I read the warnings at the top of the page and unless you have a project already created in this format, but not updated in a newer version, I think you're better moving on. The warnings say (underlining mine): Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, including Acrobat 7, because of a technical issue. These products were released more than seven years ago, do not run on many modern operating systems, and are no longer supported.
Adobe strongly advises against running unsupported and outdated software. The serial numbers below should only be used by customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products. You could end up screwing up what you already have. I realize creative suite is expensive, but how valuable are your projects. List-Post: [email protected] Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 13:05:19 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Adobe Photoshop et al. GIMP is free... and the Help is much less cryptic than the words from ADOBELAND. YMMV. http://www.gimp.org/ On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Mixon Bill <[email protected]> wrote: David McKenzie has discovered that Adobe is giving away their entire CS2 Creative Suite for free. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/ Might be a good opportunity to try Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. without spending any money. Note the warnings at the top of the web page, though. For example, that version won't run on Macs with Intel processors unless they're also running an old enough version of OS-X to have the run-time interpreter for G4 code. No idea what problems might crop up with Windows versions less than seven years old (i.e., more recent than the middle Paleozoic). The current Adobe version of all that stuff is CS6. The rent-it-by-the-month deal for CS6 and beyond is not that bad, compared to what it would have cost to buy it. You download the programs and run them locally, as always, and store your files on your own disk. (They also provide a cloud and various collaboration tools for those into that sort of thing.) The programs just have to use the Internet once a month to verify that you're still paying. The serious problem is that if you stop paying, the programs stop working (assuming you haven't used some illegal hack that will no doubt appear), and any files you have stored in their proprietary formats will be unusable. You could still take them to somebody else who still has a subscription. Any files saved locally in common formats such as PDF, JPEG, HTML, or TIFF will of course still be good.--Mixon ---------------------------------------- Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: [email protected] AMCS: [email protected] or [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
