Adobe revenue

I got my monthly subc aug 26 , 2013 - it end's on aug 26,2013. Do not see some thing not right ?? . It is to read aug 26,2013 - End's. Sept 26,2013
Can you or someone get this fix with apple iTunes- please so I can enjoy my adobe revenue premium that I paid every month I like what the app has to give. [email protected] - 7187158596 I have the app on my phone with all the thing's it come's with . but Ido of have a icon???

That does not sound right, we'll take a look at that for you.
Pattie

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I like the Cloud

I've been using Adobe software since 1995. I'm among the 80% who really enjoys having access to more software today than I ever had before under the old perpetual licenses.
Do I use all of the Cloud software and services? No, of course not. But I am using much more than my heretofore core list of products.   Were it not for the Cloud, I probably never would have tried the others.
In the past, if a client sent me a file from the latest version of product X, I had no way to open it unless I ran out and purchased an upgrade. With the Cloud, I no longer have this lingering problem. The latest product X is always just a few clicks away.
Is the Cloud perfect? No. As with anything new and as revolutionary as this, it has some kinks to work out. But I'm confident Adobe is taking necessary steps to ensure a good user experience for everyone.
Change is hard. There are always going to be a few unhappy people who resist it on general principal. Initially, I was very skeptical of the Cloud, too. I didn't think the subscription model fit my business. But after a year, I'm very happy to report that the Cloud vs Perpetual Licenses is actually a much better deal for me.   I am more productive, competitive and have a much bigger toolbox at an affordable monthly price.
The pundits argue that there is no "exit strategy." My exit strategy is simply this. I'm going to work until I die. It's an economic fact of life these days. 80 is the new 50. 70 is the new 40. And if I can't afford a $50/month professional subscription fee, chances are I'm not long for this world anyway, so who cares...
In summary, my overall experience with the Cloud has been a good one. If anybody is still on the fence about this, don't take my word for it. Sign-up for a 30-day trial and test it for yourself.   I think you'll be as pleasantly surprised as I was.
Nancy O'Shea
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialist

It is nice to see that some users are enjoying the cloud experience and I do genuinely see how it can benifit users. The problem is that adobe has removed freedom of choice... the choice to buy or to rent. In legalese perpetual license or rental.
Adobe validates this move by offering Cloud users an "all you eat buffet" of applications to use.. and while this seems wonderful and fluffy it really just a bait and switch tactic. Take away the right to own with a nice big basket of rentals. Initially this will see a huge surge in Adobes revenue but eventually growth will slow down and in order to grow you will find products suddenely being placed into a new seperate cloud (perhaps called Creative Cloud Pro) that will require additional expense. Prices will go up and before you know it, you are paying double if not triple of what you are paying now.
Adobe cannot be trusted when it comes to pricing.. look around the world and the difference in pricing really raises eyebrows.. US $49 per month UK $72, Germany $80... and a recent NZ post shows the cloud costing twice the price. you could argue that you have to take into consideration operating costs in each country.. Well if this is truly a cloud ..it shouldnt matter on where you are..a high speed connection is all you need.
And we all know by now that if you dont pay that monthly bil your software turns off... if you work till you die no problem... but what happens if someone steals your identity? What happens if your Internet goes down? What happens when the cloud gets hacked or if it goes down? Electronic arts recently felt the wrath of hackers and theirs servers went haywire for over a week. Annoying for gamers but can you imagine not being able to operate your business? Can you imagine explaing to your client "Cant deliver that poster to the printers for your big opening as adobe is down" these are serious concerns..Is adobe liable in such a scenario? A quick dash over to the EULA and I think you'll find they have legalistically washed their hands of it.. You as a business owner are certainly liable..and its you losing clients not them. I would love all my customers to pay me a subscription fee for a year.. the reason they dont is because as a small business in a bad economy it keeps me on my toes.. it keeps me lean hungry and customer aware.. Owning software on your own machine doesnt stop this from happening but it sure as hell reduces the chance of it happening.
I own my software and when I install software my computer goes online and validates the license..with the new cloud you essentially do the same thing..install the software but instead of a one time license check you may be required to go online once a month and have it revalidated.. so same software, both validated online... so why cant we own again? we cant own becauses owners only upgrade when the see the need to... Adobe has to keep impressing us with new features to keep us coming back... under the cloud the motivation switches... sure un-subscribe adobe says...but good look with that old project that needs an update.
Adobe argues that with the new cloud users can be pushed new featues instantly....and patches and bugs can be attended to far quicker... but bugs and patches could be download with previous versions so there is no real improvement here.. as for new features adobe could have said "hey we have a new function $50 and its yours to keep" the user could have looked at it and said ..humm yeah could use that sure... good for the consumer and good for adobe.
My frustration with Adobe has started to make me digress here.. the reality is the product is pretty much the same but the licence has now change... we have gone from owner to tenant.. If you wish to be Adobe's tenant and that business model works for you then wonderful. but if owning is a better model for you then that should also be an option.. Some people need to own.. users in smaller towns or countries that have limited or no internet access are now excluded from Adobe's software.. you may say that is a minority... but the reality is that it is a far bigger number than you think. Some countries dont even have an option for the cloud so owning is there only option..
I do hope you have not felt flamed by this post ..(it is a little rant) it really was not my intent. I really understand your side and I hope you see mine
charles

