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Adobe announces Acrobat 8 Universal Binary, Creative Suite 2.3
Ali Hanyaloglu at the Adobe Blogs has announced version 8 of Acrobat, their software for all things PDF, with a nice surprise: it's Universal. It's being bundled with the also recently announced new Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, a retail upgrade (don't you love how they like to charge for .X upgrades when 1/8th of the suite is Universal?) which also now includes Dreamweaver 8. GoLive, fortunately, will be spun off into a separate product (yea that's right: I said 'fortunately'), but who knows how long Adobe will grace users with a choice in web design apps, especially since Premium Creative Suite buyers are already getting one major suite in their bundle.Check out the new Acrobat 8.0 page, as well as the Creative Suite 2.3 press release, for details on what's new in this $159 upgrade (admittedly, a deal for Dreamweaver 8 alone). CS 2.3 is expected to ship before the end of 2006, but remember: the rest of the suite isn't Universal yet, and they won't be offering Universal upgrades to CS2. If you aren't dying for Acrobat 8 or Dreamweaver 8, I'd recommend waiting until the first half of 2007 to upgrade, especially if an Intel Mac is in your future.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Russell said 6:02PM on 9-21-2006
How much longer until a UB of Photoshop is what I want to know.
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Zachary Hinchliffe said 6:36PM on 9-21-2006
Ugh, I'm dying for Universal Flash over here.
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christine said 11:19AM on 9-22-2006
universal photoshop!!!!!!!! arg.
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Gordon said 11:38AM on 9-22-2006
It makes sense...Acrobat is far and away the most widely used Adobe pro app.
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ChillyWilly said 1:29PM on 9-22-2006
Well, nice to see that Adobe's most widely used program is going Universal sooner. That is a good thing.
"and they won't be offering Universal upgrades to CS2"
This statement is confusing on first read. Maybe further clarification be phrased something like, "..and they won't be doing a Universal Binary version of the CS2 suite."
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Brady J. Frey said 8:20PM on 9-22-2006
'fortunately' it didn't die - buy BBEdit or textmate, be a real designer, don't let that dated code make you improperly think your websites look good:). Besides, you don't get web professional title if you're skimming off their improper standards.
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shaninho said 6:50PM on 9-23-2006
Is it true that Acrobat READER hasn't gone Universal yet. It's really been a memory hog.
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