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Apple has been taking some heat for a long time now for not supporting Flash on iOS devices, and generally not supporting Flash on their platforms. Until recently I had thought that this was a small mis-step by Apple, but the more I use Flash the more I am starting to believe that their stance on Flash is completely correct, and that all the Android supporters touting Flash support may actually be hurting the Android brand.
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Windows 7 is in the mail and I am starting to thinking about the first issues I am going to come across when installing it, 32 or 64bit. I have been using the 64bit RC version of Windows 7 for months now and there are two issues that keep bugging me, and both are related to Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.
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For a long time Adobe has been my personal favorite source of all design related software from Photoshop to InDesign. The move from Quark 6.5 to InDesign was like night and day. Adobe also has a great community and fanboys that publicize their products to no end. But they are starting to forget that the community made them what they are. Now that they are the “Big Company” on the block it seems that the bottom line is all that matters.
The recent news that they will not support CS3 on Snow Leopard is just another sign, but it has been going on for a long time. For me the first time I noticed it was when I tried to upgrade to Windows Vista 64. Back then CS3 was the newest release and people running Photoshop are the most likely to want more than 4GB’s of RAM that a 64bit OS provides. However first off Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 would not even install without several error messages and trips to the message boards. Once it was installed the PDF printer would not work at all. It took several months for them to release a fix, and to this day CS3 still has some more minor visual bugs that stopped me moving to 64bit Vista.
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After a couple of months of use I thought it was about time to post some thoughts on the new Creative Suite CS3. The version I bought was the Design Standard version, which includes InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Bridge.
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For the past few years I have been working at a wholesale printing company doing pre-press, graphic and web design. After using several design products for that time it seemed like the right time to jump in and buy the Adobe Creative Suite 2.
This seems like a good time because Adobe is just setting up to release Creative Suite 2.3. Which now comes with the new Acrobat 8 and Dreamweaver. Even though I am hand web coder I have been looking into Dreamweaver and it seems like it is a pretty good hand coding enviroment with some WYSIWYG features thrown in.
Along with Acrobat 8 and Dreamweaver you also get Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Version Cue, and Bridge. I have been using most of these applications for awhile now, and they all rock.
Anyway, hopefully there will be some more graphic design related content up here from now on as I play around with these apps.
