[X4U] Adobe Creative Cloud

[Rick Gordon]

CS6 is still available from Adobe with a perpetual license. Not boxed, 
but a fully owned download.

Rick Gordon

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On 5/28/14 2:36 PM, "Joe Sporleder" wrote:

> What do you all think about Adobe's move to sell their Creative Suite in
> the cloud? We are a small Mac shop in the newsprint publishing business,
> and we have 4 workstations and have been running CS3 on OS X 10.6 and
> 10.7 (I've also tested CS3 on a Mavericks machine at home and the stuff
> we need works fine). Photoshop and Acrobat Pro are the main Adobe
> programs we use. Multi-Ad Creator is what we use to build ads and
> paginate. Our business has grown to the point where we are going to need
> to add an additional workstation, possibly two. The old days of grabbing
> last version at a blowout price as everyone upgrades to the latest and
> greatest CS is over, as obviously Adobe has decided the Creative Cloud
> is where they want their business to be. Boxed copies of CS5 & CS6 (heck
> even CS4) are at a premium, because they are like rare antiques now! LOL
>
> Long term I need to consider dumping Creator and switch to an all Adobe
> workflow for building ads and laying out pages. That would be a major
> hurdle, is that I and the rest of the designers know Creator
> extensively, using Illustrator a little to clean up camera ready ads
> that really aren't, and we use InDesign not at all, so there would be
> some retraining issues.
>
> Joe
>
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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com