Several products, including Creative Suite 2, Photoshop and InDesign, are not running correctly on the new Windows Vista operating system.Certain Adobe Systems software, including Creative Suite 2, Serious Magic software, Macromedia Studio, and any Adobe products made available on or after Jan. 30, may not work properly with the Windows Vista operating system.
In an FAQ on its Web site, Adobe indicates that the above-mentioned products, as well as Photoshop, InDesign and Dreamweaver, have compatibility issues with the Windows Vista.
For example, Adobe Photoshop CS2 calls for users to register the software every time it is launched on a Windows Vista PC, even if the software has already been registered by the user.
The Web site states that because Adobe CS2 was launched almost two years before Windows Vista became available, it is "not recommended for use on this new operating system." Macromedia Studio was released more than a year before Windows Vista became publicly available and as a result, it also does not support the new operating system.
Software from Serious Magic, which was recently acquired by Adobe, also will not run on Windows Vista. The user will be able to install Serious Magic software and run it for a short amount of time, but the software will then "fail to activate." Adobe officials said there is "no current workaround [for] this issue."
Opening current versions of InDesign on a user's Windows Vista-compatible PC will also cause a few problems for the user. When the user tries to open an Adobe PageMaker 7.x or 6.5 document in Adobe InDesign CS2 or InDesign CS, the user will receive an error message stating that the PageMaker document is damaged and cannot be recovered.
Current DreamWeaver products from Adobe also run into Windows Vista compatibility issues as users have reported that DreamWeaver crashes while browsing for files.
Adobe Acrobat 8 also has Windows Vista compatibility problems: The software fails to install PDFMaker for Lotus Notes and also runs into problems when run atop the new Windows operating system.
For some Adobe products, such as Acrobat 8, Adobe plans to issue a free patch to resolve the issues. For other products, however, users will have to pay for upgrades if they buy a new PC this year.
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