Justin Bregar is a web designer, web developer and semi-pro photographer living in the Denver, Colorado area. This is his personal blog. If you're looking for web design or development services, you want Teh Shiny…
As promised and after a lot of phone calls to their customer (dis)service line, Adobe’s gift box arrived for me this morning.
In it was the free upgrade I was entitled to as a late purchaser of the Adobe Web Bundle 2.3 (for those who’re wondering what that is, it’s Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 and Macromedia Studio 8 all wrapped up in one big box). Apparently since Adobe didn’t bother to bundle both Fireworks/Contribute and InDesign in any bundles together (save the $2000+ “Master Collection” with all the video crap thrown in), the free upgrade path for Web Bundle is one copy of CS3 Design Premium (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc.) and one copy of CS3 Web Standard (Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, Contribute, etc.). Both of these include Bridge, Version Cue, blah blah blah…
So, my Mac Pro is like 3GB lighter in disk space, but it’s a whole lotta happier with Universal versions of this stuff.
Adobe finally got it right with these here CS3 discs… it’s one DVD for the install rather than 3-4 CDs. My disc-swapping hand thanks you Mr. Adobe.
on May 6th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
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on May 6th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Justin, I also qualified for the CS3 post-announce upgrade but all I received was CS3 Design Premium. No Web Standard. Should I rattle Adobe’s cage?
on January 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Gregory,
I’d say you should definitely rattle their cage if you bought the Web Bundle. You missed out on one of your apps (Fireworks).