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This article is from July 21, 2011, and is no longer current.

New Mac OS, Lion, Causes Problems with Many Adobe Apps

On July 20, 2011, Apple let Lion out of its cage. While this software, also known as Mac OS X 10.7, may be just a cub, it’s already biting many Adobe applications. Adobe has noted the current known issues in a tech note.
There are problems that are specific to certain apps, including Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Lightroom, and Photoshop. For example, droplets don’t work correctly in Photoshop CS3, CS4, or CS5.
There are also issues that pop up in multiple Adobe apps:
• The Library folder is hidden (affects preferences, presets, and other settings)
• Applications may behave inconsistently if you don’t install Java Runtime manually
• Crash Reporter is either delayed or doesn’t appear at all
• Application scrolling may function in the opposite way that it did before you installed Lion
And if your copy of the Creative Suite is CS2 or earlier, it sounds like you should forget about installing Lion. OS X 10.7 doesn’t support Rosetta, which you need to run those earlier versions of CS on newer Intel-based Macs.
Apple added some features to Lion–Autosave, Full Screen Mode, multi-touch, Restore, and Versioning–that Adobe apps can’t take advantage of yet. In the tech note, Adobe says it “will investigate which ones make sense to our customers for inclusion in future versions of our products”.
Read the complete tech note for Adobe’s fixes and?recommendations.

  • Anonymous says:

    Go to roaringapps.com and read some of the comments for your “favorite” Adobe app. I still use CS3 and at first it seemed Illustrator and InDesign were broken. It turns out (so far) that the printer dialog hangs for a little longer than usual (it’s loading all those PPDs) but will eventually appear.

  • Anonymous says:

    Most prepress people will likely wait a while before making the jump. I tend to always give a new OS a try using a separate boot disk.
    What does annoy me is how badly Apple documents the changes in their OS, apart from their extensive marketing glut. What is wrong with users a decent manual about the changes in Lion? That would make it much easier for me to puzzle together my web page about font handling in OS X Lion.

  • Anonymous says:

    As a follow up to my post above, Illustrator CS3 does, in fact, crash every time I attempt to print. I can Save As to a PDF and print from there. No other anomalies to report… yet.

  • spamjim says:

    A new kitty, the same repeated growing pains. Why is Mac so prevalent in design when it causes so many problems for developers and users? I work multiplatform and am baffled by the tolerance of Mac-only users.

  • Anonymous says:

    How long before release did Adobe have a copy of Lion to tinker with… Certainly more than a month before Lion was announced to the public to be released… And Adobe says NOTHING until AFTER it was released (presumably so it could sell more Adobe programs to the unwitting who might assume that it was dilligently working to get their programs bugs out… By Lion release. I for one, am looking elsewhere for pro design solutions.

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