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(Link thanks to John Dowdell) Bridging my old world to my new world, this doc­u­ment details the sup­port for cur­rent Adobe applic­a­tions with Microsoft Win­dows Vista. It is well worth a read, espe­cially as Adobe products: Flash Player and the Adobe Reader are very com­mon installs.

Sum­mary: no Acrobat 7 sup­port for Vista, only Acrobat 8: with an update expec­ted first half 2007 for full sup­port. There are known issues with Acrobat 8 on Vista. Sim­il­arly with Office 2007; the update will have sup­port. You can make PDFs dir­ectly from Office 2007 using the Save as PDF and XPS plu­gin.

For Adobe Cre­at­ive Suite 2.3: (note that Cre­at­ive Suite Premium 2.0 with Acrobat Pro­fes­sional 7.0 is not a good com­bin­a­tion). For Mac­ro­media Stu­dio 8, the fol­low­ing seems to also apply.

we are not cur­rently aware of major issues that would adversely affect cus­tomer use of
Adobe Cre­at­ive Suite 2.3 on Win­dows Vista.

In the doc­u­ment, it is worth not­ing the para­graphs in regards to the forth­com­ing, pre-announce status Adobe Cre­at­ive Suite 3.0:

…Adobe Cre­at­ive Suite 3 is being designed for and thor­oughly tested on 32-bit ver­sions of four edi­tions of Win­dows Vista—Home Premium, Busi­ness, Enter­prise, and Ultimate.

Adobe Pro­duc­tion Stu­dio (video products) seem to install OK, but Vista is not recom­men­ded as an OS. EncoreDVD is repor­ted to not work on Vista. Shame, as I was just about to pur­chase a Pro­duc­tion Stu­dio for some Microsoft video pro­jects. 

Altsys/Aldus/Adobe/Altsys/Macromedia/Adobe Free­hand? Oooh. Maybe not so good:

Adobe does not plan to update Mac­ro­media Free­Hand to install or run on Win­dows Vista

Do go have a read, and look at the sup­port for­ums: Vista in Adobe Sup­port For­ums.

As a Microsoft Vista and an Intel-based Mac­Book Pro user, this year is a key year for Adobe products.