InDesign Training

Looking for help. I mean not to take away from any Adobe revenue stream, but my company has tasked me with setting up a half-day training session on InDesign for some instructional designers (just the basics) and one on Acrobat Standard (review/markup tools). We are investing heavily in these, but that software investment ate up our budget.
Anyone have an leads on training outlines? Resources? Anything?
Thanks in advance...

Yes, I do know that now.
Looking for an outline to kind of get a head start planning what I will teach. Most of the instruction is going to focus on using a template we are setting up. Would love to pass the business around, but we sucked up the budget on buying the software (several copies of each). Have to get Adobe to drop their prices so the rest of us can get some business....hmmm...not so sure that will happen...

Adobe's 2006 revenues were $2.575 billion USD.[9] As of February 2007, Adobe's market capitalization

You would think they would improve Premiere Pro.
I just completed a big project using AfterFX, Photoshop and Premiere. Guess which one kept crashing and freezing...... Premiere!!
AfterFX and Photoshop are SOLID and STABLE, Premiere is slower in general, full of crappy bugs and is behind Final Cut & Avid.
It needs more support or a broader amount of media, batch export, 64 bit, stability

>I just want to chime in with glad approval for the
acknowledgement of
>Freehand
> made in the quote from the President of Adobe. I also
regard this forum as
> another official statement that Adobe is committed to
serve the customer
> base
> that rallyes behind Freehand as one of the top preferred
professional
> illustration software choices.
>
> Thanks Adobe for supporting your customers,
Umm...this is a user-to-user forum and was implemented by
Macromedia, so I
wouldn't call the existance of this newsgroup a sign of any
official
commitment on the part of adobe to further support Freehand.
-Darrel

How can we use Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite given this scenario

I have a question regarding a very specific scenario as it applies to Adobe Digital Publishing that I am having trouble finding an answer to.
We are a small design firm that produces small-run, proprietary-information, official documents.
Each document is branded to one of our clients, but each document title's design is entirely unique even when done for the same client.
Our clients then selectively distribute these documents to a small number (max 200) of their propective clients (NO GENERAL DISTRIBUTION -- NO APP STORE or iTUNES -- NO CHARGE).
It would be nice that each of our clients could have a branded Adobe Viewer with which their selected prospective clients could view only those documents sent to them (PUSHED); NOT everyone with a client-branded Adobe Viewer would be PUSHED the same document.
And similar to the documents being PUSHED to only specific prospective clients of our clients, that our client could subsequently PULL / delete a document from the prospective client's viewer when the document has expired (besides being promotional documents, they are legal as well, and when expired, need to be withdrawn from readership).
So, how is something like this done? What Adobe DPS pricing plan applies?
Would it be a Single plan, but for each client branded viewer? The Professional and Enterprise pricing setup is excessive given our extremely small scale of extremely specific directed distribution for no revenue from that distribution.
Please help me understand, since I cannot find such an answer online.
Thank you.
Mark

If I understand you correctly, you would need an Enterprise level account for that.
Bob

