Adobe’s updater in CS3 hasn’t worked for me worth a crap for a while. I found several reports online that it doesn’t play well with File Vault, at least in CS2. So, under that theory, I created an admin account with a normal home directory and launched it. The result:

The foreground window is Adobe Updater bitching about account rights. The background window is my System Preferences showing that the current account is indeed an admin account.

Joy.

Maybe Adobe Updater isn’t compatible with Leopard? Or maybe what Adobe Updater is really ...

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Adobe is releasing an update to Lightroom 1.2 in mid-November to make it fully compatible with Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.

Until then, users of the new OS may experience compatibility issues with Lightroom, among them:

1. The Print module may not load.
2. The Import dialog and other dialogs can “disappear” below Lightroom’s main window. The dialog can be retrieved by switching to another application and then returning to Lightroom.
3. Lightroom’s web module may not provide a visual update after a setting is changed.
4. The left-side panels in the Develop module may not ...

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As it turns out, there are quite a few issues being addressed by Adobe Systems, Inc. with the release of the latest Mac OS X v10.5, a.k.a. Leopard.

The company has posted a compatibility statement on the matter and the 6-page, 120KB PDF may be downloaded from their site.

In effect, the statement says most Adobe applications work like a dream under Leopard but there are some itty-bitty issues with a few of them. It is to be expected with every new release of any operating system.

Acrobat 8, Premiere Pro CS3, ...

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Upon confirming that my vital applications (Web browsers, Mail, Adobe CS3 and Transmit) work perfectly fine under Apple’s latest version of OSX (Leopard), I quickly moved on to see what other applications on my MacPro were working, working with problems or flat-out busted. My findings were pleasantly surprising.

What’s Working:

• 1Password - required an update, but works perfectly now
• Comic Life - Works fine, and still just as much fun as it always was
• Domainer - Working fine
• ecto - The best app for managing your blog posts is working perfectly. At least, the ...

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Having spent my weekend with Leopard and Adobe CS3, I can put your mind at ease by saying that if you were waiting to upgrade, you don’t have to.Leopard and Adobe’s Creative Suite applications appear to work perfectly together. In fact, they work even better than they did with Tiger. Speed is the only thing I noticed after the upgrade. A lot more of it. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Distiller and Dreamweaver all launched much faster than they did under Tiger.

As for Creative Suite 2 users, with the exception of a ...

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Macworld repots that Adobe gives the "all-clear" signal for users of CS3 products, except for Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional.

However, there WILL be updates required for their professional video applications, including Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, After Effects CS3 Professional, Encore CS3 and Soundbooth CS3.

Adobe said it expects to publish free Leopard compatibility updates for the video applications in December 2007 and for Acrobat 8 Professional and Adobe Reader 8 in January 2008.

Read more:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/10/26/adobelopard/index.php?lsrc=mwrss

And on John Nack's Adobe Blog:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/10/adobe_apps_on_l.html

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John Nack has posted the following info on Photoshop and Leopard compatibility to his blog: "The good news is that most Adobe apps don't require updates in order to run well. That is, the CS3 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and other apps are good to go for Leopard right now. Rock out." I've also included links to other resource and support sites. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) Read entire article

Julieanne Kost is a well-known creative photographer who also works as senior digital imaging evangelist at Adobe Systems, Inc. Her two-disc “Comprehensive Photoshop CS3” DVD set, released by Software Cinema, provides users with fundamental skills of Photoshop CS3 that will increase their productivity and make digital imaging more enjoyable.

“Comprehensive Photoshop CS3” features over 23 hours of instruction, in which Julieanne explains the finest points of Photoshop in her uncomplicated style. She demonstrates innovative ways to work with Adjustment Layers, Masking and Camera RAW. Smart Objects and Smart Filters ...

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SlideShowPro is an ActionScript 2.0 component for Flash MX 2004, Flash 8 and Flash CS3 for publishing photo and video slideshows. Developers of the application say they’ll be offering the SlideShowPro plug-in for Adobe Lightroom in the coming weeks.

“The SlideShowPro plugin fits right into Lightroom's "Web module" workspace, which is where you can export/upload HTML/Flash photo galleries using your Lightroom content. You simply decide what size you want your slideshow to be, how you want it to be styled, and Lightroom publishes all the XML data, HTML, and imagery for you,” writes ...

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Scott Kelby’s new book, 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 breaks the Photoshop process down to just seven simple, yet powerful, techniques. And this perhaps accounts for the huge initial success that the book enjoys.

Not to mention of course that Scott is an award-winning author of more than 40 books on Photoshop, digital imaging, and technology, and for the past three years he has been the world’s #1 best-selling author of all computer and technology books.

Scott begins each lesson with an untouched, original ...

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