New Hard Drive on Mac Mini (mid 2011), using High Sierra and CS4 Master Suite, 500GB storage, 8mb Ram, 2.3Ghertz, Only InDesign CS4 will not fully open or function on High Sierra, has there been a fix to provide compatibility in the works?
Gary Scotland wrote:
...64 bit applications which High Sierra requires.
High Sierra will be the last macOS that will support 32 bit apps.
Future versions of macOS will be 64 bit only.
True, CS4 is very old. However, even by today's standards, it was a very costly investment and not all of us who do graphic design have ongoing, full-time positions that make the also-costly upgrades affordable. Adobe KNOWS they have the best design program - that's a given. But their new "subscription" pricing has priced SOME of their customers out of the game. Apple can't be responsible for assuring that every program continues to work when they issue their upgrades; but Adobe could have a LITTLE more consideration for the enormous (for some of us) investment people have made in their S/W and put out SOME effort to keep us up and running. Instead, their attitude is "Too bad, so sad, goodbye!"
Quark Indesign Pagemaker are fundamental programs that found themselves being "over-advanced" past their usefullness to the average consumer. Apple's Pages, Microsoft Word and Publisher seem to be "field expedient" work arounds for desktop work to their overpriced cousins. BTW Apple's pages although limited is also FREE and is being updated constantly. I have used Pagemaker, Quark and Indesign alternately for 15 years. I have tempted at various businesses and agencies where earlier versions of these programs sufficed. Word Perfect was used at Law firms writing up contracts and notices. This means I would have to dumb down my computer to able to use this accumulated stack of software that is now useless.
CS4 applications are not compatible with High Sierra as CS4 are not 64 bit applications which High Sierra requires.
CS4 is very old and no longer supported by Adobe, and hasn't been
for some time. It is not Apple's responsibility to make sure third party
apps work with system upgrades, especially obsolete ones.
In practice, High Sierra is incompatible with many 32bit applications, and unless specifically authored for High Sierra, many additional applications will not run at all.
Indesign CS4 and High Sierra incompatibility fix