Shantanu Narayen, President and CEO of Adobe

Here is some general information about the history of Adobe for new users. But later on quotes from Shantanu Narayen, President and CEO of Adobe.
1) In 2005 Adobe buys Macromedia:
"On April 18, 2005 Adobe Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion."
Great! Just buy out competitors and add their programs to your portfolio:
ColdFusion, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver.
2) In 2009 Adobe buys Omniture
Shantanu Narayen led the $1.8 billion acquisition of Omniture, Inc.
In a press release, Adobe's president and CEO Shantanu Narayen called the deal a "game changer for both Adobe and our customers"
There is no denying that. Adobe knows how to change the game. Usually without any warning or consideration to the end user whatsoever.
Quote from Shantanu Narayen:
"When you think about digital media, Adobe is already the largest provider of tools and services for the creative community. Everybody is re-tooling for the future of web - devising strategies for new and multiple screens (television, mobile, tablet/PC)and app stores. With devices like photoshop touch and cloud-based services, we are aggressively moving towards that shift."
Adobe? Agressive? No, no, no. You must be thinking of a different Adobe.
wikipedia.org:
"Critics have accused Omniture of attempting to hide the fact they are collecting data. Critics claim they do this by sending the information to a domain name that looks and sounds similar to an IP address used to connect to devices on the local network and not the Internet. This has led to speculation that the domain name is used to trick users or firewall rules."
Sounds like something Adobe would want to own alright.
3) In 2012 Adobe buys Behance
Quote from the Behance blog:
"Our mission to connect and empower the creative world is getting a big boost today. Our team is thrilled to join Adobe and take Behance to the next level. We’ve been given an opportunity to influence creative work, careers, and the creative industry on a grand scale, and we intend to do just that."
Sigh, please don't. just don't. We are being influenced enough as it is.
Quote from Shantanu Narayen (December 2012):
"I'm pleased to report we delivered record revenue of $1,153,000,000 in Q4. This performance helped us achieve record revenue of $4.4 billion in fiscal year 2012."
At the very high expense of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Time will tell how strong your monopoly really is.
Shantanu Narayen:
"At Adobe, we're focused on 2 large market opportunities: Digital Media and Digital Marketing. 2012 was a milestone year in terms of innovation with our Creative Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud. We achieved great success in both these areas."
Shantanu Narayen:
"Adobe is changing how we provide value to a broader set of customers. We will deliver customized offerings for individuals, workgroups and large enterprises. As with all successful subscription services, we're offering a free trial program. This enables an easy on-ramp and a funnel of prospects that we intend to convert to paying subscribers."
Turning us into future Cloud drug addicts, The first one's always free! Thanks Adobe!
"We have begun transitioning enterprise customers to enterprise term license agreements, which provide them cloud services and updates to our desktop tools. Pricing for each segment is designed to reward loyal customers and aggressively transition them to the cloud."
Once again. Adobe? Agressive? Surely you jest!
"An advisory agency, Brendan Wood International, had ranked the 'Top Gun CEOs' for 2009 based on their ability to make smart acquisitions, make themselves visible and expand the company's value propositions, among other things."
"Shantanu Narayen has been in the industry for a very long time and always has a strong sense of what the next key steps are in terms of positioning the company in the industry."
Yeah well, I guess you can't always be right.
"When Adobe announced in 2003 it was introducing product "collections and suites", customers and industry watchers wondered about Adobe's motivations. Was it all about money? Ultimately Adobe's Creative Suite of products became the standard.
Narayen anticipates a similar kind of embrace for Adobe CC. "A few years from now, people will say, 'How could I even imagine a Photoshop that was not connected to the cloud?'"
Dark times ahead indeed if that happens.
Quote from Shantanu Narayen - May 2013:
"And finally, in monetization, whether it's video that's going to increasingly move to IP networks, whether it's physical retailers who are increasingly moving their business online, I think the more we can transact business and close the loop with respect to monetization, we think that, that's a big opportunity available for us as Adobe."
Yes, having a monopoly sure is awesome. Not having to deal with those pesky free market systems.
Shantanu Narayen:
"A strategy that we outlined over a couple of years ago is really through the combination of what we call the Creative Cloud and the Marketing Cloud, to really have a complete solution that provides this integrated platform across the entire content life cycle."
In other words, Adobe will get its greedy little hands on everything we could possibly want to do. And aggressively force us to go along with it.
And finally a quote from Steve Jobs when talking about a music subscription service:
“I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.”
Let's face it. This 'Cloud scheme' is all about the money. It has no real extra value to us, the ''valued and loyal customers'. The only way to possibly change this as some other users have said on this forum is to vote with your wallet. That's the only thing that matters to the people at the top of Adobe. Money money money.
Customer satisfaction? Adobe doesn't care. Customer loyalty? Adobe doesn't care. And the sad thing is. Eventually we will tire from complaining and just conform to this sad new reality...

