Applying an ID in CS4

I am learning DW CS4 and was watching Adobe TV. The
instructor applied the ID selector by right-clicking with the
mouse. I don't use that mouse preference, is there a key command.
Option, and or command clicking doesn't seem to work. Help!
Thanks.

Oops, got it it's the Control key, Mind is going.

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How to apply gradients in Dw CS4?

Hello;
I have been using gradients in Flash CS4.It's not that difficult,using the radial and lineair gradients.
However in Dreamweaver I can't find such a feature.For my knowledge it is only possible to use straight colors.
Does anyone know how to use gradients in Dreamweaver??
Many thanks for the help!

Dreamweaver is not an image editor.
It uses HTML and CSS to insert colours in pages. HTML and CSS only do solid colors.
If you need gradients, you must create them in an image editor such as Photoshop or Fireworks then insert the image into your webpage in DW using CSS.

Problem applying Paragraph styles in CS4 InDesign

I boughtCS4 InDesign for Windows perhaps six months ago, and it worked fine with Windows XP. I have recently installed Windows 7 and find that the paragraph styles won't always work. Of ten when I try to use the shortcut for paragraph style the paragraph in question turns pink with small squares in it. If I undo the application of paragraph styles it goes back to text. I am using Times New Roman as the major font. However, I have tried other fonts and they won't work in paragraph style either.
I tried changing several pages of the manuscript to Times New Roman Special G1, but it won't do the commas, quotes, etc. (special characters).
Has anyone else had this problem? What can I do to fix this mess?
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Earl Davis

Well, here's the situation now. But before describing it, let me thank Peter
Spier and Bob Levine who have endeavored to help me. Now, here's where we
are:
I copied a document over from Pagemaker into InDesign using Times New Roman
font. (I did the same for two other book manuscripts this past summer,
shortly after purchasing InDesign and had no problem). Suddenly a couple
weeks ago I found that the shortcut I set for the paragraph styles did not
format the paragraphs, etc., but rather turned the paragraph in which I
placed the cursor into a series of pink squares highlighted in pink. I have
tried the suggestions you fellows have given, such as copying the fonts
presently in the Windows Font Directory into the Adobe/InDesign/Fonts
directory, and then right-clicking on them and installing them. By the way,
the InDesign font directory only had the Times New Roman and Times New Roman
Special 1 and Renaissance font in it, until I copied all my fonts there and
installed them. Another oddity, I make the first letter of the first
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into the correct font after I adjust the size to two lines.
But on the general problem, I have tried changing the font in the
paragraph styles to Amerigo BT, and I sometimes get the shortcut to work,
and sometimes it still turns it into Times New Roman Special or black
squares. Also, I have opened a new file and put another copy of the text in
it, setting up the paragraph styles, etc. and still have the same problem.
So I'm at a loss what to do. I do think it's possible I am doing
something wrong with fonts or setting up the paragraph styles, but I don't
see any errors there. All my computer fonts show up in the fonts panel of
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Search for CS4 Keywords in CS5

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Photoshop CS4 Extended missing filters

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Can't get help files after install of CS4 Standard

The programs seem to be working fine, but whenever I click on the specific Help link the programs say there was an error in installation and I should re-install (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat) How do I get to access Help?
Also, with PsCS3 the license allowed installation on 2 computers (my desktop and my notebook) but it is unclear if this applies to Creative Suite CS4. Can you clarify before I try installing on my notebook?

