User Interface Fonts (CS4)

My wife just got a new PC and a 23.5" widescreen monitor. It's great, but with the high pixel density of the screen (1920x1080), DW CS4's fonts in the menus and other user-interface items are really small and hard for her to see. Windows 7 has a way of setting on-screen fonts to a larger size, which works in most programs, but (unsurprisingly) not in DW.
I think from past discussions that I recall that this is pretty much a lost cause, but since we're thinking of upgrading to CS6 when it comes out, I'd like to know if this situation has been remedied even in CS5 or CS5.5?
With the increase in screen densities this is getting to be a real issue, and it's just not good practice to render these fonts at what is essentially a fixed pixel size. We're also not getting any younger (I'm in my 60s), and it's not fun to have to strain to see what's on the screen.

User Interface (GUI) fonts like menus and such are set in Windows in the advanced Display settings, even in Windows 7.
That won't (or it may - I don't know) increase things like items in the Files panel, but you can set a larger size and different font for other menus.
The Code panel can be adjust infinitely in the DW preferences.
I work on a 1024X600 netbook and a 1440X900 19" monitor, but I still keep the resolution as high as I can get it, even though I need my glasses to see it.

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User Interface (GUI) fonts like menus and such are set in Windows in the advanced Display settings, even in Windows 7.
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Premiere Pro CS5.5 User Interface Font Size

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I am using Adobe Premier Pro CS5.5.1.
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Can it really be true that there is no way to increase the font size in the user interface aside from changing my screen resolution?
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I am so, so, sad at how America and the world has got so lost, it harasses the disabled (I am vision impaired) and the TBI (I am recovered some 30 year later) by keeping the interface letters so small I have no hope of figuring what does what, even though I have repeatedly spend (about) 800 dollars for Adobe (latest) CS5 Adobe Premiere.
Just as Microsoft, abusing the user is casual, needs no explanation, only aversion, and the disabled and the ones actually buying the product can just take a leap- no right click, no text size changes (to the interface) in MS outlook, the directory tree inaccessible.
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Rome fell NOT because the veterans were ignored, WHILE things broke down, a SIGN was the vets getting ignored, they being in the bigger government. Here, modern vets ignored for decades, until too old to fight, and the entire USA seems to teeter, even blocking voices to mention this very same catastrophic issue- levels and more levels of obfuscation and solicitation to spend more money for ever less certain ownership. Every cubic foot of a city lot taxed, legislated, as things break down

CS5/CS4 GUI User Interface Design

I have always been very unimpressed with the user interface design on Adobe CS4. It's riddled with problems and changes that make no sense and offer no advantages.
For example, there is no longer a normal Windows title bar in many of the CS4 apps. This makes it much more difficult to maximize/restore applications since normally a Windows user could simply throw the mouse to the top edge of the screen and double click the title bar. In fact, doing this with CS4 apps has ZERO function (it doesn't do anything). One would think that by moving the menu commands to the top bar of the window chrome, Adobe would make these menus accessible from the top-most edge of the screen in order to increase usability. Unfortunately this is not so and clicking the top most edge of a maximized window does nothing.
Two other very important parts of an application user interface are the upper left and upper right corners. Normally when a Windows application is maximized, throwing your pointer to the upper right corner and clicking will close the application. Throwing the pointer to the upper left corner and clicking will reveal the application window menu. This happens in ALL applications... EXCEPT for Adobe CS4 programs. These two extremely important application window command locations have been completely disabled in Adobe CS4 apps. Clicking the upper most corner pixels in a maximized Adobe CS4 app does nothing.
Then there's the tabbed document window interface. If you float a document window and maximize that, normally you would expect it to become maximized within the application window as it should. Au contraire, in Adobe CS4, the document window maximizes itself ON TOP OF the application window, thus obscuring and disabling any access to the application window's tools/commands. I did report that as a bug during beta, but obviously it was ignored. Seems kind of obvious to me that the fact that a user could accidentally make the entire application completely unusable by maximizing a document window might be a problem.
It still alludes me as to why Adobe changed the CS4 user interface to something that breaks so many Windows UI conventions. Adobe CS3 was a practically perfect user interface design on Windows. It was very customizable, all of the normal Windows functions were properly in place.
What's the deal with the change?
I thought maybe the file menu was moved in place of the title bar in order to make more room for other UI elements, but it's actually pretty much the same size as the old file menu title bar combination in CS3.
With all these changes and with all the functionality losses, what exactly have we gained in the CS4 GUI? Seriously, I'm asking.
Anyway, I hope Adobe starts reading the Windows User Experience Guidelines (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511331.aspx) and brings CS5 back to the way a Windows application should behave. Proper theme adherence would be nice too.
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For an example of great user interface design, has anyone tried Office 2010 on Windows 7 yet? http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090512/screencaps-office-2010-technical-preview-teched- 2009-keynote/
The faded transparent title bar and tabbed ribbon interface is absolutely gorgeous.

