09/17/2007, 10:00pm, EDT
Monday, September 17th
Adobe: Mac OS X Leopard could break AdobeCS3
Adobe today said that its popular applications for graphics and design professionals have not been certified for use with Apple's upcoming operating system, Mac OS X Leopard. With the final release of Apple's next-generation operating system expected in the next six weeks, Adobe said it had not received a final copy for testing. Company execs said that Photoshop, Illustrator and other Creative Suite 3 programs have not been fully tested with Leopard -- which is due out next month but available for pre-order -- and could lead to incompatibility issues for Adobe CS3 users. Apple first publicly demonstrated Leopard last June at WWDC and original scheduled for release for Spring of 2007, but later said that iPhone development would take away resources from Mac OS X and delay Leopard until October.
After Intel-based Macs were introduced in January of 2006, users waited almost 15 months for the first native-Intel version of the industry standard graphics suite, which delayed purchases and affected Apple's sales to its professional customers. Adobe finally released the first "Universal" of its Creative Suite for native operation on Intel Macs in April of this year.
"CS3 hasn't fully been tested under Leopard," Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen told Reuters in an interview. "If it doesn't work, we will make the necessary adjustments."
The Adobe exec also confirmed that the company has not received a final copy of Leopard with which to test its software.
"What I think Chizen is saying is that they want more time than what Apple is giving them to make sure everything works," said Chris Swenson, an analyst with market research firm NPD. "They just don't want any hiccups that could hurt sales."
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And, MacNN,
"The Adobe"
Come now.
I've got three words for Adobe - Git 'R Done.
Having said that, this is just more of the same foot-dragging BS we've come to expect from Adobe anymore.
All that's left now is for Quark to announce that version 7 won't work in Leopard and that they don't plan to fix it, but the new version 8 (a paid upgrade, BTW) will work just fine when it's released in 6 months.
McD
And of course, developers won't get the final release until after consumers do (as was the case with 10.3 and 10.4).
Carbon not a transition to Cocoa. The two frameworks solve different problems and can be mixed and mingled. What Adobe needs to do is to transition is code from CodeWarrior to Xcode.
I seem to recall developers having access to development hardware for "some time" before the first Intel Macs were shipped to the public, so what? 2+ years just to port their software?
puh-leez.
And let's hope this stimulates Adobe to get a revision with bug fixes out the door ASAP. I've got a 450-page book about to go to print with an extensive index. Just this past week I learned from Adobe that InDesign CS3 doesn't handle book indices well. It drops entries and mixes up page numbers at random. Right now the only cure is to merge all the documents into one giant document and compile an index on that.