Well, there *is* a way to sidestep this without having to reinstall the whole suite on Windows XP (Vista too, most probably). However, this manual solution might be a chore to some since you'd have to do this for *each* of the help volumes within C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Help\en_US\.
I'll just detail what I did with the folder containing the Photoshop help files. I believe that with the others it should be a similar procedure, but I haven't tried it yet.
Within C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Help\en_US\Photoshop\11.0\ look for these two text files: helpmap.txt and helpmapBaseUrl.txt.
MAKE BACKUPS OF THOSE TWO FILES BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES (and, like me, ask permission from your boss before you do anything like this :) ). Save the files somewhere safe so you can restore them if what I suggest below doesn't work for you.
======================
[Step 1]
It looks like helpmapBaseUrl.txt tells PS where to look for the Help files, and those of you with the "problem" will probably find that it contains this address:
"http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0"
which is why (AFAIK) pressing F1 takes you to the Web help.
Delete "http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0" and paste the path to the PS help files in your machine, which (if you installed it in C:) should be something like:
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Adobe/Help/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/
Save helpmapBaseUrl.txt.
==========================
[Step 2]
Open helpmap.txt. Look for these two entries:
AH_ION search.html?AH_ION=true Ion Search Page
AH_HOME WSC04AFC0E-5BF5-4c2f-8A32-BEDE16E9DF95.html Home
Delete everything to the right of "AH_ION," copy WSC04AFC0E-5BF5-4c2f-8A32-BEDE16E9DF95.html (the HTML file listed to the right of "AH_Home") and paste it beside "AH_ION," so it now looks like this:
AH_ION WSC04AFC0E-5BF5-4c2f-8A32-BEDE16E9DF95.html
Save helpmap.txt.
============================
[Step 3]
Restart PS. Now, pressing F1 should open the local help files in your browser. Also, all the "How to's" should open using the local files as well. Pat yourself in the back.
Maybe there is an easier way to do this, I don't know. But so far this works for me.
I hope some of you find this helpful.

Dreamweaver CS4 (Mac OS X) window disappears from desktop

this is actually not a Dreamweaver-specific problem, because it applies to all Adobe CS4 products. But it is most irritating with Dreamweaver, because users often need to look at Dreamweaver windows at the same time as other applications (such as a web browser)
Since CS4 (and maybe also CS3) but not the older versions, opened Dreamweaver window(s) disappear from the desktop whenever another application is activated or selected. This makes it extremely difficult to view both Dreamweaver code/windows, and any other application unless that other application's window is first positioned in such a way that you can see it, but don't need to click on it, then you click on the Dreamweaver application.
This does not happen with any other non-Adobe application - the whole point of having large screens, multiple windows and multiple processors is to be able to do more at the same time.
Even without explicitly leaving Dreamweaver, this is a problem, because, if I perform a file comparison between the local and remote file, the opendiff application will be launched; the Dreamweaver file window is still on the desktop for that time. But, the moment I close the opendiff window, all Dreamweaver windows disappear. I have to go to the dock and click on the icon to bring back the window.
You can imagine how annoying and time consuming this is if you're performing a number of file comparisons, as I have to do often.
I therefore prefer to use my old version which did not behave this way.
I could not find any setting in preferences to change this behavior. Is there a chance this will be fixed someday?

I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Your Desktop is just a folder, but it's not like any other folder on your HD. The more "crap" you keep on it, the slower your system will run, because Windows Explorer (not the browser - the one that opens and manages all of your windows) interacts with it ALL THE TIME so the more stuff it has to go through to run DW, or Photoshop or Windows Media Player or whatever, the bigger the drag on WIndows. The same for Mac OS X and FInder.
Put your site(s) in their own folder in your documents where the most active folder on your HD doesn't have to constantly update with every letter you type in a page.

CS4 not opening. Need help!

I have CS4. My computer crashed and I have a new hard drive, with Maverick 10.9.4. Photoshop won't open. Do I need to de-install CS-4 and re-install the suite? Or is it because I need to get some kind of permission to use it on another computer, even though I paid for it? CS4 was originally installed on my other laptop. The message originally said that "licensing has stopped working." Now there is no message at all.

