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Tuan Nguyen (Blog) - September 18, 2006 2:54 PM

8 comment(s) - last by bozilla.. on Sep 19 at 5:34 AM

Adobe Photoshop CS3 is coming, but CS2.3 comes first

According to reports, Adobe is well on its way to releasing the next major version of its graphics production application set -- Creative Suite 3. Anticipation is high right now, especially on the Intel-Mac platform. Since Apple's transition at the beginning of this year, Mac users have been stuck using Adobe's CS2 running on Rosetta, which significantly reduces performance. Adobe however, demonstrated CS3 this month at the Photoshop World conference, which was reportedly running on an Intel-Mac platform.

Earlier this year, Adobe pointed out that CS2 would not be updated to run on Intel-Macs natively and that users would have to wait until CS3 was released. Interestingly, Apple then released Boot Camp, which allowed users to natively install Windows XP -- and thus run the Windows version of CS2 natively without issues. The only drawback was that users had to reboot into Windows every time they needed to use CS2 applications.

Despite the wait, Adobe has announced CS2.3, an updated version of CS2 which includes Acrobat 8 Professional and Dreamweaver 8. Acrobat 8 will support PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 as well as PDF/X-4 and PDF/A -- several new formats that Adobe has introduced to support such features as transparency and archiving. AppleInsider reports that Adobe will be releasing the full version of CS2.3 for an estimated price of $1200 with the upgrade for CS2 users priced at $150.

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agh

By DeathByDuke on 9/18/2006 3:12:43 PM , Rating: 5

My mind was screaming 'Counter Strike 3'

maybe i should lay off the beer.

RE: agh

By Xenoterranos on 9/18/2006 6:29:54 PM , Rating: 3

alas, you where not alone :(

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By ksherman on 9/18/2006 3:05:09 PM , Rating: 2

so is CS2.3 universal?

RE: um

By Vertigo101 on 9/18/2006 3:28:18 PM , Rating: 2

No.

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No surprise, I suppose

By MonkeyPaw on 9/18/2006 4:29:43 PM , Rating: 2

I can understand why they didn't offer CS2 for x86-OSX, as that will make IntelMac users have to buy CS3 all over again. Sure, there are likely some new features in CS3, but most people can get buy on older versions of most software just fine (ahem, MS office). I seriously doubt it would have been that hard for Adobe to port CS2 to x86-OSX, since they make CS2 for Windows as well. The architecture and instruction sets aren't completely foreign. Maybe they didn't want to waste the effort?

I guess the real question is which version of CS3 will be faster, the IntelMac version or the PC version. They will both use the same hardware, so it's going to come down to the resource efficiency of the OS, right? That could really burn Apple if the Windows version is faster.

RE: No surprise, I suppose

By kpb on 9/18/2006 5:45:35 PM , Rating: 2

Yes it would have been that hard. Prior to cs 3 release they where making the mac version of the apps with metroworks which doesn't have and never will have the ability to produce intel mac code. To even start making an intel mac version they had to first switch over to Xcode and then fix what ever issues they came accross and then fully test it. SO yes it was that difficult for them to just switch cs 2 over to intel mac.

http://blogs.adobe.com/scottbyer/2006/03/macintosh...

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What are we talking about here

By bozilla on 9/19/2006 5:34:52 AM , Rating: 2

I usually don't point out things like this, but CS3 is mentioned twice or three times in the news post with the title about CS3 and yet the post is referring mostly to CS 2.3. I looked the RSS news item "Adobe Prepares for the Release of CS3" to read about CS 2.3 which I already knew is coming out and there's no update at all except for marketing name 2.3 since they bundled Dreamweaver and Acrobat got upgraded to 8.0. No real updates to CS2 suite.

This news item didn't tell us anything new that we already didn't know about CS3. Not a huge deal, but please make the news titles more accurate. This news has absolutely nothing to do with CS3.