![]() If Apple gave her the option to change the font size in the menus system-wide, she would probably switch back to the appropriate resolution. So she uses a non-native resolution, which of course looks very blurry - but bigger - on that flat-panel display. I know someone who has a 17″ FP iMac and does not use the native resolution because the text in the menus is too small for her. Apple itself has some work to do in that respect. More generally, many UI elements should be customizable when it comes to font size. I happen to agree with the palette issue. Next Post: Champions’ League: Inter Milan 1 – Arsenal 5Ģ Responses to “Adobe CS installation: Talk about user-hostile” You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Tuesday, November 25th, 2003 at 7:44 am and is filed under Macintosh. When it comes to user-friendliness, except for a few bright spots, most of them on the Mac platform, it seems to be that the industry as a whole is regressing. If this continues, we are going to end up having a parallel industry of “Adobe Annoyances” experts. So why doesn’t it go all the way, select the item, and apply the update without user intervention? Beats me. In fact, the updater does appear to be able to locate the software to update, since it automatically switches to that particular folder containing Acrobat 6.0. Again, a great sign of progress on Adobe’s part. You double-click on that generic-looking application and what do you get? This:Īs far as I remember, previous versions of Adobe software updates used to be able to locate the software to update themselves and not require that extra step. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that things are getting worse rather than better when it comes to user-friendly at Adobe. They didn’t even bother to use their own icon for the update/patch/package/whatever! OK, fine… Inside that folder, you’ll find… a single item that bears the name ‘”AcrobatProPatch Package” and has a generic Mac OS X application icon. Not exactly a user-friendly name either, but what can you do? Then when you would expect a double-clickable application right inside that mounted volume, all you get is… a folder called “AcrobatProPatch Package”. The download is a disk image (.dmg) that expands into a volume entitled “AcrobatProPackage_all”. (Based on the many complaints with the products, I thought that was the sensible thing to do.) Then I decided to apply the recently released Acrobat 6.0.1 update before actually trying to use the product. Of course, I had to log out and log back in again in order to launch all the applications that I normally have running while I am working. Then I quit the installer and set about resuming work. The installation went fairly smoothly after that, even though it was quite long with little indication of progress at times. They are not system-modifying utilities! I guess user-friendliness is just too much to ask. ![]() These are just regular applications, for crying out loud. ![]() You’d think that by now, Adobe would have jumped on the Mac OS X bandwagon and embraced a simpler approach for application installation. I can understand having to quit existing Adobe applications if they are running, but all running applications? Might as well log out and log back in holding the Shift key down (which is what I did, in fact). ![]() But then the installer recommended that I quit all applications first before installing the software. I was going to give good marks to Adobe for having provided a fairly easy to install package of software titles with its “Adobe Creative Suite”.
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