This will be old news to many of you, but yesterday Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.2 with a slew of fixes. Most notable for my Adobe CS3 and Lightroom users are important fixes that Adobe’s Photoshop Product Manager John Nack details here. When Leopard was announced Adobe announced that Adobe Creative Suite 3 was compatible with a couple of exceptions. Most notably the Adobe CS3 Production Premium products and Acrobat 8 Professional. The Production Premium updates came out on scedule in December and that suite is now Leopard compatible and the Acrobat 8 Professional 8.1.2 update came out last week. So now CS3 is completely compatible with Leopard. The water is safe!
Because I use Photoshop CS3 (with a variety of plug-ins), as well as Capture NX, I have held off installing Leopard (I have the disc ready to go). (My wife followed your installation procedure to the letter and has had few problems, but she doesn’t use Photoshop.) Is it relatively risk-free to now install Leopard? Thanks. John
Hi Terry
Adobe sales reps categorically state the CS3 is completely compatible with the current Leopard (10.5.2 I think). But I’ve seen numerous posts of big incompatibilities that were written after Feb 12.
What’s the current situation?
We’re on CS1 using G5 towers and are holding off buying either new hardware that’s Leopard-mandatory or CS3 because software glitches are an absolute show stopper. We can’t afford going through the trouble shooting dance every time an OS or major app is updated. We’d rather have fewer features and rock-solid stability.
Unfortunately, there are other reasons we need to upgrade our hardware, and it’s becoming a big hassle.
Any insights on the state of things?
Thanks in advance.
Tom Dearie
Communications Architect
ThreeSixty Creative
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