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I am student and will graduate in the next year.  When I graduate, will I still be able to use the program or do I have to buy an actual version?  (in other words since I have to prove that I am a student, will my student validation still be needed for the activation of the product after I reinstall it or graduate.)Another ? having nothing to do with a Student Version Cs4.  Is it true that you can't export a movie in any format with a 30 day trial version Cs4 premiere?

Ok, I started noticing problem using adobe to open abobe files. Instead of getting the 'adobe' content, the file will open with 'windows', but with right click and 'open with' with adobe option, files open fine. So, I uninstalled adobe 9.3.1, and tried to install back (9.3), but installation did not 'complete' after 7/8 tries. Quite a few times, the installation process didn't even look for 'destination' for the file!Now, with adobe being ‘re-installed’, I cannot open any file, what's more, every time I click on adobe, my screen will jump completely black, get all the desktop icons look highlighted and weird, and then a box re surface with "adobe encountered an error and need to shut......"Any take on this problem?Thanks a lot in advance

At the top of the InDesign forum page, one finds this:ANNOUNCEMENT: File Attachements temporarily disabled Show DetailsWould advise turning on spell checking...

G'dayIs there any way we can get a sticky added to each of the ColdFusion forums, suggesting the following resources are a good place to start before posting questions:CF8 online docs: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Part_3_CFML_Ref_1.htmlCF9 online docs: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/index.htmlSearch the forums before posting for people having had the same problem previouslySearch Google before posting for people having had the same problem previouslyRead this: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlI spend a bit of my spare time answering people's questions there (and am obviously happy to do so), but really a lot of the questions are pretty naive, and the user could help themselves by taking the above steps before asking.Even the newest of newbies who can't be expected to know much at all (which is fine!) can help themselves by having a look-see first.  And I always figure it's better for people to try to DIY, rather

HELLO i've searched the  forums for this issue but cannot find it--it's QUITE tricky---DEALS  w/ a  real health/RSI hand-problem: I need to switch wacom's PEN mode from absolute to relative  coordinates;  [NOTE: i've tried all the  tablet pref's & properties BUT i'm  only able to  map-changes to the tablet's "live" area [i.e.   changes  the overall active-region  YET will not change the relative  versus absolute mode for PEN use]..wacom's intuos3 seems only  to allow their MOUSE to  work in relative mode, not the Pen..meh.. I have serious  hand-health RSI problems & it turns out that the relative mode is  BEST  forme yet i cannot get the PEN to work that way-- it only  works in absolute-coordinate-mode..I've been to wacom's OWN site &yet  i received no info (also tried posting this to CGsociety & a few other top-notch-CG  sites)).. --I'd guess that someone would ha

Hello All,We have a requirement where we need to output the PDF with UTF8 content. I selected the MS Arial Unicode font for the same. But i don't see any encoding specific to UTF8 where the text would be displayed in UTF8. I understand that the font has to be Unicode compliant and thats teh reason i selcted this font.Our application already writes the PDF in Helvetica font for English and HeiseiKakugo font in Japanese but i wanted to use something generic for UTF8.Could you please let me know as to how do i enhance the basic PDF to incorporate this font with UTF8.RegardsMukund

I selected to Receive Email Notifications on Dreamweaver, Photoshop Macintosh and Action Script 3. However, after realizing I will be receiving 100 emails every so many hours, I decided this would not be a good idea. I returned to each forum and selected Stop Email Notifications. Although the emails continue and continue to arrive in the inbox. Please help!!I am on a Macbook Pro, 10.5 Leopard, plenty of speed and plenty of RAM. I used Safari 4.0 as my browser. Please tell me how to turn these off.Sincerely,Wynne Hunkler[email removed]

I was not able to find a way to limit a search entered at the top right of a forum page to the forum I'm currently looking at. Is there a way to do this?I know I can use "More Options" in the search panel presented after initial search, butI am currently looking at a specific forum and I know that I want to confine my search to exactly this forum when I start the searchIt is almost impossible to find a specific forum in the list presented under More Options, due to its "strange" hierarchy (e.g. try finding the Lightroom 3 Beta forum in there).Thanks for any hints.Beat GossweilerSwitzerland

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Can anyone tell me if I should be ok to upgrade to snow leopard with my CS3?

G'day(I'm cross-posting this from here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2677169#2677169)On forum messages, there's a button to report it as spam.  I cannot see any similar feature to report a private message as spam.  Anyone know how to bring spam private messages to Adobe's attention (other than posting to the "report spam" threads here, which seems a pretty primitive way of effecting the desired result)?Cheers.--Adam

Adobe your service is an outrage, 45 #$%^& minutes and still waiting?? I've got a life to lead! And work to do! Now you've forced me here, let's see if I can get an answer here. My wife has Adobe Standard CS3 on Windows Vista, can she upgrade — or cross-grade — up to CS4 on Mac?A simple question that would take a couple minutes to answer, so STOP WASTING MY TIME.