Important: Perform the solutions below in order. Continue to the next solution only if a previous solution does not resolve the problem. After performing some of these solutions, you are required to reenter licensing data or activate your product. Furthermore, tryout editions of Adobe software are sometimes prevented from starting.
Solution 1: Delete the FlexNet Publisher preferences folder
Quit all Adobe applications.
On your startup disk, locate and delete the following folder:
[hard drive]/Library/Preferences/FlexNet Publisher/
Important: The path above points to the Library folder at the root of your startup disk, not the Library folder in your user home folder.
Important: Apple made the user library folder hidden by default with the 10.7 release. If it's necessary to access these files to perform Adobe-related troubleshooting, use the instructions in the following document make the user library content visible: Access hidden user library files | Mac OS 10.7 Lion
Enter your password if asked to authenticate the folder deletion.
Start your Adobe applications.
Solution 2: Run the License Repair Tool
Close all Adobe applications.
On your startup disk, locate and delete the following folder:
[hard drive]/Library/Application Support/FlexNet Publisher/
Important: The path above points to the Library folder at the root of your startup disk, not the Library folder in your user home folder.
Enter your password if asked to authenticate the folder deletion.
Download the Adobe Licensing Repair Tool.
Run the License Service Update.
Mac OS X 10.7
a. Double-click the LicenseRecovery111.dmg
Note: Leave this window open and proceed to the next step.
b. Double-click your Hard Drive.
c. Double-click Applications.
d. Double-click Utilities.
e. Double-click Terminal.
f. Type “sudo python “
Note: There is a space following “python”. Do not press Return.
g. Drag LicenseRecoveryLauncher.app from the LicenseRecovery111.dmg window onto the Terminal Window and press Return. Note: Make sure that the Terminal window has the command and the path to the APP file. For example: "sudo python /Volumes/LicenseRecovery\ 11.6.1/LicenseRecovery/LicenseRecover.py”
h. Enter your administrator user name and password when prompted and click OK.
i. Follow the onscreen instructions.
Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.6
a. Double-click the LicenseRecovery111.dmg
b. Double-click the LicenseRecoveryLauncher.app.
c. Enter your administrator user name and password when prompted and click OK.
d. Follow the onscreen instructions.
Start your Adobe applications.
Important:The patch applies to CS3 and CS4 products, Acrobat 8, Acrobat 9, Photoshop Elements 6, Photoshop Elements 8, Director, and Adobe Technical Communication Suite. If your issue does not resolve on the first attempt, run the patch again. Enter option 0 when prompted.
Solution 3: Repair disk permissions
Launch the Apple Disk Utility:
/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app
Select your startup disk.
Click Repair Disk Permissions. Note: Repairing disk permissions can take a long time. For more information about using Disk Utility, see the Apple support website.
Start your Adobe applications.
Solution 4: Reset permissions on the FlexNet Publisher licensing service folder
Important: The path listed below points to the Library folder at the root of your startup disk, not the Library folder in your user home folder.
Follow the Permissions instructions in Solution 5 to modify the permissions on the following folder on your startup disk:
/Library/Application Support/FlexNet Publisher/
Solution 5: Reset permissions on the Adobe PCD folder
Important: The path listed below points to the Library folder at the root of your startup disk, not the Library folder in your user home folder.
Follow the instructions below to modify the permissions on the following folder on your startup disk:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/
Permissions instructions
Close all Adobe applications. Follow the directions below to modify permissions to the folder.
Note: This solution requires administrative privileges and credentials.
Mac OS X 10.4
Using Finder, navigate to the folder to modify.
Control-click the folder and choose Get Info.
Expand the Ownership & Permissions section.
Click the Details option to show the various owner and group options.