You are not viewd by anyone at Adobe as anything but $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Your art your soul or anything else do not matter what matters is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
From Adobe to wall street
current and thereby driving higher average revenue per user. Additionally, our shift to a subscription model will increase the amount of recurring revenue that is ratably reported, driven by broader Creative Cloud adoption over the next several years.
To assist with the understanding of this transition and the related shift in revenue described above, we are using certain performance metrics to assess the health and trajectory of our overall Digital Media segment.
These metrics include the total number of current paid subscriptions and Annualized Recurring Revenue ("ARR"). We define ARR as the sum of:
� the number of current paid subscriptions, multiplied by the average subscription price paid per user per month, multiplied by twelve months; plus,
� twelve months of contract value of Enterprise Term License Agreements ("ETLAs") where the revenue is ratably recognized over the life of the contract.
In addition, we expect renewal rates associated with Creative Cloud, and potentially other subscription offerings, will become key metrics used to measure their performance. Because the majority of Creative Cloud subscriptions have been annual and the Creative Cloud launched in May 2012, we have not yet reached the first anniversary of these annual subscriptions and, therefore, we anticipate that meaningful data regarding subscription renewal rates will first become available later in fiscal year 2013.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES In preparing our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC, we make assumptions, judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. We base our assumptions, judgments and estimates on historical experience and various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ materially from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On a regular basis, we evaluate our assumptions, judgments and estimates. We also discuss our critical accounting policies and estimates with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. We believe that the assumptions, judgments and estimates involved in the accounting for revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, business combinations, goodwill impairment and income taxes have the greatest potential impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. These areas are key components of our results of operations and are based on complex rules requiring us to make judgments and estimates, so we consider these to be our critical accounting policies. Historically, our assumptions, judgments and estimates relative to our critical accounting policies have not differed materially from actual results.
With the exception of the discussion below, there have been no significant changes in our critical accounting policies and estimates during the three months ended March 1, 2013, as compared to the critical accounting policies and estimates disclosed in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2012.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Problems with Adobe Reader and Flash Player

I had an Adobe update last Monday and, ever since then, I can't view documents (eg credit card statements) on screen and sites that I previously visited regularly without problem suddenly say that I need to have Adobe Flash Player installed. I've downloaded Adobe Flash Player and it says it's installed correctly but when I return to the site, it still says I need Adobe Flash Player. I've also tried doing an uninstall first and then an instal but the same thing happens. I've run disk first aid and it found a problem with the Head which it fixed but I still can't open documents using Adobe in Safari. Adobe Plug ins tells me that the Internet Access plug in is not loaded but when I ran 'repair Adobe Reader installation", it said there were no missing components detected and repair was not needed. I don't know if it's relevant but I've been having problems with Safari for several weeks, quitting 3 or 4 times a day, mainly when I'm switching from Safari to another programme such as Entourage or Excel.
Message was edited by: Aileen2

Hi Carolyn
I don't think I made it clear on the original post that I'm having problems with both Adobe Reader AND Adobe Flash Player. Unfortunately, all the Adobe Reader sites are confidential so I can't give you an illustration on that but for the Adobe Flash Player, try www.jacquielawson.com/ - you can preview cards without being signed in. With the Adobe Reader problems, I get a picture of a blank 'piece of paper' with a small blue square in the top right hand corner that has a white question mark inside it. The first time this happened to me, I was on the UK Inland Revenue site trying to print out some end of year forms. I phoned the Revenue's helpline and they said to try doing a 'save as' to my desktop. It seemed bizarre - saving a blank piece of paper - but lo and behold, when I opened it on my desktop, the forms appeared exactly as normal. However, I've since tried this 'save as' technique with my credit card statement and I still get a blank piece of paper with a blue square and white question mark when I open the desktop copy.
Thanks for your help and patience. I really appreciate it.
Aileen

Creative Cloud - why I think it is a huge blunder on Adobe's part

One may congratulate Adobe for one-sidedly deciding what is best for its customers and ignoring the majority of its users. My records of giving money to Adobe stretch back at least to 2007, but CC is something I will not pay for, out of principle.
And therein lies the danger for Adobe: former users who look for alternatives. They will give competing products a try, i.e. pay Adobe's competitors. Some will be happy even if only out of spite, some will regret it, but will nevertheless pay the competitors, who will use the revenue to improve their products.
Users will become familiar with alternatives, and the next time someone Googles how do I do this or that, there will be links to solutions using other products. Adobe's CC product line will become marginalized for use by fewer professionals, with less entry level artices and tutorials, and more cryptic questions and solutions. The consumer market around the products (books etc.) will shrink if not collapse. This will be very similar to the book economy of Delphi that collapsed with price increases and product margialization.
I found the early announcements by Adobe peculiar in that their developers' enthusiasm was mentioned. That really sounded like manegerial corporate lingo stemming from a starkly contrasted truth: that concerned developers saw their jobs at risk (another Delphi World historic analogy). Why would CS be abandoned? Surely, cost reuction at the expense of developer positions would be very atractive. These developers will probably find their way to competitors and/or use their talents and experience to advance free open source alternatives.
All giants eventually fall. Sadly, it looks like it's Adobe's turn next.