I'm getting ready to purchase a new developer box.  I use a number of different applications, Flash CS4, Photoshop CS3, Lightroom 2, Dream Weaver and Firefox 8, plus a number of plug-ing and other applications.  Does anyone have personal experience in installing these programs on a Windows 7 box.  I'ver read the Adobe Windows 7 information but looking for some personal experience.Thanks in advance,Mike

A few minutes ago, I was in the process of writing a reply to this message in the PageMaker forum:http://forums.adobe.com/message/2678228#2678228when I was misteriously and violently taken to this old and locked thread in the InDesign forum, without my intervention:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/487684?tstart=0Naturally, I lost all that I had written.Anyone else? Anyone who knows how or why this can happen?

In another thread, I replied to a message from Bill Hunt, quoting him. This is the top part of my reply:The first line correctly says that I am responding to Bill Hunt, but two lines down he is identified as the_wine_snob. Curiously, the message to which I was responding also identifies Bill correctly:A quick search in other threads shows that the same anomaly seems to be affecting some other participants.My apologies if this has already been reported.

the final release of Flash buidler 4 can not intall in my win2003 sp2, but beta2 is ok. Anybody know why?

I hope that this time of the year, starting today and ending in three months on the day, with its many different celebrations of the prevalence of good and of the new year, all having a strong emphasis on friendship and good wishes, will also bring good times to the forums in every way.I send my best wishes to everyone that reads this, banned or not, here at the beginning of this long night, with snow glittering under the new moon.

I got an email saying i got a private message but i cant figure out why when i' go to my inbox there isnt anything there. Can someone give me a hand.

I use Thunderbird, and I was wondering if there was any way to have email notifications sorted into threads. It's really hard to follow conversations through email, since without threads they're divorced of context.If there's no way to get email threading working, are there any plans to implement this feature in the future?

I'm running Windows 7 Home 32 bit edition with firefox as my main browser. I can NOT getFlash 10 to install and work. Its driving me rather batty seeing as sites always seem to have flash content now. I've 'installed' it VIA the download manager many times. Uninstalled Flash totally, spent 30 minutes scouring this site for an up to date EXE file and installed from that. When flash 10 installs from the download manager it says it installed succesfully. And on that page that pops up right after I can see the little flash video that it says I should see if it worked properly. So why wont it work on any other website? After 3 days of this I'm rather tired of the matter.

I see that Jochem is still being heavy handed...http://forums.adobe.com/message/2671179#2671179Lighten up Jochem... All P Jones said was:"This sounds like an awfully fishy request How do we know this fellow is on the up and up?"There's no reason for him to report abuse if he wasn't sure... all he was doing was expressing an opinion and passing his comment for other, repeat *other* readers of this forum.But, going by what your attitude seems to be, it appears you don't like any discussion or exchange of ideas and opinions.In fact, in the very first sentence of his next para he says:"If the request is not my appologies."Clearly he had no wish to report an abuse for what could have very well been a valid request for help... as the OP posted in the last post before youlocked the thread...So, just lighten up...And if, i am to be banned for this post, so be it!Cheers...Kz

Hi all,I'm a new IT partner for a company who wants to know who has which adobe product installed and with which licence key.As most people are never in the office I wanted to do this with a Windows logon script (active directory).Anybody can help me out with a script (in VB for example) to collect all adobe products installed on a PC and the associated licence key.Thanks for any tips leading me in the right direction Best regards,Yannick Thread was locked by Jochem van Dieten

HelloHave I done a catastrophic mistake by being too late to re-activate my Adobe creative suite?I have had computer problems. When I in the end bought a new computer and tried to install Adobe, the re-activation time had run out.I did have a possibility to re-activate it off course, but didnt do it immidiately, since I was about to re-install everything in the new computer, and then problems arouse that delayed everything ...and then suddenly it was to late.I will contact support by phone tomorrow. But if someone can ease my pain, by hinting that it is possible to re-activate it, I will get some sleep tonight...cheers/Johan

Dear all,I have recently developed some visual effects (mainly transitions) that are both Mac and PC compatible as well as Final Cut Pro/Motion and Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects compatible.I have read in the past countless posts about people looking for these effects/transitions (camera light leaks and other light transitions).While I would be delighted to show here, to Adobe Premiere users, a wide range of these fx,  I am aware that I cannot choose this venue for such purpose since they are not completely for free (though they are sold for a ridiculous price).So the question is, what site would be best to provide Adobe Premiere users with web links and info about these new transitions of mine so that users have the freedom and advantage to take a look?I am a FCP (6.0.5) user and Premiere Pro (1.5) user.Thank you in advance for any suggestion,Luca

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and Adobe 9 came with the software package for new computer. Everytime I try to download a pdf file from Internet explorer it times me out and I end up with an error message   "there is a problem with Adobe Acrobat/Reader. Please close and try again later."  and no pdf. Explorer closes and I have to try again all over again.Any help out there would be great