Wednesday 14 April 2010

Adobe CS5 announced

Adobe CS5 is out in May. £746.00 just to upgrade the standard version. Our "annual rental fee" has gone up from £450 last year to £750 this year. "Design Premium" is £650 so they are trying to hook me into moving up to the more expensive version by making the Premium upgrade cheaper than the Standard upgrade. Do they learn this sneaky, crafty accounting/marketing process from the Drug Barons then?

One thing that has always hacked me off is that they are NOT all integrated as they claim.
All Adobe software allows you to scale the page Ctrl plus +/- up or down, or Ctrl+1 = actual size.
Except InDesign! Why does InDesign not let you use the numeric keypad?
Photoshop does it, Illustrator has done it for 20 years and so has QuarkXPress.

Bet they still havn't fixed it. Bet they just added more useless bells and whistles.

Fast as you get to learn your way around the software and start to produce efficient, and quick production...
...they shift everything around, hide things and sell it to you again for £750 quid. Then production slows while you get to grips with where they have hidden tools or completely re-named old items to make them appear new.

And woe betide you if you don't pay up. You won't get support, and you won't be able to open any newer files.
Hooked. Like a heroin addict.

We should be protected from this sort of extortion. No other industry does it. Maybe there should be a new quango set up called "OffSoft" to regulate?

Imagine buying a car and finding after 12 months it will no longer run on petrol and you have to pay £750 for a conversion.
There would be public outcry! Be on the Sky "Breaking News" banner. Then when the car is 2 years old they make the ignition key redundant and charge you another £750 for a new digital key option.

Why do we stand for this? Speak up people!

W :-)))