Adobe CS Woes (Warning: Contains Rant)

[Cory Cooper]

Hi,

I totally understand your story and frustration. A lot of what you stated is why I have abandoned Adobe products all together on my personal devices, including Flash, as I mentioned in one of the other threads. I also have parted ways with all Microsoft products. Of course, Adobe and Microsoft software is installed on my work machines, as I have to still support end-users and clients.

The only counterpoint I have is that CS3 and CS4 aren't officially supported on Sierra or High Sierra. Some users have reported they do work, albeit with certain limitations and issues.

CS3 (2007) was a Universal Binary, that supported PowerPC and Intel Macs. CS4 (2008) removed the PowerPC support for some of the apps included. They are both over 9 years old, so it isn't any surprise that they don't function 100% in an OS that is 8+ versions newer. The technology included in the newer OS versions is just too different and advanced.

These days, it's really hard to expect anything to stay compatible for more than 2-3 years, as the advances are so much faster than they were previously. One really has to think about software/hardware purchases more, as the useable life is much shorter, and the ROI is much smaller.

C

 

[Allen Davis]

Hi,

I totally understand your story and frustration. A lot of what you stated is why I have abandoned Adobe products all together on my personal devices, including Flash, as I mentioned in one of the other threads. I also have parted ways with all Microsoft products. Of course, Adobe and Microsoft software is installed on my work machines, as I have to still support end-users and clients.

The only counterpoint I have is that CS3 and CS4 aren't officially supported on Sierra or High Sierra. Some users have reported they do work, albeit with certain limitations and issues.

CS3 (2007) was a Universal Binary, that supported PowerPC and Intel Macs. CS4 (2008) removed the PowerPC support for some of the apps included. They are both over 9 years old, so it isn't any surprise that they don't function 100% in an OS that is 8+ versions newer. The technology included in the newer OS versions is just too different and advanced.

These days, it's really hard to expect anything to stay compatible for more than 2-3 years, as the advances are so much faster than they were previously. One really has to think about software/hardware purchases more, as the useable life is much shorter, and the ROI is much smaller.

C

I really appreciate your response, Cory. Like I said, Illustrator CS4 doesn't behave on my MacBook, but CS 3 does. And since I'm such a late-comer in even using the software I now have, I'm finding features I never dreamed of a couple of years ago. In fact, Photoshop by itself has so many new features, I'll never learn them all, let alone use them.

Speaking of new features, I think many software companies overload their products with new features and give little-to-no information or help in finding and using them! And this is especially true of Adobe, who used to provide nice, big, thick User Manuals. But that being said, Adobe's manuals might as well have been written in Hebrew because they were always largely incomprehensible.

From what you've said, I'm going to consider myself very fortunate that I have CS 3 and CS 4 and that they work so well under Sierra (Illustrator CS4 on my MacBook being the only exception). They do everything I could ever want to do, and I'll likely be dead long before I ever find a need for anything more.