Hey folks, I was wondering, if an one has upgraded/purchased CS5 and what do you think is that you like the most and what do you hate. We are on CS4 - do you think, under what situations, it makes sense to upgrade to CS5. Also wondering, if anyone has used any open source alternatives and your impressions on it
Upgrade to CS 5
2010-08-16 10:27:52
2010-09-24 08:31:25
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Acrobat 9 was developed long before Office 2010 was released, even for developer testing, and so it was impossible to preempt the changes made by Microsoft in the way plugins are permitted to interact with the Office 2010 applications. Those changes are far from trivial, so there are no currently-announced plans to introduce Office 2010 compatibility as an Acrobat 9 dot release. This does not mean it won't happen, nor that it will - Adobe are not saying either way, however they are concentrating their work on the next version of Acrobat*.
Although Office 2010 is now available for purchase, the penetration time is expected to be very long and the vast majority of corporate users will remain on 2007 or 2003, if they haven't changed to an open-source alternate, for several months. I appreciate that for 2010 early-adopters the lack of PDFMaker is annoying, but it's a natural consequence of writing plugins - when the host application changes the rules between versions, code that used to work now doesn't, and rewriting that code to coincide with the host vendor release date isn't a realistic workload, not least because of the testing required.
*For more information see the Acrobat Family FAQ at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/faq/.
Although Office 2010 is now available for purchase, the penetration time is expected to be very long and the vast majority of corporate users will remain on 2007 or 2003, if they haven't changed to an open-source alternate, for several months. I appreciate that for 2010 early-adopters the lack of PDFMaker is annoying, but it's a natural consequence of writing plugins - when the host application changes the rules between versions, code that used to work now doesn't, and rewriting that code to coincide with the host vendor release date isn't a realistic workload, not least because of the testing required.
*For more information see the Acrobat Family FAQ at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/faq/.
CS5 is great but one warning. When upgrading to Acrobat prof 9 there is a shortcoming: Acrobat 9 does not support MS Office 2010.
The PDFmaker icon does not come up and using PDF as a Print-option has some failures.
Adobe support made me try different ways (uninstall, reinstall, changing the preferences of MS Word etc) to solve the problem before frankly admitting: There is no support for MS Office 2010.
When asking for the time of a patch, an upgrade or other form of fix, at last I got the answer: There is no such thing and it is not in plan. You will have to wait for Acrobat 10 no announcement date for the present.
I think this is weak. We installed CS5 in July this year and there is no support for one of the major tools in the industry and there are no plans to offer us users such a thing. Arrogance and hubris are the words coming to my mind. A spot of dirt on an in all other aspects execellent program/program suite
Knut E