Thursday, 19 October 2006

Adobe a ounces Acrobat 8 Universal Binary, Creative Suite 2.3

Ali Hanyaloglu at the Adobe Blogs has a ounced version 8 of Acrobat, their software for all things PDF, with a nice surprise: it's Universal. It's being bundled with the also recently a ounced new Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, a retail upgrade (don't you love how they like to charge for .X upgrades when 1/8th of the suite is Universal?) which also now includes Dreamweaver 8. GoLive, fortunately, will be un off into a separate product (yea that's right: I said 'fortunately'), but who knows how long Adobe will grace users with a choice in web design a , e ecially since Premium Creative Suite buyers are already getting one major suite in their bundle.

Check out the new Acrobat 8.0 page, as well as the Creative Suite 2.3 pre release, for details on what's new in this $159 upgrade (admittedly, a deal for Dreamweaver 8 alone). CS 2.3 is expected to ship before the end of 2006, but remember: the rest of the suite i 't Universal yet, and they won't be offering Universal upgrades to CS2. If you aren't dying for Acrobat 8 or Dreamweaver 8, I'd recommend waiting until the first half of 2007 to upgrade, e ecially if an Intel Mac is in your future.

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