Verify that you have Read & Write permissions.
Click the lock icon next to the Owner field and choose yourself as the Owner. Type your administrator user name and password when prompted, and click OK.
Change the Owner to System.
Change the Permission to Read & Write for Owner.
Click Apply To Enclosed Items and click OK in the warning dialog box.
Type in your administrator user name and password when prompted and click OK.
Close the Get Info dialog box.
Launch Adobe Acrobat 9 or an Adobe Creative Suite 4 product.
Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7
Using Finder, navigate to the folder to modify.
Control-click the folder and choose Get Info.
Expand the Sharing & Permissions section.
Click the Details option to show the various owner and group options.
Click the lock icon in the lower-right corner. Type in your administrator user name and password when prompted and click OK.
Change your user name to have Read & Write permissions.
Change admin to have Read & Write permissions.
Change Everyone to have Read & Write permissions.
Click the Gear icon and select Apply To Enclosed Item.
Close the Get Info dialog box.
Launch Adobe Acrobat 9 or an Adobe Creative Suite 4 product.
Solution 6: Remove the SQLite journaling file
The journaling file exists only under specific circumstances where a client is accessing the database file with certain options enabled. If the file does not exist, continue to the next solution.
Using Finder, navigate to:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache
Important: The path above points to the Library folder at the root of the startup drive, not the Library folder in your user home folder.
If present, delete cache.db-journal.
Launch Adobe Acrobat 9 or an Adobe Creative Suite 4 product.
Solution 7: (Acrobat 9 only) Reinstall on a file system that isn't case-sensitive
Adobe applications are not supported on an OS formatted with a case-sensitive file system. If you attempt to install an Adobe application on a case-sensitive volume, you get an error that the file system is not supported. (Case-sensitive volumes include UFS, HFS+ case sensitive [HFSX] or SMB formatted drive.) Acrobat 9 doesn't display such error messages and allows you to install the application. However, attempting to launch Acrobat 9 results in the error, "Licensing for this product has stopped working (error code 130:9)." Reformat the drive to a file system that isn't case-sensitive.
To check if Mac OS X is formatted with a case-sensitive file system, do the following:
Click the Apple menu and choose About This Mac.
Click More Info.
Under Hardware, select Serial-ATA.
Select the drive that Acrobat 9 is installed on and check the file system in the list. Note if the file system is case sensitive.
Alternatively, use the Disk Utility to check the file system:
Choose Applications > Utilities, and double-click Disk Utility.
Select the disk Acrobat where is installed and check its format.
Solution 8: Reinstall
WARNING! This process requires you to uninstall and reinstall all Adobe CS3 and CS4 software, as well as Acrobat 8 and 9. Administrator privileges are required to install Adobe software. Log in to an administrator account to perform the steps below. See the operating system documentation for additional information.
Important: Before you uninstall the software, make sure that you have the installation media to reinstall it. Replacement media isn’t available for previous versions of Adobe software.
From the Finder, choose Go > Utilities.
Navigate to the folder Adobe Installers.
Double-click the shortcut for your Adobe product.
Follow the onscreen instructions to remove the software.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for any additional Adobe CS3, CS4, Acrobat 8, or Acrobat 9 products.
Delete the following folders:
[Startup Disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD
[Startup Disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps
[Startup Disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/backup
From the Apple menu, choose Restart, then click the Restart button to confirm.
After the computer restarts, install your Adobe products from the original media.
Launch your Adobe products.
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Color Problems with CS4 Upgrade

