appleinsider.com — Adobe Systems earlier this month offered attendees at the Photoshop World conference proof that it is progressing swiftly in transitioning its Creative Suite line of software applications to Apple's new Intel Mac platform.
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dannyspaceSep 18, 2006
Stop saying Mactel.
Closed AccountSep 18, 2006
@Daniel591992Thats gotta be the most ironic thing ive read today :).
gwalbridgeSep 18, 2006
@catmistake -- You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Carbon apps have been PPC apps since... hmm, let's see, since Carbon was released. Guess what? Cocoa apps are PPC apps too. One is just native to OS X (being Cocoa), and the other being capable, but less feature-rich, of running in both OS 9 and OS X (Carbon).They pretty much have to move to XCode, or at least invent some other type of wrapper (which will likely take a large performance hit).I agree, Adobe slacks in certain areas and, from being a witness to many things inside Adobe, they run their business very bureaucratically... but they are not the "new" Microsoft. They simply have a very very large set of products to port.
skyeflyeSep 19, 2006
Oh and let's not forget the "genius" hyperlink to the product's main page at the top of the toolbar in every CS App. How many times have we accidentally clicked that stupid "button" instead of the marquee or the move tool? And to add insult to injury, it always causes a browser to open the main product page page on Adobe's site that "helpfully" informs us how great the App is and why we should buy it. For the 400th time, I already own it! Argh!!
vadimtsSep 19, 2006
spectre_25gt, you're wrong.First of all, Adobe IS continuing to develop Fireworks, and will include it in its product line.Please read this statement (<a class="user" href="http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.fireworks/msg/302cfca0c36c6eb0)">http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.fireworks/msg/302cfca0c36c6eb0)</a> by Danielle Beaumont, Fireworks Product Manager at Adobe. He clearly states that Adobe has no plans to kill FW.And second, Fireworks is a great, (if not to say - best), application for a web design. It's much better than Adobe ImageReady, so I won't be surprised if Fireworks will replace ImageReady in the Photoshop & ImageReady combo, (but that's just my opinion).
spectre_25gtSep 23, 2006
Fireworks is nowhere near as powerful as Photoshop. If you find that Photoshop "gets in your way" as you're doing designs, then you need to learn the program better. Personally, there's no effect that I can think of that I can't figure out how to do in Photoshop. Fireworks, on the other hand, was never designed to be able to do the things that Photoshop does, so it can't. If you stick to fireworks, you're going to eventually find that your sites are staying too similar and lacking."To each their own" is fine when you're talking about comparable tools, but Fireworks just isn't on the same level.