Comments on: Adobe Announces Support for Leopard… soon

By: Sean Walmsley

Sean Walmsley — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:59:28 +0000

David,
I did rebuild the permissions, but that didn’t do it. However, I did discover that I could delete the ‘assignments’ (which I had never heard of before) and that allowed me to edit.

But I’ll look for stray .idlk documents and delete them. Thanks for the suggestion, I guess the presence of an idlk file would trigger the “someone else might be using the file” message.

I had some very difficult moments upgrading to Leopard, but there’s always someone out there with a suggestion that solves a problem!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:04:45 +0000

The problem is that people like David and Sean have troubles that may or may not have anything to do with Leopard… or they might be exacerbated by the new install.

Sean, what you’re experiencing sounds like there are either .idlk files floating around that need to be deleted (quit indesign first), or you need to rebuild your permissions (use the Disk Utility application).

By: Sean Walmsley

Sean Walmsley — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:06:33 +0000

I upgraded to Leopard, and now Indesign CS3 opens Ok, but when I try to edit a document, it tells me “unable to check out this file. Someone else might be using it.” But no one is.
Can anyone help? I can’t edit any previous documents, only newly created ones.

I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled ID, and have run out of ideas…

MacBookPro

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:07:56 +0000

David, which MAJOR issues with AI CS3 and 10.5 do you mean?

By: David Cowan

David Cowan — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:05:09 +0000

Yep… wish I had read up (I always do… feeling like a fool) on all of this before I upgraded… MAJOR issues with CS3, esp. Illustrator.

By: Mike Malphurs

Mike Malphurs — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:19:14 +0000

I posted this on the Adobe forums, but feel it is relevant here as well:

The fact that we had to wait over a year for Adobe to release an Intel compatible version of CS3 was deplorable enough. Now, we have to wait three months for CS3 to work properly again! This is beginning to remind me of when Quark was dominant and got very egotistical. We know what happened there…

Adobe has failed in three key areas:
1) Working with Apple to have there products ready ON TIME and close to Apple release dates. And please don’t tell me that this is not possible… I have been in contact with major development teams in the past (such as Macromedia) and know that it is possible to do so. Adobe is simply too important to Apple for them not to be willing to work closely to ensure compatibility issues don’t arise.
2) The information made available about CS3 compatibility is vague at best. Even the Leopard FAQ which Adobe released means next to nothing. There “may be” issues that arise? There “may be” problems within Acrobat? What does that even mean? How about some specifics!
3) I - and many others - are still having terrible issues with both Flash and Dreamweaver on Intel Macs. Adobe knows of these problems, as they have emailed me personally about them. Still no fix to any of the issues… How long does it take?

Adobe used to be one of my favorite companies… Now they are just another big company who has a monopoly and all users under their thumbs because of it.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:21:50 +0000

I’m still on Windows here and haven’t rushed out to get Vista. A new operating system is usually something that you want other people to work out issues with.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:42:46 +0000

Bob, thanks for the notes and advice. I’ve had a wonderful experience with CS3. And having moved from PC to Mac earlier this year, I’m also quite taken with the Mac experience. So I’d love to get my hands on Leopard, but can’t risk hurting my business with potential problems.

It’s just felt a little muddy in terms of how smoothly it might all work and I’m letting my impatience get the best of me.

So, I’ll stalk the forums.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:31:53 +0000

Acrobat has nothing to do with getting a PDF out of InDesign as long as you’re exporting. The way I read that reference to Acrobat is more of a CYA thing than anything else.

They specifically state that they do recommend using Leopard so I don’t think I’d be too concerned. I wouldn’t be the first one on line to use it but I’d suggest keeping an eye on Adobe’s User to User forum, specifically the Mac Acrobat forum where you’ll likely hear about problems if there are any.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:24:03 +0000

> All you had to do was ask.

Yes, and I see it’s now linked on the main support page. Wish I could get such fast action from MS regarding Office 2008, but that’s another story and for another blog.

What does concern me about that document is the extent to which Acrobat may or may not work.

It says, “At this time, the only component of these CS3 editions that requires an update is Acrobat 8 Professional to address a few specific issues. That update is expected to be available in January 2008. For more information about issues running Acrobat 8.1.1 Profes-
sional on Leopard, please visit http://www.adobe.com/go/support and search the online knowledgebase.”

Well, I did that and came up dry. This is serious…are those “few specific issues” going to affect me getting a PDF from an InDesign document?

I’m not asking you specifically, but there is nothing currently in the Acrobat Professional KB related to Leopard.

So I’m really back at square one wondering if I need to hold off on Leopard.

So, being smarter this time, I’ll ask: What are the “specific issues” and will it affect my workflow? If they know there are issues, are they currently sharing that in another document?