Time will tell concerning the Creative Cloud mirage, Adobe's marketing spin machine inevitably will not however even until the bitter end regardless.

Does Adobe Care Anymore?

Now that Quark XPress is all but dead (yay!), and there's no other comparable page-layout program, does Adobe really care about their customers?
I'm prompted to pose that question since the introduction of InDesign CC and CC2014. I've been using Adobe products for years: PageMaker 3 through 7, Photoshop 2 through CS6, and then InDesign 1 through CC2014. I've always loved Adobe products and can't live without them, UNTIL the CC version came out. Even after a couple of updates, it's still filled with annoying bugs, a lot of UI inconsistencies, it's incredibly slow to do all sorts of things at times, and crashes nearly as much as Quark XPress used to.
These problems occur on dozens of computers at my workplace with different versions of OSX as well as three computers I use in my home office as a freelancer. I only use CC when I absolutely have to (generally when I take work home over the weekend), but all my freelance work remains in CS6, which is still the most rock-solid version of InDesign ever.
For the first time I'm having to use an Adobe product that I honestly don't enjoy. Sad.

I was going to stay out of this silly conversation...
Now that Quark XPress is all but dead (yay!), and there's no other comparable page-layout program, does Adobe really care about their customers?
Whether ya like the application, have had issues with it, or simple hate it/the company for whatever reason, if you believe as your rhetorical question implies that Adobe doesn't care, shouldn't you root for Q to survive and maybe even prosper for the sake of competition? To keep the honest, honest. To encourage innovation? Whatever. I use both and more.
I think Adobe wants to survive and thrive. While desktop applications may only be a part of its business revenue, it is a decent part of it. Adobe doesn't want people to abandon ship. Regardless of how you, me or the man in the moon would make business choices "if we were in charge," Adobe gets to make its own for better or worse. Some of those choices are definitely not the ones I would make...but neither are choices made by my elected officials. Or my wife or children over certain matters. But none of them ask my advice nor would take it anyway. Which is why they don;t ask I suppose.
As for CC itself? CC 2014 is definitely a productivity boost here. Makes my perpetual license CS6 seem like it's a pig on when running on my laptop. On the desktop there is less a difference but there is still a difference, especially noticeable when I am bringing in large chunks of XML. CC is just plain quicker at it. But none of the 3 versions of ID crash or freeze hardly ever here. (No more or less than does any version of Q, either.) Happens once in a blue moon and it is most often when I am running resources low, too many applications running for a too long a period of time without ever shutting down and restarting the computers.
Ah well. First cup of Joe is finished. Time to do something positive with the day.
Mike

Acrobat PDF Maker doesn't work after installing UPDATES(!) to Adobe Creative Suite 3 (on Windows 7)

Hi,
I installed Adobe Creative suite 3 Premium on Widows Vista....then upgraded to Windows 7,...never had any problems.
Today Adobe Update Advisor downloaded and installed some updates to Adobe Professional 8 (that came in a package with Adobe CS3 premium)....since then (it has been 3-4 hours), I cannot convert any document into PDF using ANY application MS Office 2007, as a Printer in browser...etc..
The error message says:
"Missing PDF Maker Files.
Do you want to run installer in repair mode?"
I clicked on Yes, then waited, then restarted my PC, and that didn't solve the problem"
Adobe Support (a very unfriendly guy) told me that AdobeProfessional 8 support for Windows 7 is not available and that I can either upgrade to Adobe 9 (no way, I paid way too much money for Adobe CS3), refer to Adobe Forum, or reinstall Adobe CS3.
Can someone tell me how to solve this problem without reinstalling the whole CS3?
Thanks .

