Replacements For Adobe Creative Suite 3 Apps? 270
Gilmoure writes "With rumors of Adobe not supporting Creative Suite 3 applications on Mac OS X 10.6, I was wondering what Open Source apps folks would recommend to replace Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver? If the apps can work with the native file formats, all the better but if they provide the same functionality, that's still good.
I have several designer friends that are looking forward to the speed boost of OS X 10.6 but don't want to go through the Adobe upgrades so soon after the CS2 to CS3 upgrades. Especially when Adobe's already working on CS5."
Re:To edit, or create (Score:0, Funny)
Somewhere, in a basement, a total geeklord surrounded by his linux boxen. The Star Trek red-alert siren beeps from his thriftshop Logitech speakers as his Digg RSS feed is updated. "Oh god", he thinks as his pants turn sticky, "Adobe CS3 is not supported?!? The day has finally arrived for 'The GIMP' to take over the universe!"
Quickly, he draws upon his sexual fantasies of Mac-using deisgners as his best homosexual buddies. Realizing Digg will never vote up his question, he turns to Ask Slashdot, an ugly forgotten relic of when people thought Linux had a chance at the desktop market.
Meanwhile GIMP still sucks ass and nobody uses it.
Re:Nice FUD on the front page editors (Score:4, Funny)
Which is why everyone uses Windows. Thanks for clarifying that.
Re:Nice FUD on the front page editors (Score:4, Funny)
Well, we have photoshop...
Re:Don't bother (Score:3, Funny)
support is a huge thing if you are using adobe in your career.
What particular problems have you encountered that having support was able to dig you out of?
Having someone else to blame.
Re:Nice FUD on the front page editors (Score:3, Funny)
but I also have a windows box so that cancels out my shiny shiny
Re:Don't bother (Score:3, Funny)
I've been using Photoshop since, oh, version 4. Adobe has never had anything resembling 'support' for any of it's products.
I don't agree with you.
I had to call support for an Acrobat OCR product, and a girl with a beautiful CostaRican accent got to read the same manual page for me, several times.
Of course, I ended up just using another product with a less recognized brand, but that did resemble support. Shitty support, but support nevertheless.