Comments on: CS3 ‘biggest release in Adobe’s history’

By: Misty

Misty — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:10:42 +0000

As asian I could never afford that price, too expensive for me that’s like 50,000 pesos in Philippines currency converted from USD…my gosh! how on earth can I afford that? How I wish someone will help me get the CS3 even I have to pay 5,000 pesos(what I can afford) I won’t ask it for free…I have been dreaming about it for real.

By: artgirl

artgirl — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:02:15 +0000

If you’re looking for student discounts, looks like CampusTech.com has the CS3 Design Premium going for a cheaper price at $589.85

http://www.campustech.com/c/campust/title.html?mv_arg=ADB105&mv_pc=CS3_home_5_07_07

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I’m going to Adobe CS3 Launch Event : Kuala Lumpur at wilfredtee.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:46:57 +0000

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By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:37:41 +0000

CS3 biggest rip off in history.

Over 5,600 people think so (at least) http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/fair-pricing-for-european-software.html

And a fair few of those have also asked the EU to investigate the non-US market pricing disparity.

Great software, insane pricing differences between the US and everywhere else – CS3 premium works out, by today’s exchange rates, to be some £500 dearer than the same software bought in the US. And that is by no means the worse comparison.

By: vanni

vanni — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:36:32 +0000

…says it all:

http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/942.html

By: Yakov Chodosh

Yakov Chodosh — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:31:14 +0000

$400 for software is not out of the reach of students in the sense that students are accustomed to paying for $125+ textbooks and ever-rising academic expenses… I paid $250 (I think?) for the student price of Sibelius, a professional music notation software.

By: Russell Viers

Russell Viers — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:23:43 +0000

Arno: InDesign CS3 will be backwards compatible with CS2 using the InDesign Interchange Format, just like you do going from CS2 to CS1, now.

You will need to get the updater for CS2 that allows it to read an .inx file from CS3, when available.

Keep in mind that some features that are exclusive to CS3, like some of the new transparency stuff, will be effected or omitted from the CS2 document…so you probably wouldn’t want to incorporate this as part of a workflow. I would hold off upgrading to CS3 if you have to work in a collaborative environment with other users who might still be on CS2.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:52:04 +0000

Re: Student Pricing

It looks like JourneyEd is selling the Design Premium edition for $600. That’s not bad for an $1800 piece of software.

By: Honza

Honza — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:25:19 +0000

Way too much money for even the student edition. How many students do you know that can put up 400 bucks for some software? They already had to buy the hardware…

Do Adobe wonder why so many people use pirate copies of photoshop?

By: arno

arno — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:09:41 +0000

does anybody know if indesign CS3 will be backward compatible?