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Adobe's older CS2 programs now free

2013-01-17 by Robin Whittle

I understand that the programs of the Creative Suite 2 are now available
for free:

  http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

These are for Windows and Mac - but only the now outdated Power PC Macs.
 There is a serial number for each one which I guess runs them without
any fuss.  CS2 was released in 2005 and was replaced by CS3 in 2007.

The programs likely to be of interest for PCB work are:

  Illustrator - vector graphics, including, I assume, PDFs.
  Photoshop - bitmap graphics.

  Acrobat Pro - generates PDFs, including by operating as a printer
  driver so any application's printing can be turned into a PDF.

There's also an audio editing program Audition 3.0 - I guess quite a few
homebrew PCB folks are involved in music.

I haven't tried any of these.  I have occasionally used a much older
version of Acrobat (Acrobat Distiller) which came with Illustrator
8.0.1, which is from 1998.

  - Robin         http://www.firstpr.com.au/pcb-diy/

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