In a move that is designed to make playing Flash content on your Mac more secure, Adobe has announced that Flash Player is sandboxed in Safari on OS X Mavericks. A sandbox profile for the Flash. How to perform a 'clean install' of Flash Player in Mac OS X. A few 'horror stories' in the Apple Forums re: 'Mavericks destroyed my Mac'.
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Now that OS X 10.9 Mavericks is available from the Mac App Store for free (no refunds!), you’re probably wondering how well your Adobe software and other Mac apps will run on it. Below is a summary of various reports I’ve read on Adobe.com and around the web. I will continue to update this article as I find out more.
Adobe FAQs: Adobe has published a tech note,. It contains links to additional information, so be sure to expand each of the FAQ questions on that page to get to the links for important information about Flash Player and sandbox restrictions, an “incompatible software” error you might get with the Creative Cloud desktop application, and a problem viewing Adobe PDF files in Safari. In that FAQ, Adobe claims: “All Adobe CC and CS6 products are compatible, but a few products require updates to the latest builds to work properly. Adobe Photoshop® CS5, CS4 and CS3 were also tested with Mac OS X Mavericks and there are currently no major issues known.” I’ve been able to install and run some Creative Cloud and older Creative Suite apps on Mavericks, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Photoshop CS3 and CS4 installed and started up successfully, but I didn’t work in them intensively. (Note that CS2 applications, including Photoshop, were written for Macs with PowerPC CPUs. Mavericks only runs Intel CPU-compatible software, so Mavericks will not allow CS2 to run or install.) While the Adobe FAQ says there are “no major issues known” with CS3 through CS6, there seem to be a few that are at least minor.
I cover some in the rest of this article, and there are also discussions happening on Adobe forums and blogs (a good one is ). If you find a repeatable problem, you can send it in using the official Adobe, but it’s always a good idea to first check the for the software in case it’s already being discussed. An application won’t start: The two most common reasons for pre-CC versions to not launch in Mavericks are Java not being available, and having non-Adobe plug-ins that aren’t compatible with Mavericks. See the topics. Photoshop: Menus may appear blank. This is not happening to everyone, but there is a long thread on the official Photoshop forum about it:.
Update: This was caused by a. If you are running an earlier version of OS X you can. Mac Performance Guide reports that the, but.
An Apple bug in OS X 10.9.2 driver software for OpenCL running on AMD/ATI GPU hardware caused, and can reportedly. Apple fixed their bug in OS X 10.9.3, so make sure you’re up to date. Lightroom: For Mavericks compatibility, make sure you have upgraded to Lightroom 5.2. This version resolves a.
Lightroom Queen Victoria Bampton has her own tech note that covers a few other minor Mavericks issues: Premiere Pro: Users are reporting some issues, Adobe is investigating according to their Oct 23, 2013 blog post: After Effects: If you’re crashing, get the. If you can’t reassign keyboard shortcuts by using TextEdit to edit the shortcuts file, you need to. Java requirement: When launching some older Adobe software for the first time in OS X, OS X may say that a Java runtime needs to be installed.
If a button is provided, click it; if not, and install that. Some users have reported that the Adobe launch issue is not fixed until you reboot a second time after the Java installation. Some are wary of Java security issues, but OS X won’t let some Adobe applications launch without it.
In the case of Photoshop,. Plug-ins: If you rely on any non-Adobe plug-ins, make sure those plug-ins are compatible with Mavericks. A plug-in that is not compatible with Mavericks may prevent its host Adobe app from starting up.
Multiple displays: If you put panels (including the Tools panel) on a secondary display and then switch applications, those panels may snap back to the primary display when you switch back. To avoid this, open System Preferences, click Mission Control, and turn off Displays Have Separate Spaces.
Mavericks ships with that option on, so if you want to position Adobe application panels and windows on multiple displays you should turn off that option. The Lightroom secondary display panel seems to work fine either way though. Another reason (this applies to all Mac apps) why you might want to turn off Displays Have Separate Spaces is that if it’s on, you can’t span a window across two displays. What’s a reason to turn it on? There are at least three: If you want Spaces to switch on only the display you’re using (the one with the pointer), if you want to see the menu bar on all displays, and if you want to be able to see more than one application when using OS X full screen mode with multiple displays. Photoshop CC seems to work properly with panels and windows spread across two monitors, including a single window extended across two monitors, as long as the Displays Have Separate Spaces option is turned off.
