Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Standard [Mac] [OLD VERSION]

List Price: $1,199.00 Discount Price: $1,199.49

Features:

• The ideal solution for designing pages for print, editing photos, and creating illustrations
• Take advantage of deep integration to streamline tasks and processes
• Experience reliable, efficient prepress, printing, and Adobe PDF export
• Combines full new versions of Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional
• Integrated creative environment backed by a company whose software and technologies have set new standards

Accessories:
ColorVision Spyder2PRO Win/Mac	ColorVision Spyder2 Suite Win/Mac	Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard

Customer Reviews:

Perfect [Posted on 2007-10-25]
This is just what I was looking for. And it's comforting to know that it's legit, it's the real thing. It was great because I could track where the package was at and it was fast. Thanks so much!

Watch Out! [Posted on 2008-01-24]
Be careful!

Adobe seems to have gone out of their way to infuriate their long time customers through an arcane, illogical and ultimately deceptive upgrade offer. You can spend hours on their website trying to make sure that you have the required products for an upgrade. Besides the obvious CS1 and CS2 versions that will let you successfully install CS3, you see listed everywhere you can upgrade from Macromedia's Studio MX or Studio 8 all over their website and marketing materials. Well, guess what? If you buy any of the print focused CS3 Design Suites you can't use the Studio MX or 8 serial numbers! After a long phone call with a polite Adobe rep who had to spend quite a bit of time himself checking with others to make sure the information was right, I was told that the ONLY CS3 upgrade package that will work with the Studio serial numbers are the CS3 Web Design packages. Not the regular print focused Design packages.

By the time I got off the phone I was totally perplexed at their lack of logic not allowing Macromedia Studio customers who use Freehand to upgrade to a product that has Illustrator included. If you buy CS3 Design Standard or Premium and expect to upgrade from a Macromedia Studio package you can get stuck with an unusable upgrade that costs nearly $400.

I've been working with Adobe's products for since beta testing version .7 of Illustrator over 20 years ago. Obviously, I've been a supporter of them for a very long time. Today I walked away from Adobe furious.

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