Adobe has posted a FAQ of what apps work fine on Leopard. John Nack has a link to it in his post ehre: Adobe apps on Leopard: What you need to know. Bottomline is that almost all of the apps in CS3 (Design Premium and Web Premium) work fine except for Acrobat. If you have the Production Suite, a lot of apps are incompatible with Leopard. You’ll have to wait for the late November update to remedy the issues. This is a bit strange since most of these apps were developed later and most of them only work on Intel-based Macs, but oh well what do I know. Continue reading ‘Adobe apps and Leopard are A-OK (mostly)’
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The Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia application created by Macromedia (now a division of Adobe Systems). If you
’re reading this website, you probably know all of this. What you might not know is that Flash sucks. It is the bane of the Internet, and it needs to go away.
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John Nack has a quick but good post on migrating from ImageReady, now that it has been discontinued. It’s sad to see ImageReady go (I was a big fan of it when it was still in its first beta). But to be honest with myself, it never really got all the way there for me. In the past couple of years, I found myself just saving out of Photoshop.
I know some of you don’t like the idea of moving to Fireworks. Until recently I never really gave Fireworks the time of day. Mainly because I never was fond of Macromedia’s UIs. Although there’s a few things I really don’t like in Fireworks CS3, I have to tell you it’s a much more capable application for Web graphics design and optimization than ImageReady ever was. Not only can you save multiple pages out, but you can save multiple slice sets out. Something I always wanted ImageReady to do. It may have had this capability but it wasn’t evident at all if it did.
Continue reading ‘The Casualties of CS3: ImageReady’
Sphere: Related ContentAdobe CEO Bruce Chizen on CS3 Pricing. How I miss the days of Mr. Warnock. Bruce definitely has no filter for these things. (Via Daring Fireball.)
Listen Up, Adobe. Khoi shares his thoughts on packaging and the state of Adobe apps. (Via Subtraction.)
Iconfactory’s Top 5 Adobe Illustrator CS Pet Peeves.
“The workers send out a shout to the talented folks at Adobe about five things in Illustrator that could use a little love.”
Funny, I’ve been working in Illustrator a bit more than usual this past week and I noticed some things that peeved me as well. (Via The Iconfactory.)
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Macworld has posted a follow up story stating that Adobe plans on continuing support for GoLive and FreeHand, despite reports stating otherwise. Here are a few excerpts from the post that I find particularly interesting:
Adobe plans to continue to support GoLive and Freehand and develop these products based on our customer’s needs.
(The emphasis on the word “support” is my doing. I just find the choice of this word interesting as opposed to using the word “develop”.)
Clearly Dreamweaver and Illustrator are market leading…
Macromedia applications that Adobe is evaluating for Intel support include Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Flash Basic, Fireworks and Contribute.
Be sure to read the entire post to get the complete context, but I’m getting the impression that this is Adobe’s attempt at letting us down easy.
Continue reading ‘Adobe Says GoLive and Freehand Are Not Being Discontinued’
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Why Apple Won’t Buy Adobe
Why Apple Won’t Buy Adobe As usual, a great editorial from John Gruber about the likelihood of Apple buying Adobe. (Via Daring Fireball.)