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howldog
Mar 3, 2004
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I’m thinking of maybe going for it and buying the CS Suite, the whole thing. I’ve got outdated illustrator, photoshop, acrobat, and PC Quark is good but at times a pain in the ass. Might be time to try InDesign.

Has anyone bought it? Thats a lot of money. Any regrets? Anyone bought it off Ebay and were there any problems trying to activate or upgrade?

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Eric Gill
Mar 3, 2004
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I’m thinking of maybe going for it and buying the CS Suite, the whole thing. I’ve got outdated illustrator, photoshop, acrobat, and PC Quark is good but at times a pain in the ass. Might be time to try InDesign.
Has anyone bought it?

Yo! (If you hadn’t figured it out by now).

Thats a lot of money.

Yeah, though in context, it’s a bargain. As I pointed out, it’s less than the price of Quark 6 by itself – and QXP 6 isn’t even in the same league as just Indesign.

If you hadn’t noticed, if you’ve got any legal copy of Photoshop, you can get a big discount on the Premium Suite.

Any regrets?

PhotoshopCS has the damnable activation and currency detection crippleware. And wierd performance issues. However, if you’ve got an old version of Photoshop, the extra features may make you ignore that.

GoLive is useful only in using the "Package for Web" feature in InDesign (the first almost useful "make my publication HTML feature I’ve seen). Of course, I move the pages to Dreamweaver immediately.

That’s it for the negative. IndyCS is amazing. Acrobat 6 Pro is a great upgrade. IllustratorCS fixed a lot of bugs, particularly memory issues, and added a fair list of useful items.

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bought it off Ebay and were there any problems trying to activate or upgrade?

Good question. Once upon a time, Adobe hated eBay. Anyone know if that attitude changed?
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Tin Ear
Mar 3, 2004
"howldog" wrote in message
I’m thinking of maybe going for it and buying the CS Suite, the whole thing. I’ve got outdated illustrator, photoshop, acrobat, and PC Quark is good but at times a pain in the ass. Might be time to try InDesign.
Has anyone bought it? Thats a lot of money. Any regrets? Anyone bought it off Ebay and were there any problems trying to activate or upgrade?
Never had any of the design tools before, but I worked with PSE2, Acrobat and GL6. I bought CS Premium as an early graduation present for myself. The educational price is affordable.

I am living on InDesign, adapting nicely to PhotoShop and dabbling with Illustrator. Go for it you’ll never regret it. I have yet to use the really advanced design features of PhotoShop, but what I’m doing with my digital photos and scanned photos far exceeds what I expected to be able to do given my previous level of experience. I’m hoping to improve my PhotoShop skills, especially for photo retouching. Illustrator has become a nice tool for creating logos and releasing some freehand creative energy. I love InDesign and use it to tie the pieces together for use both in conventional print distribution and electronic (PDF) formats. It also has some great design tools of it’s own, almost like a subset of Illustrator. I was previously using GoLive for websites, so no change there other than to display InDesign created layouts.
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Hecate
Mar 5, 2004
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:53:07 GMT, Eric Gill
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PhotoshopCS has the damnable activation and currency detection crippleware. And wierd performance issues. However, if you’ve got an old version of Photoshop, the extra features may make you ignore that.

Yep.

GoLive is useful only in using the "Package for Web" feature in InDesign (the first almost useful "make my publication HTML feature I’ve seen). Of course, I move the pages to Dreamweaver immediately.

Yep. At last, a use for GoLive

That’s it for the negative. IndyCS is amazing. Acrobat 6 Pro is a great upgrade. IllustratorCS fixed a lot of bugs, particularly memory issues, and added a fair list of useful items.

Hell, you sound like me 😉



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