I recently upgraded to CS4 and have been experiencing the following problem. When I open an image from ACR to PS CS4 it looks absolutely nothing like it did in ACR. If I was to describe it, it would be that the image has an overall red tint when viewed in CS4. If I then save this image as a PSD file, and then open it in PS CS3 it matches the CS4 ACR image. So, what have I got set wrong in PS CS4 (which is still all of the default settings)?

I've used dual monitors for many years. I see absolutely no change when moving any image from one monitor to another in Photoshop 7.0.1 through 11 (CS4). Photoshop is smart enough to read the profile for each monitor on the fly.
HI> Although I'm new to the Mac platform, that has been my experience also.
Even when I place half of the image in one monitor and the other half in the other one, Photoshop uses the correct monitor for each respective half of the image.
HI> I agree, for CS3 and Lightroom that is how it works for me too.
My response to Ray's question ("Where does photoshop assign a primary monitor?") has absolutely nothing to do with monitor profiles, only with which monitor will be the primary monitor, i.e. the one that hosts the menu bar with the Apple menu.
That is what you can change in the Display Preferences > Arrangement (Mac System Preferences).
HI> Correct and I agree. But I believe Ray had that setup correctly to begin with, unless I did not understand him.
The one thing that did change in CS4 is that image files now will always open on the primary monitor. In previous versions of Photoshop, you could just move an image to the secondary monitor, close it, and it or the next image would open on your secondary monitor too. That is not possible in CS4, at least in the current version.
HI> My observation as well.
However, the monitor profile used on each monitor respectively remains the correct one as set in Display Preferences > Color.
Photoshop knows how to apply each monitor profile to each monitor, unless the user has messed that up in Display Preferences > Color.
HI> As stated, CS3 and Lightroom do apply colors correctly. CS4 does not.
In Edit > Color Settings, you should be set to the Adobe Color Engine (ACE), not to Color Sync.
HI> All my observations with CS4 have used ACE. I was getting frustrated and the ColorSync thing was an experiment to see if anything changed.
In my experience, the Apple CMM, Color Sync, has been unreliable for a long time. I just avoid it. (There are other legitimate uses for the ColorSync Utility, such as repairing profiles [Profile First Aid], visualizing and comparing their gamuts, etc.)
If both monitors are accurately calibrated and profiled, and if the appropriate monitor profiles are selected for each monitor separately in Display Preferences > Color, Photoshop will use them correctly on each monitor, in my experience.
HI> CS4 does not seem to work the same way. In fact, if you bring up the images in Bridge CS4 on my setup, the filmstrip version of the image will have the proper color profile (when I move it back and forth from one monitor to the other) and the selected preview image will not! I believe this is a bug in CS4! CS4 should apply the same color profile to each image in Bridge regardless of which monitor I move the window to.
Something is going wrong in Ray's setup, but there are not enough details to tell what. Screen shots of all the settings would be helpful.
HI> I'm not sure how your monitors are setup. Perhaps you have two monitors that are nearly the same and therefore your color profiles are close enough to not see the difference that Ray and I see. My monitors are setup correctly and I believe that Ray's are too.
Even the cheapest calibrator puck will produce a more accurate profile than can be achieved through Apple's built-in or any other eyeball calibrator like SuperCal.
HI> I use Graytag McBeth. However, even if I did not use any calibration, I should see the same results in the same window for Bridge CS4, regardless of how far the profiles were off! Comparing that with CS3 and Lightroom makes me believe that this is a software bug in CS4 not a setup issue.

Update feature doesn't

This applies to In Design CS4, Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS2, Acrobat Professional... but the Adobe Update service doesn't. It simply tries and rejcets on each program right through the list, so all my really expensive new programs are still as first released.
I use XP SP3 home edition, and IE7.

I have tried that too, but a box appears asking me if i want to submit the crash to microsoft.

Pixel Aspect Ratio Discrepancy

My first project after being upgraded to CS4 (with Matrox Axio) was supposed to be very simple and wasn't. A :10 sponsorship billboard with animated background we always use (avi), client supplied logo (tga), and announcer audio track (wav). Set up the project/sequence to be D1/DV 0.9, just like always. Targa file was also 0.9. So far everything is normal. Then rep decides they want a plain blue background instead of the animated one, and would like to add a phone super. Made a solid blue background in the title generator, again 0.9, and when I put it on the timeline, I could no longer see video. Even if I dbl clicked on it, I couldn't see either background or logo in the source monitor. In case the title generator didn't like making a color solid, I re-made the graphic in Photoshop, again 0.9 tga, created a new project from scratch, imported my sources and when I put the background on the bottom track, again I couldn't see any video. I changed the pixel aspect ratio of the tga background to square pixels, put it on the timeline and that worked. I could see the logo again. So I made the phone super in the title generator and thought okay...square pixels. Brought the title graphic onto the timeline, and couldn't see any video. Changed the title graphic back to 0.9, brought it back onto the timeline, and it worked. So I had a background targa graphic in square pixels, a logo targa graphic in 0.9 and a title graphic in 0.9. One more thing that was a new experience for me was that a box popped up that said I needed to scrub through the sequence before it would play in real time. So I did, and it played. Can anyone share with me some logic to this discrepancy? Thanks.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Adobe changed the PAL pixel aspect ratio from CS3 to CS4?
I've fallen foul of this a couple of time.
There's some information here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f3aa.htm l
about halfway down the page
and more here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/07/pixel_aspect_ratios_in_after_e.html
which has some useful links.
Although they're mostly talking about After Effects, this applies equally to Premiere CS4.
HTH
Mark

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I recently installed CS5. I want to
uninstall CS3 so that when I edit a photo in Elements 8.0 using Photoshop it goes into CS5 and not CS3. I went into Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, and clicked on CS3. When I did this, the screen froze up, and I had to restart the computer to get out of it. I tried this twice, and the same thing happened the second time. I experimented with removing a different old program, and it uninstalled just fine. How can I get rid of CS3 if I can't remove it using the Add or Remove Program function???

