is working in CS3 files now.

Frustrating indeed....

Almost as frustrating as getting RxH releases, but being victimized by internal server errors!

I use it on a PC at work and personally I think CS3 blows. Illustrator runs like a slug and InDesign has repeatedly crashed on me and last week wouldn't work at all until I installed some patch. If it were up to me I would switch back to CS2 in a heartbeat.

why does adobe refuse to get with the program? their applications have always been enormously taxing to a system running with 4 gigs of memory back in 2001. illustrator has always been a slug, i didn't even bother with the new version becasue i saw absolutely nothiing worth upgrading for in it.

i've been thinking i want to downgrade back to CS1 becasue none of the cool plug-ins i have for it work with the new versions and at this point, i dont think anybody is going to upgrade them. sux. adobe blows

I would hardly say Adobe blows...
I challenge you to use different product to get the same results...
that being said...
CS3 is a system hog but you should easily be able to run it on a G5
It might be time for a clean install of the suite...

here are the system requirements:

Macintosh
PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
Mac OS X v10.4.8-10.5 (Leopard)
Java™ Runtime Environment 1.5 required for Adobe Version Cue® CS3 Server
1GB of RAM
6.3GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7.1.2 software required for multimedia features
Some 3D features in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended require an OpenGL 1.4 capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

the reason i say it blows is that other companies have managed to streamline similiar programs, they've just all been driven out of business by adobe....i dont think for a minute that they have the best programs to get the job done, they have the most popular....me, i preferred fractal design's painter before corel came in and fucked it up (matter of fact, many of the revolutionary new applications that photoshop 4 employed when it came out were borrowed directly from painter) and macromedia's freehand wasn't too bad either. neither of these are the giant memory hogs that adobe puts out (well, painter is now that corel put their two cents in), yet work perfectly well.

...very true

I run it on a PC at home

WHAT WHAT WHAT!!!