Is El Capitan compatible with Adobe CS5?

the sad part is people rallied when MS made office subscription based and MS actually caved and went on to offer either buy outright or subscribe which was a multi-billion dollar company actually listening to their user base and Adobe just wouldn't not budge.

The only decent part about Adobes subscription (because Adobe's tech support would be laughable if I wasn't the one calling) is that when Adobe upgrades the iteration (CC, CC2014, CC2015) you get it for free.

Reading all of this further confirms my continued rebellion to upgrade to ELC. I also have CS5 and everything runs great on Yosemite. I've heard a lot of horror stories which made me not want to upgrade since I too do not care to pay those monthly CC fees, which are outrageous and greedy IMHO. Thank you all for everything you've posted. This helps a lot. I surely hope Adobe comes up with a fix for CS5. I won't hold my breath...

Well, I'm in exactly the same boat. The functional benefits of ELC simply don't compare to losing access to CS5. It still think that installing Yosemite in a Parallels VM would work, but it's a ton of work which I don't have the stomach for right now. I'm excited to learn about the Affinity products... frankly, I don't use the Adobe Suite enough to be become a power user in any of them; they are wonderfully powerful apps, but stupidly non-intuitive to use. The key for me is the inDesign replacement. When that comes out, I'll give Affinity a serious look and will be happy to lose Adobe if it's as good as one would hope.

I know this is an older thread, but I wanted to post in case anybody googles this.

I just did a clean install of CS5 on El Cap (10.11.3), and everything seems to be working fine so far - including Illustrator (no crashes yet). Up until now, I had been booting into Lion to use CS5 (I refuse to use the cloud service, and Adobe has lost a 30+ year faithful customer). I've been using the Affinity products to replace Adobe since upgrading to El Cap... overall, not bad, but I can be MUCH more productive in Photoshop/Illustrator, having used both since v 1.0.

After installing, upon launch, I was prompted to install the legacy JRE. It took me right to the Apple page to download, and I downloaded and installed it without a hitch.

NOTE: The Adobe updater did not work for me, so I downloaded the updates manually from Adobe.

Photoshop 12.0.4

Illustrator 15.0.2

The Fireworks updater failed, but the installed version seems to work fine (surprisingly).

I have no use for Bridge, Device Central, or Extension Manager, so I don't care about those.

I seriously doubt that I'll ever upgrade to Sierra, so Apple has probly lost a 30+ year faithful customer as well. Sad.

I spoke slightly too soon. Illustrator ran fine for a few hours, no crashing or weird behavior. No problem saving files, etc. I did NOT experience the eyedropper bug. However, it DID crash on quit, and my precise cursors preference was not saved.

I followed the instructions on this page:

http://capitalmacservice.com/possible-fix-for-mac-adobe-illustrator-cs5-crash-on -exit/

... and everything is now fine. New prefs are saved properly, and no crashing on quit.

EL Capitan works with CS 6 Photoshop, Illustrator (once you load the right Java script), Premiere, Acrobat Pro, InDesign. One might assume therefore, CS5 too?

EL Capitan works with CS 6 Photoshop, Illustrator (load right Java script), Premiere, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash. However, AfterEffects is getting and error on launch. Assume same CS5?