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Summary: Creative Suite puts Creative juices to work
Review: The Adobe Creative Suite brings many tried, tested and true programs to a new level of functionality and integration. The popular programs, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, Acrobat and InDesign have been redesigned to make users more efficient and streamline the work. The latest addition to the Adobe family, Version Cue, also makes an appearance. Version Cue is a great server program that allows multiple users to edit and update files simultaneously. (full review @ bytesector.com)
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Summary: The complete design environment for print & Web publishing.
Review: The Adobe Creative Suite brings together full, new versions of Adobe's latest print and Web publishing tools in a comprehensive design environment. In addition to the new features of each component product noted below, the Creative Suite offers integrated file-management and workflow benefits designed to let you focus on your creativity. With the Adobe® Creative Suite, you can create beautiful, detailed artwork for your clients and projects. Editing images, creating photo compositions, and drawing vector graphics has never been a more fluid and flexible process than in the integrated design environment of the Adobe Creative Suite. Import your native vector and bitmap artwork directly into InDesign CS software for sophisticated print layouts or into Adobe GoLive® CS software for powerful Web pages. And thanks to support for such technologies as Adobe PDF and XML, you can easily output your pages to both print and the Web. With the Adobe Creative Suite, you can deliver your final files efficiently and confidently. Built-in support for the Adobe PDF standard across the entire suite means you can streamline review cycles, prepare final files of the highest quality, and prevent costly production mishaps.
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Summary: BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!
Review: Windows XP users beware! You'll need lots of bug killer with this supposed "upgrade" - especially the GoLive module. Speaking as a long time user of Adobe software (Photoshop since version 3.0) this is the most bloated and unstable iteration ever. The added goodies in Photoshop CS would be great, if my (quite adequate) Dell Workstation didn't freeze up every other minute. Most annoying of all is a screen redraw problem most visible in GoLive CS; a problem that makes GoLive essentially unusable. If you plan to use GoLive - most especially if you have an NVidia graphics card - visit Adobe.com and look through the GoLive User Forum BEFORE you buy the CS version. LOTS of good reading there. Adobe has (reluctantly) admitted the screen redraw problem to be a "bug" that they are "working" on... but jeez! Wouldn't that bug have been far better stomped on BEFORE Adobe CS was released onto loyal, trusting Adobe users?? To sum it up - BUYER BEWARE! Check out the Adobe Forums before you shell out your hard earned for Adobe CS, because that's where you'll get the real truth about real-world use. Download the trial version of CS if you can - maybe it will run for you... but if not, no money lost. For now, I'm thinking it's back to my previous versions so I can at least get some work done. In fact, it's so bad - I'm beginning to consider getting a MAC! Aaaargh!!!!
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Summary: BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!
Review: Windows XP users beware! You'll need lots of bug killer with this supposed "upgrade" - especially the GoLive module. Speaking as a long time user of Adobe software (Photoshop since version 3.0) this is the most bloated and unstable iteration ever. The added goodies in Photoshop CS would be great, if my (quite adequate) Dell Workstation didn't freeze up every other minute. Most annoying of all is a screen redraw problem most visible in GoLive CS; a problem that makes GoLive essentially unusable. If you plan to use GoLive - most especially if you have an NVidia graphics card - visit Adobe.com and look through the GoLive User Forum BEFORE you buy the CS version. LOTS of good reading there. Adobe has (reluctantly) admitted the screen redraw problem to be a "bug" that they are "working" on... but jeez! Wouldn't that bug have been far better stomped on BEFORE Adobe CS was released onto loyal, trusting Adobe users?? To sum it up - BUYER BEWARE! Check out the Adobe Forums before you shell out your hard earned for Adobe CS, because that's where you'll get the real truth about real-world use. Download the trial version of CS if you can - maybe it will run for you... but if not, no money lost. For now, I'm thinking it's back to my previous versions so I can at least get some work done. In fact, it's so bad - I'm beginning to consider getting a MAC! Aaaargh!!!!
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