I Hope Y'all are Current

I fixed this by giving them a fake email when I signed up

 

Man. I bought affinity designer and I have adobe CC
Honestly I have opened affinity a handful of times.
But if it does 80% of what CC does - and 95% of what the sign industry needs —no need for it.
If client sends CC files - then request eps files?

 

Right. I agree.
So if most people in the sign industry receive CC files - the client is competent enough to send a eps or down save.
But I have a feeling most receivewrittennor verbal descriptions - and a CC of the company artwork.

But Generating files for your RIP- then one can use Corel etc. I may be missing something that ONLY cc can do for the graphics / sign industry?

 

Then, I’m sure they’re super excited about me still using CS5.

 

This has nothing to do with Photoshop or Illustrator thankfully. Adobe's agreement with Dolby has expired, so users are no longer legally licenced to use some old versions of Animate/Flash.
Adobe isn't the one doing the litigation, but they are warning you that "3rd parties" *cough* Dolby *cough* could go after you if they felt like it.
Just covering their own ***.

 

I'm still on CS6 for a reason... none of this rubbish to deal with.

 

got ya beat....CS3!

 

I found a PS 5.5 disc yesterday, will sell to the highest bidder.

 

Adobe will allow you to complete a license transfer. Selling the disc may anticipate a license violation if the buyer tried to use the software without a proper license.
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/transfer-product-license.html

 

I stopped at CS6 and have been using Affinity Designer because I had a feeling Adobe would be doing something to make more money. It trades on the stock market so the pressure is there.

 

still rocking CS6 and couldn't be happier!
anything that I cannot open in CS6, I convert via AcrobatPro. To hell with monthly subscriptions, just to be a beta-tester, and I still feel like I need to squeeze my $$$ out of my current software, as they jumped to the CCsubscription services shortly after I had purchased CS6 (still have all the discs/serials for every version since the 90's)

....unfortunately, this may soon change because my dislike for Mac's proprietary & cheap-build/over-price nature, is greater than my disdain for Adobe's subscriptions. Already building new design PC's that will be running windows, and all my CS6 software is for MacOS. Wish I could run hackintosh's here at the shop, but their terms are pretty clear that it is illegal. If I can't find legit PC copies, which most likely don't exist, then I'll just have to suck it up and go with CC.

 

The squabble between Adobe and Dolby is pretty unfortunate. Thanks to the dispute the encoders for Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus formats were removed from Adobe's audio-video applications that could encode 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio. Now anyone creating a video project with surround sound using Premiere Pro will have to buy a third party plug-in (or use a different application) to encode surround mixes in Dolby formats.

Minnetonka audio has a SurCode plug-in for Premiere Pro. It costs $295 and doesn't support 7.1. It just does mono, stereo and 5.1 Dolby Digital encoding. The same goes for the SurCode DTS DVD standalone application (there is a $99 DTS music CD encoding application). There are other applications and plug-ins for rival applications (like Avid, ProTools, etc). But the costs go up from there. Most Blu-ray discs have their audio encoded in DTS-HD Master Audio format. The current DTS:X Encoder Suite (which encodes next-gen DTS:X audio up to 11.1 and older DTS-HD audio up to 7.1) costs $1495. That's not bad if your main business is video production. But it's a bit much if you're only making short audio-video projects from time to time. Dolby has encoding products for TrueHD and Atmos formats that are much more expensive (and MacOSX only).

Windows 10 has built-in capabilities to decode Dolby Digital audio. That's fine for playback. It doesn't get you anywhere if you have a surround mix and want to encode it in Dolby Digital. Straight PCM 5.1/7.1 audio is an alternative, but that format doesn't have "fold down" 5.1>2.0 capabilities like Dolby Digital. And the audio bitstream is much bigger.

Adobe has been retiring activation servers for older versions of Creative Suite. The CS2 servers were retired in 2013. The CS3 servers were shut down in 2016. It would be reasonable to assume the CS4, CS5 and CS6 servers will be eventually retired too.

In the case of CS2, Adobe provided a new set of installers to registered users. Those installers didn't require activation. I think Adobe has a different procedure for people with registered copies of CS3. I've seen users have installations headaches with later CS versions due to them being upgrades from previous versions: serial numbers for both the previous version and upgrade version have to check out with the servers. That doesn't always happen.

I still have my old CS 5.5 Master Collection box handy as a worst case scenario fallback. I've kept a lot of other previous version discs from Adobe, Corel, Macromedia, etc just for the sentimental value. I even have my original boxes of Photoshop 2.5 and Illustrator 4 with the floppy disc installers.

 

I got you beat...I use CS2 and it works fine for me.

 

cs5 and me have a great relationship dont plan on changing that, yall can have all these subscription headaches