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To CS3 or not to CS3

October 17th 2007

A good amount of time has passed since Adobe released its flag ship suite of programs. When it was originally released March 27, 2007 I had already decided not to upgrade to CS2. I've used CS since its original launch, the integration of the programs was excellent what I had been looking for at the time. The ability to easily go back and forth between each program Photoshop to Illustrator, Illustrator to Indesign and so on. Even with those programs tying in together to me there seemed to still be a misconnect with on of their pivotal programs - Acrobat.

Adobe had gone to a equal update cycle for all the programs in the CS suite except for Acrobat which is still upgrading on its own cycle. Before I upgrade I really wish Adobe would better integrate Acrobat into the programs. Granted their development team deserves a lot of credit. Acrobat is to me an essential program - a program that if corporations would learn to use - would save them a lot of money. And it's not like you need to send some one to training for it either, but I digress.

Let me give an example of what I think is missing PDF files created directly from any of the CS programs are still larger than those created from PS files passed through Distiller. granted there are a lot of possible reasons for this; images used, page count, compression settings, live transparency versus flattened and so forth.

What I think will help is if the user was able to do a "live" export to PDF. This would in sense be just like Photoshop's and Illustrator's save for web function. By doing so the programs could tell you from the start what the final size would be. But this is my ranting take it for what it's worth.

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