Open/Save dialog box CoverFlow crash: If an application crashes when you’re using the CoverFlow view in the Open/Save dialog box,. Adobe has a tech note about it:. OS X Gatekeeper may prevent older Adobe software from starting: Gatekeeper is an Apple security feature (added in Mountain Lion) that helps protect you from running malicious applications. If you run Adobe software released before Gatekeeper, you should know what to do if Gatekeeper prevents Adobe software from starting. Adobe covers that in this tech note:. The short answer is to bypass the error by right-clicking the application icon, then choose Open from the context menu. Adobe software released after Gatekeeper was introduced properly conforms to Gatekeeper requirements, so no adjustments are needed for them.
Old Adobe software part II: Intel compatibility required: If your Adobe software is earlier than CS5, to run under Mavericks at all it must support Intel processors. After Apple switched to Intel-based Macs, Apple started phasing out support for running software based on the older PowerPC processors. Starting with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X no longer runs PowerPC-based software. You’ll have to check compatibility for each of the Adobe applications you want to run; for example, Photoshop CS3 was the first version of Photoshop that ran on Intel-based Macs.
But even if your software older than CS5 runs on Mavericks, it may still have other issues because OS X has changed a lot since then. Upgrading from Mac OS X 10.6 or earlier: You may also want to read my blog post “?”, so that you can also be up to date on the more dramatic changes that were introduced in Lion, such as the end of OS X support for PowerPC-based software. To learn about OS X software compatibility of Mac software in general, a great resource is the. It lists OS X software and its reported compatibility with the last few versions of OS X. For mission-critical software, you should also check each company’s support website to verify that it works. Wondering what Mavericks is all about? For the most in-depth Mavericks review you’ll probably find anywhere, read.
As with every major release of OS X, Siracusa not only reviews the visible features that Apple promotes, but goes under the surface to explain changes to some of the underlying technologies in OS X and how they affect your Mac experience. Full screen mode on multiple monitors: In Lion and Mountain Lion, if an application used the OS X native full screen mode, all other monitors would display only the gray linen background pattern, preventing you from seeing any other applications. Mavericks finally fixes this; I can now put an application into OS X full screen mode and continue to see other applications on other monitors. However, to achieve this the Displays Have Separate Spaces option must be turned on. But as discussed earlier in this article, you want to turn off that option if you want to be able to keep Adobe windows and panels on another monitor and not lose those positions when switching applications. Adobe continues to use the traditional Adobe full screen modes in their apps such as Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator instead of the OS X-native full screen mode. It’s still unclear whether Adobe will adopt OS X full screen mode, but I don’t necessarily mind, because Adobe continues to offer more and sometimes more practical full screen modes than Apple does.
Adobe applications were free of the full screen limitations of Lion and Mountain Lion because they don’t use OS X full screen mode. 10-bit video displays: Photoshop users and other graphics professionals have wanted proper support for 10-bits-per-channel video displays on Macs. (This isn’t about the file format, but the data path to the video monitor.) While 10-bit-capable displays, graphics cards, cables, and software (such as Photoshop) have been ready for some time,. I had not heard that this is changing in Mavericks, but a reader sent me a link to an. ( Update: The linked article now says it was a false alarm; still no 10-bit support in Mavericks.) If you know any more about this, please post in the comments.
Scott, thanks for asking. There is a strange interaction between Photoshop CC and OS X Spaces/Mission Control; see the paragraph I added above about Photoshop CC.
I undocked panels from the application frame and put them on the secondary monitor, but they didn’t stay in place the way Mavericks is set up by default. But if I turned off the Mission Control setting “Displays Have Separate Spaces,” I could have the application frame on one monitor and panels on another and they would stay in place. Of course if you want displays to maintain separate spaces, then Photoshop CC won’t work as desired. We have a software called PDF Studio which is an alternative to Adobe Acrobat. It can annotate, markup text, fill forms, assemble, edit content and OCR PDFs. It is more affordable than Acrobat (Pro version is at $120) and the same license key allows installing on Mac but also Windows or Linux. Many users are running it on Mac 10.9 Mavericks and so far everything seems to work fine for them.
