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4 Responses to “New Adobe Suites”

1. Olivia says:

   2006-03-27 at 20:43

   It seems to me that Adobe expects us the consumer to figure out how they should put the best of GoLive into DreamWeaver. The latter being the accepted top wysiwyg website builder for the normal human and for most businesses who would dare to do in-house website design/build/maintatin. {Of course there are even more powerful MS website builders for mega-corporations and all of that.}

   I bought the package without realizing I was getting two of a lot of things – the Adobe version and the Macromedia version. Now i have to not only learn one program but zillions. Too bad SiteGrinder is a lemon.

   I’m not sorry I bought. Because once things are sorted out, I’ll get the upgrade to the one master program – maybe in a year or so?

   The main thing I’m worried about is being able to use all the wonderful Photoshop 7.0 File Info… data I’ve been carefully collecting in my photos. Please God, let Adobe Bridge and/or Version Cue be able to access this particular database or i will be sueing Adobe for damages! I mean they said in all their little ads, that I could use Studio 8 to find my files. I took them at their word. They better not be expecting me to buy yet another one of their goofy programs!!!

   Anyone out there able to enlighten this budding professional photographer and web designer on that one issue, kudos to you.

   And any other thoughts on the various programs and features of the most plentiful of use-us-lambies-to-do-free-Beta testing schemes I’ve seen yet – which ones of what to use for what, most welcome!

   Maybe we can figure it out together! And if we all use AdAware every 5 minutes, they won’t know what we figured out and then they can pay us each $100 or a free movie pass to be in a focus group to tell them all at once in a coherent form what they weren’t able to figure out for themselves – KISS. Just cynically kidding. Sorry!

   Olivia

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2. pigpogm says:

   2006-03-28 at 05:27

   My guess is that it’ll take a long time yet for them to merge the Macromedia and Adobe products in any useful way. Eventually, they probably want a single product line, with the best bits from each, but they’re going to upset a lot of people along the way. Probably old Macromedia customers for the most part.

   Personally, I’ve not really used any of the stuff in the packages much – I’m having a bit of a play with Photoshop at the moment, but coming from the unusual direction of The GIMP -> Photoshop.

   I think it’s bound to be a problem with any package this size – by time you’ve had any chance of learning all the programs in the bundle, even in a fairly limited way, they’re mostly three versions out of date, and a couple have probably been killed off.

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3. Olivia says:

   2006-03-29 at 02:00

   Skipping blithly over the crux of the problem (how/when will they meld the Adobe into the Macromedia or v/v as the case may be), just wanted to say that one little feature I was counting on – actually is there included in this ahem slightly bloated bundle. So that cheers me up a good bit…

   With Adobe Bridge, I was able to search based on keywords I created in PhotoShop 7 files, File Info… dialog box. The only trick in PhotoShop CS2, is that once you are in the File Info… dialog box, you have to click on Advanced on the left side if you want to replace, append or save xmp data. Xmp files from PhotoShop 7 came into CS2 no problem. One glitch I notice is that in 7, when you Replace it wipes out the document name – as it should, but in CS2 it doesn’t – at least not with my XMP file which doesn’t have a document name.

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4. pigpogm says:

   2006-03-29 at 03:52

   Well, that’s a bit of good news, anyway. Thanks for coming back and letting us know.

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