Adobe announced the other day that CS3 is all set for Leopard, except for Acrobat Pro. Scheduled for sometime in January, the Acrobat update is coming but why such a long delay?
Update: I have recently learned about some CS3/10.5 issues. Be sure to read as these go beyond the Acrobat Professional issues noted here.
As someone who uses PDFs & Acrobat quite a bit in my workflow, I can’t be without Acrobat Pro. I wonder if the older versions will work? And I wonder if older versions of the Creative Suite will run under Leopard? My guess is a big fat ‘nope’.
Once I have a test partition ready and Leopard installed, I’ll try it out and see what happens. And while we’re talking partitions, I might as well reiterate what all the other Mac gurus are recommending — back up your hard drive, preferably a bootable backup ‘clone’ using Super Duper! or similar backup software. I suggest getting a new external drive, partitioning it, then cloning your startup drive to both of the partitions. Then, upgrade one of those clones to 10.5, boot up from that and test things out for a while. If all looks good, you can restore your main startup drive (using Apple’s Disk Utility found in Applications -> Utilities) from the cloned version you upgraded.
This way, you’ll be running an exact copy of your existing setup which you have upgraded. You can test everything out in this ’sandbox’ version and still be able to go back to 10.4 if necessary. I will be waiting until at least a 10.5.1 or 10.5.2 update before I turn my main Mac into a Leopard machine. That is, unless Apple releases the new Mac Pro configurations before the end of the year.
Note that you’ll need to use a FireWire external hard drive as I don’t believe you can boot from a USB 2.0 external drive.
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