There were some glitches at first (with a needed update for Java), but this seems resolved now. Like Acrobat, upon installation, PDF Studio will prompt you to install Java if you have not installed it yet. Conrad, this is a very thorough and useful compendium of matters and issues related to migrating to Mavericks using Adobe software. There’s one thing I’d like to offer as an emendation to your excellent compilation specifically regarding Lightroom 5. Thanks so much for the pointer to the Mission Control settings. Turning off the separate spaces for monitors cured a very slight but annoying problem in Lightroom 5 (5.2 to be precise). My secondary monitor is smaller in area and resolution than the primary monitor.
Opening “secondary monitor” in Lightroom opened the second window all right, but it showed as an overlay to the primary image. I had to slide the window over to the secondary display, where it fit properly as to the size alloted under the secondary menu bar of this additional space in the OS.
On quitting and rebooting LR, however, the secondary display window would again appear as an overlay of the primary and required movement to place. Toggling off “separate spaces” in Mission Control corrected this behavior. Thanks again.
I hope Adobe (or Apple) correct this minor anomaly in a follow-on release. Hi everyone, Since installing Maverick, I noticed some minor issues with Photoshop CS5 (opening and saving window was blank). A few restarts, seems to have rectified that somewhat, there is a noticable delay when the window appears to open or save files. However, my major concern is, Dreamweaver CS5, it’s totally dead. I tried launching it and it kept on quitting.
I Uninstalled and then re-installed, now I get an error message. “Unable to find file MultiscreenPreview.htm in the Configuration/Floters directory. The floater will not be shown.” Then it quits. Any help out there folks.
Hello Charles, JP, I experienced the same problem but could solve it with this: Issue Dreamweaver CS5 crashes when you try to start it on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). To the top Solution Clear your Dreamweaver CS5 preferences by performing the following steps: Important: By deleting preferences, you lose all the custom (user-specified) settings in Preferences, such as custom snippets, extensions, and changes to keyboard shortcuts. Open Finder and press Command + shift + G to open the Go To The Folder dialog box. Type /Library and click Go. Note: If the Library folder is hidden, perform the steps outlined in this article to unhide the files. Navigate to the Application Support/Adobe/ folder, and perform the following steps: Locate the folder Dreamweaver CS5 and delete the folder. Locate the Preferences folder and delete the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Prefs file.
Launch Dreamweaver. Do not expand the Adobe BrowserLab panel. Close the panel and then begin to use Dreamweaver. To close the panel, click the pop-out menu at the upper-right corner and click Close Tab Group. Note: Even to customize the workspace, ensure that you first close the Adobe BrowserLab panel and then begin to move and dock panels. To the top Additional information Adobe BrowserLab on Dreamweaver CS5 is not supported on Mac OS 10.9.
Hey Charles, Nothing, I uninstalled the program and reinstalled hoping things would improve.There was even a Dreamweaver CS5 software update, which I installed. The only difference is the error message no longer appears, however, once the application loads, it quits. I have some immediate projects and needed to use Dreamweaver, so I had to download CC and use the trial version. When that’s over, I have no idea what to do. I may have to uninstall all my adobe software, both CC and CS5 versions and just reinstall my CS5 Suite. Hopefully, things function better, but that’s a hope.
I’ll keep looking around to see if anything pops up though. As for my Photoshop (opening and saving window was blank), I’ve just seen this thread which I will read, because I am still experiencing this issue and it’s quite annoying. HI Greg, I came across this article that talks about the status of several color management applications under Mavericks. (It was the last link in the article, though I had linked to it in the context of 10-bit color.) It lists a few color management applications that are ready, and a few others that have updates you must download for compatibility. I use a ColorMunki and it works fine under Mavericks.
The Native Digital article talks about a dual display profiling problem but the link to the info doesn’t work; I found the info here. Ok, I painfully have to admit CS5 was not updated to the latest version. Reason: apple software updater does not work for adobe anymore.
Also when installing CS5 on the iMac in maverick, it’s own updater is nowhere to be found anymore. In case there’s more people like me: go to “help” in any adobe program and choose “updates”, it will generate the updates you need for photoshop CS5 the latest is 12.04. I did not have this problem on the MacBookPro as that was already -automatically- updated a long time ago.