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Fri, 21 Apr 2006 Spring 2007 for Mactel Photoshop

Martyn Williams

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Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen has repeated his company's warninng that a version of Photoshop for Intel and PowerPC-based Macs won't ship until the first half of 2007.

Photoshop is one of the highest profile titles that hasn't yet been released as a Universal binary that can run on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. The latest version of Photoshop Elements, version 4.0, came out in February and also wasn't in Universal binary because of time constraints, Adobe said at the time.

"We are working very hard on making our products Mactel (Mac Intel) compliant," Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said at a Tokyo news conference. "When we ship the new product Acrobat 8 this fall it will be Mactel (Mac Intel) compliant. When we ship Photoshop and the Creative Suite products next spring they will also be Mactel compliant."

Chizen appeared on stage with Steve Jobs during Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference in 2005 to support Apple's switch to Intel.

"Many of our customers use Macs and we believe that Mactel will provide for a greater performance and better experience and that will be good for Adobe's customers which means it's good for Adobe," Chizen said in Tokyo.

He also said the recently announced Boot Camp software, which allows Intel-based Mac computers to run the Windows operating system, won't have a big impact on Adobe's Mac software line-up.

"For the majority of our products, writing directly for Mac OS is an advantage and you will see us continue to do so and not work through Boot Camp or the Windows emulator because we think that will not be good for the majority of our customers," he said.

"However there are some products that we have today that we have not been able to afford to continue to develop to make available on the Mac. A great example being FrameMaker. The majority of FrameMaker users use Windows as an OS but there is a small percentage that want to use FrameMaker on the Mac so they can use Boot Camp."

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