Is El Capitan compatible with Adobe CS5?

Robin8 wrote:

I'm with you, as long as I continue to use CS5, I will NOT upgrade to El Capitan.

The problem is that all software is transient and short-term. Staying on older software is all well and good, but once you reject an OS upgrade to support it, then you're missing out on security fixes, bug fixes, as well as new features. And if the old hardware you're using to support the old OS for the old software breaks down, then you're reliant on second-hand, legacy equipment. Relying on old hardware and non-supported software is not a great place to be.

CS5 is nearly six year old, so that's a pretty good run. As replacements to Illustrator and Photoshop, I'm enjoying Affinity Design and Affinity Photo. Both are designed with Adobe users in mind, so many familiar keystrokes and concepts. And they cost ridiculously little, yet are fully professional alternatives. There are other packages for some other functions too.

Totally agree, it will be inevitable as I will need to upgrade my computer in the near future which means I will have to upgrade

the OS too. I do like the Affinity option.

Have the same problem on my MacBookPro with Intel Iris Pro graphics card—persistent kernel panics in 10.10.5. According to the engineers at Apple the panic is caused by a communication issue created by the graphics card driver and is a design flaw inherent to Yosemite. The only way to stop the crashes is to upgrade to El Capitan. I still have Mavericks on my iMac and run CS3 without any problems. But it looks like anything above 10.9.5 and you can kiss creative suite goodbye.

Here is what Adobe claims the compatibly matrix is for CS and OS X

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html

I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 and CS5 just fine.

I had upgraded to El Capitan but CS5 was too buggy so after a lot of hassle I reverted back to Yosemite.

I did it from a TimeMachine backup which was simple enough, the problem was all the new stuff I'd created in ELC that had to be exported out as it wasn't on the old Yo backup.

I was ****** off with Apple for introducing this incompatibility when the line at the time ELC was launched was that if it worked on Yo it would work in ELC.

That compatibility matrix is for photoshop. PS CS5 seemed to work fine on ELC, the problem is Illustrator and InDesign I think although I never use it much.

You could upgrade your computer then restore to your current set up with a TimeMachine backup.

As you may have read above I'm on Yosemite 10.10.5 and CS5 and they seem fine.

I tried ELC for a while but incompatibility with CS5 meant reverting back to Yo. There was nothing on ELC that I miss. One bug is that I updated to the fancy notes app on my IOS devices and the Mac while using ELC. Now I'm back with Yo notes on iOS devices won't sync with the Mac. So I use Evernote.

adobe's official answer on the suite is they will not tell me, they have refused, they have directed me to this document when I ask about the suite and if I pursue it, otherwise the Photoshop is part of the suite, if it is not supported I suspect the suite isn't either due to depreciation of the software and the fact they no longer sell it, support it or want anything to do other than sell you a monthly subscription to a software package you already paid for in another incarnation but are no longer paying them now which is revenue lost to them, not customer loyal to anyone else.

Has anyone tried running Yosemite on Parallels under El Capitan?

Currently I'm running Parallels and Windows 7, and it works fine. I'm thinking I could install CS5 under Yosemite on a Parallels VM and keep that "frozen" while I march down the path of El Capitan and later Mac OS. I have 32GB of RAM on my Mac, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Just wondering if there are any gotcha's to worry about. I assume I'll need to "de-license" my copy of CS5 on my current Yosemite machine, and re-authorize it after I install it on the VM.

Has anyone actually done it?

Well I just buy a Mac Pro and it's came by default with el capitan , when I pass the date from mon acient mac pro where I have both CS5 and CS6 complet versions first el capitan ask my to install a java version.....

I do it and Photoshop CS5 seems to work well, I not try illustrator. Then adobe manager update automatically to the last version supposed to be compatible with el capitan. But big surprise, all the application are endomaged and all icons dissapear into applications folders , when I said all I include, mac os el capitan application, microsoft , and other sellers.

Then what's happens here. I dislike the actual policy of adobe that oblige us to rent their products month by month, and at the same time apple evolutions turns icompatible the ancient software we had paid. In fact we are coming hostage of this system were great companies undestand toghether to oblige us to paid for new products more and more, imagine what are going to happen if all software begins to be monthly payed, how much it's going to cost to each family? We are going to have big problems with these evolutions sell to rent.

FWIW, there are many good alternatives to Adobe products. As far as programs becoming "obsolete" because of changes to an operating system, that has always been the case.

half a million people signed an online petition to ask Adobe not to go with a subscription based model and Adobe did anyway.

Creative Suite is not supported by Adobe, some of it works, some of it doesn't, if you run into a problem it's your's to figure out, not Adobes and not Apples.

if Apple builds and update that breaks all remaining stability with Creative Suite you have no recourse with Adobe or Apple and that's that.

So if you need stability with your OS and want to keep it up to date either pay Adobe for monthly use, they have pricing for Students and Professionals that differs, or look into Affinity

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

and GIMP is still free

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

among other options.

Thank you for the free options, but "that's that" it's not the correct answer for me we must battle for our consumer rights , and, if is our choice to buy, it's also our choice to try to change what it's not function in system. By exemple what apple's not exclude automatically versions of software that they know that are not compatible with their operative systems, ( they do with ones as parallels) .... with they don't mention this incompatibility in their contracts, why commercials don't explain it also...... I can choose to stay at Yosemite as some colleagues do in this post discussion, and not buy El capitan, but not the offer is in bundle when you buy a new machine, with no option.... I forgot i'm not using only photoshop , but many others in their offer.....

that's not very clear for a company nor for a client ......

The adobe choice is ridiculous, here in europe we don't see pas the petition against adobe policy......

The price for education is 34 euros by month, 408 euros by year.....

I wholeheartedly agree. I don't buy any software on subscription and will never enslave myself to Adobe's monthly fees. I think I have the last version of CS6 ever bought on disc, use only Photoshop and Acrobat and both seem to work fine with ElCapitan. When they stop working, as will inevitably happen with future OS upgrades, I will simply stop using Adobe products and look around for other photo and pdf editors. I wish Apple would come up with a decent photo editor beyond the kindergarten tools in Photos, which may be fine for iPhone but are totally inadequate in a desktop.

Thank you for the links, Affinity looks excellent. I will never buy a subscription to software, particularly one that is only available when connected to the internet. It doesn't reflect how I work, or how I think about computer products.

So I'm stuck with CS5 on my new MacBook Pro with the El Capitan operating system. I use Photoshop very heavily and can confirm it works fine, and indeed it even prints now on my inkjet printer whereas in the past it used to hang (I'm not technical enough to work out what was going wrong). InDesign works fine too although I am a light user and have not put it through its paces. The biggest problem for me has been with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, which says it is 'self-healing' on a start up screen, but hangs indefinitely at that stage. It's probably an ancient bit of software but it used to be quite useful for switching pages around in a PDF and so on. The free Acrobat Reader opens documents fine, but again asks you to subscribe if you want to edit anything, for £23.82 a month. I dread to think what the entire Adobe family of creative software costs a month if this small part of it is priced so unrealistically!

Apple's Preview program has so far worked surprisingly well for me as an alternative, it's usually really quirky but with PDFs it has been great. I never use Illustrator, which I understand is the biggest problem.