Free InDesign and InCopy CS3 Trials Available
Adobe just made free trials available for all their web and design Creative Suite 3 products, including InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3 (links below). As usual the trials are 30-day, fully-functional programs.
New with CS3 is that if and when you’re ready to purchase the product, you can convert your trial into your licensed copy. No more uninstalling a trial and re-installing the “real” software! Just enter your serial number to activate the trial. This will work even if the 30-day period has expired. However, the new feature is not available to volume licensing customers.
If you want to try out the entire Web or Design Creative Suites, you might prefer to order a trial DVD instead. The DVD costs $9.99 for shipping and handling, and you can use the DVD as your backup media if you decide to purchase and activate the product.
All Creative Suite 3 Trial Links:
https://www.adobe.com/special/try_buy/trial_availability.html
Design Suite 3 Trials on DVD:
https://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/trial/
Creative Suite 3 Trials FAQs:
https://www.adobe.com/special/try_buy/trial_faq.html
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Excellent. My business is transitioning to a new office and we are switching out computers and deciding on the best package to buy. We do plan on upgrading within the month. This will help us in the interim.
I downloaded the trial (Indesign CS3), but it crashed when I tried loading it.
I have OS: Win XP SP2, with Microsoft .net versions 1, 2 and 3 installed.
Soes anyone know why it won’t run? … it seemed to install fine (I tried twice: 2 clean installs), so that’s okay, but…
When I try to run Indesisnm its loader crashes (round about when its splash screen says ‘checking Windows registry)
BTW, no I don’t use any illegal versions – so that can’t be it!
Any help appreciated
I downloaded it and my OS is plain ol’ Win XP also. It crashes on me too. Adobe is drastic need of competent programmers obviously. I’m noticing a number of problems with it. Looks like another crap product. I’ve had so many problems with this awful awful program that I hope they go bankrupt for wasting so many hours and days of my time trying to work around THEIR bugs. I’m piping mad.
Sorry you’re having such a difficult time with the free tryout. But if you could keep the venom to a minimum we’d appreciate it ;-) … remember we don’t work for the company. Probably best to contact them directly.
I have a client (remote, so I can’t actually see her screen), who is having trouble activating her purchased upgrade to CS3 from CS1. She didn’t do it at the time of installation, so every time she opens InDesign, she’s asked if she wants to activate her copy; that she has XX days left on her trial version. I had her enter her new registration code (several times), but that’s not working. Her original copy of CS1 is still installed, so the installer should be able to find that without problems. Is there something else I should advise her to do?
(I asked her to get DiskWarrior and run the disk and file utilities. I’m sure these need to be done and this may fix the problem, but maybe you know of something else I could tell her.)
Thanks! And thanks for all the “secrets” in your podcasts. I really enjoy them.
I’ve not heard of this problem, but my first inclination is that she’s typing the wrong registration number in (perhaps she’s using her CS1 number instead of CS3?) or that she doesn’t have a live Internet connection to activate it.
Do you have japanese version of CS3?
the trials are unavailable til July 1st for some reason now
thanks