Posted on 06/06/2013 11:59:26 AM PDT by Racehorse
“...Adobe . . . has made a bold move to abandon their customers...”
No, more like moving from a free-range beef cattle operation to a dairy farm. Count heads daily and milk them for what they are worth.
Thanks, for your reply.
First . . . in this day and age . . . prior to the Adobe (CC) Cash Cow model . . . everybody understood use was under license.
Now, when you stop paying rent . . . your software stops working. What’s up with that, Newhart?
Thanks!
Encyclopedias were rent to own, what does that mean?
I was pretty successful in encyclopedia sales and we gave them away for free, only charging for the updates, which we collected within 3 years of payments, in advance, and which just happened to be what the set and our commision was worth, and I was a sales contractor for several companies.
I am betting that it and the Acrobat reader will continue to be free.
One of my landlords was signing up with Columbia House in the name of her pets.
Although there's probably some geeks who would come up with a compatible open source version. Maybe there already is one.
Photoshop, for the non pro, is complete overkill. I got a copy of CS4 from a yard sale, and barely ever used it. Cool features, but nothing to pay hundreds for if you are fixing casual photos.
Ya. And it is now integrated with the reader so you have to upgrade the flash player even though you may only use the reader. Bloatware.
I don’t know if it is good or not. All I know is their stuff is the best and as a web training developer/graphic designer, I need it - got to have it...it is my vehicle baby. It takes me anywhere I want to go...
To set the record straight, you download the full applications to your hard drive and you work with them locally. At any time you may update them as updates become available. They call this the “Cloud”.
HTML 5 is going to make Flash obsolete.
If they had any sense they would.
I’m not a huge fan of Corel Draw.
Vector graphics aren’t really my thing.
[Somebody will be along soon to tell us that GIMP is “just as good”, I’m sure]
;D
I've been upgrading every few years. Now, if I go with the subscription model I'll be essentially paying as if I were upgrading every year. It's not worth it for me, so I'll be staying with CS4 indefinitely... it still works fine for and I can live without whatever new features they come up with to justify putting out new versions.
I would be happy to stay at CS6 for a while. This really sucks for folks who paid and come under hard times - or just want to cut costs for awhile. You are on the hook every month/year whatever the model is. I hate the idea of not owning anything and it seems like the cloud in general is taking ownership away from everything.
Send it to me.
:)
We are in a mixed platform shop. Originally we did all our creative work in Illustrator and Photoshop (CS3) on our Macs and exported EPS and TIF files to import into Corel Draw or PhotoPaint (X3) on the production PC’s.
Over time we slowly started creating with Corel more and more and Adobe less and less.
We recently purchased Corel Suite X6 and are VERY happy with it. It imports newer Adobe formats and is very easy to use. There is almost nothing that Adobe can do that Corel can’t also do.
Corel has the advantage of being MUCH less money than Adobe. Like half.
I use Foxit reader and love it. It has a built in typewriter function so you can annotate PDFs. And it's free.
Ya. It is way too expensive.
I use the full version of Acrobat for documents. It is nice and necessary for work. However, I don’t care if there is an upgrade or not. Actually, no upgrades would be fine for me. That way I don’t have to reinstall the software.
OTOH, I guess that you get security updates with the upgrades. Thats a plus. But not work the hundreds of dollars.
The *only* reason I upgrade past CS4 was for the eternally promised 64 bit capability which I rarely use because a lot of my plugins aren’t compatible.
On the upside, it does finally allow PS to address more than 4G of memory.
What I have is all I’ll ever need.
Adobe is shooting themselves in the foot.
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