Adobe issues fresh Snow Leopard CS3 compatibility notes

Jonny Evans
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September 05, 2009
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Adobe has issued a revised Creative Suite 3 FAQ (PDF) in which the company details the results of its application testing and compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Adobe’s John Nack published this new information yesterday, detailing a couple of major points taken from the new company document.

“Adobe has conducted its own additional testing of our Adobe CS3 software on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and is confident that our CS3 applications will function as expected with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Adobe did uncover some non?critical issues, which are documented for our customers to review,” the company writes.

Adobe also confirms several reports which claim Snow Leopard ships with an earlier version of Adobe Flash installed, saying: “The initial release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6) includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player than what is currently available from Adobe. Adobe recommends all users update to the latest version of Flash Player (10.0.32.18) which supports Snow Leopard and is available for download from Adobe.com.”

As we reported, Adobe initially warned users that it didn’t intend testing CS3 for Snow Leopard compatibility. It then emerged that Photoshop CS3 had been tested. Now the company has released further and more extensive testing notes as a service to users.

While the history of the company’s move to offer this information to customers owning CS3 has been opaque at best, we welcome this new transparency.

Interestingly, Amazon US is currently offering Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Student Edition [Mac] for $399, rather than the $1,799 claimed list price (which we suspect could be an Amazon listings error). This is the student price, rather than a discount on full price.

Comments (18)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 3:39am

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't $399 for the STUDENT edition sound right? The price for the retail version of Adobe CS4 Design Premium is still $1729.00 (http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Creative-Suite-Design-Premium/dp/B001EUG4O6 )

Jonny Evans | September 05, 2009 - 5:02am

Yep. I figured as much, but couldn't quite tell, so as I said, I think the price listed as original price by Amazon is an error, as that package doesn't cost so much.

FrancescoK (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 4:05am

Adobe offers educational discounts on its products in form of student editions and educational editions. The price for the student edition matches what is on Amazon.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 4:15am

In the UK I bought the design premium student edition for approx £250, so $399 sounds about right to me.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 5:17am

Adobe can keep their expensive upgrade I will stick with PS CS3

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 6:46am

i like it....show leopard

Michael (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 7:07am

I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard as well as CS3, but every time I run Adobe's CR2 (Canon's RAW file) to DNG converter, it crashes. I managed to get it to work, but I have to select all the files in finder, and right click on them and say "Open with" so that it preloads the images into the converter, and all I have to hit is "Convert." If I try to change the location of where the files are stored, it'll crash. Then, once I get them converted, and I open them in Photoshop, CRASH! Every....Single....Time. I know there aren't too many people out there that are doing that procedure, but the point is, it worked with Leopard - and not with Snow Leopard. My solution? Install Leopard, which would be a pain or buy CS4 from: www.cheapestsoftwareanywhere.com

I chose the latter.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 7:36am

Try not to be too obvious when spamming.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 7:47am

No shit. 2 seconds of searching shows that site is just a reseller of torrented software.
Bad scammer is bad.

stonewallsdaddy (not verified) | September 06, 2009 - 10:28am

Be careful, Michael. My wife installed SL on her one year old Macbook Pro and CS3 crashed almost every time she tried to saving a file. After checking Adobe's site SL issues, both CS3 and CS4 are experience this problem on "SOME" systems. Other people have CS3 or CS4 running just fine under SL. Apple and Adobe are working on this. My point is you may spend money upgrading to CS4 and still have to revert to Leopard. I did the revert yesterday because Photoshop is critical to her work. Everything is back to normal.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 7:45am

You'd be purchasing a pirated copy of the software--do a little research before you buy:

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/cheapest-software-anywhere-c15...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 9:52am

Look, the person behind is even making up of bogus comments. LOL.

Kellener (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 3:24pm

I'm on CS4 no problems for me :)

Steve Consilvio (not verified) | September 05, 2009 - 4:43pm

Any CS2 users out there who are on snow leopard?

I'd like some feedback.

tsnight (not verified) | September 12, 2009 - 4:42am

first: the link to CS3 FAQ goes to CS4. Bad link.
Second: Doesn't it say in the link/title that it is "student" version. So why the surprise t price? This article is poorly written and badly researched.

teleotec (not verified) | September 17, 2009 - 9:26am

I'm a graphic designer and spend between 12 and 15 hours a day in OS X and the CS3 and 4 applications. I've been very frustrated after installing Snow Leopard. All CS3 and CS4 applications crash unexpectedly and often upon saving or exporting files. Indesign CS3 will not open its own files unless you do so from inside the application. In other words, you can't double click and open a file. There are numerous other issues as well. I've had to re-install Leopard on one of my computers just to be able to print with a particular psdriver. This is unexpected from Apple considering they are so renown for not having these types of compatibility issues. I'm very disappointed and am wondering why; especially in the design field, Adobe wouldn't test (I mean throughly test) they're software for an upcoming Apple OS release. By reading statements from Adobe in the news it seems as if they're method of testing must have been just seeing if the software started in the OS because a couple hours after the install I started noticing problems. This is a huge fail for Apple and Adobe.

teleotec (not verified) | September 17, 2009 - 9:27am

I'm a graphic designer and spend between 12 and 15 hours a day in OS X and the CS3 and 4 applications. I've been very frustrated after installing Snow Leopard. All CS3 and CS4 applications crash unexpectedly and often upon saving or exporting files. Indesign CS3 will not open its own files unless you do so from inside the application. In other words, you can't double click and open a file. There are numerous other issues as well. I've had to re-install Leopard on one of my computers just to be able to print with a particular psdriver. This is unexpected from Apple considering they are so renown for not having these types of compatibility issues. I'm very disappointed and am wondering why; especially in the design field, Adobe wouldn't test (I mean throughly test) they're software for an upcoming Apple OS release. By reading statements from Adobe in the news it seems as if they're method of testing must have been just seeing if the software started in the OS because a couple hours after the install I started noticing problems. This is a huge fail for Apple and Adobe.

Azza Mac (not verified) | September 17, 2009 - 9:51am

I also have a problem with CS3 and almost the entire family of programs. I didn’t try all of them, but with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, the programs crash in Snow Leopard whenever I try to open or save a file. Is there something that can be done to solve the problem (short of upgrading to CS4)