Customer Reviews

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium[OLD VERSION]

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I've been using Photoshop since it was version 2.9. They've come a long way since then. Since 7.0 I've kept steadily up with their releases. There are several new features that I like quite well, such as Photoshop's "Content Aware." Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and InDesign seem to work without any hiccups. Flash, on the other hand, not so much. It burned me on several projects. With Flash CS4 I had the occasional crash, but when I opened the file I only lost changes since my last save (I could live with that). Flash CS5 corrupts the file so that it becomes unusable, and thus, hours and weeks of work goes down the toilet. Having looked into the issue, I found that many others have had the same problem. Very poor work by Adobe if you ask me. I give this product 4-stars because all the other programs in this suite work fine. As for myself, I still use CS4 when working on Flash files. Hopefully Adobe gets their act together and fixes this with a patch or something.

The CS5 suites are ALL obsolete. I'd say wait a few months.

Reason being? They ship with acrobat 9. Acrobat 10 ships dec. 1.

According to adobe... no way you can upgrade their suites to acrobat 10. If you want 10... buy it. (yes, I went around and around with them)

So, returning my copy.

Obviously they will at some point repack and ship with acrobat 10. But if you do use acrobat it will cost you a few hundred dollars to upgrade this pack. My advice is to wait for the version that will include 10.

Thumbs down to Adobe for greed or stupidity. Not sure which.

Just search on "extension manager will not open" in the Adobe Forums or Google and pages of hits come up going back to CS4. This is a serious problem involving both Mac's and PC's that Adobe is simply ignoring.

I have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit with Design Premium CS5 installed. Nothing happens when I click on Manage Extensions from within any Adobe application, nothing happens when I click on Adobe Extension Manager CS5 on the start menu, and nothing happens when I double click on a .mxp file. No error messages - nothing.

So I had a free couple of hours and decided to call Adobe. Six hours later, after talking with Raj, Peenal, Tushar, Madhur, and Sandeep (get the picture?), after noting that none of them acknowledged having ever heard of the problem, after my call was dropped during one 30 minute wait, and after a complete uninstall and reinstall of the complete CS5, I have exactly the same problem I started with.

For my purposes, Design Premium CS5 is literally useless without extensions and Adobe has left me holding a $1500 boat anchor. Do you think anybody at Adobe cares? I don't.

Bottom line - DO NOT BUY Design Premium CS5 if you need to install extensions. They very possibly will not install and Adobe simply doesn't care.

Very pleased with the purchase. I had asked for expedited delivery and there was a mistake in dispatch at the warehouse. To make up for this, I was offered a discount of $150 which I was pleased with. Sean was always quick to clarify any points.
I would buy from them again.

I love all the programs. I am still learning but there are lots of resources online that are helping me to tackle the programs. The help files are a wonderful resource that I almost overlooked. I really enjoy the combination of programs in this package.