Photoshop Universal Binary? Not so fast.

I have to admit, I was pretty excited when I saw the screencap of an Adobe order confirmation email above from TUAW reader Craig. Despite Adobe's repeated official refusal [pdf] to do anything for Intel Mac Photoshop users until CS3, it looked like there might be big news on the Photoshop front. A closer look, though, shows that the rumor mill has gotten ahead of itself on this one, and here at TUAW, we believe in quashing this sort of thing in the bud. It's "Macintosh, Universal English," not "Macintosh Universal, English." That one little comma is huge. It's the difference between a universal binary, and a product that isn't localized specifically for British, American, or Canadian English.

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I have to admit, I was pretty excited when I saw the screencap of an Adobe order confirmation email above from TUAW reader Craig. Despite...

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Bill Fold

no its Photoshop9.0,Macintosh,Universal English. English is separate from Universal.

August 31 2006 at 10:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Craig

Well...CRAP! Sorry to get everyone hot and bothered for nothing. I knew it was too good to be true, but I was hoping...

August 31 2006 at 1:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

daggerquill

I don't like organ meat as a rule. and while I do make an exception for fois gras, no chopped liver today.

Take it up with Adobe, though: the available CS 2 English localizations are Canada, US, UK, US Medical and US Legal. I don't make the rules.

That may change in CS 3, though. Former Macromedia products support a much wider variety of English localizations; That may bleed over into the traditional Adobe product line at some point.

August 31 2006 at 1:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aaron

"...isn't localized specifically for British, American, or Canadian English."

And what are Australian and South African English, chopped liver?

August 31 2006 at 12:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

car fan

The main reason for the slow transition I've heard is because they are moving everything into Apple's XCode, which apparently isn't quite ready for this level of projects.

August 31 2006 at 12:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alan

They need to hurry up already, especially now that apple's "pro" line is finally all-intel.

August 31 2006 at 12:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jason

anyone heard any news on how they will be bundleing lightroom? such as an upgrade from photoshop CS2 to cs3 with lightroom?

August 31 2006 at 11:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Looi

I think my heart skipped a beat when I saw that.

August 31 2006 at 11:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply