Comments on: When is InDesign CS5 Coming Out? and Other Ponderables

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:13:29 +0000

@Katie: Yes, we will be showing whatever Adobe has made public of CS5. However, the majority of the seminar will focus on CS3 and CS4 — as the goal is to make people more efficient with the tools they have today!

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:59:45 +0000

If CS5 is released in April, will it be covered during the following sessions of the InDesignSecrets Live! 2010 North American Tour?

By: Gary Palmatier

Gary Palmatier — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:58:39 +0000

My work is primarily designing and producing heavily illustrated textbooks with a side order of simpler trade paperbacks. I usually buy the CS upgrades shortly after they’re available, but I too cautious to switch versions in midstream, so there’s always a delay while I finish books in the version of InDesign they were started in, then begin new projects in the new version. For me, the ability to use variable text in running heads made CS4 worth the price of admission. I think smart guides need work; I’m always turning that feature off and on based on my current situation. Its big problem for me is that it favors alignment to an object over alignment to a guide, so if an element somehow is a fraction of a point out of position, smart guides will insist on aligning to it and ignore the page guides. Arrrgh! Really stoked about Content-Aware fills in Photoshop CS5, though! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI&feature=player_embedded

By: sidney

sidney — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:58:59 +0000

I’ll upgrade the minute CS5 is available. InDesign CS3 is incompatible with Windows7 64-bit.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:41:27 +0000

Well, we now have a least a little bit more idea of CS5:
http://cs5launch.adobe.com/
says that we will be getting more details on April 12. Stay tuned!

By: nipbill

nipbill — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:12:56 +0000

It is really a matter of identifying the new features and looking at how they will increase your workflow.
I would suggest that smart guides are worth the upgrade price by themselves.

Having just employed a new designer from another company we have spent the last 3 months learning from each other things that one or other of us did not know about CS4.
Possibly we all need to go back to basics on some of these upgrades and really relearn how to get the best from the program.

By: w.m. bravenboer

w.m. bravenboer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:15:28 +0000

I do want to upgrade, but an upgrade from CS3 to CS4 costs us 890 Euros, that is more than 1200 dollars!
And we need 5 Suites… there is no way I can justify that to my boss… he will say; what can you do with CS4 (or CS5 for that matter) that you cannot do with CS3?
For now CS3 is more than enough… And yes, I am a professional designer working at a professional company and working every day at least 8 hrs per day with the software…

By: nipbill

nipbill — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:10:15 +0000

I will be upgrading on launch date. Having owned and operated a printing company for over 20 years I have graduated from Pagemaker 3 to CS4. If you take the time to learn the new features you and used them for commercial gain you will always make money form an upgrade.

By: Chuck Nigash

Chuck Nigash — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:17:34 +0000

From the sound of many here, maybe it’s fair to say that Adobe has not marketed the benefits of CS4 well enough. Anyone who has upgraded from CS2 to 3 to 4 — and took advantage of the new features — has grown proportionally. CS5 — of course, we don’t have the feature list before us — should be the same.

If you parceled the $600 upgrade fee into 4 $150 increments, multiplied by 2+ years (or 800 days avg) you used the new features in a CS upgrade, the question would be “Was it worth 18 cents a day to you?” Given all the other money we blow, yes.

By: David B

David B — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:49:07 +0000

I am very much looking forward to CS5 coming out. I will no doubt upgrade the minute it is available.