@Adam:
I agree with your comments! So well said!
And there are other issues, too -- by the color of the app window, you don't know if the window is active or inactive (focus or not in focus). Titles of panels which are inactive, are dark text over dark background -- hardly readable at all... And many more.
I really hope Adobe are listening...

CS4 Interface fonts

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I'm just getting into using InDesign CS4, and there are some things I don't like about the interface. I hated the all-caps on the interface fonts but got rid of them with the InDesign Secrets tip. However, the type itself is a little small. Is there a way to make it bigger without changing the monitor resolution? I mostly go by the icons, but I have a few libraries that I use too and keep in the panel (and those all have the same icon).
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Can you change size of fonts in premiere pro user interface -- the text is often so small it is hard to read

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Hi Ewporter,
Sorry, sounds like an excellent feature request, though. Make it here: http://adobe.ly/feature_request
Thanks,
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UI (User Interface) text size and colors

Recent versions of Elements (7, 8, 9) have changed to a user interface which is predominantly shades of gray and black with few if any user options for color or font. The font size cannot be altered because Adobe use their own pixel-based font which is not compatible with Windows Desktop settings. So on many flat screens with high resolutions the font becomes almost unreadable. The upper case 'E' in the menu bar Edit for example, is a mere 2.03mm high on a 22" display at 1920x1080 resolution.
This has been mentioned a number of times over these releases to no avail, but at last there may be a change on the way for PSE 10 (later later this year?).
So if you feel the gray/black UI needs attention I suggest you visit
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/my_eyes_need_help_with_photoshop
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If you wish to place a comment you will need a Photoshop Account and to be logged in. If you didn't create an account when you installed the product then just click Create Account at the top of the link above.

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A beginner in this area, I have been able to read a record from a
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4)The user is allowed to change the information
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I've made both editable as well as non editable info in the same page with different actions.
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<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %>
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<%@ page import="java.util.ArrayList,java.util.Iterator" %>
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<html:html>
<head>
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</head>
<body>
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 <td><table width="100%" bgcolor="indigo">
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 <td>Verify</td>
 <td>Confirm</td>
 </tr>
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 </td>
 </tr>
<%
 //Container for holding data
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 System.out.println("testGetCustomerDetails()-successed. retrieved CustomerDetailsTest="+cust.toString());
%>
<%
 //Session for checking whether edit or non-edit mode
 String pageMode = (String)session.getAttribute("CUSTOMER_PAGE_MODE");
 session.removeAttribute("CUSTOMER_PAGE_MODE");
 if(null==pageMode)
 pageMode = "EDIT";
 if(pageMode.equals("EDIT"))
 //display data in the form
 System.out.println("Editable mode");
%>
 <html:form action="/nonedit">
 <tr>
 <td><table width="100%" bgcolor="darkkhaki">
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.id"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCusId()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <td>
 
 <bean:message key="label.Company"/>
 </td> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cname"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="name" value="<%=cust.getCname()%>"/></td>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cphone"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="phone" value="<%=cust.getCphone()%>"/></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.caddr1"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="address1" value="<%=cust.getCaddress1()%>"/></td>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cemail"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="email" value="<%=cust.getCemail()%>"/></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.caddr2"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="address2" value="<%=cust.getCaddress2()%>"/></td>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cfax"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="fax" value="<%=cust.getCfax()%>"/></td>
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 <td><html:text property="zip" value="<%=cust.getZip()%>"/></td>
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 <td><bean:message key="label.cstate"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="state" value="<%=cust.getCstate()%>"/></td>
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 <td>
 
 <bean:message key="label.Admin"/>
 </td> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.AAname"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="adminname" value="<%=cust.getAname()%>"/></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.AAemail"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="adminemail" value="<%=cust.getAemail()%>"/></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.AAphone"/></td>
 <td><html:text property="adminphone" value="<%=cust.getAphone()%>"/></td>
 </tr> 
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 <bean:message key="label.User"/>
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%>
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 <td><bean:message key="label.status"/></td>
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 </tr> 
 <td>
 
 <bean:message key="label.Company"/>
 </td> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cname"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCname()%></td>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cphone"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCphone()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.caddr1"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCaddress1()%></td>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cemail"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCemail()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.caddr2"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCaddress2()%></td>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cfax"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCfax()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.ccity"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCcity()%></td>
 <td><bean:message key="label.czip"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getZip()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.cstate"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getCstate()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <td>
 
 <bean:message key="label.Admin"/>
 </td> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.AAname"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getAname()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.AAemail"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getAemail()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.AAphone"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getAphone()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <td>
 
