Will Adobe CS2/CS3 work with Ubuntu?

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I would like to know if Adobe CS2 or CS3 will work with Ubuntu?

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Guillaume Tremblay Beaumont (guizzy) said :
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Unfortunately, no.

You have a few options, though. You could run it in a virtual machine (VMWare). You could also learn to use the open-source equivalents to the applications you need in CS2 or CS3. For raster editing, GIMP and Krita work very well. For vector editing, Inkscape will do the job (although I admit given the choice I'd really rather use Illustrator). On desktop publishing, Scribus is great (or you could run Quark in Ubuntu with Crossover Office).

Anyway, you can find good equivalents for pretty much everything the regular user would do with the creative suite. You can get many of them on Windows if you want to see what they're like before. Best of all, they're free. No need to pay (or pirate) thousands worth of apps.

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Andy Loughran (andylockran) said :
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there's also Xara Xtreme - which does quite well for vector graphics.

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