Why did you “upgrade” to Windows 7?
Shouldn't have Microsoft given you free updates to Windows XP or Windows Vista to give you all the fixes that appeared in Windows 7?
Do you expect an automobile manufacturer to retrofit at no cost to you your two year old vehicle with the latest doodads associated with the latest in consumer electronics, automated toll taking, and GPS?
Accounting rules in the United States associated with something called “revenue recognition” limit what companies can do to retrofit products with new features after they are released/sold. Supporting significant differences and/or features in a new operating system version or for that matter incompatibilities and features in another application (such as new versions of Office) require significant modifications to accounting practices to hold reserves to account for the possibility of such updates. Furthermore, ignoring these accounting and finance ramifications, keeping an extra set of engineers working to retrofit old software versions would significantly increase Adobe's costs and hence the price charged for this software.
Be aware that except for custom software with ongoing maintenance and/or retainer contracts, typical commercial software is licensed for use with the equipment and software environment that it was originally designed for and that fact is already built into the cost and pricing structures. The pricing of upgrades to new software versions reflects the cost of providing support for newer equipment and software environments as well as any new features.
- Dov

End of Upgrade Cycle for CS3 and CS4... Really Adobe?

As if business wasn't bad enough now I see there will be no upgrade paths past december for CS3 and 4 users. Is this how Adobe plans to keep users away from stopping their upgrades and reducing the number of machines they run Adobe products on? I understand Adobe is not a non-profit and has has to turn a revenue, but the geniuses at Marketing here have made a huge mistake by basically telling their customers that what they have so far will be worth zilch in comes 2013. That arbitrary deadline, is not consider some people who on the east coast are now cash strapped as anyone having to choose between home repairs and other such marvelous stuff and upgrading to CS6 guess what they'll choose. And for the lucky ones not heavily affected by the storms, they will donate to help their community before they will spend money to upgrade perfectly good software.
It wasn't enough that the upgrade path wasn't much of a discount, but in the current economy every penny counts! The choice of stopping support for CS3 and CS4 in my personal opinion an ill-advised move. I personally went from 3 to 4 within a short amount of time... then when 5 came out my budget didn't allow so I needed to wait. The new CS6 isn't direly needed so I decided I'd have to loose some additional "upgrade power" because money need to be directed elsewhere now... but the news that I'd loose all the upgrade power and would have kept on upgrading for nothing it's just ridiculous... and if that's the treatment a customer will have to expect from now on I think I'll use what I have and move to alternatives stopping to personally support Adobe products an rely on licensed copies at work instead. Perhaps Adobe hasn't notices we aren't exactly doing that great in US between the current economical situation, the various setbacks experienced across the country and for the fact that in this particular business most work is often being outsourced out of US these days... I am sure you will have a huge market on the countries where the outsourced work is being sent... as far as I am concerned comes 12/31/2013 I will no longer be an Adobe customer as Adobe is forcing me out of the upgrade cycle and I won't plan to re-enter anytime soon in the coming future... lesson learnt.
Thank you for your time (if any of the marketing gurus will have cared to read this far without laughing and discounting with a "screw those old customers, they should've upgraded earlier" which was basically the content of the email I got this week... pasted below)
Cheers,
tfbkny
Content of email received from Adobe saying last chance to upgrade now or what you got will be worthless in less than a couple months.
Dear Creative Suite customer:
We want to make sure you're aware of an important change to Adobe's upgrade policy that may affect you.
Beginning January 1, 2013, only Creative Suite customers with licenses for CS5 or CS5.5 versions will qualify for upgrade pricing to CS6.
Due to this change, we will only continue offering CS3 and CS4 customers like you special upgrade pricing through December 31, 2012.*
* Owners of CS3 and CS4 individual products and suite editions will be eligible to receive upgrade pricing to CS6 until December 31, 2012. After that date, only customers on CS5 or CS5.5 will qualify for upgrade pricing to CS6.

Adobe doesn't care, they don't have to. I like Phsotoshop and have been using it professionally for 20 years, but lets face it, I wouldnt mind some really good competition from another source. It didnt use to be the only game in town, and doesnt have to remain so.
I could brainstorm how I would want competing software to look like. Pshop is not the easiest workflow possible. Illustrator is clearly deficient to even CorelDraw, and certainly Freehand. I've been meaning to reconnect with CorelDraw. It did some cool things.
Google Chrome is pulling a lot of manoevers software wise and I hope they try to go a little deeper and give Adobe a run for their money on the one program they feel justifies unbelievable gouging. Go investigate Ableton Live if you want to see what a company that cares about its customers is doing, ADOBE. Audition is a JOKE compared to Ableton Live. Thank God we're not powned on the audio side by these suits.
The idea that a company would peddle buggy software, which CS4 was..., although some of that was Apple's fault, is bad, the upgrade prices were ridiculous, and this is the end of the road for me currently. The idea that a company would actively
push away customers is pretty incredible. "But I sent you an email!" Whoops, you gotta pay $1900 for production premium CS6! HAHAHAHAHA. Time for a YT video with my old hard copy box. Sounds like a good idea.
There are too many options on the motion graphics side, and I'll keep a static machine to run Pshop and AE CS4.
The masters of the universe will have theit way, and the rest must bow to their ambivalent greed. At least that's the way they think. It would seem that Adobe and Apple really, really want some upstarts to come up. Maybe $360 for a year to figure out an exit might work. It will be interesting to see if this hits earnings. VERY interesting.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard Stopped working correctly