 <bean:message key="label.User"/>
 </td> 
 <tr>
 <td><bean:message key="label.AUname"/></td>
 <td><%=cust.getUname()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr>
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 <td><%=cust.getUemail()%></td>
 </tr> 
 <tr align="center">
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 </tr>
 </html:form>
<%
%>
<%
%>
 </table>
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
</body>
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u r using action classes. so after calling the insert method in Action Class to a dao... the next statement should be retrieve statement. so at the time of updating first it will get updated.. the next statement it will execute is retrieve and then set these details in VO or FORM and show it on JSP
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Issue in the user interface of ICSS application

Hi Experts,
Please find the below description of the issue.
Ours is a migration project of ICSS application from one landscape to another landscape. Both the landscapes are in CRM 7.0 with the same patch levels.
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The XCM setting has maintained in the new B system exactly the same way like the A system
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There are no CSS files in the XCM settings in A system. So I have also not maintained in B system.
We have not done any changes in the track. So we have not deployed the application.
I have created the projects for both the tracks A and B and compared the code manually. Everything is same.
Question:
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Thanks and Regards,
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Hello Waldemar,
Thank you for contacting National Instruments. I would like to apologize for the delay in responding to your support request. We have been on holiday for the past few days due to Thanksgiving.
From the information you have provided here, it sounds like you are on the right track with getting your application up and running with a chinese font interface. I would like to point out an extremely helpful KnowledgeBase that you might use for reference now and any other time you need to localize your user interface:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/5987FCAFE3FBE8B98625693B0052EBD9?OpenDocument
(This KB was written for LabVIEW 6.0, but is still relevant for LabVIEW 7.0.) Based on this document, you only need "an MBCS-enabled operating s
ystem with an IME for the corresponding language." All 32-bit Windows operating systems are MBCS-enabled. Please see these links from the Microsoft website for more information:
http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?View=msdn&st=a&qu=mbcs&c=4&s=2
You may also find this tutorial describing localization procedures useful:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/2d17d611efb58b22862567a9006ffe76/6d94f90fc9b93aad862568a7007cd4c0?OpenDocument
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National Instruments

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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox (you need to close and restart Firefox).
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
See also:
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Some icons disappear when interface font is not set to Tahoma and 10 point

When we try to change the font of the SAP user interface (via the Administration > System Initialization > General Settings > Font & Bkgd dialog), to anything other than Tahoma 10 pt, a number of icons and button artwork disappear from the interface. The icons that disappear include the forward-a-month (ButtonPlay) and backward-a-month (ButtonPlayBack) buttons on the calendar, the "graph" icon that displays next to the Account Balance, Deliveries and Orders fields on the BP Master (ICON*SalesAnalysis), and some of the third-party add-on icons in the Main Menu.
The links/functionality itself is still there in the spot where the icon would be, it is just the artwork/icon that does not show up.
We tried restarting, reinstalling SAP, and various computers, and the issue persists. How do we fix this?
Thanks, Ted

Hi Gordon,
Thanks for responding:
I have tried all of these:
Tahoma 9, 11, 12, 14, 16
Arial 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16
Verdana 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16
MS Reference Sans Serif 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16
Arial Unicode MS 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16
Tahoma 10 is the only one that works, showing those icons I mentioned.
Thanks, Ted

After Effects Crashes On Startup (Initializing User Interface)

OK, this is really frustrating me now.
I've tried CS3, CS4 both on a Late 07, maybe early 08 White Macbook running Leopard 10.5.8, 4GB Ram, 2.1GHz CPU.
I installed CS4 without a hitch, but when I go to open it sticks on "Initializing User Interface" at the splash screen and then crashes and quits. This happens with CS3 as well, and I am unable to open anything.
I've tried to delete user preferences, create a new user and try there, repair disk permissions, connect an external monitor and try again, nothing works!
Any suggestions to get this to work?

I just did this search for the error message, and I found some possible solutions, including in the comments on this page.

User interface lags severely on my 2.2GHz mbook pro 3,1

I usually run my laptop just plugged in without battery ever since i had my first battery totally fry on me within 6 months of usage. And i needed to use my computer intensively the last few days so i plugged the battery in reset the computer reset power management controller and started working. Directly after bootup the computer runs fine and fast but shortly after the interface lags greatly. Scrolling in safari becomes painfull, mouse movements not as smooth, and response time to lots of things are ridiculous. Wanted to figure out what was going on. So i downloaded xbench and ran some tests, everything seems normal except for user interface tests.
Directly after boot i would get a score of 130
after some time when i notice it's not working well it drops to 11-15
what could this be? I heard from some other posts it could be skype, i never launched skype still same thing. Activity monitor reports nothing unusual.
Please help. This is ridiculous. I couldn't even use aperture when touching up a photo i took for a billboard ad.

