Upgrading CS3 to CS5

I am not able to install CS5 on my new laptop as my upgrade does not qualify my CS3 Design Premium. Here that serial number:
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Once again: prints too dark after upgrading CS3 to CS5

Hi, I know this has been discussed before, but I haven't found a solution to my issue in the existing threads. I am most likely missing something obvious, and perhpas someone here can point it out to me.
I recently upgraded from CS3 to CS5. In both editions of photoshop I followed Eric Chan's recipe for setting up the print workflow: http://people.csail.mit.edu/ericchan/dp/Epson3800/printworkflow.html. In CS3 everything works as expected, i.e., the print matches the soft proof. Printing the same image from the same computer/monitor in CS5 produces a print that is much darker than the softproof or the CS3 print.
In case this is relevant, my psd files are all in Adobe RGB 1998, I use the Epson supplied print diver (v5.51) for the Stylus 3800. I use the icc profile for Epson's Exhibition Fiber paper, which is what I am printing on. The conversion method is Relative Calorimetric with Blackpoint Compensation checked. Photoshop runs on a 32bit Windows XP SP3 machine.
Any suggestions? Are there any settings that are not mentioned in Eric Chan's write-up that I should look at to find the source of the difference? Is there anything else that could account for the different prints?
Thank you!
Martin

Thank you for the help! Here are the screen shots. I printed the wacked image from CS3 and CS5. In CS3 everything looks right, i.e. the soft proof matches the print. In CS5 the soft proof looks the same as in CS3, but the print is dark. A photo of the printout is attached at the end.
CS3:
CS5:
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Trying to decide whether to upgrade CS3 to CS5

I've had CS3 Design Premium for a few years but never really used it much except for Photoshop. Now I'm starting up a blog and have been reading and learning just how useful many of the other programs could be for me, but before I put a lot of effort into learning the CS3 programs I have, I wonder if there are any really dramatic advantages to upgrading to CS5 and learning that instead.
Is CS5 so much more amazingly awesome than my dusty old CS3 that I should upgrade? What are some of the real advances over CS3? One thing that would make me inclined would be if the CS5 programs were a lot better at efficiently using my hardware (I have an i3 and NVIDIA 330 in my laptop and would like to get the most out of them).
Anyone have any advice? Did you upgrade and were blown away?
Thanks for any thoughts!

You need to tell us what programs you're using. The programs I use regularly, InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver all have dramatically improved. I have a couple of articles on my website about InDesign. For CS5: http://www.theindesignguy.com/cs5-thoughts.shtml and for CS4: http://www.theindesignguy.com/cs4-thoughts.shtml
You might want to pop into the actual application forums for the apps you use to make a decision. You can get a decent deal on the Design Premium upgrade at Amazon right now: http://amzn.to/9zAnwa $30 off, no shipping and most likely no sales tax collected.
You can also download demos of any program you want to test drive.
Hope that helps,
Bob

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It's not 100% clear from your post, but you should be aware that CS5 plugins should not work in CS5.5. Because of a CS5.5 bug, CS5 plugins will load in InDesign 7.5.0, but that is fixed in 7.5.1 so they will not load.
You should lean a bit harder on Virginia Systems. They should be able to tell you how to get them the stack trace from the crash which they should be able to look at and tell you which plugin (if any) is responsible for the crash. I could do it for Mac OS X but I don't know how under Windows. You could start by looking at the Event Viewer, though. That may have some helpful information about the crashes and the faulting module.

Can't find this info anywhere... Can I upgrade from CS3 to CS5 or CS5.5?

After using Adobe products for years and years, it's not only my opinion but the opinion of many of my colleagues that CS upgrades are only worth it about every other upgrade. That might be a subjective opinion, but it does lead in to my question: Does anyone know if I can upgrade from CS3 to CS5 or CS5.5?? I can't find that info anywhere on Adobe's site.
Thanks!

Does anyone know if I can upgrade from CS3 to CS5 or CS5.5??
The Adobe Buying Guide clearly states that the answer for CS3 to CS5.5 is yes.
Design Premium example (other Creative Suites are the same):
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/buying-guide.displayTab2.html
You won't be able to buy CS5 from Adobe (not that you'd have any reason to).

CS3 to CS5 Upgrade - Compatibility Issues...?

