“We got a sneak peek at InDesign CS3 today in a private press briefing. InDesign CS3 is not slated for release until Q2 of 2007, and it is extremely unusual for Adobe to discuss features this far in advance,” David Blatner reports for InDesignSecrets.com. “However, while it was made clear that we saw only a small sampling of InDesign CS3’s feature set, what we saw proved that Adobe is not resting on any laurels. They are clearly committed to innovating and helping design professionals engage their audience.”
“The demo was run on a MacBook Pro and was clearly running as a Universal Binary program, showing that Adobe is indeed hard at work converting their programs to this new platform,” Blatner reports.
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I want video.
I’ll triple that!!!
Give Aperture layers, plugins, and the ability to burn and dodge — that’s all we need!
“Just add layers and plugins to Aperture — that’s all we need.” YES!
I’ll be very happy not to have Adobe on my Mac in the future (I don’t count the Macromedia proucts in that).
Bloatware has had its day – unless its in Windows VISTA, were it will be the perfectly in place and at home (and where you’ll need 2 gigs of ram to run VISTA, 2 gigs to run Photosop, 2 gigs to run InDesign).
And lastly, the reason for Adobe (deliberately) taking so long with UniB’s is so they can add more bloat -make that more ‘functionalities’- and sell them as major releases and so to sting all its long suffering users for more thousands on top of the thousands we have spent with them already…well it won’t be from me if Aperture gets layers and plugins!
thanks to apple with in particular the release of aperture, hopefully we are going to see the emergence of more work flow orientated applications, with less of a lean towards adding more and more baically useless features to hock off a new release.
apple should release a photoshop competitor, but im not sure they will anytime soon, they have technicians working for adobe because they cant do it themselves, actually it isnt the current technicians at adobe they should be blamed, but the the top levels of adobe were not proactive in keeping the code up to date, and presumably didnt move to x-code when apple said they should.
i do feel that pages may evolutionize into a pro app to be an alternative to indesign and quark in the future though.
So the next version of Photoshop will be Universal. The real question is whether it will be an OS X app or a Windows app in OS X clothing. Adobe has made Windows their main development platform for Photoshop for a while now. Does anybody really expect them to add all the bells and whistles (ie. OS X technologies like Core Image) into Photoshop or do you expect another Windows port?
If it is another Windows port, then I hope Apple gets serious about releasing a Photoshop killer. OS X is too good for another Windows port.
Adobe did know, but chose to wait for Vista release. They get paid better by M$ than they do Apple. Apple is a great love for most of us, but it is still dwarfed by the windows userbase. Go where the money is. “It’s not personal, it’s business”, everyone but the Apple crowd gets this.
As a point of reference, Apple still hasn’t released a universal binary for Filemaker Pro.
Apple will never release a UB version of FMP.
Yes, if *anyone* releases a UB of FileMaker Pro, it’ll be FileMaker, Inc.