I have a legal licensed version of Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard that has worked fine for several years. Suddenly and possibly after one of the not so helpful updates, I can no longer delete, insert or extract pages. The delete option shows but is grayed out and the other options do not even show as a possibility anymore. I tried: repair, reinstall, deleting all version and reinstalling but nothing has helped. I truly need this function. Contact with Adobe directly and there answer was "ask someone who can help" (ok a paraphrase for sure but basically they said go ask the community). Nice right? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

They never responded and I found no thread providing me with a fix. I wound up having to pay for the newest version.
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Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.14 (latest) shows a plain white page without content in Firefox 4.0.1 running under Windows 7 Pro 64-bit; is this Firefox or Adobe?

Our revenue service requires electronic forms to be submitted which are displayed by Adobe Flash Player. I call up a form and get a white sheet without any content. This did not happen with Firefox 3.6.??. It does not happen in Internet Explorer 9 either but IE uses an Active X version of the Adobe plugin. I see on the Adobe forums many people are having this problem.

Hi again, LOL, sometimes it is just a small thing like clearing cookies/history that gets overlooked:-)
You know, can't see the Forrest for the Trees..
I'm glad it's working as it should for you!! We have enough to do, right? Like dealing with all of the Windows Patch Tuesday Updates, LOL
Thanks for marking your thread as answered too.
eidnolb

Adobe Flash Reversed to Broadcast Live Video without a Webcam

This is all true and is happening now.
I had heard that someone had taken Adobe Flash to new limits, albeit surreptitiously, was able to remotely activate your webcam without indicator lights revealing the clandestine activity. I unashamedly hold an objection to the commercial use of personal and private information to gain revenue via direct marketing or by on selling said information and an even greater objection to government agencies collecting and using personal and private information to build dossiers on the very same citizens that governments are elected to protect and serve for the purpose of political influence, persuasion, terror or torture. The only thing worse than either of these two scenarios is tendered government contracts for the collection of personal and private data or buying directly from a commercial entity that have collected data on individuals.
When I heard that remote activation of a webcam was possible, I took measures to counter this threat by personally managing the Flash settings in the web browser, ensuring the browser settings always matched the Adobe Flash settings for use in Google Chrome, either by selecting "ask before allowing website to access camera" or outright "deny access to camera" and deleting the "exceptions" for that particular website or all sites. To be absolutely certain of my privacy I added the auld low tech safety net which I was certain could not fail, a strip of gaffer or "duck" tape over the lens of the webcam. Occasionally I would also turn the inbuilt mic off for added piece of mind. I thought myself that perhaps I was being a little paranoid until recently when I began to suspect that I was being observed when I would enter a chat room. A look of surprise or a generous smile from the host would greet me upon my arrival, priding myself in the most basic of social etiquettes, good manners, I would always respond with a nod or returning the gesture in kind. However, this is where I became confused because the hosts were always reluctant to confirm this was happening when asked directly, or made an effort not to acknowledge my presence again, which in my eyes, is an admission of guilt.
When I put my laptop to sleep by closing the lid evening last, the unusual and rare combination of hardware and software failure occurred activating the log on screen on the external monitor. Secure in the knowledge that the lid of the laptop was closed, a piece of black gaffer tape adhered to the webcam, I knew I would not get a better opportunity to prove my suspicion that Adobe Flash has been re-coded to not only play live video but to capture and broadcast it as well. I entered the chat room and sure enough an acknowledgement from the host was immediately forthcoming. A moment of divine intervention allowed a conversation to evolve where upon I revealed that my webcam had been disabled and my monitor was acting as the only capture device. Having now confirmed my suspicion that my monitor, not the webcam was broadcasting video, I set about collecting additional evidence and to make the case rock solid, enlisted an independent witness at my end to find on this verdict beyond reasonable doubt.
My unsupported theory is that, if this technology has indeed been developed legitimately, it has been done so for the purpose of Windows 8, because although this computer is running Win7 Pro it originally came with Windows 8 but as I had ordered the computer with Windows 7 Pro, I sent it back to HP and they returned it with Windows 7 installed. I have been informed by my I.T guy that Windows 8 has new hardware configurations that are specifically designed for the Win 8 platform.
Hardware & Software Specifications:
System
Manufacturer
Hewlett-Packard
Model
HP ProBook 4540s
Total amount of system memory
8.00 GB RAM
System type
64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores
2
External Monitor
LG E2242T External Monitor
Monitor Cable
DDMI - DVI-D
Storage
Total size of hard disk(s)
699 GB
Disk partition (C:)
603 GB Free (699 GB Total)
Media drive (D:)
CD/DVD
Disk partition (E:)
32 MB Free (100 MB Total)
Graphics
Display adapter type
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
Total available graphics memory
1696 MB
      Dedicated graphics memory
64 MB
      Dedicated system memory
0 MB
      Shared system memory
1632 MB
Display adapter driver version
10.18.10.3496
Primary monitor resolution
1366x768
DirectX version
DirectX 10
Network
Network Adapter
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Network Adapter
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Network Adapter
Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2230
Network Adapter
StrongVPN Adapter
Network Adapter
Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
Network Adapter
Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
Software
OS
Windows 7 Professional
Adobe Flash Player Version
Adobe Flash Player Plugin
14.0.0.145
Q 1.:
               Is this the way things are going and do I need to contact my mask maker?
Q 2.:\
               having now switched back to Mozilla Firefox, will my secrets be safe again once more ?
Q 3.:
               Does Adobe condone this technology and if it does, why has there been no information released about it?
Q 4.:
               If we do have to live with the entire world watching, where is the off switch?

