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Monday, Sep 17, 2007 10:00pm
Adobe: Mac OS X Leopard cou...
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."