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InDesign, InCopy and Leopard

Adobe has released a FAQ regarding Creative Suite compatability with OSX Leopard. The good news for InDesign CS3 users is that InDesign CS3 will not require an update to run without problems on Leopard, and neither will InCopy CS3. According to the FAQ document the following applications will require compatibility updates:

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and our professional video applications, including Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, After Effects CS3 Professional, Encore CS3, and Soundbooth CS3. We expect 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.

The FAQ contains an excellent table that explains compatiblity of the various Adobe applications with Leopard.

InDesign CS2 and InCopy CS2 were not designed and tested for Leopard, and the official Adobe statement is that trying to run those versions on Leopard will likely result in "issues for which there is no resolution."

Posted by Tim Cole on October 26, 2007 06:00 PM |

Comments

Unfortunately, Adobe's release was inaccurate. InDesign CS3 is not fully compatible with Leopard. On multiple machines, I get the error message 'Adobe InDesign is shutting down. It has encountered a serious error.' Based on the Apple message boards, I'm definitely not the only one receiving these error messages.

TC: Thanks for the information, Thomas. Please report any problems you encounter on the Adobe website. We need your input to identify if there are, in fact, incompatibilities or if it's some other problem.

I've heard from a couple users that performance is substantially better if you wipe your hard drive and then do a clean install of Leopard.

Please report the error message and give us information about your system.

Thanks!

TC: Thomas, did you backup, reformat and install Leopard, or did you use the archive and install process? If the latter, try the former and let us know what happens.

Posted by: Thomas | October 27, 2007 03:40 PM

A little late, but a number of people who have reported this problem with InDesign were using 5.0, not 5.0.1. Updating to the latest version of CS3 should take care of this problem.

-Arle

Posted by: Arle Lommel | November 14, 2007 12:39 PM

My indesign CS2 will not read documents after upgrading to Leopard. Wants a "plug in" but doesn't specify? Is there anyway to make these work together?

[TC: Bruce, can you give me a little more detail? Your CS2 was running fine on Tiger, but now it's not? And what kind of documents is it not "reading" since your update? ID docs? Word docs? More information, please.]

Posted by: Bruce Lewis | April 1, 2008 12:58 PM

My company purchased a new MacPro for this week. I used Migration Assistance to move my files and applications over. Everything works fine except InDesign. The splash screen gets as far as "executing startup services" and stalls. I used the install cd to uninstall and reinstall InDesign with no luck. I really hate the idea of wiping the entire system and reinstalling the system and application software.

[TC: Nicholas, you should call tech support at 800-642-3623. Installation support (which is what you need) is free of charge.]

Posted by: Nicholas Bailey | April 8, 2008 08:45 AM

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