AppleInsider Staff
For the April 12 introduction, Adobe will begin accepting preorders and has scheduled a launch event for CS5 at 11 a.m. Eastern. The event will be streamed on AdobeTV, allowing users the ability to see the features of the product. It is then the company will also announce its price and details.
The company's CS5 launch Web site has been outfitted with a clock counting down the days until users can get their first official look at CS5. A handful of "sneak peek videos" are also available.
Adobe Systems Inc. announced the date during its quarterly earnings report Tuesday, in which the company revealed its profits fell 19 percent in its fiscal first quarter. But Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen said the company expects better results next quarter, which will feature the debut of the latest Creative Suite.
"We will be giving many more details of CS5's features, functionality and pricing on April 12 with shipping of the English version about four weeks later," Narayan said with analysts Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Investors are said to be optimistic about Adobe's next quarter, as CS5 is expected to outperform its predecessor. CS5 for Mac will feature a new version of the Photoshop graphics editor rewritten in Apple's 64-bit object-oriented Cocoa framework. The Windows version of Photoshop went 64-bit in 2008 with CS4.
Flash CS5, codenamed Viper, marks a new strategy for adobe in trying to maintain relevance among mobile developers. The latest version will give developers the ability to output native iPhone apps from existing Flash-related assets for release on Apple's App Store. Adobe will offer the porting feature in response to Apple's refusal to support Flash as a Web plugin runtime on the iPhone OS.
For more coverage, see AppleInsider's exclusive look at CS5 from February, in "Sources offer peek at Adobe Creative Suite 5 for Mac."
Also this week, Adobe released a second beta of Photoshop Lightroom 3, its photography software platform for Mac OS X and Windows. The company said more than 350,000 users have downloaded the first Lightroom 3 beta thus far.
"We've worked on improving several key areas and have prepared a second public beta of Lightroom 3 as we get closer to our final release," the company said. "Because this public beta is closer to our final release we are more focused on receiving feedback on the improvements we've made since the original public beta. And more importantly, by utilizing broader testing from a larger community of photographers we can help ensure that you can trust the quality of the final Lightroom 3.0 release."
The latest beta of Lightroom 3 features improved performance, faster loading of images, and native tethered shooting support for select Nikon and Canon DSLR cameras.
While other Adobe products will receive the 64-bit treatment with CS5, Photoshop Lightroom 2 was the company's first 64-bit application back in July of 2008.
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I trust that I am not looking at another six hundred bucks or more to upgrade. 64-bit is what we expected for CS4. This had better be a much cheaper upgrade or we better be seeing many, many major new features.
Well?
... CS5 for Mac will feature a new version of the Photoshop graphics editor rewritten in Apple's 64-bit object-oriented Cocoa framework. ....
I'm almost certain that this is not true or at least deeply misleading to put it that way.
The way I heard it they are re-writing it in 64 bit, but *not* using Cocoa development tools or any of the Cocoa UI stuff. AFAIK they are also sticking with their own UI conventions, thumbing the nose at Mac users again, and using the same Flash-based crap for the panels and toolbars.
Just for fun, I predict:
It will have just enough differences to force you to upgrade, yet basically be the same product.
The menu items and the keyboard shortcuts will all be completely re-organised for apparently no reason, (but still won't use any of the Mac conventions.)
Most importantly:
It will still cost between 800 and a 1000 dollars for the full suite after taxes
I'm almost certain that this is not true or at least deeply misleading to put it that way.
The way I heard it they are re-writing it in 64 bit, but *not* using Cocoa development tools or any of the Cocoa UI stuff. AFAIK they are also sticking with their own UI conventions, thumbing the nose at Mac users again, and using the same Flash-based crap for the panels and toolbars.
Just for fun, I predict:
It will have just enough differences to force you to upgrade, yet basically be the same product.
The menu items and the keyboard shortcuts will all be completely re-organised for apparently no reason, (but still won't use any of the Mac conventions.)
- It will still crash a lot and suck up resources like there's no tomorrow
- It will still not recognise "spaces" on the Mac
- It will still install many many gigabytes of unnecessary files
- It will still install tens of thousands of tiny text files in the system library
- The installer will still suck, and still use that tech from the early 90's
Most importantly:It will still cost between 800 and a 1000 dollars for the full suite after taxes
Exaggerate much?
I think CS4 rocks. I have no problems at all and I use it non-stop everyday.
I really can't figure out what your problem is. Is it something personal with Adobe?
Exaggerate much?
I think CS4 rocks. I have no problems at all and I use it non-stop everyday.
I really can't figure out what your problem is. Is it something personal with Adobe?
No exaggeration.
Used PShop since version 3.0 on Windows. Used every version of the CS suite. Had the same issues with every version. Just because you like it and don't have problems with the awful design of the thing doesn't mean everyone else feels the same.
If I'm honest I would say it's probably true that I have a teeny tiny bit of a *hate* on for Adobe as a company, but it's not unreasoned or uninformed. It's based on years and years of using their products. It's also based on years of using competitors products and seeing them bought up by Adobe, ruined or eliminated, and being forced to use Adobe's alternative. Freehand was, and probably still, is a much better vector design tool for instance. Who uses it now? Most people haven't even heard of it.
The things I mentioned in my first post are mostly just the first five or six grievances that came to mind while I was typing. These are real grievances that vex me on a daily basis since I use CS4 on a daily basis.
CS4 on the Mac is a croaking piece of shite that should be mothballed. CS5 will have to be half the price or ten times as good to justify purchasing it. I just kind of doubt that either of those will be true when they finally reveal it, but I'll probably have to buy it anyway, and use it anyway.
If all of that isn't justification for being p*ssed off at Adobe, I don't know what would be.
CS4 on the Mac is a croaking piece of shite that should be mothballed. CS5 will have to be half the price or ten times as good to justify purchasing it. I just kind of doubt that either of those will be true when they finally reveal it, but I'll probably have to buy it anyway, and use it anyway.
It is a poor craftsperson who blames their tools. As a professional, if a tool is unacceptable, it is still unacceptable at half the price. Find a better tool and use that instead or if no satisfactory tool exists make one yourself.
Good luck with that hatred.