Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5? Get your Official Adobe CS3 Leopard Support FAQ's Here

Posted At : October 27, 2007 11:00 AM | Posted By : Leif Wells
Related Categories: Adobe, AIR, Coldfusion, Creative Suite

From what I've been hearing, the only people who are having big problems with using Adobe products with the newly released Mac OS X v10.5, codenamed Leopard, are ColdFusion developers. Find out how your favorite Creative Suite product performed in the Adobe CS3 Leapard Support FAQ (pdf). As the document looks today, Adobe says they will have updates in December to make Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, After Effects CS3 Professional, Encore CS3, and Soundbooth CS3 fully compatible with Leopard. Adobe Acrobat Professional will also receive an update in January 2008 to make it compatible as well. Products pre-CS3 may or may not work.

The reported problems with ColdFusion are that the server will not start after the update, and will not start after a clean install on Leopard. ColdFusion installs, but will not start and will log errors on start-up. You can follow Ray Camden's blog post and comments here. I wish I could be more helpful. It is completely understandable that ColdFusion doesn't work properly as Leopard updates a bunch of server-oriented software. And with fact that every Adobe developer and manager that I saw at MAX 2007 was carrying a Mac Book Pro makes me believe that Adobe will either provide a patch for the problem soon or at least give everyone the heads up on what we can do to make ColdFusion work on Leopard.

The AIR product isn't even out officially, with the second public beta released on the Adobe Labs site. AIR application users (and developers) are warned by Mike Chambers on his blog:

"I pinged the team and they they told me that they are currently doing some testing, and havent run into any major issues yet. However, we are seeing some reports of issues from developers online, so if you are currently working on an AIR app, you might want to wait a little while to upgrade until we have more information."

Sound advice, Mike. Sadly, most of the people who will be disappointed with Adobe are the very people who could not wait for their pre-ordered Leopard package was dropped at their door by FedEx so that they could update every Mac they own. (And, yes, I am jealous because I have no Mac of my own.)