Yeah... I smell a hoax intended to instill fear then.
Something silly, such as this page:
Free Software to Convert a Computer Monitor into a Camera
*NOTE: I'm aware of "drive by" malware and tested the links using Is This Website Safe | Website Security | Norton Safe Web.
Cheers... Rick

Adobe Flash Player 11 NOT working after several attempts to download, uninstall, & reinstall

I have problems with Adobe Flash Player 11 NOT working after several attempts to download, then uninstall, & re-install.
I uninstalled the previous versions of Adobe Flash Player from my computer PRIOR to attempting to install the new 11 version, so now I'm unable to view videos, etc.,
I'm using Windows Vista 32 bit, Internet Explorer 9.0 (which I closed when I got error messages during Adobe Flash Player 11 Installation. I've disabled my AVG -Virus also during the installation of Flash Player 11.
FYI, I'm not computer savvy so the YouTube video by Adobe Tech was too complicated to follow AND I'm unable to view (DUH!) it since I have no Flash Player program installed (doesn't make sense!) .
Thanks for keeping it simple (KISS for me).

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling some 30 times now ..rebooting, you name it.
I haven't been able to use flash since Adobe kindly shoved that latest update down my computer's throat.
Right after getting the 'successful' installation message I restart IE9 ..go to my channel on youtube and immediately get the message:
The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback.
Get the latest Flash Player
I tried Chrome and on two or three it worked but then even after closing out of them ..Chrome slowed down to a crawl and finally informed me that Flash had stopped working.
This has entirely wasted 3 nights of my time. It is 2:30 am and I should have had at least 2hours sleep already to rise at 6:30 but no, thanks this I'm still up and no doubt millions of other computer users are having just as much fun.. Everyone I know that allowed the updates to install ..is having the same problem ..Chrome/IE9/Firefox ...you can truly call it Adobe's Universal Cluster ...
I live with Adobe. At work we have 6 fully Adobied LR4/CS5 & 6/InDesign workstations. I'm a photographer using nothing but Adobe products and quite frankly I feel this is the worst treatment you have ever given your customers.
Please stop the CYA and just fix the damm thing! I realize you didn't write it Chris but surely you can get Adobe management to address this instead of just trying to get their users to try and debug it for the airheads that released it. Has anyone stopped to consider the financial damage being done due to videos not playing the ads that support the sites and no doubt stream revenue to Adobe? These guys have rolled the online experience back 5 years minimum and Adobe will probably pay the price for it. Re-issue a working version and go back to the drawing board!

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