Adobe Creative Suite 2.3

[fiveryanfrenzy]

I use Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 for Windows, can I make it work on Ubuntu?

its got illustrator, photoshop, indesign, golive, dreamweaver 8, acrobat pro and i think another one...

anyways should i just dual boot windows for using this huge suite?

[hikaricore]

Free:
You should probably check the wine application database for individual adobe applications (http://appdb.winehq.org/search.php?sSearchQuery=Adobe) to see what works and what doesn't. I've had illustrator photoshop and acrobat working in linux myself with wine (http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html).

Not Free:
You may also have luck with crossover (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/) IF you desperately need a certain applications to work (I don't have time to check their list of supported applications (http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/rank/?order=avg;sort=DESC) for you right now sorry) but as you can imagine this comes at a price.

[Shay Stephens]

I use Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 for Windows, can I make it work on Ubuntu?


Easy answer, no.

Hard answer, you can get it to work in a virtual machine.

It doesn't work in wine. It doesn't work in crossover office.

My advice, start thinking about converting your workflow to a different program(s) as the activation schemes will likely get worse as time goes by. In the mean time, dual booting is the easiest solution. Using a virtual machine is more convenient that dual booting.

I was using PSCS2 for editing raw files. I have recently switched to using bibble. I still use PS7 for text layout, that runs in wine .9.27 or crossover. Wine .9.28 and .29 have busted Photoshop 7. Hopefully .30 will fix that. Until then, use .27

[not_cool]

Here's (http://blog.publicidadpixelada.com/2006/10/10/how-to-adobe-photoshop-cs2-on-ubuntu-10-steps/) a link on setting it up with wine, and it works, though I haven't tried it.

[Shay Stephens]

Here's (http://blog.publicidadpixelada.com/2006/10/10/how-to-adobe-photoshop-cs2-on-ubuntu-10-steps/) a link on setting it up with wine, and it works, though I haven't tried it.

If you have not tried it, then how do you know it works?

[stengah]

Forget about wine .... use the free vmware server app to setup a virtual windows machine within linux and then install Adobe CS. It works wuperbly if you get the installation of vmware right. I've been using for 1year+ with no problems whatsover. You can then share files between the virtual machine and k/ubuntu by setting up samba.

There's a howto for setting up vmware server and windows somehere here on the forums. I have a link for it on my blog (see sig below) - Do a search for vmware and it oughtta pop up!

Cheers!