Adobe's Next Upgrades - Photoshop 8, Illustrator 11, InDesign 3.0

[hjanssen]

will these apps only work on OS X - cocoa?

Is Adobe going to abandon the development of these applications for OS 9.x.x I have heard and read that the next major release of Photoshop will be cocoa only - for OS X Jaguar 10.2 and above? If this is true wouldn't it make sense that they would do it for Illustrator and InDesign as well?

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[Foocha]

Yes and no.

Yes - according to reports Adobe will not be supporting OS 9 in future apps.

No - the new apps will not be Cocoa. They're unlikely to ever re-write Photoshop in Cocoa. Carbon is a better alternative for them, since it does not involve a complete re-write.

Whilst Carbon does allow backwards compatibility to OS 9 with the Carbon frameworks, it does not necessarily follow that a Carbon app will work with OS 9.

 

[leicaman]

Originally posted by Foocha
Whilst Carbon does allow backwards compatibility to OS 9 with the Carbon frameworks, it does not necessarily follow that a Carbon app will work with OS 9.

People are still making the mistake thinking Carbon is not OS X native. It is. 100 percent native. It is not in any way emulation.

That being said, it doesn't have access to services like a Cocoa App. Many applications are a mixture of Cocoa and Carbon. If Photoshop makes the transition to Cocoa (which would be nice) then it will be through a long process.

OS 9 support is expensive. And nobody's hodling a gun to users heads forcing them to buy the OS X only verson. Anyone who wants Phtoshop 8 just has to upgrade their harware - which is likely needed anyway becuause it's going to require more horsepower I suspect anyway. But I don't know for sure.

 

[Foocha]

I suspect that Adobe's decision about no longer supporting OS 9 has nothing to do with guns-to-heads. It's a combination of saving money an taking full advantage of what OS X has to offer.

 

[Changola]

It is all very Suite...

I have seen the future (in Beta form) and it is a suite of applications that may or may not be sold indepndantly... I don't know the answer to that one...

Illustrator 11 has Dimensions built into it I will get it just for that!! I did not play with it long enough to see what other goodies were added...

InDesign has a lot of new interface features: docking menus, new measurement palette a la QXP, but on top , a flattening preview window to see what
will be rasterized when using transparency, supposedly it uses the same pen tool as Photoshop and Illustrator so it feels and acts the same.
It also seemed faster than 2.0...

Photoshop had a palette that acted like the timeline in imageready in that each picture(layer) in the palette was like a frame in the timeline, turning on
or off the relevant layers when selected... It also has more color correction features that I did not get to play with all that much..

All in all, it looks very very tasty