Designer ES2

According to this link - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/lcdesigneres2_whats_new.html - Acrobat Extended 9 owners should be able to obtain Designer ES2 as an update, but the Customer Service of BOTH LiveCycle and Acrobat don't know how I can upgrade my Designer ES1 (v8.2) to ES2. My Designer came with my Acrobat Extended 9 purchase. Has any Acrobat 9 user upgraded to Designer ES2? How? Thank you.

Hi,
Congrats on your 25 years! That is a great accomplishment.
Perhaps, I was a little cavalier about suggesting that you setup and use a multi-boot environment. It sounds like it is probably easier to have a Windows box nearby! And, I think Adobe should at the very least, throw-in an Win LCD license with any package that includes Acrobat Pro--it is only fair!
Big, corporations are very short-sighted in achieving their profit goals. If a manager invests too far in the future, they will surely lose their job.
Your comment:
"wouldn't it be a valid explanation for all the other Adobe products"
I believe there is a difference in maintenance of an existing product and maintaining it while developing a Mac version. Now that there will be a 0.5 upgrade every year, Adobe has its hands full adding great new features to the CS product line with each release. I would like to think that Designer is part of the CS family, albeit the stepchild, it would seem, and Adobe will continue to improve it at the same rate as other CS products. (Incidentally, releasing a new version every year is another example of being shot-sighted, in my opinion.) Adobe appears to be late in releasing Designer ES3--Acrobat Pro 10 ships with ES 2.5. I personally skipped upgrading to CS 5.5--had Designer 10 been part of it I, would have made the CS 5.5 upgrade. Heck, if Acrobat Pro10 shipped with Designer 10, I would have upgraded to Acrobat Pro 10. I'm still on the 9.0 that shipped with CS 5.0.
Anyway, my point is, Adobe has laid out an ambitious schedule and perhaps Adobe has failed to meet that schedule with regards to Designer. If that is true, I think that puts another nail in the Designer/Mac coffin.
I feel your pain and I hope I am wrong.
Stephen

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