I'm looking at a new MacBook Pro with Catalina. Can I upload and run my old apps (Adobe CS5.5, Office 2011)? I know, they are really old versions, but my old MacBook Pro from 2011 has just been a real work horse until now. I have cloud versions on a PC, but the subscriptions have lapsed as I really don't like the PC.
No. They are all 32 big and won't run on Catalina. To find which of your apps will not run in Catalina download and run the free GO64 app. It will let you know what you have to update to be compatible with Catalina.
I had to move from Photoshop CS3 to the latest Photoshop Elements. It did everything I normally did with PS but the interface is different and took me a while to master the learning curve (still working on it).
As for Office I didn't use it that much so now use LibreOffice or the Apple apps of Pages, Numbers and Keynote to open, edit and save Office docs either as Office docs or their own format. If you need it for for others you may have to get the Office 365. I believe the last of the stand alone, license version has been dropped but not sure. However, LibreOffice is quite good. My wife has some forms with have very complex tables within tables and I'm able to use them OK. As for sharing with others I usually send pdf files as I don't want them to be able to modify what I sent.
All in all it can be quite a paradigm shift.
No. They are all 32 big and won't run on Catalina. To find which of your apps will not run in Catalina download and run the free GO64 app. It will let you know what you have to update to be compatible with Catalina.
I had to move from Photoshop CS3 to the latest Photoshop Elements. It did everything I normally did with PS but the interface is different and took me a while to master the learning curve (still working on it).
As for Office I didn't use it that much so now use LibreOffice or the Apple apps of Pages, Numbers and Keynote to open, edit and save Office docs either as Office docs or their own format. If you need it for for others you may have to get the Office 365. I believe the last of the stand alone, license version has been dropped but not sure. However, LibreOffice is quite good. My wife has some forms with have very complex tables within tables and I'm able to use them OK. As for sharing with others I usually send pdf files as I don't want them to be able to modify what I sent.
All in all it can be quite a paradigm shift.
Catalina will not run any 32 bit apps.
I have no experience with InDesign but do know that the new Affinity Publisher is touted as being able to read, edit and otherwise work with InDesign files. And it's cost is much less that upgrading InDesign.
There's a demo version available and currently is offered at 50% off, $24.99.
Thank you! Do you have experience with Indesign? Specifically wondering about my files built in CS5.5 and whether I can open them in the new operating system using whatever iteration of Indesign I will have to have.
If I upgrade to a new Mac running Catalina....
