Adobe CS Rip-Off
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- stimuli
The studio made the leap to Panther on Friday, with £2,000 worth of software updates.
I was overjoyed to find out today that, because we purchased seperate updates for Photoshop and Illustrator, instead of an upgrade to the Creative Suite bundle, that I'm no longer able to backward save my Illustrator docs and am stuck with CS format.
What a complete rip-off. I now can't pass on any Illustrator work to any of the companies we deal with and have wasted a few hundred quid on some software that's of no use to anyone. Thanks a lot Adobe.
- rasko40
wha? because you didn't bu the suite?
just wondering cos I have the suite but cant install it till these dinosaurs upgrade me to panther
- stimuli0
And why isn't Version Cue available for seperate purchase/download? Surely you shouldn't have to pay for something that should obviously be included anyway?
- stimuli0
Yup. Version Cue is only available in the Creative Suite bundles. If you don't buy one of those (at nearly £900 a pop) then you can't save back to even v10 Illustrator, you're stuck with CS. Bag'o'shite.
- rasko40
oh, we bought the CS premium so i guess its ok then
- dstlb0
Look in File > Export, not File > Save, or read the manual.
- cinder0
Version Cue has nothing to do with backwards compatibility.
It's for tracking mutiple file versions and copies for groups.
- ********0
no, you can still save to previous versions, it only moved to 'export' now.
look for legacy ai and eps export options there.
i fell for it as well in the start. :)
- ********0
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- chach0
-ouch!-
- stimuli0
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Thanks for the help (those of you who were helpful), maybe I was to quick to moan. Maybe some of you should read the thread "NT Attitudes" and calm the fuck down.
- ********0
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:P
- ********0
roflmao@stimuli :)..
I just got up and nearly pissed myself.
Thanks :)
- abstrakt0
what do you mean they need to calm the fuck down? you're the one going off on adobe for lacking a feature that it actually does have. to me it's obvious that illustrator cs would have backwards compatibility. if i didn't see it in the menu, i would search the help file. frankly, you made yourself look like an idiot. accept it and move on. nuff said.
- patnoodle0
I'm losing count of the number of assholes on this thread.
- brundlefly0
peace every - bo -dy
why can't we all just get along...
- patnoodle0
Am I right in assuming then that you have to export to a seperate file instead of being able to just save backwards? What's the point in that?
- ********0
"What's the point in that? "
well, that most designer (like me) come with the wrong versions to the printer and then they can't open it, and they go: "hmm, well it's time we move to Adobe CS as well.."
shit like that, marketing tricks..
- patnoodle0
And the printers say "can you save it as Illustrator 7" nad you go "sure OK" then you export from CS and end up with 30,000 different versions of the same file on your HD.
- abstrakt0
when you save as an older format you lose certain data. why would you want to replace your current file?
- brandelec0
drama queens