Our company is thinking of upgrading to Adobe CS5 and will therefore have to upgrade hardware as well (running Power PC based Macs throughout the art and prepress departments). From what I've heard CS5 only works on Intel based Macs?
They are wanting to do a progressive roll out of new Intel-based iMacs which will obviously come pre loaded with Mac OS 10.6 - we are currently running Mac OS 10.4 on the G5 PPC Macs.
Straight away I see alarm bells ringing... only 1 Mac will be upgraded in each of the Art, Prepress and Digital Departments. There will still be 5 Macs within the area which will still be PPC based (3 in Art, 1 in Prepress and 1 in Digital).
My main question is - would you still be able to run old software (CS3, Quark 6, etc.) on a new Intel iMac so that all Macs across the departments will be able to open the same files regardless of hardware being used?
I know it defeats the purpose of upgrading to new and more powerful software and hardware - but I see no point personally in doing a progressive roll out of hardware and software if it is not going to be done across the entire range of workstations with the same department. Also a lot of outside companies that we deal with have already been upgrading to CS4 and recently CS5. The last time we upgraded hardware was in 2006...
Any replies would be helpful - personally the only way I can see an upgrade working is to apply it across all three departments. It will hit the hip pocket in one huge go but at least everyone will be singing from the same hymn sheet!
Regards, Shaun

The CS3 programs should run fine on those new Macs. Anything older would be a problem.
That said, if you're going to do this, everyone should be upgraded at the same time because of incompatibilities between versions, especially InDesign.
As for Quark, you'll need to check with them. I haven't used it in many many years.
Bob

CS3 to CS5 upgrade

I need to upgrade my CS3 Design Premium to CS5. Adobe no longer directly sells this upgrade so I am forced to use resellers.
Question 1) I have read posts that there IS a difference between a CS3 to CS5 upgrade versus a CS4 to CS5 upgrade. But, I have received conflicting opinions from Adobe via customer service. Is there still a difference between the upgrade packages?
Question 2) Many of the resellers do not specify the difference (if there is one). Is there any way to be assured of which version? Does it say on the box? The difference in price makes this a rather important question.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Adobe-Creative-Suite-v.5.0-Design-Premium-Upgrade-Version-Mac/15 172780
Thankful for any advice.

That deal is for the the CS4 to CS5 upgrade and will not work for you.
Here's a CS3 to CS5: http://t.co/xtxaKI0
Note that you may be able to get a free upgrade to CS5.5 if you hurry: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/153/tn_15304.html
Hope that helps
Bob

Upgrading from CS3 to CS5 issues

I work at a medium size College on a pretty small team, 1 editor/writer, 1 communications coordinator, and 1 designer (me). I've been using InDesign (ID) for 5 years now and we added on the InCopy (IC) workflow a few years ago with CS3 (both of us then had CS3). The editor and I just recently upgraded from CS3 to CS5 and we've hit a snag. I opened a project, the Academic Catalog in fact, in CS5 that we began in CS3 which we were almost finished with and when I tried to check out a story I got this error.
"This story needs to be converted to "InCopy Document" format in order to edit it."
The editor got the same message in IC. So I thought maybe files created by CS3 for IC don't work with CS5 so I decided to try to unlink the INCX files in ID and relink. Sure enough it created a new ICML file which the editor was able to open, edit, and save in IC. And I thought I had my problem solved until I opened the file in ID; when I tried to update the linked file ID crashed. I've tried unsuccessfully to get the updated stories from IC to update in ID w/o crashing. I've restarted the computer; it is Windows afterall. I've run 'Updates' in both our programs, and it says there are none. I've tried tossing the ID and ICML file; fortuanalty I was smart enough to do all this with a copy of the orginal CS3 file. I followed all my above steps a second time and it's still crashing. I'm not sure what to do at this point. Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a known issue like this?
btw, we're both running Windows Vista and both in CS5 (7.0).

AM
I might just have to go back to CS3 to finish this project up—fortunatly I foresaw an issue like this and kept CS3 installed. That will most likely solve the problem with this project, provided it too does not crash. And that is my concern for future 'new' projects in CS5, are those going to crash too? I think I'll do some testing with my editor.
Bob,
What type of additional info would help?
Thanks,
Colleen

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I've upgraded my Adobe CS3 to CS5.
Now it seems my entire iMac to be slower. Especially when using Photoshop and Bridge (Camara RAW).
Do you recognize this? I have an iMac 24 inch Mac OS X 10.6.4 with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
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