Adobe dropping support for CS3 users who upgrade to Snow Leopard

Adobe is cutting off support for Creative Suite 3 when it comes to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, states Photoshop product manager, John Nack. “None of the earlier versions of the Creative Suite have been tested with Snow Leopard,” Nack responds, “and the company has no plans to fix potential compatibility issues. Only the latest suite, CS4, is being officially supported.”

CS4 is said to have minor issues with Snow Leopard, such as problems in Drive/Version Cue, as well as Flash panels. The software is otherwise described as fully compatible. Owners of earlier editions of Creative Suite can receive general assistance through Adobe’s paid support program. 

Adobe recently announced that it is dropping PowerPC support from forthcoming versions of both Creative Suite and its Lightroom workflow software.

It would seem Adobe is tightening the reigns and pushing users down the upgrade path more quickly. When Brian Miller and Kevin Geiss were creating Hi-Fi’s 1-2-3 Automation scripts for Hi-Fi Color for Comics Adobe would not provide developer support for CS or older making it difficult to develop CS versions of the Scripts and nearly impossible to create Photoshop add-ons for Photoshop 7 or prior. CS2 and CS3 appears to be now suffering the same fate. Lack of support for certain hardware, lack of support when the OS is upgraded, and lack of support to developers are all sure signs Adobe wants CS2 and CS3 users to upgrade to CS4 or be left behind.