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

[Uncle Wig]

decay wrote:

Isn't your current version still working?

Do you have to accept files from others with higher versions?

You probably don't need to upgrade.

Adobe will fix it so there will be no backward compatibility, forcing an upgrade.

Apple will fix it so older versions of CS will not run on new OS versions, forcing an upgrade.

Bend over and like it!

[decay]

Paul F.:

Pony up the $20 for Snow Leopard Server while it's still available & cheap.

In the future, if you get a Mac with 10.8 and need to run 10.6 Server virtualized, you could run your current InDesign in that environment. (maybe)

Anyone here doing that?

[Sam3]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the cloud subscription version on an as-need basis? So, say you do a quarterly flyer, can't you just subscribe to InDesign for the months that are actually used for the flyer production? Or do you have to subscribe for the whole year?

I thought that I had read it is a month-to-month plan, sign up for when you need it. If that is the case, then the subscription plan doesn't sound too shabby for the light user.

Plus, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Premiere aren't in this subsription plan, are they?

Here's another issue... how long before they obsolete the CS filetypes and force everyone who needs to interact with others (which would be almost everybody) to go to Adobe Cloud?

[Gareth]

Sam3 wrote:
I thought that I had read it is a month-to-month plan, sign up for when you need it. If that is the case, then the subscription plan doesn't sound too shabby for the light user.

You can go month to month, but it costs more per month. The $50/month number comes from a 1 year contract.

[C(-)ris]

jdc wrote:
No CS upgrade has ever cost $300, unless you are talking about individual application updates.

To go from any CS 5.5 to CS 6 (Design & Web premium) is $375. $750 if you are at 5.

For me, to go from CS 3 Design Standard was impossible. But $29 to everything (at least for the first year) was totally doable.

That is incorrect. It has always been $300 to upgrade the standard suite from one version to the next. The current upgrade price from 5.5 Standard to 6 standard is $275 straight from Adobe.


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[M A V I C]

space-time wrote:
[quote=GGD]
[quote=M A V I C]
And what are these Photoshop alternatives people speak of? At last check, Adobe's file formats are proprietary and if anyone tries to be able to open them, Adobe sues.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photosh...matashtml/

Welcome to the Adobe Photoshop® File Format Specification!

This document is the detailed specification of the Adobe Photoshop file format and other pertinent file formats that Adobe Photoshop reads and writes.
Audience

This document is provided for 3rd parties to read and write the Photoshop native file format. This document does not explain how to interpret the data. This document describes the format of the data only.

it will be interesting to see where M A V I C got the idea
Glad to see that. Wonder what apps support it. I got the idea 'cause they sued Macromedia back in the day for over it. Then Fireworks could open PSDs fine, but they didn't display the contents accurately.

[GGD]

M A V I C wrote:
Glad to see that. Wonder what apps support it. I got the idea 'cause they sued Macromedia back in the day for over it. Then Fireworks could open PSDs fine, but they didn't display the contents accurately.

Doesn't GraphicsConverter support it?

[DeusxMac]

Gareth wrote:
Guess I'll be sticking to CS6 (and 10.6.8) for as long as possible...

CS6 works fine with 10.7 and 10.8.

[M A V I C]

GGD wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
Glad to see that. Wonder what apps support it. I got the idea 'cause they sued Macromedia back in the day for over it. Then Fireworks could open PSDs fine, but they didn't display the contents accurately.

Doesn't GraphicsConverter support it?
Dunno, I'd never install that app again.

[onthedownlow]

Not for me.

I'm a different kind of customer.