OK, now I feel really foolish. After reading the horrific reviews of Adobe GoLive CS Classroom In A Book and flipping through the thing, I figured I'd just wasted $45. So I went to the Adobe user forums to see if I even needed a new manual for 6.0 to CS/7.0 (still am not sure what's new in in other than the interface) and came upon many more critics of how useless the book is and how the SAM's people are putting out a book within a month or so on the whole Creative Suite release and that I could buy a normal old-fashioned printed reference manual directly from Adobe and it was supposed to be much more useful. So for $29 I could get just the GoLive manual, but for $59 I could get the manuals for the other CS programs (Photoshop, ImageReady, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator...) so I opted for the whole set (plus delivery plus tax. I already bought a Peachpit InDesign manual since I was switching from Quark Xpress, but actually found InDesign to be much more intuitive than Quark and barely used the manual. I'm clueless on Illustrator, I never used it or Freehand enough to know what I'm doing, so it will be nice to have a manual for it, and you can never have enough Photoshop manuals ;-) I've got to have an eBay sale on outdated computer manuals again, my shelves are overflowing...
So off I go this weekend to return the book I drove all over town looking for tonight, no wonder my husband thinks I'm wacky... SO glad I didn't open the CD. As soon as I started flipping through it I realized it was basically a rehash of the manual that actually came with my version of GoLive 6, same tutorials, and the illustrations didn't seem to match up to the new version, they looked like they were taken from 6.0.
Posted by Morticia at April 16, 2004 04:45 AM | TrackBack