Agreed. I bought (Bought!) all the Affinity apps years ago and they just work. I will never use an Adobe product.
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Truth.
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Ive been clinging to my CS4 for years. Though I recently learned I’ll never be able to reinstall it because Adobe killed the authentication servers, so now I’m clinging to a particular install of it.
Legit considering pirating software illegally own next time I get a new computer 
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… “shittiness as a service”?
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Pantone is not nearly as critical as it used to be, and moves like this will just accelerate its death.
macos ventura doesn’t support postscript files anymore.
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If only they would finally include footnote support so that Publisher is usable for anything bigger than a pamphlet!
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They could at least offer an expensive additional “legacy support” subscription. Actually, I’m surprised they don’t!
If any colour related fuckery is going on, you can be sure that Stuart Semple is on the case!
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I recently ran into this problem with CS3. But Adobe did briefly release a version where you could click “never register” (just before they shut down the rego servers, I think). You can still get hold of that at macintoshgarden. Not sure if they have CS4 though.
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In the last few years some of the Fortune 50 corporations IT departments have been replacing their Windows servers, IBM mainframes, and even some of their frontline workers’ systems with Linux. Self-supported open source OSes are a hell of a lot cheaper than Windows enterprise licenses.
If entire multi-billion dollar IT departments can toss 25 years of dependence on Microsoft into the ashcan and replace them with open source, throwing Adobe out is literally trivial in comparison. Adobe (and Pantone) better tread very carefully on the corporate dollar squeezing, because every corporation is already looking for cost savings in their software licensing budgets.
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I remember for a while they had a registration-free version of CS2 that I used to point students to with a wink and a nod, but that’s also been pulled from the web.
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There isn’t a suitable alternative for cross medium print production. We don’t have a NIST equivalent and lots of the things people pretend are an equivalent (RGB, Hex, CMYK) aren’t when you are doing production in a wide range of formats.
This is great, if the process you envision is one designer, staying largely digital. It falls apart if you have a large company with standing relationships with a bunch of printers doing work on different schedules and media.
My favorite was someone sending a decades old proprietary email format as an email attachment.
That works great on the design side, but not as much on the production side. If you’re doing a large volume you will be doing checks through the course of the run and that will keep your books out and open in less than great circumstances. You don’t need to follow Pantone’s schedule, but you definitely need a good replacement program.
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Oh this is interesting.
(Adding insult to injury for Mac users, the current version of the Pantone Connect extension isn’t Apple Silicon-compatible and requires launching the app in the slower Intel emulation mode.)
I guess that carefully balanced rationale for getting a shiny new mac studio is in the toilet, now that there are no speed benefits.
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