Someone called us once and actually sent a screen grab of their pirate serial number generator app. “See,” they said. “of course the number is valid, it’s right there!”

I wish I had my very own Olympics, too.

“Cannot re-load application due to pirated serial number failing activation”

That’s a damn lie. My pirate copies have always activated successfully with their dodgy serials.

PROBLEM:
Unable to put act back together in CS3 apps.

METHOD:
1. Launch Internet Explorer 7.
2. Create anonymous identity on news aggregation site.
3. Enter the following text:
“It’s a joke. A hideous, bloated, featureless joke. I’m a graphic designer and I will NOT be updating until Adobe gets their fucking act together.”

RESULT:
Adobe does not reply to you, because their act is not together.

EXPECTED:
I expect Adobe’s act to be together. They have put their act together in the past, but now it is apart. Cannot re-load application due to pirated serial number failing activation. Cannot form problem statement due to lack of education and imagination. Cannot find happiness due to personality defects and years emotional isolation.

WORKAROUND:
Contact (wait for it…) Adobe. Not MDN.

Careful, you’ll confuse them.

It sounds handy and pretty cool actually.

“InDesign now includes Live Preflight, which alerts users to potential problems in real-time. Thanks to those alerts, users can correct any errors while still in the design process, instead of going back to fix errors after everything has already been laid out.

A new Preflight panel shows what is going on and makes suggestions to fix any issues found in the document. InDesign gives users the option to monitor Live Preflight on a page range or for the entire document.

Michael Ninness, Adobe’s InDesign senior product manager, said that preflighting in InDesign is also extensible, so designers can write custom profiles and share them with the team to ensure consistent output.”

(source: http://www.macworld.com/article/135682/2008/09/indesigncs4.html)

Also of interest is content-aware scaling, nondestructive corrections in the Adjustment panel a new Tabbed interface (including ID CS4, finally) as well as Pixel Blender for applying faster special effects in an upcoming update from Adobe Labs.

I’ll read the reviews first before tossing out judgement on the value of a Suite upgrade. Also, the DW CS4 beta has been quite an improvement over CS3 in workspace setup, overall speed and faster real previews.

You just made my day with that.

MW: <i>congress – as in I’d like to have congress with….

Now to register the suite… that’s an entirely different song best left for another day when we have more time.

See what I have to put up with?

You guys can always worm my heart.

C’mon guys! Adobe works hard on those!

All I have to do is type ‘Obama sucks’ and we’ll have 3 pages of drivel.
Cue next comment:
“@R – you suck you f***ing f***.”

Luckily, we’re still happily using InDesign CS2 and will be for many years to come.

Automatic pre-flighting? WTF is this? Microsoft have sold Clippy to Adobe? I’ll pre-flight myself thank you very much!!!

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But it’s one I shall be forced to get before too long.

I’ll wait for CS5 and Snow Leopard.