2 questions on CS3 Extended: importing 3D and flickering mouse pointer

I recently downloaded the trail version of CS3 Extended through the Adobe site which is completly functional as I understood it.
But whatever I do, I can not open 3D objects? I did everything on what the Help files say.
But when trying it with File > Open, all I get is the message "Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document.". And the second way to open it (With a document open, choose Layer > 3D Layers > New Layer From 3D File.) is also not possible because there is no "3D Layers" option in Layer. And yes, I am sure I did download the CS3 Extended trail 😉

The other thing is that somehow CS3 is acting up graphics wise. For example, when selecting the Move Tool the mouse pointer is flickering between the normal mouse pointer and the pointer that belongs to the Move Tool? Or moving my mouse over a layer in the Layers Menu: also there flickering between the normal mouse pointer and the Hand pointer. When I then want to select a layer, I have to click multiple times before the layer is selected? Also, the words of the upper menu (File, Edit and so on) become very ugly bold, like very bad strong anti-aliased. When I move over them, all the letter stay that ugly until I click one of the menu words.
Don’t know what this all is but for now I am not impressed with CS3.
Windows XP SP2 Home edition, Dutch version.
AMD Athlon X2 Dual core
Asus GeForce EN6600 graphics card
Latest DirectX and all latest drivers

Check out the vids about 3d on the Adobe Design center (I think that’s what
it’s called; I would strongly suggest spending time on the site; a big part
of the CS3 effort had to do with interactive interfaces for their web presence).

And the 3d stuff we’ve worked with during the alpha and beta processes were
all internal — stuff created within Photoshop, or drawn in Illustrator as 2
or 2.5d and shaded and textured and fine-tuned in PS.

Hope this helps

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0053

This PDF document relates to the use of 3d After Effects elements and their
relationship to Photoshop workflows:

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/illustrator/articles/illcs 2it_3dworkflow/i llcs2it_3dworkflow.pdf

Gary in Tampa

On 7/23/07 1:30 PM, in article ,
"TheCroW" wrote:

I recently downloaded the trail version of CS3 Extended through the Adobe site which is completly functional as I understood it.
But whatever I do, I can not open 3D objects? I did everything on what the
Help files say.
But when trying it with File > Open, all I get is the message "Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document.". And the second way to open it (With a document open, choose Layer > 3D Layers > New Layer From 3D File.) is also not possible because there is no
"3D Layers" option in Layer. And yes, I am sure I did download the CS3 Extended trail 😉

The other thing is that somehow CS3 is acting up graphics wise. For example,
when selecting the Move Tool the mouse pointer is flickering between the normal mouse pointer and the pointer that belongs to the Move Tool? Or moving my mouse over a layer in the Layers Menu: also there flickering between the normal mouse pointer and the Hand pointer. When I then want to
select a layer, I have to click multiple times before the layer is selected?
Also, the words of the upper menu (File, Edit and so on) become very ugly bold, like very bad strong anti-aliased. When I move over them, all the letter stay that ugly until I click one of the menu words.
Don’t know what this all is but for now I am not impressed with CS3.
Windows XP SP2 Home edition, Dutch version.
AMD Athlon X2 Dual core
Asus GeForce EN6600 graphics card
Latest DirectX and all latest drivers