The Flash maker has successfully run the suite on Apple’s next-gen OS

Sep 7, 2009 13:52 GMT  ·  By

Adobe Systems has posted a revised Creative Suite FAQ detailing the results of its application testing under Snow Leopard. The company is citing success in running CS3 software on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, expressing its confidence that applications will function as expected under the new OS. Adobe initially signaled that CS3 was not intended for Snow Leopard compatibility.

According to a 9to5mac report, Adobe’s John Nack published this new information yesterday. The post details two major points extracted from the newly revised document, including the discovery that Snow Leopard packs an outdated version of the Flash Player that is prone to hacker attacks.

“Adobe has worked closely with Apple throughout the Snow Leopard development and testing process. Adobe has conducted its own additional testing of our Adobe CS3 software on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and is confident that our CS3 applications will function as expected with Mac OS X Snow Leopard,” the company states. “Adobe did uncover some non-critical issues, which are documented for our customers to review at http://go.adobe.com/kb/ts_cpsid_51215_en-us,” the document reads.

Additionally, Adobe confirmed reports claiming that Snow Leopard shipped with a buggy version of its Flash, saying, “The initial release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6) includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player than what is currently available from Adobe. Adobe recommends all users update to the latest version of Flash Player (10.0.32.18) which supports Snow Leopard and is available for download from Adobe.com.” Softpedia later reported that select Apple developers had received Snow Leopard test build 10B503, which, among other tweaks, addresses this very issue.

Last month, the same John Nack confirmed on the Adobe blog that the company had decided to drop PowerPC support in the next generation of its Creative Suite. Creative Suite 4, or CS4, is the last version of the powerful collection of programs that is compatible with the PPC architecture. Adobe has also tested and determined that its Creative Suite 4 products and components are also compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.