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Adobe CS2 in Leopard

post #1 of 12
10/29/07 at 6:56pm
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I'll be quick to the point. Is it possible to have Adobe CS2 in Leopard at all?
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post #2 of 12
10/29/07 at 9:38pm
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works sort of- InDesign will not launch at all Photoshop runs but may crash on launch occasionally Illustrator runs but crashes on quit Acrobat 7 Pro seems okay have not tested Bridge, Version Cue, GoLive
Did a google search and saw this on Macrumors.
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"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 Leopard."
Adobe "leopardsupport.pdf" Also ran across some articles stating that Adobe will not be updating old software. So anything that is not CS3 will not be updated to work with leopard. CS3 will not receive a patch for leopard until Jan 2008.
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post #3 of 12
10/30/07 at 10:24am
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O.K. I finally got Leopard installed and the following Adobe CS2 programs did work for me in leopard:

**updated 10/31/2007

So far all of CS2 programs will work despite adobe saying it wouldn't
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post #4 of 12
10/30/07 at 1:25pm
CS2 is going to run like crap on Intel machines regardless of whether or not they're running Tiger or Leopard.
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post #5 of 12
10/31/07 at 11:28am
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True, but some of us still use these programs.
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post #6 of 12
11/1/07 at 11:51pm
* boots up his Mac SE/30 *
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post #7 of 12
11/2/07 at 4:09pm
Hahaha! Okay, how bout those of us considering Leopard on our old G4/G5 hardware (or Moidock's museum quality SE/30)? How would CS2 run then?
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post #8 of 12
11/3/07 at 12:20am
InDesign and Photoshop run fine for me after the upgrade. No reinstall needed.

I also used the Leopard upgrade as an excuse to throw in a 1GB stick, so now were even in specs.
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post #9 of 12
11/7/07 at 3:47pm
Ugh, I dropped Photoshop for Pixelmator but now I seem to be having issues with Pixelmator. Say for example I take a simple 1.5MB picture and touch up the colour a little bit and then save it as a jpeg. Well that 1.5MB file just turned into a 5.6MB file... WTF!?!?!?!?

If I save it as jpeg quality level 9/10 instead of 10/10 it will be 1.5MB file size but 10/10 shoots way up in file size.

I also seem to get a memory leak issue where if I open say 3 - 4 photos all my 2GB of ram go out the window. Its only a 5MP camera so the photos are not that big.

I originally started to use Pixelmator because I was unhappy with the performance of Adobe products and hate the fact that it puts "Updater" folders everywhere on my harddrive. But maybe I will try out the new CS3 and see what happens.
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post #10 of 12
11/8/07 at 12:54am
Don't forget that Pixelmator is still a 1.0 product.

Also, the highest JPEG level applies just the barest amount of compression and it increases significantly for each level you go. So yes, an JPEG could be 5 megs at the highest level and only 1 or 2 at the level just below.
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post #11 of 12
11/8/07 at 1:11am
I do love how pixelmator opens instantly and Photoshop seems to take forever to open. However when I do blur tools and similar it seems to hang and bottle neck on the processing of the effects.

This was the first time I put pixelmator through the gauntlet on doing some moderate photo manipulation.
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post #12 of 12
12/31/07 at 2:06am

Works on 10.5.1 on my MBP

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Originally Posted by blackbull77 View Post
I'll be quick to the point. Is it possible to have Adobe CS2 in Leopard at all?

So far all the CS2 programs run fine (not slow, fine) on my MBP. I also use LightRoom, which works great as well. Certainly CS3 may be designed to run better on the Intel machines, but CS3 uses more processing power and resources. Having tried CS3, I think that unless you need the added features, CS2 should work just fine.

I did have a snafu with Acrobat (just kept typing in the wrong s/n - not used to this keyboard yet).

Wayne
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