*nix support: Think Adobe will ever release retail products?

[IamDavid]

I grew up on Dreamweaver and Photoshop so using an alternative just doesn't sit well with me. Nor does "making" it work. Why can't Adobe just release a version for me? Iknow the cost would be high but I would never have to boot to Windows again. 🙂 They could charge a bit more I wouldn't care and I think many others wouln't care either.. I wouldn't have to own a copy of Windows so I could afford it.

 

[drag]

Movie studios have wanted for Photoshop on Linux for a while now since they use Linux for making movies, generally. Much more then Windows or OS X.

Even so.. for Shrek they actually prefered to use 'GIMP'. The studio said it was the best system for making textures, even though they were starting to run into the 8bit color limitations

For photoshop they came up with 2 solutions:
Invested money in Cinepaint, which is nice for editing film (used in LOTR movies for drawing the arrows in the battle scenes, for instance) Not so hot for regular stuff though.

Paid people to get photoshop working in Wine/Crossover office.

If you can't figure out how to use Gimp to your satisfaction, then I suggest looking at Wine. People have gotten CS and CS2 working in Linux, I don't have a clue how to do it.

 

[OSX]

Like drag said, if the movie studios that will do millions of dollars of business want it, Adobe will deliver.

 

[imported_LoKe]

I'd ignore Dreamweaver all together. It was my favourite piece of software on the Windows platform, but under Linux, I prefer Bluefish.

 

[IamDavid]

I'm not very good at web design so Bluefish was way over my skill level and I'm to lazy to learn. 🙂

"If you can't figure out how to use Gimp to your satisfaction, then I suggest looking at Wine. People have gotten CS and CS2 working in Linux, I don't have a clue how to do it."
I have gone the Wine route before but I don't like having to "make" something work.. And has anyone been successful in getting CS2 working via wine? I haven't seen it.. Would be nice I guess.

 

[sourceninja]

NVU and Quatra are close to dreamweaver, not as good, but close.

 

[drag]

"If you can't figure out how to use Gimp to your satisfaction, then I suggest looking at Wine. People have gotten CS and CS2 working in Linux, I don't have a clue how to do it."
I have gone the Wine route before but I don't like having to "make" something work.. And has anyone been successful in getting CS2 working via wine? I haven't seen it.. Would be nice I guess.

Yes they have.

If you go to Wine's website they have a application database and there you can find reports that people have on different Windows applications.

People have gotten it to work by installing it in Windows first then copying the files over to Linux along with registry settings.

I don't know of hte details beyond that. Usually for popular apps you can go to a website called 'Franks place' or something like that (there is a link from Wine's website) that will have howtos for installing apps and games. For example Microsoft Internet Explorer is suppose to work well in Linux.

But I don't know of the details.

I'd figure out how to do it, because I am curious, but I neither have a copy of XP and I don't have a copy of Photoshop and I ain't going to spend 600 dollars to figure it out. 😉

For Gimp it depends on what your problems with it are. If it's technical, like you require deep color depths because your a filter fiend, or you can't live without those fancy transformation layers, then I can't help you out.

But it's UI. There are ways to get what you want.

For instance it's popular for people to remove extra docks completely and then nest all there commonly used docks on the title bar. People seem to like that. Then you stick them all on the right or left side. That way you reduce the number of windows you have to 2 (the image and the toolbar) but you get to keep all your commonly used stuff such as paths, masks, and layers

Also with most Window managers such as Metacity you can go into Gimp's preferences (via the toolbar 'file' menu) and go to 'window management' section and do stuff there. For instance you can select hinting for windows like 'utility' or 'normal' so window managers will handle which windows stay on top and others that can change relationships and such. Also you can enable 'transient' feature so that when you click on one gimp window all of them come foward and such.

Also you can edit what features a window has in each mode.. so like fullscreen is normally picture viewer mode.. but you can adjust things so that you can have you menubar and selections and layers show up so you can work in fullscreen mode, which some people like.

That sort of thing.

As for dreamweaver. I don't know.
But Linux is very popular for web-related stuff. You can find like forty billion different things like bluefish or NVU or whatnot. Most people can find something that they like and some are very advanced.

Check out http://freshmeat.net/ They'll have lists and lists of applications for Linux and their licenses and when they were last updated and such.

 

[Nothinman]

Why can't Adobe just release a version for me?

Have you called them an asked them? If you have a valid license you should have support and have the right to call and complain/ask for new features.

 

[xtknight]

I got CS2 working in wine. All I had to do was fix some memory allocation problem by changing a CS2 registry key and I was all set. About 15 mins of Googling.

If you don't like "making things work" then use VMware.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Why can't Adobe just release a version for me?

Have you called them an asked them? If you have a valid license you should have support and have the right to call and complain/ask for new features.

Sounds like a plan.

Please take note, people, that Adobe is a supporter of more then a couple desktop initiatives for 'linux' and has a great deal of experiance as a propriatory ISV vendor on Linux with their PDF-related products for Linux systems.

If anybody is in a position to support Linux with their products, Adobe is. They just need justification.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Why can't Adobe just release a version for me?

Have you called them an asked them? If you have a valid license you should have support and have the right to call and complain/ask for new features.

Gonna have to give that one a try..

 

[Nothinman]

Gonna have to give that one a try..

You'll probably get a canned response about not enough people want it yet, but if people like you keep bugging them eventually they will see a viable market. And what do you have to lose besides time sitting on hold?