Kudos to Adobe - CS3

Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot about
it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you can do that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key for
that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).

Cheers,
Alan.

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Alan Browne wrote:

Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot about
it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you can do that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key for
that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).

Cheers,
Alan.

Jeez, Alan, I thought you were a PC man? Are you ill or something?

Colin D

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Colin_D wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot
about it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you
can do that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key
for that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).


Jeez, Alan, I thought you were a PC man? Are you ill or something?

I predicted this years ago, as Alan is above average intelligence and
tolerance, so could overcome his previous anti-Mac sensitivities. Plus
the inheritance from Aunt Gertie helped.

Also noteworthy in Adobe is that Lightroom allows for concurrent Mac
and PC versions for a single user.

--
John McWilliams

"John McWilliams" wrote in message
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Colin_D wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot about
it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you can do
that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key for
that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).


Jeez, Alan, I thought you were a PC man? Are you ill or something?

I predicted this years ago, as Alan is above average intelligence and
tolerance, so could overcome his previous anti-Mac sensitivities. Plus the
inheritance from Aunt Gertie helped.

In addition to Canon vs. Nikon we have PC vs. Mac?

God help us all...

Dudley Hanks wrote:

"John McWilliams" wrote in message
...
Colin_D wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot about
it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you can do
that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key for
that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).


Jeez, Alan, I thought you were a PC man? Are you ill or something?

I predicted this years ago, as Alan is above average intelligence and
tolerance, so could overcome his previous anti-Mac sensitivities. Plus the
inheritance from Aunt Gertie helped.

In addition to Canon vs. Nikon we have PC vs. Mac?

God help us all...

Which God?

ducks and runs for cover...

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--- Paul J. Gans

"Paul J Gans" wrote in message
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Dudley Hanks wrote:

"John McWilliams" wrote in message
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Colin_D wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot
about
it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you can do
that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key
for
that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).


Jeez, Alan, I thought you were a PC man? Are you ill or something?

I predicted this years ago, as Alan is above average intelligence and
tolerance, so could overcome his previous anti-Mac sensitivities. Plus
the
inheritance from Aunt Gertie helped.

In addition to Canon vs. Nikon we have PC vs. Mac?

God help us all...

Which God?

ducks and runs for cover...

--
--- Paul J. Gans

LOL
Even I won't go there...
Still LOL...

On 2008-03-17 15:42:19 -0700, Alan Browne
said:


Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot about
it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you can do
that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key
for that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).

Cheers,
Alan.

Adobe does really good customer service. I have done cross-platform
upgrades for years with Adobe for Photoshop. Obviously the upgrades
cost money but the upgrade price is substantially cheaper than the full
price.

Went from Photoshop 3 on the SGI Unix platform to PS4 on the PC then to
PS6-PS7-CS3 on the mac. When I did the first upgrade I was shocked
they did cross-platform upgrades.
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thepixelfreak

Dudley Hanks wrote:
"Paul J Gans" wrote in message
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Dudley Hanks wrote:

"John McWilliams" wrote in message
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Colin_D wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:
Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot
about
it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you can do
that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key
for
that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).
Jeez, Alan, I thought you were a PC man? Are you ill or something?
I predicted this years ago, as Alan is above average intelligence and
tolerance, so could overcome his previous anti-Mac sensitivities. Plus
the
inheritance from Aunt Gertie helped.

In addition to Canon vs. Nikon we have PC vs. Mac?

Not to mention Sandisk vs. Lexar; Sigma vs. anything; format in camera
vs. erasing; the meaning of Prime and prime; lens vs. lense; and on, ad
naseum.

God help us all...
Which God?

ducks and runs for cover...


LOL
Even I won't go there...
Still LOL...


Eventually, it wears a bit thin.....

--
john mcwilliams

In article ,
John McWilliams wrote:

I predicted this years ago, as Alan is above average intelligence and
tolerance, so could overcome his previous anti-Mac sensitivities. Plus
the inheritance from Aunt Gertie helped.

Also noteworthy in Adobe is that Lightroom allows for concurrent Mac
and PC versions for a single user.

FWIW

I have been a mac user almost since the get go, in a figure of
speaking. I know quite a few Mac users, we all use PC's at the place we
work at. I have convinced several relatives to buy there first Mac, no
one has had a bad experience. I've never met a Mac user that changed
over and suddenly became a die-hard PC advocate. My 28 year old nephew
who is a PHd- in Marine Biology decided to switch from Mac to PC because
his lab was PC centric so I think he bought a Dell laptop, recently he
has stated his next computer will be a Mac once more.

To stay on topic; I bought the PS7 up grade to CS3 I wasn't sure the
Version 7 I had would load on my brand new Imac duel core intel machine.
Sure enough It loads and will even run! It does produce a message saying
it won't load the system, but then it does after all- weird! After I
installed it on the new Imac I upgraded to CS3 and since I was happy I
was saving the money of buying the full PS version I bought Lightroom as
well. Good will promotes sales, in my view. Maybe Adobe understands that
concept?

In any event I see them as separate Programs of equal importance and
highly recommend them to other Photographers.

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David Ruether wrote:
"Paul J Gans" wrote in message ...
Dudley Hanks wrote:
"John McWilliams" wrote in message
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Colin_D wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

Some time ago I wrote to Adobe (via the support page) and asked if I
could transfer my CS3 license from Windows to Mac OS X. I forgot about
it for a while but just checked in and lo and behold, yes, you can do
that.

It took about 20 minutes on the phone with an Indian sounding fellow
(poor sound quality connection, alas) but eventually sorted it out.

The process is a PITA and even involves faxing Adobe a certificate of
destruction of the old s/w; and getting a new CD by courier or mail (I
DL'd CS 3 onto the Mac, but apparently they can't just send me a key for
that, they have to send an actual disk).

But I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised that they would
transfer the license at no charge. (I do have to pay for shipping of
the new disk...).

Jeez, Alan, I thought you were a PC man? Are you ill or something?

I predicted this years ago, as Alan is above average intelligence and
tolerance, so could overcome his previous anti-Mac sensitivities. Plus the
inheritance from Aunt Gertie helped.

In addition to Canon vs. Nikon we have PC vs. Mac?

God help us all...

Which God?

ducks and runs for cover...
--
--- Paul J. Gans

8^)
Well, to fan the fires again, I just went through HDV (HD video)
editing hell with four programs, and tried out CS3 among others.
The "winnah an' troo champeen" was Sony's Vegas Pro 8, being
cheaper than CS3, much more versatile, and with superior image
output quality for HDV compared with Adobe's CS3 - and the
set of mostly corny transitions included with it is identical to the
one in the far cheaper Adobe Elements 4... (see my review, at -
http://www.donferrario.com/ruether/hdv-editing.htm). 'Course,
it only works with Windows...;-)

I just paid $56 for the lite version of Vegas after a month trial.


[Ducking to avoid the brickbats heaved by the Macheads...;-]
--DR