At work, we bought 4 copies of CS 5.5 in June (totalling upwards of £4k), with the offer of a free update to CS 6 when it was released in late Summer. We registered the software and got our free CS 6 discs posted out to us in August.

When we upgraded the CS 5.5 apps to CS 6, the only app that wasn't upgraded was Acrobat X Pro. Thought it was a bit odd at the time but hey, maybe there's no reason to update it if no extra features are added in CS 6.

So, less than two months after CS 6 was released, and bearing in mind Acobat X wasn't updated with that version, why are they then releasing Acobat XI and not rolling it into the CS 6 online updates?

Seems a bit greedy to me - but then this is Adobe so we really shouldn't be surprised?

It seems to me that Acrobat XI was obviously supposed to be included with CS 6 but was, for whatever reason, delayed until two or three months afterwards. Adobe should roll this update out to CS 6 customers via their online updates - just checked and nothing has appeared as yet - wishful thinking, I know.

On a £1,000+ set of applications, is it wrong to be a bit miffed that they want to charge us more for what should surely have been included in CS 6 at release date? Baarstards!

Adobe is the new quark.

Aren't Quark struggling now? I thought that InDesign had taken a lot of their business.

The latest version of XPress is excellent. Quark have learned their lesson, and come back fighting. Lots of excellent features, ePub support and iOS development included out of the box, for example.

I was very tempted to move back to it earlier this year, but I couldn't justify it with the amount of business I have.

And the probably ridiculous price that they are asking. Thanks for the clarification.

At the time, they were doing a very good deal. I could upgrade to the latest version (9.something at the time) from any legal copy of XPress v4 up. The price quoted was less than £300. XPress 4 cost me over a grand for a single licence back in 2000.

I played with the completely unlocked demo version for a month, was duly impressed, but decided I couldn't justify even that lowly cost for the amount of work I have now.

I could easily move back to quark, but I'd still need photoshop, acrobat and illustrator, so I'd be unlikely to benefit price wise.

The reason I moved to indesign in the first place is because it was basically thrown in with the other three, so there was no point paying for quark.

Do you get the Acrobat upgrade if your on the Creative Cloud product?
If so me thinks this is a way to punish people who didn't buy in to CC.

I seem to recall that CS2 was upgraded to CS2.3 which was basicaly an new version of Acrobat and that was a paid for upgrade so Adobe have form for this sort of thing alread.

Looking at the Adobe website, it appears that the only way to get Acrobat XI is to subscribe to Creative Cloud, or buy it separately. As it stands, if you went and bought a disc copy of Creative Suite 6 today, you'd still only get Acrobat X - not the latest XI edition. Whether that will filter down into the disc copies in time (maybe with a CS 6.1 edition?), who knows.

It's a bit mean not to offer it as a free update to CS 6 users - bearing in mind CS 6 was only released a couple of months ago and Acrobat wasn't touched at that time. But still, this is Adobe we're talking about, since when has fair ever been in their vocabulary!

As Davros has mentioned they've done this before, I recall a different case than the one he's talking about as well.

It seems acrobat is totally out of sync with the cs upgrade cycle.