Making fun of CS3 news stories
All these are from MacCentral—not because I have any particular hatred for MacCentral; it’s just that I have MacCentral on My Yahoo! and I’m too lazy to seek out more stories. It’ll just be a bunch of quick hits—one or two comments per story.
Dreamweaver CS3 integrates Spry framework for Ajax
… the integration of Dreamweaver with the rest of the Creative Suite has improved dramatically.
Yes. Previously, Dreamweaver was not part of the Creative Suite. Now it is. This is, indeed, a dramatic improvement in integration.
With Creative Suite 3 designers can select any portion of a design in Photoshop—even across multiple layers—and paste it directly into a Dreamweaver page. … If, at some point, the image needs to be edited, double-clicking on the original layered PSD file opens in Photoshop for editing.
It’s like LinkBack, only without working with any other LinkBack-enabled apps!
Illustrator CS3 adds Live Color
IT’S ALIVE!!!!
As with the other applications, Illustrator features tighter integration within the suite and it also has some new features.
New features? Really?!
More importantly, did they add Rubber Band yet?
Premiere Pro CS3 to feature Blu-ray output
Somebody wanna explain how that’ll work when there aren’t any Blu-Ray drives on the Mac?
(Yes, yes, Windows. Who uses Windows? ;)
The new Export To Encore feature in Adobe Premiere Pro encodes the content of your timeline and sends it directly to Encore …
Really?
InDesign CS3: An evolution in design
PUN!
In building the new version of InDesign, company officials said they watched the evolution of the market and figured out how they could best help their users.
That’s a good plan.
… Standards-based XHTML export to Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 from InDesign CS3 …
Ha ha, too late!
Creative Suite 3 largest release in Adobe’s history
*scribble*scribble*scribble*
Creative Suite 3 largest most bloated release in Adobe’s history
Fixed that for you.
“Over the past 25 years our technology has redefined industries,” Caleb Belohlavek, Adobe’s Director of Creative Solutions, told Macworld.
25 years… that’d be 1982. Somebody wanna tell me what Adobe software ran on the Apple II+?
“Our mission has been to revolutionize how the world engages with ideas and information. Our goal is to continue to be on the cutting edge of innovation and drive more powerful solutions to our customers.”
And here’s the same quote with the buzzwords removed:
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So, CS3 is finally here. I, for one, intend to continue using CIFH and Lineform.
Just out of curiosity, though, I’m serious about the Rubber Band question. Have they finally added that to Illustrator yet?
March 28th, 2007 at 00:06:47
Not sure if you’ve seen this, but take a look at this choice quote from the New York Times (via Daring Fireball Linked List):
I was like, can you BE any more obvious about ripping off your customers? I mean, seriously honestly, WTF. And then Adobe wonders why everyone pirates their software.
Adobe really needs some competition with Photoshop.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:35:04
I regard many of the new features in the new apps as useful features. The style find-and-replace feature in InDesign is particularly a stroke of genius, and it was about time we got “Smart Filters” in Photoshop. I agree with you that some of the apps are already bloated, but I wouldn’t say that most apps have become significantly and obviously *more* bloated, especially with Photoshop sliced in two editions for stuff you wouldn’t need.
Photoshop is a competent application, but I do wish they’d modularize it more. I’m not using a full third of the app, and I don’t want Adobe to remove that, but enabling me to not load – and why not, not *pay* for – those parts would be nice.
March 28th, 2007 at 17:55:47
Adobe was founded in 1982, so that’s where he got that date… but they didn’t do anything notable in the industry (according to [their own history pdf](http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/timeline_090501.pdf)) until 1983 or 1985, depending on your metric.
March 28th, 2007 at 18:17:23
Evan: Ah.
March 28th, 2007 at 19:02:10
++++++++ on the HTML5 link.
Also, the new selection features in Photoshop look like something I will use all the time. So there’s at least some good besides the universal binary part :)