Adobe enables free download of 12 titles including Creative Suite 2

By saying "Adobe CS 2 is free of charge!", Adobe has released a page describing download links and activation serial numbers such as Creative Suite 2 and Acrobat Pro 8. The staff accepts this page on the Adobe official forum that it is a page released to help customers.

Additional notes:Adobe is officially offering it for those who own the legitimate license of the old version product (CS2 or Acrobat 7), and it is not provided free for unspecified majority " Announced

The turmoil starts on Adobe's site on January 6 when a page with a link that software such as CS 2 can download and a serial number to be used for the activation appears.

Adobe - CS2 Download
http://www.adobe.com/jp/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html


The following blog reports detailed page contents at the time of publication and how it was downloadable.

Photoshop and Illustrator as well! Is it? Officially release Adobe CS2 serial key for free! - Trick technique shop DD
http://shopdd.jp/blog-entry-1129.html


What was published

Creative Suite 2
Acrobat 3D 1.0 for Windows
Acrobat Standard 7.0
Acrobat Pro 8.0
Audition 3.0
GoLive CS 2
Illustrator CS2
InCopy CS2
InDesign CS2
Photoshop CS2
Photoshop Elements 4.0 / 5.0
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0

12 titles, both Windows version and Mac OS X version were prepared.

Users who noticed this started making noise at the Adobe official forum etc. "My own machine is old but can be used?" The following forum says, "Since I heard that CS2 got free, I want to put CS2 and FrameMaker 8 on my new laptop, but will it work?" Question thread.

Adobe Community: Recommendations for laptop specs to run CS2 and FrameMaker 8
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662


Although Adobe ID was necessary when downloading software, since it is possible to create Adobe ID at any time, it is no wonder that the above-mentioned 12 titles were substantially released for free. Initially there was a view that free publicity was some mistake, but Adobe staff appeared in the forum, admitted that this is not a mistake but a service for customers.

Adobe Community: Looking to activate Creative Suite 2, Acrobat 7, or Macromedia products?
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4972830#4972830


According to staff Jeff A Wright, it seems that the server which was used to activate the old work such as CS 2 was to be dropped from the technical problem on December 13, 2012. CS 2 has already been released seven years since its launch, and there are many cases that it does not work on the latest OS, but since there is still a user who is still using it and it is necessary to activate it, activate the user He said he decided to issue a serial number directly.

Mr. Wright says, "It may be interpreted that way, but we are going to help users" about watching that "You can start free of CS2". Currently, the download page has been suspended, but it is scheduled to restart soon and the latest situation is reported in the following blog post.

2013/01/08 10:38
The download page has been released.

Update on CS2 and Acrobat 7 Activation Servers (Adobe Featured Blogs)
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/01/update-on-cs2-and-acrobat-7-activation-servers.html


Please note that due to the release of this download version, it has been reported in the forum that new activations such as CS2, which was formerly impossible, have become impossible. There is a case dealing with titles that became downloadable, such as CS 2 in the mail-order site, but there is a high possibility that you can not activate with the attached serial number, so be careful.

On the official Adobe website, help for an invalid activation server on older version products has been released. The solution is "use download version".

About CS2 or older version product, Acrobat 7 message "Activation server can not be used"
http://helpx.adobe.com/jp/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cq12200137.html

2013/01/08 15: 06
As for the download link, as mentioned above, the comment that the activation server for the product of the previous version is stopped and that it is offering it to the user as an alternative means, and that the software is not provided free of charge It was announced by Adobe.

Notice concerning Adobe® Creative Suite® 2 products and Adobe® Acrobat® 7 activation servers | Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/jp/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/20130108_cs2_downloads.html