If you haven't heard yet, Adobe is offering one of the older versions of its graphic suite series, specifically CS2. This page at Gizmodo gives more information about it. Adobe produces some very useful applications, like Acrobat Reader (now an digital document standard), Flash and Shockwave.
Although I'm not a big fan of Adobe's graphics apps (they're fairly expensive), I was interested in seeing what's in the suite and what else is available. So in addition to CS2, I now have Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 for producing Acrobat documents and forms, and Adobe Premiere Pro 2 for editing videos. Here's the link to the download page; remember to grab the serial number.
Some problems were encountered when installing the downloads on my OS (operating system) -- Windows 7, 64-bit. It seems the app was written before this version of Windows (and possibly before Windows Me), because the installer wouldn't accept the folder designation "Program Files (x86)." It's easy enough to direct the installer to a different folder, but getting past the "insert next disk" was impossible.
Here's my work-around. Burn each downloaded disk to a CD. After installing disk 1, go to the folder on C-drive you created, and find the file "Setup.exe." It may be in a sub-folder created by the installer called "Adobe Creative Suite 2.0." Run the setup and select one of the apps listed as not installed; start its installation and insert the disk requested when prompted. After going through the list and installing each of the applications (one at a time worked best), run setup one more time to verify that all the apps are installed.
This is what the directory looks like when all the installations are done (includes Premier Pro, not in the CS2 package).
Hope this works for you. You're welcome to comment.
-- Marge
Although I'm not a big fan of Adobe's graphics apps (they're fairly expensive), I was interested in seeing what's in the suite and what else is available. So in addition to CS2, I now have Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 for producing Acrobat documents and forms, and Adobe Premiere Pro 2 for editing videos. Here's the link to the download page; remember to grab the serial number.
Some problems were encountered when installing the downloads on my OS (operating system) -- Windows 7, 64-bit. It seems the app was written before this version of Windows (and possibly before Windows Me), because the installer wouldn't accept the folder designation "Program Files (x86)." It's easy enough to direct the installer to a different folder, but getting past the "insert next disk" was impossible.
Here's my work-around. Burn each downloaded disk to a CD. After installing disk 1, go to the folder on C-drive you created, and find the file "Setup.exe." It may be in a sub-folder created by the installer called "Adobe Creative Suite 2.0." Run the setup and select one of the apps listed as not installed; start its installation and insert the disk requested when prompted. After going through the list and installing each of the applications (one at a time worked best), run setup one more time to verify that all the apps are installed.
This is what the directory looks like when all the installations are done (includes Premier Pro, not in the CS2 package).
Hope this works for you. You're welcome to comment.
-- Marge
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