Phillip Jones wrote: What happens when Adobe Knocks on your Interenet door to phone home and your Internet connection is on the fritz. (which about 80% of the US has to put up with daily. I'd like to know where you got that 80% figure. Mine is seriously more reliable. ... View more

I'm all in favor of sticking it to Adobe over this. It just seems there are so many other better alternatives to this move. There's no need to hurt loyal customers just because they aren't frequent updaters and aren't large enough to afford yearly upgrades. Why not offer subscriptions and perpetual licenses? To incentivize the subscription option, put the newest features there first and give them to others a year later? All this greed makes me want to change professions. ... View more

Adobe is a company and as a company it is in business to make money. It is not in business to make any of us happy. It is abundantly clear this move is designed to generate revenue and they can't  be faulted for trying to be profitable. For argument's sake, let's say Adobe has doubled the cost of using their software. For their revenue stream to remain EVEN they could lose up to half of their users. Does anyone think this move will cause Adobe to lose half of their clients? No. In that regard, this move will end up making Adobe money. It is my belief this move is still wrong. It seems better to broaden your customer base rather than reduce it. Sure, a lot of us are hobbyists, not-for-profits and small businesses that just represent chump change to Adobe, but it still seems to make better sense to me to make a product more desirable rather than more expensive. Yes, price increases are expected, but only in small increments and generally in line with inflation. This move makes me wonder what the life span of such products as Photoshop might have. How different is it today from what it was even five or ten years ago? 64 bit? Yes, great. A handful of new filters? Yes, also great, but how else? When they started adding video editing it makde me think Adobe developers may be scratching their heads about what else they can do to make it useful. Surely, that's a difficult task, but I believe there are a great of deal of new frontiers to be explored yet that can keep Photoshop viable for years to come. For example, I'd love to see real 3D texture painting. Sure, it does that now, but it's clunky and not very effective. Offer support to load popular object formats and generate UV maps as we paint. Other products specialize in this. Why can't Photoshop? Also, what about offering additional tools as plugins? How about developing a better matte picker? That's not something we all need, so offer it as a plugin. Lastly, I know developing software is expensive and it should be. It's hard work! So why not drop some of the smaller applications and focus on the bigger ones? Does anyone really use SpeedGrade? Prelude? Just saying. ... View more

Ha! You're so right about that! ... View more

I love that idea, but strikes me that THIS is the answer to THEIR economic troubles. ... View more

Yeah, really don't think that will get us far. Adobe is a private company and can do and charge what they will. They have no responsibility to their customers, only their shareholders. As consumers, we can make a difference by purchasing from other companies. If enough of us do that, we will speak loudly enough for Adobe to hear. And only then will they have to decide if it's worth it to change their pricing. Sadly, I doubt this will happen. Adobe has a history of greed and the large companies will be more than enough to sustain them. ... View more

@_paz_ looks like they're weeding out the poorest of us. And the rich just get richer. I've been a legal, paying customer for years. In fact, I've NEVER pirated Adobe software. And here's how they reward my loyalty. ... View more

This move by Adobe was clearly motivated by greed. In no way is their cloud pricing structure less expensive. $50 for a month? Sure, that's possibly less than one good meal, but think about the upgrade cost of a CS suite. I paid about $600 for my last upgrade and I can use that for years. Over those same years of use with my own version, I will need to pay thousands of more dollars for the same thing. To be truly cost effective, I now not only have to have to calculate the cost of the software into a budget, but I also need to determine how much time is spent using the software to know if it's worth the monthly expenditure. If I determine the cost of the subscription is worth it to my business, what happens if, at the end of the year, my subscription expires and I don't renew. Then a client returns asking for changes or updates. I now have to absorb the cost of a new subscription for the changes. I don't make that much money from this software to justify the costs here. Not by a long shot. Methinks it's time for a change. ... View more

I think this might be the curse of the even numbered suite because I'm experiencing unprecedented problems with other products, namely Flash. ... View more

Had the same problem here. I upgraded from Design Premium CS5 to MC CS6 and Acrobat just decided not to work. To fix it, I went into Photoshop, deactivated, reactivated, then went through the process again and now it works. We'll see for how long. Another issue that really horks me off is I could not fully UNinstall CS5. InDesign remains. I also had a hard time uninstalling my separate license for AE CS5. Insane. ... View more

After more than three weeks of messing with at least a dozen different approaches, I think I found a solution. It's a total kludge, but seems to work. I know the height of my textfield and the heights of each line of text and though my math has been correct to fit enough lines into the textfield for the addPage() command, all the lines haven't been printing on all the printers I've tested with so I'm keeping the textfield the same height, but reducing the number of visible lines by one as a precaution. To do this, I'm filling the textfield with my html-formatted text then deleting the lines above and below that don't fit in the textfield. A kludge, as I've said, but it has worked in my tests so far. The big problem is the html formatting. Because I'm loading an external file with the html tags I won't get accurate results on the number of lines or any metrics until those tags are removed and the formatting applied to the text. At one point I hoped to to just copy X number of lines from one textfield to another, but realized there's no paste function with ActionScript. Several of my other attempts have included splitting the incoming text file by line break (but that only returned hard breaks; not very useful) then I tried splitting it by word, but when I applied them to my textfield it would only apply the closing tags (</b>, </u>, etc) if they were included with the same word as the opening tags. That is, this would work: <b>word</b>, but not this <b>word, word</b>. All in all, I've found the printJob() class to be an utter failure for printing. Its implemenation with the rectangle class and lack of real pagination support make this practically useless for me. I can only hope CS5 has improved upon this with its other text enhancements. ... View more

I've had several ideas about how to make this work, but don't  think any of them are really feasible. My first plan was to make the text field height equal to all the text and change the .y position. That worked, but some lines were split in half (top on one page, bottom on the next page). I thought about adding some code to make all the text white except where I needed it, but that might require knowing which lines are visible. Is there just a quick method for selecting a block of text by LINE not by character? With that, I think I could rule the world. ... View more

Thank you for the reply! I've considered doing this, but the problem is my incoming text contains html tags (<u></u>, etc) so the values I'd get back would be inaccurate since those tags disappear when creating the output. My first solution to that was to apply the text to another textfield and select/copy what would fit, but then I ran into the problem of how to move the selected HTML text to another field while maintaining the formatting. What baffles me most of all is why can I add text to a text field on the stage, scroll it X number of lines and see it working every single time, but when I try to capture that area with printJob() it fails? ... View more