Fury over sky-high Adobe Creative Suite 5 international prices

[bigdave]

Sorry boys,...... work offered, I jumped:

[weareabstrakt]

So is it worth getting then? I actually only need the design standard as I use the Panic apps for web work these days.

What's the compatibility like on InDesign files? Once saved in 5 can they be opened in 3 or am I going to have to upgrade ALL our machines?

[bigdave]

InDesign is a twat! The company I work for hold over 80,000 indesign files and every time weve upgraded there have been issues! the biggest problem has been the upgrade opening the files with a [converted] extension, meaning each file you open has to be located and saved over! We had one machine that didnt get updated at the same time as the rest and it couldnt read files made by the new indesign.

[SparkCreative]

Indesign is indeed a twat. A printer I use is still on CS2. To get to a stage where he can open the files, I have to backsave to CS4, open it is CS4, backsave to CS3, open it in CS3 then backsave to CS2. And every time you do that, something might move about or change.

Adobe are a bunch of w***ers making their software that way and forcing everyone to upgrade very time there's an update. Which is often.

Is the update worth it? Only the Photoshop one. But to buy that alone costs pretty much as much as the whole suite.

Be nice if there was some proper competition for them again like when Macromedia were still going.

[Boss Hog]

Be nice if there was some proper competition for them again like when Macromedia were still going.

...agreed, the only problem is they have the funds to buy any competition out, as with Macromedia.

[Neil65]

In a word: rip off britain.

It's little wonder piracy is so rife, if you lower the prices they shall buy ( or something like that, heard something similar on field of dreams... :) )