Filed under: Leopard
Adobe updates CS3 Leopard compatibility info
There was some doubt about Adobe products working with Leopard prior to launch, which caused no end of consternation among the designoscenti -- to upgrade or not to upgrade? Fortunately Adobe has released updated info (PDF) on the CS3 suite and Leopard, and the news is mostly good. Most CS3 components will work fine under Leopard, with the exception of some video workflow issues with After Effects/Premiere, and some unspecified problems with Acrobat 8.1. Updates for the video applications are expected in December, and updated versions of Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader are scheduled for January.While this is unfortunate for those who depend on Acrobat for PDF workflows (despite the enhanced performance of Preview in 10.5, there are a few things that Acrobat does do better), it's good to know that the workhorse apps Photoshop and Illustrator will behave themselves under Leopard.
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Nicholas Arvanitis said 8:13AM on 10-28-2007
I don't get what these acrobat issues are to be honest? I've been using leopard for a while now with it w/o issue. I use it daily, use stickies, highlighting, create and fill in forms, etc all w/o problems.
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edkim77 said 11:31AM on 12-06-2007
Since upgrading to Leopard, my CS3 install does nothing but crash literally 6-10 times per day. I have 5GB of RAM and it just dies. I would expect this to happen on a PC, not a MAC.
jonathan ober said 8:18AM on 10-28-2007
@1 lucky dog for getting leopard before the rest of us.
Well, these non issues or soon to be fixed ones make me happy. Now time to buy that iMac and cs3!
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tobi said 8:34AM on 10-28-2007
if you read the acrobat pdf carefully, you learn that acrobat runs well, except some small bugs. these minibugs will not break the main functions of acrobat. i can confirm that. so run it!
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olaye said 11:48AM on 10-28-2007
any things don't work.
• could not make a pdf from illustrator via distiller though there is a new ppd for adobe pdf 8.0 - (adobe pdf3016.102)
• ai displays random brightness when not in use (screen saver incompatibility?)
but, like the finder, actions are faster, smoother in leopard
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Michael Clark said 8:40AM on 10-28-2007
Does anyone out there have any real world experience of CS2 with Leopard?
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Beech said 8:42AM on 10-28-2007
Got Leopard on Friday night here in Australia and I have noticed some little problems working with photoshop in leopard today. Nothing major, but some dialog inputs not working and some inconsistencies in the rendering of pallets etc.
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Todd Dominey said 8:49AM on 10-28-2007
What a weird question to start off with:
"Is Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5) important to Creative Suite 3 customers?"
Uh....what? That's like asking yourself if something is important to you. Perhaps Adobe should have written, "Is Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5) important to ADOBE?"
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Jan Fuellemann said 8:59AM on 10-28-2007
Hello,
has anyone got the chance to test GoLive CS2 with Leopard? This would be a great help !!!!
Thank you
jan Fuellemann
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MarkyMark said 9:48AM on 10-28-2007
Any news on CS2?
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Jersey said 9:58AM on 10-28-2007
Its pretty sad Adobe couldnt have been bothered to updates their 3 month old products to run on this OS. I use After Effects daily, and now I have to create a 10.4 boot on a firewire drive, simply to use 1 program.
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kOoLiNuS said 10:03AM on 10-28-2007
In various italian "populated" Mac forums there are present ALL OK messages with Adobe CS3 suite ...
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Dalton said 10:26AM on 10-28-2007
I am having flash slideshow export problems with Lightroom, for what it's worth. They still export, but there's no preview anymore. Here's to hoping for a Lightroom update sometime in the near future.
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Brian Hemmis said 10:46AM on 10-28-2007
Also wondering about CS2. Guess as it runs in Rosetta that it'll be OK. Anyone know for sure ? My Leopard is on it's way from Amazon.
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Sean Karns said 10:49AM on 10-28-2007
One major issue, InDesign CS3 will not open. When I try, I am met with the message, "Adobe InDesign is shutting down. A serious error was detected. Please restart InDesign to recover work in any unsaved InDesign documents." Anyone else having this problem? I really hope there is a workaround, I dont want to have to uninstall leopard just for this...I am under its spell
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Mann said 11:15AM on 10-28-2007
I've been using After Effects 7, i have yet to notice a problem.
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jigme said 11:28AM on 10-28-2007
CS2 -
clean installed Leopard friday (MBP C2D) - migrated users, apps etc.
booted Photoshop CS2 - Activation required: activated online, all seems fine, but not done any real work with it yet. not tried Illustrator yet either. Acrobat 8 seems fine.
however - Dreamweaver 8 seems broken - booting it returns Activation dialog saying there seems to be a problem, please reinstall.
will now try that, and report back.
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Howie Isaacks said 11:57AM on 10-28-2007
This is f*cked up! Adobe is one of Apple's largest and longest running developer partners. It's totally unacceptable to make customers wait a long time for a UB of Adobe CS and then make them wait again for updates for Leopard compatibility. Adobe has had developer builds of every build of Leopard. Now, they're behaving like Quark did in not immediately getting on board with OS X.
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sam said 11:51AM on 10-28-2007
No problems with InDesign CS3 on Leopard here. (2 ghz iMac G5). I quickly opened up AE CS3 as well and didn't immediately notice any problems.
Dreamweaver 8 isn't giving me any trouble either (and GoLive opens fine for whoever asked it)... but again, I'm on a G5, so that probably makes a difference.
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paul said 12:07PM on 10-28-2007
InDesign CS3 DOE NOT WORK for many, many people, myself included. The blogs are all ignoring this and instead repeating Adobe's BS, but this problem is being widely experienced: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=374967&page=1
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