InDesign CS3 Starts Shipping Today (and Those Other Design/Web CS3 Apps Too)
So — who cares if it’s April 16 and you spent your last dollar paying your income taxes? Adobe started shipping the Creative Suite 3 Design and the Creative Suite 3 Web packages today; so don’t put away that wallet just yet.
Details about what’s included, and what it costs (beyond what we wrote about earlier) are at the Adobe site. You can purchase CS3 from the Adobe store right now; but a quick check of CDW.com and Amazon.com shows they’re not shipping until later in the week. Maybe they’ll update their sites soon. Or maybe Adobe just started to ship to them, too.
I don’t know, I’ve been waiting so long I’m tempted to just start downloading the thing:
What do you think … how long to download 3.4 GB on my DSL? A week or two? Yeah, that’s crazy. I’ll just order the packaged version, that way I can admire the packaging.
I don’t know about DSL, but it would take about 5 hours on my cable connection.
To serve as reference, here are the approximate time required to download 3.4 gigabytes:
56 kbps => 6 days
128 kbps => 2 days, 16 hours
256 kbps => 1 day, 8 hours
512 kbps => 16 hours
600 kbps => 13 hours
768 kbps => 11 hours
1000 kbps => 8 hours
1544 kbps => 5 hours
2000 kbps => 4 hours
4000 kbps => 2 hours
8000 kbps => 1 hour
10000 kbps => 50 minutes
Well I guess it’s time to switch to a cable connection!
Forget cable… time to get 100 Mbps fibreoptic into the house! (We’ve had a friend from Tokyo visiting the past couple of days, and he has this. Green with envy.)
What about the European languages? Will they ship too?
I’ve got a 20.0/5.0 fiber connection here. You’ve got to move to Verizon FiOS territory.
That said, given my past expeience downloading software and updates from Adobe’s servers I don’t think it makes much difference once you go above 3.0/768 DSL connection. I’ve never seen anything speedy out of them.
What a bummer they didn’t offer the download version as a preorder. I bought and subsequently cancelled my order from Adobe to buy it $50 cheaper at Amazon. A 5-hour download is still faster than 1-week snail mail.
woz, according to the Adobe press release, as of today the software is available to US and Canadian customers. No word on availability for international customers. I just did a quick check on their int’l pages and all the links are still saying pre-order.
I think there’s a delay of a month or two for the Tier 1 languages (French, German, Japanese, Spanish, I believe) because they have to be localized.
If I ordered my Creative Suite Design Premium last month, what time frame should I expect a delivery?
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Thanks Anne Marie (loved your topic with the buddist b.t.w.) I now hear it’ll be sometime in June… I can’t wait!
None of us really know how fast it will be shipped. You could call Adobe Customer Support.
Does anybody know if CS3 allows you to stop words breaking across pages/text frames? Or allow you to control URL hyphenation?
I own individual copies of all of the softwares included in Creative Suite. Rather than upgrading each software periodically I asked Adobe if I could upgrade to Creaive Suite CS3, their response; $1599!
At one point I had switched to Quark and other softwares. Had to come back based upon software quality. Too bad their upgrade policy dosen’t have the same quality.
Brewster: There is a “don’t hyphenate across column breaks” feature in CS3. But there is no specific way to manage hyphenation of URLs. (The best way to turn off hyphenation is to select the URL and set its language to No Language.)
I am currently downloading both the Design Premium and the Web Premium.
It will take about 14 hours.
I’m going out for coffee.
“Brewster: There is a “don’t hyphenate across column breaks” feature in CS3. But there is no specific way to manage hyphenation of URLs. (The best way to turn off hyphenation is to select the URL and set its language to No Language.)”
Yay for the non-breaking across frames!!!! For URLs, I’ve got to manually break them before the period (per Chicago Manual of Style), so I’ll just keep on doin it that way manually, I guess. Thanks David.
hi all,
i have ID C3 for two days and i have to say it works great.. the new panels are easy to use. and
getting used to in no time..
Although !!
) but a great upgrade …
When bringing CS3 home, to play with the new features… i discovered it isnt running on my old G3…
Okay i have to say G3 isn’t state of the art… but it runs OS 10 .. Mmmmm guess the next thing will be 10.5 not running on that machine..
Well -one-little disappointment…
This was 3 years ago now… Holy Crap. CS5 around the corner YAY!