Adobe CS3.3 Released

Adobe CS 3.3 Released

The Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 upgrade hit my doorstop this past week. (I talked about CS3 in an earlier post). The only thing the CS3.3 Design Standard upgrade offers, really, is an upgrade from Acrobat 8 to Acrobat 9. I'm not sure yet what Acrobat 9 is all about, but from my brief reading/skimming I've come to the understanding that it beefs up forms and multimedia support. Yay.

Now, if you're a Creative Suite 3 Design Premium user, there's a lot more to like about this upgrade: you get a full license for Fireworks. Now that's a little more like it, Adobe! When it comes to designing graphics for the Web, Firworks is good, good stuff and it's nice they finally threw us a bone.

I was a little wary of the upgrade - the original 3.0 install came on DVDs and was many gigs in size. And the post-install updating routine was a disaster.

Fortunately, although the new installer also comes on DVD, it does nothing but install Acrobat. No other components are updated or reinstalled. Whew! All you have to do is follow the instructions for removing older versions of Acrobat, and then drag the Acrobat 9 folder to your computer. In this case, it's pretty easy - the Acobat 8 folder created during the CS3 install contains an uninstaller program. Inexplicably, the Acrobat 9 folder you drag over from your installation DVD to your hard drive is over a gig.