CS2 is better?!

[Psychosako]

Illustrator CS had it's problems, and so i installed CS2 to fix said problems. It's lovely and great and i can now finish my projects.

I thought i'd installed Photoshop CS2 as well because i heard the layer management was better. And it is. I'll give it that.

A week ago, i could have Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator CS all open, each with several files. CS2 is so memory intensive that my system now lags like a crazy mug. grr. Also, they got rid of the up and down arrows for text size. You now have to type in the size whether you like it or not. /:P

Anyone else have a gripe about CS2's newness?

Also, has anyone tried out Adobe Flash yet? I'm curious as to whether or not they fixed the bugs that Macromedia Flash MX had.

[Neuro]

I think it is definitely more memory intensive. We upgraded at work and have noticed a slow down. Still working with IT to get more memory but I might as well ask for a million bucks. I would be interested to hear how someone might be able to minimize this issue with what they currently have for memory. Any thoughts?

[urstwile]

Psycho,

In all the CS2 apps, to increase or decrease text size by two points or pixels:

Command (Mac) or Control (PC) + Shift + < or >

From the online help.

As to gripes about CS2, I don't really have any, then again we upgraded from Photoshop 6 and Illustrator 9 to the CS2 suite. So far I'm loving all of the apps, especially InDesign, which although I'm new to it, seems far and away way better than Quark, and this from a veteran Quark user.

The suite is very RAM intensive however. Can't dispute that.

[PrintDriver]

I don't have any problems either.

Seems more people with problems are also running Tiger. At least that seems to be the consensus.
I'm still in Panther with 2gigs of ram on a dual 2gig G5 and lovin' it. At any given moment I might have 2 or 3 different versions of Illustrator open, 2 different versions of InDesign, Quark 6.x and always Photoshop CS2. I try not to do that but sometimes I get busy and forget to shut em down (we always work native to designer's files).

I've never seen a slowdown on any of them, except when high-res preview is used in InD and Quark - for obvious reasons.

[urstwile]

Well, it might also be the speed of the computer in combination with Tiger and CS2. At work, we're running Tiger, and at home I'm running Tiger. Sadly (or not, depending on your perspective) my home computer is faster than my work computer. At work I'm on an old G4 (366 mhz) at home I'm on an iMac G5. Both computers have 1 gigabyte of RAM. At home, I can have all three apps going at the same time and not notice a slowdown, but at work...fugeddaboudit!

[reuber1]

Adobe Flash? I don't think Adobe has released their version of Flash just yet. The latest version should be Flash 8, which was released under Macromedia still. I've never used it, I've gone as far as MX 2004, which is pretty solid as far as I have seen. It'll be interesting to see what Adobe will do with Flash, though.

[shadepics]

Haven't come across any problems in Studio 8 as of yet ( apart from flashpaper2 ).

[Psychosako]

Psycho,

In all the CS2 apps, to increase or decrease text size by two points or pixels:

Command (Mac) or Control (PC) + Shift + < or >

From the online help.

As to gripes about CS2, I don't really have any, then again we upgraded from Photoshop 6 and Illustrator 9 to the CS2 suite. So far I'm loving all of the apps, especially InDesign, which although I'm new to it, seems far and away way better than Quark, and this from a veteran Quark user.

The suite is very RAM intensive however. Can't dispute that.

Oo. Thanks. Learn something new every day.

Boy, the differences between Illustrator 9, then 10, then CS, then CS2, are absolutely astounding. HUGE jumps each update... you must be feeling like your dancing in fields since you went straight from 9 to CS2. The differences between Photoshop 7 and CS2 aren't fantastical, but enough.

You know, i liked Quark alot, but Indesign is just far more user friendly. I use it for just about anything that's more than one page.

I use a PC.

I've seen ads for the Adobe Flash stuff in magazines and what not, but it appears they're doing Flash player betas now.

[shadepics]

Flash 9 is the latest, and you need it to use the beta of Adobe Flex 2. However annoyingly, some websites using flash detector say you need to update the flash player to number 8 to view the content...:|

[urstwile]

... you must be feeling like your dancing in fields since you went straight from 9 to CS2.

As much as it's possible to frolic with software, I've been a-frolicking. :p

You know, i liked Quark alot, but Indesign is just far more user friendly. I use it for just about anything that's more than one page.

I never hated Quark, it's the only thing I used for a really long time, when it comes to page layout, and would even now consider myself somewhat of a power user. I still don't hate Quark, but they definitely made some mistakes when they were the 800 pound gorilla that I'm guessing they're regretting and trying to catch up with now. I still think it's good to know both, but for new projects, I'm going the InDesign route.

InDesign just seems better to me, and more well thought out, somehow. Hard to describe I guess, but I just find that I'm preferring to work in it.

[Psychosako]

I never hated Quark, it's the only thing I used for a really long time, when it comes to page layout, and would even now consider myself somewhat of a power user. I still don't hate Quark, but they definitely made some mistakes when they were the 800 pound gorilla that I'm guessing they're regretting and trying to catch up with now. I still think it's good to know both, but for new projects, I'm going the InDesign route.

Oh, i don't hate Quark either, especially as of 6.0. 6 really fixed alot of problems that Quark had, but the schools in the area have tuned out quark entirely. So we started turning in asignments in InDesign. I'm a fan. I'm currently using InDesign CS, and i like it quite a bit. I curious as to what the differences between CS and CS2 are.

[reuber1]

Adobe's link to Flash takes me directly to a page with Flash 8.