Academic versions of Adobe CS4 and Corel X4

[Barbara Eden]

Hi Ian
I once bought an academic version of Corel by mistake, and being a good girl 🙂 I contacted Corel to confess 😳

They told me the only difference was that the academic version didn’t have the book!!

Barbara

[Graeme Harrold]

Not sure of the wording with Corel, but when you look at MS Office, the license is only valid for as long as you are in a recognised educational establishment, and not for "commercial use"

[David Rowland]

exactly… so I would suggest to anyone that you don’t purchase the academic version to sell signs with but if your doing it as part of a course then I beleive you can purchase the academic version and I must point out Corel have been an advertiser here at UKSB and do read this site.

[Ian Muir]

Thanks folks
Oops, my mistake, didn’t realise academic stuff had such restrictions…………… thanks Dave

Ian :lol1:

[Peter Normington]

I do know that corel sell the academic version through their official resellers, but do not require any form of proof or registration Wheras Adobe need proof that you are a student, and it must be registered.
so I wonder why Corel do it like that?

Peter

[Mark Jahn]

Beware of the absence of VBS in academic/OEM. For me it would make the software worthless.

[Peter Normington]

quote Mark Jahn:

Beware of the absence of VBS in academic/OEM. For me it would make the software worthless.

Sorry, can you explain in simple terms, acronyms are not always recognised
Peter

[Mark Jahn]

I don’t think you need to concern yourself with VBS Peter.

OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer.

[Peter Normington]

Mark please explain vbs,
and why do you think I should not be concerned?

Peter

[Graeme Harrold]

Virtual Basic Script…………… 😮

[Peter Normington]

Thanks Graeme for acronym explanation.
I don’t have a clue what it means,
but how is that relevant to student versions? and does it matter?
Peter

[Mark Jahn]

Why would you be remotely interested in Visual Basic Script Peter? Yet I’m sure with your background you know fine well what OEM means.

The amount of times I have referred to VBS in previous Corel posts, yet tonight you decide to pick my at my post about acronyms. Is it my turn to be belittled?

[Peter Normington]

Mark
I was asking because I didn’t know what vbs stood for.
as you pointed out you thought I didn’t need to concern myself what it meant, which sounded a bit condescending.
I have never belittled anyone in my life. and I am quite upset by that comment,

never mind

Peter

[David Rowland]

VBA is installed when either Autocad, Corel or Microsoft Office is installed (dont know any other applications that use it), Acadamic *does* have the VBA libraries on X3 or lower but I cannot be certain about the Visual Basic for Applications editor.

However if you use cutting software, that maybe uncompiled code and may use VBA to link between Corel and the cutting software application. An example might be Sign Tools but I dont have that installed.

[Shane Drew]

I purchased the academic version of CS4 for my son who is doing digital art this year at high school.

We got a good deal on a sale at the local adobe agent at xmas, to find when he started school that they are using CS3 this year.

I had to produce his student card by email before they would give me the unlock code.

I’ve decided to do a CS4 course as its about time I learned it, so many of my customers are using it now.

Its there when my son needs it, but I’ll use it for the course until then.

It is a complete package though.

If you upgrade to corel X3 from lower versions, the upgrade is a new package at a reduced price. I’m not sure about the academic version of corel, but I’d imagine its the same.

You can get discounted versions here if you are a member of the sign association of australia too, but its only a small saving on the real price, but anything helps I guess.

Once I get my head around the course, and understand CS4 a bit better, I might have to pick some brains here.

[David Rowland]

i have started learning CS4 with http://www.lynda.com and illustrator is amazing bit of kit compared to corel really, considering i have been using corel for 10-15 years.

[Shane Drew]

quote Dave Rowland:

i have started learning CS4 with http://www.lynda.com and illustrator is amazing bit of kit compared to corel really, considering i have been using corel for 10-15 years.

I agree Dave,

I’m using a 2cd PS CS4 training set from vtc.com. $au145 well spent…

[Alan Drury]

VBA/VBS (Visual Basic) does come with X4 academic version and is required for running macros and some cutting pluggins. As has been posted here on numerous occasions macros (many of them free) can add features or streamline existing features in Draw.
Alan D

[Stephen Morriss]

My wife has the academic CS4 for her Uni Course, I have to say I hate it!
I’ve always disliked Illustrator so I’m kind of biased 🙂

I hate the amount of junk that’s installed with it and I hate the licence application running all the time, I hate the update crap, in short I hate it :lol1:
Oh I don’t like using it either, I find Corel much easier to get on with.

Steve

P.S. Did I say how much I hate CS4?

[Adrian Yeo]

quote Stephen Morriss:

I hate the amount of junk that’s installed with it and I hate the licence application running all the time, I hate the update crap, in short I hate it :lol1:
Oh I don’t like using it either, I find Corel much easier to get on with.

Steve

P.S. Did I say how much I hate CS4?

……… other than that though, would you recommend it? 😀