Adobe Creative Suite 5 Set to Launch April 12th

[MacRumors]

Adobe today announced that it will hold a
launch event for Creative Suite 5 (CS5) on Monday, April 12th at 8:00 AM Pacific Time. While the company has yet to release many specific details on CS5 or disclose what will be covered during the launch event, users are invited to register for a video broadcast to be covered by Adobe TV.

Adobe has shared relatively little about its plans for CS5, although it did reveal that Flash Professional CS5 will include tools to allow developers to build Flash-based applications and then export them in the standard .ipa format used for App Store applications. The technology was revealed last October along with a disclosure that several current App Store applications had been developed using a prerelease version of the software.

The upcoming CS5 release will mark the first major update to the company's flagship publishing applications since Creative Suite 4 was introduced in September 2008 and began shipping the following month.

Article Link: Adobe Creative Suite 5 Set to Launch April 12th

 

[crackbookpro]

I've been waiting for this...

CS5 has come.

 

[alphaod]

I'm excited for 64-bit support.

 

[splashnader]

So finally updates to Photoshop and Illustrator.

 

[shadowbird423]

Posted already:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/877973/

 

[JackAxe]

Awesome! But then again, this means spending more money. I'll upgrade Flash first, then maybe AfterEffects. Photoshop and Illustrator are fine. I only upgrade them when I can no longer open up client's files reliably.

 

[Voidness]

I've participated in a private beta of several CS5 applications, and I'm not too excited about the final versions. Adobe has lost its way.

 

[choco]

*phew* i was just about to buy the cs4 master collection a few weeks ago too! glad i waited

 

[sth]

Yet another _very_ expensive update...

 

[DaWooster]

I really hope that by this point, CS5 will have SOME application that opens Animated GIFs. That's been missing since ImageReady got the boot in CS3.

 

[Analog Kid]

The upcoming CS5 release will mark the first major update to the company's flagship publishing applications since Creative Suite 4 was introduced in September 2008 and began shipping the following month.

Phrasings like this make me nuts. "This represents the first time that flowers have bloomed since April 2009". Makes it sound so momentous! It's a mature product-- a 12-15 month turn over would actually be more rapid than I'd like.

 

[firestarter]

They'd better not screw the European market like last time with upgrade fees.

I might upgrade Photoshop this time if they've actually added anything useful.

 

[dukebound85]

these CS revisions are a bit too frequent for my liking

 

[J Radical]

I assume it will have GPU acceleration too?

Is CS5 going to be cocoa? CS4 seemed like a weak update, and the software has always been insanely expensive.

 

[alexk82]

yup

I'm excited for 64-bit support.

finally

 

[netnothing]

I really hope that by this point, CS5 will have SOME application that opens Animated GIFs. That's been missing since ImageReady got the boot in CS3.

Fireworks does that today. Probably the only reason I've ever opened that app!

-Kevin

 

[chrispenn1]

:s

Yawn... curls up and goes to sleep for all the difference this makes to anything.

 

[ValSalva]

Awesome! A new version of Flash to make Flash animations and videos that can't be seen on the iPad or iPhone

 

[DaWooster]

Fireworks does that today. Probably the only reason I've ever opened that app!

-Kevin

That's curious, every time I've opened an animated GIF at my college using FireWorks CS4, all I get is the first frame; which is the same result I get in Photoshop; which is NOT the same result I get on a web page or in Preview.app

 

[Maserati7200]

64-bit Cocoa for the win...

 

[AidenShaw]

finally

Or somewhat more appropriate - finally for Apples.

64-bit support was in some CS4 applications for another platform.

 

[roaminggnome]

64-bit Cocoa for the win...

Is it finally cocoa? If so that's reason enough to take the plunge.

 

[KindredMAC]

Even though a lot of the updates are minor, this is always good news! Our company skipped CS4 so I'm looking forward to this.

 

[staypuffinpc]

great news!

64 bit support and support for mobile apps (not just ipa) are enough reason for me to upgrade to Flash CS5 ASAP!

 

[solusoracle]

That's curious, every time I've opened an animated GIF at my college using FireWorks CS4, all I get is the first frame; which is the same result I get in Photoshop; which is NOT the same result I get on a web page or in Preview.app

At the bottom of the main Fireworks canvas, there are media controls for advancing frames.