( 2 reviews )
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Posted: Jan 7 2009
I've been a user of Adobe Acrobat Pro since it came out. I also used the Macromedia products for several years and after they merged, bought the upgrades to their suite of products. When Adobe came out with CS3 Web Premium, I purchased it thinking it would have been completely rewritten for the Leopard interface - not so much. Function and feature are there but this product was not developed with Leopard in mind, I got that directly from Adobe technical support. As I understand it, the later versions are a little better but I'm not a fan of the pervasive installation of Adobe products onto my Mac. I've since found alternate products that meet my needs and will continue to use them because of their significantly lower cost to own value. Not a good product to own in my humble opinion.
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( 1 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Nov 16 2007
The main points about the creative suites are that the latest ones are usually not necessary - once you have one, it usually suffices for all that you need and upgrading is not a top priority. They are excellent, but IMO far too expensive - unfortunately if you need Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash - the Creative Suite is the way to go since it is at least less expensive than buying them each individually. I think they are great products, but I also feel they are very pricey. They are worth it in that there is little else in terms of option (yes, gimp is a free Photoshop replacement - but I still prefer Photoshop in ease of use, and Illustrator is my preference for vector graphics regardless of any other option so far, and I don't know of any other way to make interactive Flash movies/games without owning Flash itself). Personally, the other stuff that comes in the Creative Suite is useless. Especially Acrobat on a Mac - perhaps I am just not a PDF power user since just using Mac's built in PDF creation ability works just fine for me.
