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When you open the Adobe CS install DVD by double-clicking on its icon, a folder opens (top window) containing what are obviously three PDF read-mes, and something else which looks like a closed carboard box. That something else turns out to be a sub-folder (bottom window) containing a dmg, four folders, and another something that has the exact same cardboard box icon as the earlier something (which was a folder).
The new something, however, is an application. It is called Setup, and this is what you have to launch to start the installation. Windows users will recognize something called Setup to be the thing to double-click on to start an installation, but Mac users don't, and I know of no other software product for the Mac whose installer application is called Setup. This is sure to confuse Mac users, and, just to make it clear, this is actually an installer DVD for the Mac.
The presence of the Bootstrapper.dmg adds a little more to the confusion, as Mac OS X users will recognize a dmg to be a disk image which is very commonly used to distribute new software. If you ignore the Setup and double-click on the Bootstrapper.dmg in the hope that you will be presented with a volume containing the installer, you will not get anywhere.
Let's not even talk about the inconsistent and confusing use of file icons here.
What makes this all just a little bit worse is that the PDF read-me states, in the installation instructions for the Mac ? let me repeat this ? these are the installation instructions specifically for the Mac, not Windows:
Insert the DVD in your drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. If the installer
does not launch automatically, navigate to the application folder found at the root
level on your disk and double-click Setup Mac OS® to start the installation
process.
? There are no on-screen instructions.
? The installer does not launch automatically. (As far as I know, Mac OS X does not even contain the functionality that will allow an application to launch automatically when a volume is mounted!)
? The application folder found at the root level on your disk is not identifiable as such. It is not even identifiable as a folder.
? There is no file called Setup Mac OS® there. The file is called Setup.
I'm nit-picking a little here, but I find it unbelievable for a large company like Adobe, who have a couple of decades of experience in user interaction and software design, would be getting so many things wrong already before their software is even installed. If you've just shelled out a large sum of money for this software, it's a bit of a slap in the face, even if, like me, you know what to expect.
If I were a new user, I'd be pulling my hair out at this point already.
(This has been described elsewhere before, but I'd like to strengthen the point.) | schoschie posted a photo:
You still have to quit all browsers before installing the Adobe Creative Suite apps, no reasons given. (The reason is, in fact, that the installer installs the Acrobat PDF browser plug-in. It does so even when you tell it not to, and it nonetheless forces you to quit all your browsers in that case.)
This irritating behaviour has been part of the Adobe products install experience for many, many versions (or years), thousands have complained about it, but Adobe just ignores it and carries on with its stupidity and arrogance. |
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Wait a minute!
Where's Seetharaman Narayanan? | schoschie posted a photo:
The »Adobe« folder only contains one file: Acrobat.com.app
I don't know what it does, why it's there, and why it's not inside the Acrobat 9 Pro folder. |
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A look into the Acrobat Pro CS4 app bundle. Making up the 920,9 MB are:
? 469,6 MB of plug-ins,
? 210,9 MB of frameworks,
? 202,9 MB of various stuff including the actual executable, which is only 44 K,
? 34,9 MB of resources (which now appears really small),
? and some small bits
Maybe I'm getting the idea of frameworks wrong, but what is the point of externalizing parts of the code into modules that may be shared by other applications, if you bundle them all into each of the applications that use them? | schoschie posted a photo:
I allowed it the first time, but denied it the second time. Nothing happened. Apparently it wants to authenticate itself (?) against a certificate at Thawte.
Applications should never connect to the Internet without informing the user about it. (I was informed by Little Snitch, www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html )
Moreover, one does have to wonder why this has to take place at installation time, not later when you actually use the software. |
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These are the main apps from the Design Standard Package. Here we go:
Illustrator: 330,3 MB
InDesign: 378,7 MB
Photoshop: 258,8 MB
Bridge: 340,3 MB
Acrobat Pro: 920,9 MB
Acrobat Distiller: 196,2 MB
Device Central: 196,3 MB
Extension Manager: 80,2 MB
The winner is: Adobe Acrobat Pro with a whopping 921 MB in the application bundle.
Gone are the times of Quark XPress 3.1, which fit, in its entirety, onto a 3.5" disk. I know the comparison is silly, but still I find these app sizes incredible. They scream wastefulness, loudly.
Some thoughts about the new icons:
? Why does the InDesign icon have a small caps D instead of a normal lower case d as the second letter in the type (like the other three icons)?
? Does Adobe realize that Br is the element symbol for bromine, a corrosive and toxic liquid halogen? Maybe they do, because bromine fumes are reddish-brown, just like the icon's background colour. | vissago posted a photo:
Flir units installed in the bmw |
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Finally a fully functional bathroom. Well, maybe it still needs a door. |
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This drawer is going to need a trim |
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Boy have we come a long way...
I'm doing a project for my boss, moving all her files off of her old floppy discs and putting them on a harddrive. I happened to stumble upon this in the box of discs. | alainnblog posted a photo:
so the dvd-drive didn't see the cd and would only open once with this as a result.
Best to use better quality disks so they don't explode during install. |
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Et après on va dire que c'est moi qui aime pas Windows !!! | secretengineer posted a photo:
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