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Still using Creative Suite 1? Upgrade pricing won’t last much longer…

AdamJury — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:06:41 +0000

Over on his block, John Nack of Adobe points out that if you still own Creative Suite 1 and you want to upgrade to Creative Suite 4, you should do so soon, as Adobe has a “3 versions back” policy and you won’t be able to upgrade CS1 to CS5 for the upgrade price once CS5 is announced. There’s some talk in the comments of his post that if you upgrade to CS4 and CS5 is announced within 30 days of your upgrade, you’ll get a free upgrade to CS5—Nack hasn’t confirmed this.

Adobe Removes Creative Suite Deactivation Limit!

AdamJury — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:23:48 +0000

Klaus Norby pointed out this fine news over on InDesignSecrets—Adobe is removing the deactivation limit for Creative Suite, for versions CS3 and CS4.

This is not a fullscale removal of the Activiation system—Adobe is not removing the need to deactivate before uninstalling but is simply not penalizing people who deactivate and reinstall frequently. You are still limited to two concurrent installations of Creative Suite, however.

Eric Wilde says:

The deactivation limit has caused numerous problems and I’m very happy to see it go. As stated above, we should go live on the a new activation server implementation on January 15th that completely removes the deactivation limit. Although deactivation is still necessary (which causes some other problems), there should no longer be any limit to the number of deactivations.

In a comment on the 14th, Eric confirms that this change is now live.

Regardless of it being a half-step, I welcome each and every step towards removing activation and other paying-customer-punishing measures. Thank you, Adobe!

Acrobat 9.3 Update for OS X and Windows

AdamJury — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:25:07 +0000

Acrobat 9.3 Standard and Pro Updates are now available from Adobe:

These updates fix some security problems, plus the normal array of bug fixes. The full release notes go into all the fixes in detail. Nice to see the update arrive today, as I actually bumped into one of the described bugs yesterday, and today it’s fixed!

Adobe Reader has been updated as well.

InDesign CS4 6.0.4 Released-Style Mappings Map Again!

AdamJury — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:24:50 +0000

Great news; version 6.0.4 of InDesign dropped today, and it fixes the awful CS4 bug where style mappings for imported word documents weren’t being saved. It has other bug fixes too, including all the fixes from previous versions; it’s a cumulative update: Adobe InDesign CS4 6.0.4 Update Read Me.

I haven’t had time to test this bug fix yet, but if the following bug describes some bad behaviour I’ve seen in previous CS4 versions, this bug fix may well be solid gold to me, too: PDF Export: Master page items fail to draw if they sit atop another page item that crosses master spread page boundaries. [2299929]*

You can grab the InDesign for Windows update here, and use Adobe Updater to get the OS X version — the standalone updater for OS X has yet to be posted.

After installing the update, it might be a good time to try out my Reclaim Disk Space After Creative Suite 4 Updates tip.

InDesign CS4 6.0.1 Available

AdamJury — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:05:17 +0000

Rufus Deuchler reports that the first incremental upgrade to InDesign CS4 is now available. The major fix is the “Master Pages in InDesign documents placed inside other InDesign documents disappear” as originally reported by Mike Rankin.

No issues installing the update on either of my two computers, a G5 running OS X 10.4.11 and a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.6

Quickie Edit: Installing 6.0.1 removed all the entries from the Open Recent menu, and Open Recent doesn’t appear at all, until you have at least one recently-opened document. As soon as you open a document, the menu reappears.