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Uhhh, Adobe has almost unprecedented backwards compatibility. I also dropped Adobe for Affinity because of price, but frankly, your reaction is not warranted f

Uhhh, Adobe has almost unprecedented backwards compatibility. I also dropped Adobe for Affinity because of price, but frankly, your reaction is not warranted for this news... good luck opening 35 year old Photoshop file with anything else than Photoshop.

sennight 5y ago
That would be their fault - they intentionally provide an incomplete specification for their proprietary formats. It is a compatibility nightmare - there is no telling what kind of corruption or information loss an older version of the software will introduce when dealing with a file produced by a subsequent release, as there are no well defined specs to guarantee forward compatibility. Of course... you could just use an open standard file format and skip all the pain on display in Adobe's forums.
murgindrag 5y ago
Tex has unprecedented backwards-compatibility. Microsoft does pretty well too. Adobe is a mixed bag. Calling it "almost unprecedented" is simply dishonest. My 30-year-old Photoshop files used PostScript fonts. Even multiple master fonts, which don't have the same broad support as mainstream PS fonts. Good luck opening them with Photoshop. Truth be told, most of my 30-year-old files are in PageMaker. InDesign has some support for them for a while, but dropped support. Adobe's official line is "Open the PageMaker files in Indesign CS6 or an earlier version first, and then save them to native Indesign Format (.indd ). Once the files are saved in InDesign format, Indesign can open the files." Of course, Adobe won't sell you old versions of InDesign to do that with, so YMMV. I dropped Adobe for Affinity not so much for price, but because I can buy the software and use it forever. Even when I retire. I still have an Adobe subscription (paid for by someone else), but I don't use it.

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Uhhh, Adobe has almost unprecedented backwards compatibility. I also dropped Adobe for Affinity because of price, but frankly, your reaction is not warranted f

by shp0ngle 5y ago

sennight 5y ago
That would be their fault - they intentionally provide an incomplete specification for their proprietary formats. It is a compatibility nightmare - there is no telling what kind of corruption or information loss an older version of the software will introduce when dealing with a file produced by a subsequent release, as there are no well defined specs to guarantee forward compatibility. Of course... you could just use an open standard file format and skip all the pain on display in Adobe's forums.
murgindrag 5y ago
Tex has unprecedented backwards-compatibility. Microsoft does pretty well too. Adobe is a mixed bag. Calling it "almost unprecedented" is simply dishonest. My 30-year-old Photoshop files used PostScript fonts. Even multiple master fonts, which don't have the same broad support as mainstream PS fonts. Good luck opening them with Photoshop. Truth be told, most of my 30-year-old files are in PageMaker. InDesign has some support for them for a while, but dropped support. Adobe's official line is "Open the PageMaker files in Indesign CS6 or an earlier version first, and then save them to native Indesign Format (.indd ). Once the files are saved in InDesign format, Indesign can open the files." Of course, Adobe won't sell you old versions of InDesign to do that with, so YMMV. I dropped Adobe for Affinity not so much for price, but because I can buy the software and use it forever. Even when I retire. I still have an Adobe subscription (paid for by someone else), but I don't use it.