Leopard Coverage: Adobe’s Plans for Leopard
Adobe is one of the most important third-party software developers that Apple has. Building software that caters to the Pro market, they represent an essential piece of the pie.
The software company has outlined its plan for Leopard compatibility, and I must say it’s looking good because they’re “proud to support this impressive new operating system”.
First of all, if you’re using one or some combination of the following products:
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Flash CS3 Professional and Flash Player 9
- Adobe Contribute CS3
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
- Adobe Fireworks CS3
- Adobe GoLive 9
- Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Adobe InCopy CS3
- Adobe InDesign CS3
- Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3
- Adobe Acrobat Connect (Start Meeting)
You can relax. They are all compatible with Leopard. However, with all operating system upgrades, some software will (inevitably) require upgrading. These include:
- Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and Acrobat Reader 8
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
- Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
- Adobe Encore CS3 and Adobe Soundbooth CS3
If you happen to utilize any of these products, Adobe will push out free updates in December 2007 (for the video applications) and January 2008 (for the Acrobat line-up).
What about CS2 and older versions running through Rosetta? Unfortunately, the company is no longer providing updates for the older products. While it could install okay in Leopard, you may “experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution”.
That basically means you should upgrade to CS3. Should you encounter any issues, consider reporting the bug to Adobe. Although they do not respond directly to submissions, they will review them closely. Have you tried installing any Adobe software in Leopard?
Does the Photoshop CS3 entry also include Lightroom?
@Horst: Good question, Adobe says Photoshop Lightroom 1.2 is not fully certified for Mac OS X Leopard, but future updates will address areas of Leopard compatibility.
@Marvin: Thank you
Well, I just hope this won’t end up like the whole API-story for Lightroom :-/
I use Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac—will I need an update for leopard?
@russ: Unfortunately, Adobe won’t be supporting that.
When I bought leopard and installed flash player 9 it didn’t work
My copy of PS Elements 4 works OK under Leopard - still as slow to open as a wet weekend, but once up, runs as well as it ever did under Tiger.
I would like to say that I HAVE installed CS2 on a clean install of Leopard and have little problem. I am unsure if they are Leopard specific problems. I only have 1 GB of ram on my Mac Pro and some of the CS2 application will hang for a little bit, but that is probable due to the amount of ram I have installed and rosetta.
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Apple is now forcing CS2 users to upgrade to CS3 if they install Leopard. This makes the upgrade considerably more expensive than the price of the OS. — a minimum of $400 more expensive for people who don’t need an Adobe upgrade. Yes, there are more bells and whistles, but for those who are satisfied with CS2, Leopard is not an option. This is forced cross marketing means we’ll be stuck with co-dependent Adobe/Apple upgrades every 18 months for non-backward compatible products. This is not good for consumers and will play havoc in the freelance graphics world.
Is GoLive 6 compatible with Leopard? so far it looks like Illustrator 10 is ok, and Acrobat 6 Pro…
Photoshop 7 is a no sigh!!!!!!!
Just installed CS2 on my macbook intel 2.1GHz Duo, enjoy the leopard features… but CS2 is running let a turtle… my G5 really roar like a tiger on CS2… even my G4 with Panther OSX 10.3.9 launch faster than the leopard…
leopard is fast… but no power…
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