Say goodbye to discs and the CS from Adobe...

[ka jowct]

This should be an opportunity for Quark and other companies to develop meaningful competitors to at least a couple of the Adobe products.

It's a shame that Adobe was allowed to acquire Macromedia.

[Gareth]

Racer X wrote:
why hasn't anyone mentioned about not being able to work without a fast and stable internet connection?

Umm.... because you don't need one? This seems to be a common misconception. You download and install it once, like a normal application. You use your internet connection to authorize the application when you install it and once every 30 days it checks in again. The application will run for up to 180 days without authentication if need be (I'm writing this from memory of what I read earlier).

You're not running the entire program over the internet every time you launch it.

[pRICE cUBE]

Gareth wrote:
[quote=Racer X]
why hasn't anyone mentioned about not being able to work without a fast and stable internet connection?

Umm.... because you don't need one? This seems to be a common misconception. You download and install it once, like a normal application. You use your internet connection to authorize the application when you install it and once every 30 days it checks in again. The application will run for up to 180 days without authentication if need be (I'm writing this from memory of what I read earlier).

You're not running the entire program over the internet every time you launch it.
What happens on day 29 with 1 hour to go until Adobe check in and your ISP decides to give out until the next day and you have a client waiting in the morning? Maybe you could haul your laptop somewhere else but a desktop system would be a real pain.

[Gareth]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
What happens on day 29 with 1 hour to go until Adobe check in and your ISP decides to give out until the next day and you have a client waiting in the morning? Maybe you could haul your laptop somewhere else but a desktop system would be a real pain.

Did you miss the part where it will run 180 days WITHOUT an internet connection? Although if you're on a month to month payment (and not a 1 year contract), then I guess you could be screwed in this case.

Adobe wrote:
You will need to be online when you install and license your software. If you have an annual membership, you'll be asked to connect to the web to validate your software licenses every 30 days. However, you'll be able to use products for 180 days even if you're offline.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html

[pRICE cUBE]

Gareth wrote:
[quote=pRICE cUBE]
What happens on day 29 with 1 hour to go until Adobe check in and your ISP decides to give out until the next day and you have a client waiting in the morning? Maybe you could haul your laptop somewhere else but a desktop system would be a real pain.

Did you miss the part where it will run 180 days WITHOUT an internet connection? Although if you're on a month to month payment (and not a 1 year contract), then I guess you could be screwed in this case.

Adobe wrote:
You will need to be online when you install and license your software. If you have an annual membership, you'll be asked to connect to the web to validate your software licenses every 30 days. However, you'll be able to use products for 180 days even if you're offline.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html

I guess you need to pay attention to your "date codes".

[Racer X]

I see what you did here....

[Joey Cupcakes]

Paul F. wrote:
*sigh*
Can't say I didn't this coming...
Looks like I'll have to find something else to replace InDesign for the newsletter I do. I do it for a non-profit, and neither they, nor I, is going to pay $600/yr to use it.

If your current version of InDesign does what you need it to do, why not just keep using it? (Until, of course, you reach a point where it gets out of operational sync with whatever system you're running.)

[DP]

How about Corel products? Cheap and they work. Unfortunately, PaintShop Pro X5 isn't available YET in Mac but AfterShot Pro which I think is more like Lightroom is. The rep says that I can use Pro X5 on my Mac if I have Windows loaded on it!

http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index...rod4670071

[Chakravartin]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
[quote=Gareth]
[quote=Racer X]
why hasn't anyone mentioned about not being able to work without a fast and stable internet connection?

Umm.... because you don't need one? This seems to be a common misconception. You download and install it once, like a normal application. You use your internet connection to authorize the application when you install it and once every 30 days it checks in again. The application will run for up to 180 days without authentication if need be (I'm writing this from memory of what I read earlier).

You're not running the entire program over the internet every time you launch it.
What happens on day 29 with 1 hour to go until Adobe check in and your ISP decides to give out until the next day and you have a client waiting in the morning? Maybe you could haul your laptop somewhere else but a desktop system would be a real pain.
The CC license seems less-restrictive than CS6.

What happens now in CS6 (and I've been through this a few times, so I know) is that the first time it can't connect, the suite will go into a 30-day trial mode. You'll have to re-enter your registration code with a live Internet connection to get it going again. If you fail to re-register it then on day 30 it will stop working.

The second time it happens, if it occurs within 30 days of the first event, it will still allow you to work, but only for whatever is left of the original 30 day period. You don't get another 30 days. If you entered your registration info and got it going again immediately after the first event and then 31 days later it fails to contact the license server then it simply stops working until you're back online and register it again.

[Blankity Blank]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
[quote=Gareth]
[quote=Racer X]
why hasn't anyone mentioned about not being able to work without a fast and stable internet connection?

Umm.... because you don't need one? This seems to be a common misconception. You download and install it once, like a normal application. You use your internet connection to authorize the application when you install it and once every 30 days it checks in again. The application will run for up to 180 days without authentication if need be (I'm writing this from memory of what I read earlier).

You're not running the entire program over the internet every time you launch it.
What happens on day 29 with 1 hour to go until Adobe check in and your ISP decides to give out until the next day and you have a client waiting in the morning? Maybe you could haul your laptop somewhere else but a desktop system would be a real pain. There's a seven day grace period from what I've read, but I'm looking for a cite directly from Adobe.