Adobe debuts Creative Suite 2.3
updated 08:45 am EDT, Mon September 18, 2006
Creative Suite 2.3 Premium
Adobe today announced Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, the next version of its professional bundle of Adobe applications. Version 2.3 will include its Universal Acrobat 8 Professional software, the newly released version of its PDF workflow software. In addition to supporting industry-standard PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files, Acrobat 8 Professional now outputs PDF/X-4 for native transparency support, as well as PDF/A for long-term archiving. Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also bundles Dreamweaver 8, the Web design and development tool acquired from Macromedia. Adobe expects to ship Creative Suite 2.3 plus Dreamweaver 8 (in English, French, German, and Japanese) in the fourth quarter 2006. Estimated street prices will be $1200 for the full version of Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, $160 for an upgrade from Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium, and $550 for an upgrade from Creative Suite 1.x Premium and Standard. (The Universal version of Creative Suite is expected to ship early next year.)
So
09/18, 08:52am reply
Essentially, you're paying more just for Adobe Acrobat 8, which is STILL not UNIVERSAL on the Mac.
Dream on Adobe. Get your act together then maybe we'll talk.
jarod
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i don't get it
09/18, 09:51am reply
so none of its universal? what is adobe busy doing anyway?
Caesar2099
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Joined: Dec 2003
Stupid
09/18, 11:18am reply
Why are they wasting their time doing this? Morons!!!!!
bmizar
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Joined: Jan 2005
No sale.
09/18, 11:39am reply
They must be high to even think of shipping another upgrade that doesn't support a single shipping system.
ciparis
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Joined: Jan 2001
Perhaps
09/18, 11:43am reply
Perhaps you should offer to help make it universal, how much code have you written today?.
Whiners.......
Roehlstation
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Revenge?
09/18, 12:08pm reply
iMovie killed Premier; Preview wounded Acrobat; Aperture made a preemptive strike on whatever Adobe's Aperture is called... I suppose Adobe may want to hurt Apple by withholding Universal Photoshop and thereby slowing sales of its professional fastest machines.
purpleshorts
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Joined: Sep 2004
This is a very bad sign
09/18, 12:10pm reply
Lights out at Adobe??
WTF???
Is this company moving to France or what???
No universal binaries?? = No reason to buy Adobe products
Adobes' going down the tubes...
Albert
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Joined: May 2003
adobe aren't hurting
09/18, 12:18pm reply
iMovie is no Premier killer although FCP certainly is, at a price! For Preview, Apple pay a license fee for use of Adobe's patents relating to PDF, so no pain there. Finally, Aperture stinks so bad that it can only be used with the windows open. The beta version of Lightroom is a faster and more stable app than than the retail version of Aperture, which should really have been named Orofice. Finally, so that you don't think I'm an apologist for Adobe, Photoshop CS 2.0 or 9.1 or whatever they call it sucks bigtime, how the h*** can they have problems with TIFF's after nearly twenty sodding years! Come on. Glad I didn't install over CS 1, there are certain things that I can only do in Photoshop 8.(?) Nuff said.
Feathers
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Joined: Oct 1999
Whoa..slow down there...
09/18, 12:21pm reply
"Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also bundles Dreamweaver 8, the Web design and development tool acquired from Macromedia."
It would be great to have Universal Binaries, but I don't think rolling Dreamweaver, the leading web design program in the business, makes this update worthless.
electropura
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Joined: Oct 2001
wtf...
09/18, 12:32pm reply
Still not Universal? This is such a waste...people who need DW8 already have it.
mikochu
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