What You Need To Know About Adobe CS 3 On Leopard
Adobe has released its official report on Leopard and good news is that most of Creative Suite 3 and even Creative Suite 2 should run without issue. There are, however, some notable exceptions.
John Nack, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop, writes on his blog that “CS 3 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and other apps are good to go for Leopard right now.”
However, there are problems with Lightroom, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore, and Soundbooth (due to go live in early December), and Acrobat 8/Reader 8 (due in January).
So far there are no updates available and Adobe hasn’t set a timeline for future releases. Keep an eye on the Adobe Updater application that installs with CS 3 and of course we’ll keep you posted when we know more.
There aren’t a lot of details about what doesn’t work the unsupported apps, though Lightroom’s incompatibility is apparently limited to the Print module (you mean digital photos aren’t just for Flickr? Who knew?). Tom Hogarty, Lightroom PM, reportedly plans to share more info on the Lightroom blog later today.
For a complete overview of which applications work on Leopard and which don’t see the Adobe Leopard FAQ (PDF). The document also includes details on the CS 2 suite and Leopard.
In short, unless you’re using the video editing tools, Lightroom or Acrobat 8, you should be okay upgrading to Leopard. If those apps are a key part of your workflow, we suggesting putting off the move to Leopard until patches are made available.
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