Adobe Suite’s
by
kingbackwards
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about 14 years, 9 months ago
In reply to Attn all IT managers dealing with Adobe CS3/CS4
At the company I work we utilize both the Design, and Production suites of Adobe CS3/CS4.
We primarily utilize Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
The machines we use are as follows:
Windows XP 64
Xeon X3220 2.4GHZ Quad core
4Gig for animators
8Gig for graphic designers.
Our graphic designers do use a font manager (extensis suitcase)
We use their version tracking software (version cue) in some limited capacity.
But users don’t usually edit files ON the server, the copy them local and then edit them from there. There’s lots of cache data, and unless you specify a local drive as the cache data location. I could see that being quite sluggish.
As far as the font issue, if your users have ~5000+ fonts, it will help. Two of our guys have 25000+ fonts. Having them all enabled visibly affects boot and load times. (as apposed to the ~500 standard fonts with the adobe suite and windows.)
Depending on your machine specs, and the size of the files being working on. Having to restart the application at some point during the day is almost a necessary evil.
As far as the Mac vs. PC. If you get Macs, you’ll have guys who want PC. Thats just how that goes. But I’d recommend a fairly beefy workstation. And set some standardized tiers of workstations a Class A and Class B workstation. (plus this can reduce maintenance costs as you only have 2 sets of parts you need to keep on hand and can easily swap to replace) Doing this really cuts down on the whining, because then there is no favoritism.
And you can make a compelling cost argument for going PC instead of Mac. So if the user is complaining that they are “faster” on a Mac. Kindly explain that you’ve saved a grand or more by having a PC with comparable specs and if they cant figure out the commands in a $1000 worth of man hours maybe they aren’t as good of a adobe suite user as they claimed. (this is stated a bit harsh, but kept it straight forward in the example for simplicity’s sake, as there are nicer ways to make this point.)
Hopefully this helps, even if it is an older question.