Apple updates: Quite products and macOS "Ventura" and M1/M2 Macs

Information updated 17 March 2025

What is macOS Ventura (macOS 13.0)?

Ventura was the new 2022 system for Apple Macs. It is also called macOS 13.0. It is the successor to "Monterey". It is an optional upgrade available for most recent Macs. It was released on 24 October, 2022. Ventura was followed in by Sonoma (macOS 14) and Sequoia (macOS 15).

What are M1/M2 Macs?

In 2020, Apple released a new line of Macs called “M1” which use an ARM chip instead of Intel. These require Big Sur or Monterey. (Earlier, these new Macs were announced as “Apple Silicon” but Apple no longer use that name). There are many ARM chips like M1MAX or M4. All new Macs today are now ARM, Intel Macs are now nearly obsolete.

Can Quite Imposing Plus run "native" on M1/M2 and later Macs

Yes! Starting with version 5.3, and recent Acrobat DC, Acrobat can run native on M1/M2 etc, and use Quite Imposing Plus, which is also native M1/M2. Preference settings may be needed in Acrobat. Please see this page.

Will Quite products work with Ventura?

Quite products up to and including 4.0 cannot be installed in recent versions of macOS (Catalina and later). We have been testing our software with the new system, and the new Macs. We can report that:

Quite Hot Imposing 5.0f and above should run on M1 Macs, and on Ventura. There are no known issues, but older versions will not work correctly.
Quite Imposing Plus 5.3 has no known issues in Ventura.
Other plug-ins, including Quite Imposing Plus 4, cannot be used.