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Anonymous
April 14, 2010
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Illustrator CS4 trial

  • April 14, 2010
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Is there a place where i can still get a trial of cs4? I need it for a coupple of things and i can only find cs5 stuff on the website. Thanks!

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    Correct answer Harron_K_Appleman

    i dont know the exact verison i would say cs 2 or 3 and im on windows xp.


    Well, I'm not going to recommend any shady sources of previous trial versions (which you can easily discover via a Google search), but if AI 12 (CS2) will do the job, you can still get the trial version from Adobe's FTP site. (I have no idea why v12 trial files are still available there.) If you don't have an FTP client program (and clicking on the link below doesn't work for you), just copy and paste the following into the address bar of your browser:

    ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/illustrator/win/cs2/Illustrator_CS2_ue_TryOut.exe

    I cannot guarantee this will work at all.

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    Anonymous
    May 29, 2010

    i just want to kick u out adobe makers coz i really dont untersatnd that after searching hundreds of websites i didnt find adobe illustrator for cs4 and even though adobe own website didnot offer to download plz could u tell me the reason that why you cannot do this?

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    x2Ender
    Participant
    May 19, 2011

    In my opinion it was rather silly of adobe to do this (remove CS4 trials) ... an easy and fairly noticable reason is because CS5 trials will not work on all of our operating systems.

    This I will never understand to why they did this...

    I have been looking for a CS4 Illustrator trial for nearly 2 days now... where else do they expect us to get it? hmmm... wouldn't be our fault.

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    Umijin1
    Participant
    April 27, 2010

    You might try here:

    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?loc=en&product=illustrator&tt=P_US_FP2_IL_CS4_MN&promoid=121DJGST_P_US_FP2_IL_CS4_MN

    I got this link via a software vendor online.

    -GCF

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    Anonymous
    April 20, 2010

    OK, got it installed and working, sorry its been so long, things got a little hectic. Thanks for the help.

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    ˉ˚°º•♪♫ Robert ♫♪•º°˚ˉ
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    April 22, 2010

    Good to hear that you're all settled now.

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    shunithD
    Inspiring
    April 15, 2010

    nat45928 wrote:

    Is there a place where i can still get a trial of cs4? I need it for a coupple of things and i can only find cs5 stuff on the website. Thanks!

    Go to Adobe -> Downloads -> Updates (links at the top). Select Illustrator from the drop down... You can download CS2 at least...

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    ˉ˚°º•♪♫ Robert ♫♪•º°˚ˉ
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    April 15, 2010

    No it is not. The link is broken.

    Besides, system requirements have to be taken into account.

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    shunithD
    Inspiring
    April 17, 2010

    ˉ˚°º•♪♫ Robert ♫♪•º°˚ˉ wrote:

    No it is not. The link is broken.

    Yup... Gone now... was there when i posted the route/path... i remember i checked it... some fancy footwork on the Adobe side?

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    ˉ˚°º•♪♫ Robert ♫♪•º°˚ˉ
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    April 15, 2010

    Hi there,

    You did not tell us the file format of the files you are trying to open.

    If they are PDF compatible .ai files, you can just change the extension from .ai into .pdf to view them with Acrobat Reader or Pro.

    If that is not the case, or you also need to change the files, you could download Inkscape and view/edit.


    EDIT: Good read if you start using Inkscape, with an Illustrator background : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_for_Adobe_Illustrator_users

    I personally still prefer Illustrator.

    Good luck and don't forget about Illustrator.

    Robert

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    Harron_K_Appleman
    Inspiring
    April 15, 2010
    If they are PDF compatible .ai files, you can just change the extension from .ai into .pdf to view them with Acrobat Reader or Pro.

    It is entirely unnecessary to change filename extension. In either Adobe Reader or the Acrobat application, simply select File | Open, opt to view all file types, and select the .ai file you wish to view.

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    ˉ˚°º•♪♫ Robert ♫♪•º°˚ˉ
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    April 15, 2010

    I will more than not likely need to edit them. It is a .ai file that i am trying to open.


    Acrobat Reader or Pro will do the job then.

    Although I noticed that with some .ai files with embedded raster images (not all) you might end up looking at a completely white document in Acrobat.

    It's up to you if you want to change the extension. Either change the extension, or make Acrobat the default program for .ai files.

    Good luck with it.

    EDIT: I'll leave you in the good hands of the pros.

    Message was edited by: ˉ˚°º•♪♫ Robert ♫♪•º°˚ˉ

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    Wade_Zimmerman1
    Inspiring
    April 14, 2010

    That means it is gone and Adobe no longer sells CS 4. After all why would they want you to try CS 4 when they no longer sell it.

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    Anonymous
    April 15, 2010

    Because i need illustrator to open some files but this is time sensitive and i dont know when cs5 will be released, otherwise belive me i would wait for cs5.

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