Thanks for running this down. I wasted almost an hour with Adobe’s worthless India helpdesk on this yesterday because I had not actually screen captured the offending message. Their useless suggestion was to reinstall the software.
I have been working on getting rid of Adobe products for several years now.
- I switched from Photoshop to GIMP and now like it better.
- There were a few publishing things I had to do with InDesign, but I figured out how to make Inkscape handle them.
- DreamWeaver was worthless from the start. I now use WAMPServer to debug websites
- Have not figured out how to get rid of Premier yet, but I don’t use it that often.
Acrobat is the only remaining thing that seems to be hard to entirely get rid of. None of the 3rd party clones I have tried so far are even close. It is particularly hard because I need to produce camera-ready files for commercial printing which entails generating PDF/X format files (CMYK colors instead of RGB) and nothing open source is even close.
At any rate, intentionally putting out this sort of deceptive harassment-ware shows to what depths Adobe has sunk. Ethics?...?
Would love to hear suggestions.
Did you get the red box to go away as I and Johnny Cakes was able to do?
They are the same programs I use at work so I have to have them here at home. However, I will go as far as Photoshop CS4. I won't go any higher and I absolutely refuse to use their subscription based software. I have tried GIMP a time or two but wasn't really happy with it.