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Man o man.
Is it me or is Adobe really showing signs of monopolistic muscle flexing with it's CS release? Consider this:
• Rumour has it, if you buy one of their software "Suites", your license is for Suite and future upgrades will be for the suite you are licensed for. "You will not be able to upgrade future products individually from a Suite license".
• InDesign CS documents are not supported in InDesign 2! (I thought it was becoming a no-brainer to toss Quark for InDesign but now I'm not so sure.)
• Overheard Sebastion of Adobe on Friday saying that Illustrator CS doesn't readily save documents to Illustrator 8.
• No printed manuals with Suite licenses. Printed manuals come only with individual software upgrades, or, manuals can be purchased for $70.00 U.S. (I'm assuming that's for a "Suite" of manuals.)
• No upgrade to Acrobat from versions earlier than 4. (This is more of a personal peeve. I didn't upgrade my version 3 to 4 or 5 as it seemed to me that both 4 and 5 were riddled with problems and version 3 worked great for me, thank you very much.)
(Deep sigh.) Thanks for the rant.
Is it me or is Adobe really showing signs of monopolistic muscle flexing with it's CS release? Consider this:
• Rumour has it, if you buy one of their software "Suites", your license is for Suite and future upgrades will be for the suite you are licensed for. "You will not be able to upgrade future products individually from a Suite license".
• InDesign CS documents are not supported in InDesign 2! (I thought it was becoming a no-brainer to toss Quark for InDesign but now I'm not so sure.)
• Overheard Sebastion of Adobe on Friday saying that Illustrator CS doesn't readily save documents to Illustrator 8.
• No printed manuals with Suite licenses. Printed manuals come only with individual software upgrades, or, manuals can be purchased for $70.00 U.S. (I'm assuming that's for a "Suite" of manuals.)
• No upgrade to Acrobat from versions earlier than 4. (This is more of a personal peeve. I didn't upgrade my version 3 to 4 or 5 as it seemed to me that both 4 and 5 were riddled with problems and version 3 worked great for me, thank you very much.)
(Deep sigh.) Thanks for the rant.
