

However, in the upper lefthand corner of the screen, next to the little Apple icon, where the name of the Application should appear in bold black text along with its dropdown menus to the right - nothing appears. When I launch Illustrator, it's icon appears and bounces in the Dock momentarily and then comes to a rest with the little black dot underneath, indicating that the program is loaded and ready to use. Photoshop seems to be running well, as does Indesign and Flash.īut Illustrator is behaving oddly. I opened Photoshop and reactivated the CS3 license per my account on the Adobe website.
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It didn't ask for an additional install file. That said, everything seemed to go well and OS X displayed the usual confirmation that the software had been installed successfully. I watched the installer load "disc 1", though as I recall, the original retail box set had two disks. I don't currently have access to the original discs so I downloaded the CS3 Design Premium installer from the Adobe website ( ADBESTDSCS3_WWE.dmg) and after installing the legacy version of Java, launched the CS3 install and followed the instructions. I disabled System Integrity Protection in Terminal and also disabled Gatekeeper in System Preferences so I wouldn't have any problem installing legacy software. Prior to the internal hard drive erasure and clean install of El Capitan, I de-activated my CS3 license for the Macbook Pro. After doing considerable research and determining that CS3 Design Premium runs well on El Capitan as long as an older version of Java is installed, I performed a clean install of OS X 10.11 El Capitan on a Macbook Pro which had been running OS X Lion and CS3 Design Premium for a few years.
