CS3 upgrade

[morganlashley]

I have Illustrator CS2 and want to upgrade to the full creative suite 3

(Illustrator plus Photoshop)....I however, can not find my original cd, box,

or receipt....do I need this to run the upgrade...if so, what do I do? Sorry,

adobe tech support closed at this hour....

[john_brewton]

I didn't need any of my old stuff to update. I suppose when you buy the upgrade Adobe knows (or your computer does) that you already have the existing software and then does the upgrade. Simple really.

[sknowles]

If you registered your package with Adobe, they will look it up, but they do want the serial

number to verify your setup. I'm not sure the upgrade price works for just parts of CS2 to

any package of CS3 or you have to have the whole suite. Check their Website for the

different versions of CS3. Try sending e-mail?

 

As for installing, CS3 installs totally separately from CS2 on Macs (don't know PC's) so you

have both. You have uninstall CS2 if you don't want it, but I'm not sure you can uninstall

parts of the package. One advantage to keeping CS2 is that there are problems with

Acrobat 8 (printing), so keeping Acrobat 7 is a good idea, and CS3 replaces GoLive with

Dreamweaver which really sucks (opinion and experience).

 

Good luck.

[patricklavoie]

you need to have a CS2 software install so the upgarde could instal itself without you having to enter a serial number.

[ted_marcus1]

I recently upgraded to Photoshop CS3. CS2 was on my computer, and the installer only asked me for the serial number on the CS3 DVD. If an eligible previous version is already installed on your machine, you should have no problem.