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Cindy-
Cindy-
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April 7, 2009
Question

You MERGED Illustrator and InDesign???

  • April 7, 2009
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OMG....This place just plain stinks!!! You guys making this happen just don't get it. To he** with you!!!

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    Anonymous
    April 8, 2009

    i'm a professional windows application developer. i help in the windows photoshop forum, mostly with system problems and beginner to intermediate photoshop problems. i just want to say, even though i have no vested interest in illy or ID,  imo, merging win and mac forums is a very...

    Bad Idea.

    Cindy-
    Cindy-Author
    Known Participant
    April 8, 2009

    Thanks Dave.

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    Anonymous
    April 8, 2009

    Cindy- wrote:

    Thanks Dave.

    When you calm down, will your purple apple turn to a nice rosy tint?

    Cindy-
    Cindy-Author
    Known Participant
    April 7, 2009

    As a matter of fact, I can't tell you how many Mac people don't want to use Dreamweaver because of this issue. I happen to think it is a better program than GoLive but Mac people prefer GoLive because of the support they get. Trust me on this. It makes a difference. It's just too bad nobody is listening.

    Mac people buy 50% of Adobe's programs and this is going to matter in the long run. The big Q got a little big for their britches too and look what happened. InDesign!

    Oh, I forgot to mention. I don't particularly like the Dreamweaver forums. I go there if I have to but the whole issue here is the sense of community. I do not find it there. I am afraid it is going to go missing for a good many of us here.

    Cindy-
    Cindy-Author
    Known Participant
    April 7, 2009

    Look, if you have to merge forums to say you merged forums, then merge anything other than the main apps like Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. Leave them in the h*ll alone! I have wanted separate forums in Dreamweaver for a long time. I think it would attract more Mac users. Do you believe that? No. Do I think you will change it? No. So now leave the rest alone. You have messed up too many things. Don't mess that up. And what difference does it make to you anyway to give Mac users these forums? Nothing!!

    Curt Wrigley
    Curt Wrigley
    Inspiring
    April 7, 2009

    Cindy- wrote:

    . And what difference does it make to you anyway to give Mac users these forums? Nothing!!

    I can just say in the video forums we have avoided splitting MAc / PC because the same questions would get asked and answered in both places.  In the case of Pr, a very low % of questions have anything to do with the OS.  Maybe 5% at best.  So, in our case it makes no sense to have separate forums.  In PS case; i can see where there is enough volume and culture clash to argue seprate forums.  

    But; to answer your question I suspect the over all "tendancy" for management to want to combine is to avoid the same questions and expertise being used twice.

    Cindy-
    Cindy-Author
    Known Participant
    April 7, 2009

    But; to answer your question I suspect the over all "tendancy" for management to want to combine is to avoid the same questions and expertise being used twice.

    The only way you would have the same questions ask over and over is if the same person went to both forums and ask the same question. Unlikely.

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    Anonymous
    April 7, 2009

    No, no, no. Not quite as bad as that!

    They merged InDesign Windows and InDesign Mac into one InDesign General forum.

    Zeno Bokor
    Zeno Bokor
    Inspiring
    April 7, 2009

    The (probable) reason why they did it is because those forums had very few active users and so they merged them to raise forum activity. I don't see what's the problem, is it that hard for the users to say whether they're on mac or windows? also, most problems are platform agnostic anyway

    Cindy-
    Cindy-Author
    Known Participant
    April 7, 2009

    When I go to these forums I want help from people who are familiar with how the software interacts with my OS. And you say there was little activity? Does that slow the system down or something? Does that require more manpower?

    These forums have been going one day and here are some of the software related issues in the subject lines.

    • Fonts in Illustrator CAS4 Windows XP
    • Problem with showing bounding box in Illustrator CS4 on Windows XP.
    • Can't open Illustrator documents on Windows after upgrading OS X Server.
    • Hardware & CS4 
    • Can't solve Illustrator CS3 crash on OS X 10.5.x (Updated)
    • InDesign CS3 freezes in startup on "SING Gaiji" 
    • Unable to save changes to a Photoshop file opened by Links panel 
    • placing text from MS Word with only 'italic', 'underlined' and/or 'bold'
    • Getting an Excel 2003 range into an InDesign CS3 document
    • no tools in CS4 Mac Indesign
    • Registration window appears every time I open InDesign...and it's already registered
    • Problem with RIP and Indesign CS4 – wrong file name
    • word documents not being linked in CS3
    • Converting Pagemaker 7.0 to CS3 fuzzy pictures
    • Anyone tried running In Design & other CS3 programs with Windows XP(64) bit version as their O/s?
    • Running CS2 on a MacBook

    This is a trend!

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