Adobe patches Photoshop CS5 to 12.0.2

Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS5. The 14.7 Mb Photoshop CS5 12.0.2 Mac update speeds up painting performance and fixes a number of problems, including:

  • Type and font crashes
  • Crash opening 3D layers
  • Color Engine crash
  • Droplet issues addressed
  • Problems with brush cursors, the histogram progress bar, the display of selection boundaries (“marching ants”), scrolling while using the shift key

The Windows version of Photoshop CS5 has also been updated to 12.0.2.

Adobe updates InDesign CS5

Adobe has released InDesign CS5 7.0.2 – an update to its page composition/layout program. The 17 Mb patch addresses a number of issues, including:

  • Corrects issue whereby files could not be opened or saved from/to certain server environments.
  • Corrects not finding legacy Type 1 Postscript fonts located in the Document Fonts folder.
  • Corrects several SWF display and creation issues.
  • Corrects Helvetica Neue TTF and Postscript conflicts.

Owners of InDesign CS5 can update via this link to the InDesign CS5 7.0.2 Update page or via the Adobe Updater application.

Adobe CS5 Ships – Free Trials Available

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Shipping

Adobe Creative Suite 5 began shipping this morning. Announced just a few weeks ago, this major upgrade brings a slew of new and enhanced features throughout the entire product line, with the exception of Adobe Acrobat, which remains at version 9.

Use this link to compare the various Creative Suite 5 sets as well as  get the details in all the new offerings.

Better yet, you can now download fully functional 30-day trials of the each Creative Suite 5 application.

NOTE: Mac version runs on Intel Macs only – end of the line for G5 units.

Adobe updates InDesign CS4

Adobe has released InDesign CS4 6.0.1 – an update to its page composition/layout program. The 33 Mb patch addresses a number of issues, including:

  • No longer unexpectedly quits when joining two points with the pen tool.
  • No longer unexpectedly quits when Shift-Cmd-double-clicking to override a master page text frame containing text.
  • Now correctly updates the links in documents with a large number of placed InDesign files.
  • When exporting to SWF, InDesign now correctly page turns right-to-left bound documents and correctly exports “mailto:” links have “http://”  links.
  • Now correctly exports to PDF InDesign documents with very large images with a high effective resolutions.
  • No longer loses stroke settings for merged table cells when opening an INX file created in InDesign CS3 or earlier.
  • Now correctly converts InDesign CS3 documents which previously caused inaccurate reflow due to hyphenation limits.

Adobe updates InDesign CS3

On the heels of the CS4 release, Adobe has released an update patch for InDesign CS3. The 71.4 Mb InDesign CS3 5.0.4 Update is primarily a CS4 compatibility update, correcting issues with CS4 to CS3 Export to INX (Save Back) workflows.

In addition, InDesign CS3 5.0.4 offers a number of other fixes, including those concerning: File Size, Hyphenation, Performance, Anchored Objects, Character Alignment, Step and Repeat, Indexing and Table of Contents, Text and Fonts, Dictionaries, Color, Scripting, Import/Export Graphics, InDesign Interchange files (INX), XML, Library files, and Printing.

A detailed list of fixes can be found in the ReadMe file.

The patch works on all previous versions of Adobe InDesign CS3.