Homebrew PCBs

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These are for Windows and Mac - but only the now outdated Power PC Macs.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/

In article <50F76C41.4030607@...>,
   Robin Whittle <rw@...> wrote:
> I understand that the programs of the Creative Suite 2 are now available
> for free:

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

Thanks for the link, very useful stuff.

-- 
Stuart Winsor

Only plain text for emails
http://www.asciiribbon.org

Interesting... Maybe not so free after all, despite all appearances:

http://www.itworld.com/consumerization-it/334669/free-adobe-creative-suite-cs2-maybe-maybe-not


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:29 PM, lists <Stuartlists@orpheusinternet.co.uk>wrote:

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> In article 50F76C41.4030607@....au>,
>
> Robin Whittle rw@...> wrote:
> > I understand that the programs of the Creative Suite 2 are now available
> > for free:
>
> > http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
>
> Thanks for the link, very useful stuff.
>
> --
> Stuart Winsor
>
> Only plain text for emails
> http://www.asciiribbon.org
>
>  
>


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I have to chuckle as that's the version I am using now.  I got the "Lite" version free with an Epson Scanner in the 1990's, and managed to get all the upgrades along the way -- until Adobe said that CS2 was the last.  Probably tells you how much life you can get out of a "grandpa" computer.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, lists  wrote:

>
> In article <50F76C41.4030607@...>,
>    Robin Whittle  wrote:
> > I understand that the programs of the Creative Suite 2 are now available
> > for free:
>

Have used the leaner and "almost as functional" FOSS equivalents of the
Adobe CS2 suite for years for personal (mostly hobby) work. Adobe software
used to be known as being extremely bloated.

While I never felt that I missed anything, but might be nice to be able to
try out what CS2 really had to offer, that I might've used.
The page gives download files (4 of them) labelled "Creative Suite 2",
which seem to be disk equivalents (D1, D2, D3 and some extras), and then
goes on to provide separate exe's for individual CS2 applications like
InDesign, Photoshop etc. I am guessing that CS2 already includes all of
those, and the individual apps are just an alternative for someone not
interested in entire CS2, right ?


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:59 AM, lists <Stuartlists@...>wrote:

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>
>
> In article 50F76C41.4030607@...>,
> Robin Whittle rw@...> wrote:
> > I understand that the programs of the Creative Suite 2 are now available
> > for free:
>
> > http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
>
> Thanks for the link, very useful stuff.
>
> --
> Stuart Winsor
>
> Only plain text for emails
> http://www.asciiribbon.org
>
>  
>



-- 
regards,
Banibrata
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta
http://twitter.com/edgeliving


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That's my assumption as well.


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Banibrata Dutta  wrote:

>
> The page gives download files (4 of them) labelled "Creative Suite 2",
> which seem to be disk equivalents (D1, D2, D3 and some extras), and then
> goes on to provide separate exe's for individual CS2 applications like
> InDesign, Photoshop etc. I am guessing that CS2 already includes all of
> those, and the individual apps are just an alternative for someone not
> interested in entire CS2, right ?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:59 AM, lists wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > In article 50F76C41.4030607@...>,
> > Robin Whittle rw@...> wrote:
> > > I understand that the programs of the Creative Suite 2 are now available
> > > for free:
> >
> > > http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
> >
> > Thanks for the link, very useful stuff.
> >
> > --
> > Stuart Winsor
> >
> > Only plain text for emails
> > http://www.asciiribbon.org
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> Banibrata
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta
> http://twitter.com/edgeliving
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Not so, the CS2 download set is for three CDs worth of installs plus some other stuff.  If you download the entire set for Windows it is >10GB, so no way can that be the whole thing. 

IIRC, the base CS2 only installs Adobe Bridge, Help Center, Illustrator, ImageReady, InDesign, and PhotoShop (full).

D.