Adobe CS3 not officially supported on Snow Leopard

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/08/adobe_snow_leopard_faq.html

by robin_reala • 17 years ago

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mcav• 17 years ago

The article was updated to read:

"No one said anything about CS3 being "not supported" on Snow Leopard. The plan, however, is not to take resources away from other efforts (e.g. porting Photoshop to Cocoa) in order to modify 2.5-year-old software in response to changes Apple makes in the OS foundation."

jonknee2• 17 years ago

Since they claimed they will make no updates to CS3 for compatibility purposes with Snow Leopard, by my definition it won't be supported.

hamidp• 17 years ago

Since did lack of support stop anyone from finding a way to run it?

m_eiman• 17 years ago

From the FAQ linked from the article:

"Q. Will older versions of Adobe creative software—such as Adobe Creative Suite 3 or Macromedia® Studio 8 software—support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)?

A. Older versions of Adobe creative software were not included in our testing efforts. While older Adobe and Macromedia applications may install and run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested, and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may therefore experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)."

potatolicious3• 17 years ago

"The plan, however, is not to take resources away from other efforts (e.g. porting Photoshop to Cocoa)"

Yep, because it's not like Apple gave you a 9-year heads-up on having to port your app to Cocoa or anything. In fact, Adobe made no move towards porting until Apple took out binary-level support for 64-bit Carbon in Leopard.

These guys have no excuse to complain about taking resources away. They've been practicing shoddy development for years - consistently building on top of deprecated API.

sielskr• 17 years ago

It costs you nothing to use phrases like "shoddy development". It costs Adobe many millions to port Photoshop to Cocoa.

JereCoh• 17 years ago

I look forward to the day when I don't need Adobe products. (Yeah, I know there are alternatives, but they aren't competitive alternatives.)

l0nwlf2• 17 years ago

All of Adobe products are based on Carbon. Of course they had started working towards porting all of their products in Cocoa, but that'll happen in CS6 probably. The fundamental mistake Adobe made was to keep on developing their products upon deprecated APIs. However I'm interested in the fact that is developing on Carbon API is fruitful even ? Apple encourages Cocoa and obj. C after all and I have not met any linux/windows developer who knows Obj. C.

philwelch• 17 years ago

The iPhone API uses Cocoa and Objective-C. It doesn't seem to be a limiting factor to developers thus far.

Adobe CS3 not officially supported on Snow Leopard

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