Well I finally upgraded to CS4 yesterday and got a great deal $159.20 from Adobe (Thank you NAPP for the discount code). Saved another $20 on shipping because it was a download.
I always forget what a pain "upgrades" are. Yes new features, bugs fixed, faster. BUT I always forget about having to shut down the studio for a few hours while I convert this, install that, try to find my unlock code on the email that arrives 4 hours after my download, call the support line, try to find my English-Hindi Dictionary. OK truth is that both of the support people I talked to did speak reasonable English. But my problem was with installing the "Goodies" download. Goodies are all the features I loved in CS3 that were dropped from CS4.
At one point I was ready to punch the computer screen.
But it's all up and running smoothly now.
Now I just need to get used to the new screen layout, strange new buttons and new menus.
I always forget what a pain "upgrades" are. Yes new features, bugs fixed, faster. BUT I always forget about having to shut down the studio for a few hours while I convert this, install that, try to find my unlock code on the email that arrives 4 hours after my download, call the support line, try to find my English-Hindi Dictionary. OK truth is that both of the support people I talked to did speak reasonable English. But my problem was with installing the "Goodies" download. Goodies are all the features I loved in CS3 that were dropped from CS4.
At one point I was ready to punch the computer screen.
But it's all up and running smoothly now.
Now I just need to get used to the new screen layout, strange new buttons and new menus.