Adobe Creative Suite for Mac User Reviews
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"Features and a price that no one wants"
Version: Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5
Pros
Maybe some of the existing bugs will be fixed. Maybe
Cons
*no one wants these new tablet or phone features
*where are the improvements to the core products?
*Adobe want MORE money for features that shouldnt even be in CS -
"Such a disappointment"
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 5
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I am astounded at how unstable and buggy these apps are (particularly Flash Pro CS5). It's obvious that much more testing, research and development was needed. I am a long-time professional user of all Adobe (and formerly Macromedia) apps. It breaks my heart that they can't seem to keep up and may very well be putting Flash in peril of extinction. -
"How much?"
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 5
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I'm having to stick with CS3 because with CS 4 and now CS 5, upgrade pricing is only for the very wealthy. No wonder this is the most heavily pirated software in the universe.
Well done, Adobe. Not.
Sort out your pricing and you might get several million additional paying customers. -
"Not buying"
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 4.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Even though my wife is taking a college class and I could buy it relatively less expensive. I am sticking with an old version until they eliminate the product validation and registration process. When FileMaker Pro started the same validation process I purchased version FMP 8.5 on ebay. Maybe CS5?? -
"Broken Software from a Broken Company"
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 3.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
If you can find something else, use it. Adobe is a bloated, inept, inefficient company that could care less for its customer base.
I had a problem with their product validation and registration process, a draconian process that punishes legitimate users.
I was on the phone for over 60 minutes with the most inept company I have ever dealt with. Sort of reminds me of Dell several years ago. I think I might short their stock!!!
I purchased the Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium 3.0. Everything installed properly on the new MacPro, and everything works pretty much as expected with the exception of Dreamweaver. When I launched Dreamweaver, it said that I did not have a valid serial number. I entered the one that came with Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium 3.0 and it said that it was invalid.
When I called the 800-642-3623 support number, I went through three levels of illiterates who cant speak English to get to the tech support area, all who asked me my customer number, name, email address, street address, product serial number, and a description of the problem.
Eventually, I was passed off to an illiterate tech person who again asked the same litany of questions, and then was insistent that I had a trial version and that I have to deinstall everything and reinstall everything. I ensured them that I had the correct CS3 version and they said that I first should try installing it on another computer to see what happens, then try erasing it on my computer and reinstalling. I said that the install worked flawlessly the first time and asked what the point of reinstalling from the same CD. She said it is the first step in trouble shooting. I was waiting for her to tell me to check to see if the computer was plugged in!!!! She was definitely reading from a script.
After sitting on hold for another 10 more minutes, another illiterate reading from a script told me that he made a note in my record saying that it is, indeed, not a trial version, and they sent me back to technical support.
I was passed off to yet another automaton to which I had to again repeat at least three times my information to because he couldn't understand english. He then sent me to another tech person who again parroted the first technician demand that I reinstall the software. I asked her why are you punishing a legitimate software purchasers with all this nonsense when I could easily download a fully functioning copy off the internet. She said that I would go to jail and she hung up on me.
I called back and asked to speak to as supervisor, and I was on hold for at least 20 minutes before I was hung up on again. I doubt that I will ever get to speak to anyone in-charge.
Over all, I counted 12 times that I had to repeat my customer number, serial number, email address, mailing address, and explain what the problem was.
And I still cant use Dreamweaver.
If you can find something else, use it. Adobe is a bloated, inept, inefficient company that could care less for its -
"CS2 for ever..."
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 3.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
The CS3 apps are slow and huge...
For example Macromedia Flash 8 (200mb) and now Adobe Flash CS3 (750mb) plus some useless apps installed all over the system (>800mb).
CS2 apps, on PPC, are severeal times faster than CS3.
I think the next acquisition is Corel Painter instead of the huge and slow Adobe Photoshop CS3. -
"Adobe lowers the barâ?¦ again."
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 3.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Stay tuned for Adobe® CS4 ! Soon Adobe will invite you to take creative license with incredibly new and degenerated stagnations of their ever-expanding toolset! A tour de force which will include Adobe® Bézier®, a new application dedicated entirely to the pen tool along with all of it's advanced features. Rounding off the Suite of existing *defactos like Photoshop®, Dreamweaver® & Flash® will be Adobe® Slices® CS4, Adobe® Wand® CS4, Adobe® Raster® CS4 and the much anticipated Adobe® Round-Cornered Rectangle® CS4.
* remember that 'standard' does not mean 'excellence', instead it falls under concepts like 'norm', which is the root of 'normal', which is otherwise known as 'average', 'conventional', and ultimately 'unexceptional'.
Bart Flossbarge from Overextended Weekly raves about RC Rectangle® CS4's
"ingenious approach to furthering the gratuitous complexity of Illustrator's round corners' feature!"Diane Forthespart's wax lyrical from Feature-Creep Today,
"Adobe's pleonastic approach to software design coupled with an amazing commitment to groundbreaking overlap has allowed them to pillage creative pros and expand their coffers while continuing towards their implied goal of lowering the bar ever closer to the level of Microsoft solutions.Peter Schluub from the Boston Bloat predicts,
"at this impressive rate of stagnation and user experience decay, we should start to see the expectations of all Adobe users decline as opposed to only those of the everyday Windows-based Adobe user."Mary Q. Contrary of SBOD, a non-profit time-wasting outfit located in Kansas City, MI validates the consistent degradation, touting,
"who couldn't use an entire additional application for each operation needing to be performed!? If I had it my way there would be a separate application dedicated to each and every function offered by the Suite! Heaven knows there's nothing better than having to launch another fat, slow, resource taxing app just to make a few minor tweaks to a graphic here and there."Less Ain't More's own Todd Sprekelzmauer writes,
How many separate, full-blown, standalone applications does it truly take to screw in a lightbulb?
"sure other engineering outfits are able to intelligibly weave a logical array of powerful toolsets and features into their elegantly streamlined products, but comparing the tasks that tools like Maya, modo, Logic Pro, and Cinema 4D are called upon to do with the functionalities of a 2D image creation and editing toolset is plain asinine!" -
"Tech support - get out your wallet and start crying"
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 2.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Once you actually find the technical support page on Adobe's horribly messy web site (built on the "it's easy to find if you already knew where it was" principle), you'll be happy to find that 5 tech support questions will cost you $175. But don't despair - you can get unlimited support calls for a reasonable $1200 a year!!?!?!?!?!
It appears this includes e-mail tech support. (If you can find free e-mail tech support on the site, please post here!)
The "Knowledge Base" is free, but is a disorganized mess. As if any serious user has time to wade through hundreds of unrelated issues for the slim chance they'll get a useful asnwer to a question. -
"No NO global search & replace for URLS/hyperlinking..."
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 2.0
Summary
...in ACROBAT!!???
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
*** was adobe doing when they crippled any ability to search and replace/edit/modify global hyperlinks in this version of Acrobat? One page, one link at a time? Do they hold their customers in that much disdain?
And the help documentation / info files and online knowledge base get crappier with each version of each product.
Total Arrogance, disdain for customers as a result of monopoly .... another microsoft much anyone? -
"Why this stupid Bridge?"
Version: Adobe Creative Suite 2.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
It's obvious that Bridge will not exist after this version. Terrible idea.
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