All wrong! The mess is between your different versions of your Adobe programs. you need to uninstall them all and then reinstall in correct order. Just removing CS3 won't fix anything, anyways, as it will destroy any file associations also for CS5 and possibly PSE8. So you'd be doing more damage than good... Use the CS5 Clean Script (which also applies to CS3 and CS4) to remove programs if the installers don't work.
Mylenium

Gestion de la surimpression des tons directs dans InDesign ?

Bonjour,
J'ai conçu un catalogue multilingue de plus de 90 pages avec des dixaines de blocs texte par page.
Le client me demande de lui fournir un PDF unique avec la quadri et les langues séparées en tons direct, sauf que j'avais prévu à l'origine de faire plusieurs PDF (j'ai monté mon doc en calques) et n'ai donc pas pensé à cocher la petite case "surimpression du fond" dans les options d'objet sur tous mes blocs texte.
Du coup je me retrouve avec mon texte espagnol qui défonce mon texte français... et j'ai trois langues.
Est-ce qu'il n'existe pas une façon de régler globalement la surimpression de mes nuances en tons direct ?
Merci pour votre aide, parce que là j'le ssens pas trop !

Merci pour les différentes réponses, mais cela n'explique absolument pas la différence entre CS4 et CS5. Sous CS4 je n'avais pas de ralentissements en cours de travail. Après de gros travaux je relançais l'appli pour retrouver un CS4 frais...
Sous CS5, au bout d'un moment (je n'ai pas pour l'instant délimité celui-ci) même tout en étant loin de dépasser la limite des 17 Giga, l'appli bloque momentanément, le temps de décharger de la mémoire sur le disque (mauvaise prise en compte des 17 Giga sous Vista 64 ???)
Les paramètres de Windows n'ont pas changé entre CS4 et CS5.
Je suis de langue française, mais je fais la traduction en anglais sachant que cette communauté est plus nombreuse.
Merci pour celui qui aura une piste de réponse !
Thank you for the various answers, but it does not absolutely explain the difference between CS4 and CS5. Under CS4 I had no slowings down in the course of work. After big works I relaunched the appli to find a fresh CS4....
Under CS5, after a while (I did not bound at the moment this one) even while being far from exceeding the limit of 17 Giga, the appli blocks for a moment, the time to release from the memory on the disk (bad consideration of 17 Giga under Vista 64???)...
The parameters of Windows did not change between CS4 and CS5.
I am of French language, but I make the translation in English knowing that this community is more numerous.
Thank you for the one who will have a track of answer!

Canon Vixia HG21 and Premiere CS3

We just purchased a Canon Vixia HG21 and are unable to import the footage into Premiere CS3. Files are of .m2ts extension. Is Premiere CS3 not able to read these? Is CS4 better or able to? What are our options?

we have upgraded to CS4 and the program still can't import the m2ts files this camera generates
I assume that this means that you have the full-paid version of CS4. Is that correct? The reason that I ask is because the trial version will not handle anything MPEG.
Now, there have been reports of full-paid versions of CS4 reverting to the trial version, with the updating to CS4.2. If this has happened, again, you will not have support for anything MPEG. One test would be to find an MP3, or some other MPEG Asset, and try to Import that. If you get a failure, you likely have a trial version now. See Below:
The "cure" is to de-Activate your version and THEN uninstall. Run the Adobe Clean Script CS4 3 - 4 times, rebooting between each. Next step is to install the CS4 version, Activate again and then apply all updates to CS4.2. We do not know what causes a few updates to change the installation to the trial, but it happens too often. The above steps, in that order, work for all.
Good luck, and let us know if that helps.
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Switching Adobe Creative Suite from windows to Mac.

I purchased Adobe Creative Suite 4 for windows a few years ago. We recently purchased a Mac and I'd like to use it on the Mac. Is there a way to switch computers without having to pay for the whole thing again?

There is a platform swap process but it only applies to CS6. CS4 is too old to qualify.
Order product | Platform, language swap
Unfortunately your options are to:
Install Windows via Bootcamp or Parallels on the Mac then run CS4 in the virtual Windows environment on the Mac, or
Buy the full version of CS6, or
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