As Allan says, Rani, running without the battery will indeed slow down your processor, which puts it at something of a handicap right from the start.
It sounds as if something else may be adding to this lag, though. You say that Activity Monitor reports nothing unusual. Does this apply to both CPU and RAM usage? When the problem is occurring what sort of CPU percentage is being reported for the most "CPU hungry" processes? What about the "Page ins / page outs" when you look at "System memory"?
How full is your HD? If it is , say, less than about 20% free then it is quite possible that you are suffering from a lot of free space fragmentation. Aperture is one application which can add to fragmentation effects , too.
As far as Aperture goes, have you tried rebuilding the Aperture database files?
How about corrupt or duplicated fonts? It may be that the slowdown is occuring after an attempt to access such an item in one program or another. Check for corrupt or duplicated fonts with Font Book , and get rid of any that it reports.
Have you booted up from your OS DVD and run Disk Utility to "repair disk" recently? If not give it a try. It is not uncommon for some directory corruption to build up over time. Alternatively you could try a "Safe Boot", though it won't directly provide you with as much information as using Disk Utility. (see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417 for a description of various options for directory repair).
You might also want to check your HD with Smart Utility.
Cheers
Rod

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I haven't tried CS6. I'm sure it's great based on what i've seen alone. But as a user of adobe products for a number of years, i have to noticed there are still a lot of stagnant,awkward, stiff, irriating, slowing down elements found in the navigation and user interface on cs3-cs5, that i'm sure could have been eliminated or improved on at least from 2005 or 2007 onwards. I find some of these things inexcusable and unprogressive from bad traits that defined 1980's and 1990's general computer navigation and so on.
CS5.5 has lessned this a bid bit and is more fluid in bits and pieces but for those using cs3-cs5 and in general, i find some things just horrid. As a graphic designer no one is supposed to admit the flaws or irrations of these programs. We must hail them as god, never critisize, and always adjust to new things which i think is a bit fascististic and silly
The way the tools, options are laid out can be improved to be quicker, and easier to find and use. Using your voice as a commanding system would be helpful as well.
A lot of cmds are too complex to remember, they can be simplier or resemble the name of the tool or option. Its makes a chore to follow this system and competition for the smart *** who memormized all the cmds.
The way in which you loose floating side boxes, and the amount of tools or names hidden in the bars sometimes seem random and its always a constant search to find them incase you forget where they are.
The inability to open cs4 or 5 files in cs3 is just beyond extremly annoying. Whey shouldn't you be able to open cs1 or 2 files or photoshop 9 files as well? Every five years work expires as well?
The layering system gets tricky and seems that a lot of things don't work when you normally move things. Its about going back, remembering and clicking on this or that, looking it up to make everything work. Sometimes which leaves you in a rut and wastes a good amount of time. You will always find this even after you've been using it for years.
The use of the fill paint/airbrushing, clone tool, lasso tool, pen tool, history being two steps back can be vastly improved to be much better to use
Masking and tools that have more complex features should find a way be automatically done or sampled. They can also have less complex steps and tha ability to be previewed, automatic or simpler ( in case you can't remember how to do something or aren't getting it)
A lot of the special effects, and blending modes are useless, outdated, super-ugly and don't resemble true darkroom effects ( such as polarization, and bas-relief for example) which they could much more vividly done. There also could be more options that are closer to repro cameras/CTP software for halftoning and more complex digital effects.
Having to press or get used to pressing muliple keys or clicks for the most basic things simultaneously can be reduced to be easier
Adjusting text, new documents, photos should have a smoother, quicker navigational experince where things a lot of room to be , clicked back, re-done, saved in the wrong place etc..
Indesign could use more shapes, include more features that illustrator has, and possibly even photoshop to save time.
There should be a way to remind you of features, complex things you've forgotten, other than history and daily usage/practice of the programs
The help should resemble more of "visual -learners" guide books with voice features.
There are a lot more
Regarding other things:
I think the price encorages more piracy and allows people to not have a concept of what is means to owning software.
The loss of a manual or lessening of them for certain programs is a loss because it's always useful to physical info you can flip through while looking at your program.
I think adobe should make entirely better products for professionals or people in the industry rather than spoonfeeding the same software to all.
They should also make less expensive add-ons like before for graphic software.
What do you adobe could have improved over time and if so what do you think they could have improved on?

You have this wishform to suggest improvements to Adobe products:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
and the Creative Suites forums are here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites
This specific forum is only for discussions on the forums themselves, so you are not very likely to get any change by posting your comments here.

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Wallace, check out this post...http://forums.adobe.com/message/3157040?tstart=0

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