Those interested can register to join Adobe online for the “exclusive launch of Adobe Creative Suite 5” on Monday, April 12 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST.
The company released no further details about the suite of applications, although it’s widely expected that Photoshop CS5 for Mac OS X, at least, will finally make the leap to 64-bit code.
Registration link here.
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Adobe could update Creative Suite much less often and I’d be much happier.
Of course, while I use Photoshop, InDesign, and Dreamweaver CS4 I still use Illustrator CS3 because the Illustrator team is simply incompetent. Each new revision means a new bunch of broken stuff. No thanks.
@Tommy Boy
I use Illustrator CS4 and haven’t noticed any broken commands or anything compared to CS3. I’m not doubting you; in fact, I’d love to know what they are so I can be aware of them for any future projects. : )
Oh dear, more bloatware.
Each release adds more and more bloat and runs slower.
Perhaps a ‘Snow Leopard’ approach is needed, were Adobe strip out some of the code and make it leaner.
@McIntosh: the single most intolerable things for me? Burying the page size dialog and text objects that break-up upon re-open.
Why can’t Illustrator have the same methods for changing fonts and creating new swatches that Indesign has? It totally sucks to find/change fonts in Illustrator. You would think they would make these things universal in their apps.
Today Abobe announced that on April 12th they will announce the availability data for CS5. Adobe always makes things so complicated.
Looking forward to native code.
There is so much room for improvement, without adding a single new “feature”. It would be nice to see PhotoShop able to take advantage of the multi-core processors we have.
Still on CS2 for everything but Dreamweaver, which is CS3. It all flies on my MacBook Pro and still works reasonably well on my G5 iMac. I have no need or desire for all of the Bridge/Version Cue/Flex/Air/Integration/Blah Blah Blah background noise–just give me fast tools that do the jobs I need and don’t get in my way. (I do wish I could hack Dreamweaver CS3’s html rendering so I could do CSS3 stuff and see what it looks like in the program, though. But I’m playing around with Panic’s excellent Coda program as well, which renders pages with OS X’s built-in WebKit.)
@Tommy Boy — that’s good to know. I don’t use text objects much, but I can see how that would be a bother. A REAL bother. Yuck. Well, let’s see if CS5 takes care of that one.
Illustrator?
Resurrect Freehand!
Let’s hope that they fix PDF printing in Acrobat Pro under Snow Leopard!
I believe Adobe is finally ending PowerPC support with CS5, so that should at least make all the apps a bit leaner.
I skipped CS4, so I’m ready for an upgrade!
Hah, the CS5 launch page doesn’t use Flash!
G5 iMac?
Oh yeah… I always forget about that one.
Open Question:
When is the last time that you were “really excited” about an impending Adobe release?
Adobe should pull a Snow Leopard and use a whole development cycle to fix their shit.
Great apps, but they’ve turned into buggy spaghetti over the years.
I’d pay to have CS3 done right, instead of CS5.
running CS2 and will finally upgrade to CS5…ONLY reason is to maintain my license since you have to keep up to date every third version or loose the ability to get upgrade pricing.
Still running CS. Works great.
Adobe could update Creative Suite much less often and I’d be much happier. —Tommy Boy
Totally agree!
Will Adobe finally launch a new version of Director? Director is the best multimedia tool ever…
“running CS2 and will finally upgrade to CS5…ONLY reason is to maintain my license since you have to keep up to date every third version or loose the ability to get upgrade pricing.”
That’s good to know; thanks! Still don’t know if I could stand to upgrade anytime soon, though. Maybe I’ll wait until CS5.9…
We have the subscription plan, so it will almost be like getting it for free. Yay!
Yawn.
Unless Adobe’s changing their absurdly expensive upgrade prices, I’ll stick with CS3.
I’m sorry to say; Illustrator sucks. I wish OmniGraffle would take the logical next step and become a competitor. The foundation for vector drawing is there already. Just do it.
We only just finally updated all our seats to CS4.. in fact I installed it only last week. It was necessary as After Effects CS3 has a huge memory leak bug on OSX 10.6.x.
Now they come and announce CS5? From what I have heard After Effects will, in this iteration be fully 64bit. If this is so, then it will be on the wish list for sure.
I only hope they don’t try to make us pay full upgrade prices on seats that are only a couple of weeks old… Though I can’t say that I have much faith in the benevolence of Adobe’s pricing policy-setters. Hell, with CS4 even though you plunk down $1700, they still won’t send you physical discs unless you plunk down another $20 (?!?!?)
Frustrating…