My wish for a Mac version of InDesign and Creative Suite

[Bob_Fa...@adobeforums.com]

Adobe seems bent on making both the Mac and Windows versions of CS4 be exactly alike. I truly wish that Adobe would add some things that are available on the Mac, even if they are not on the PC. As long as the core of the program is the same, this should not be an issue.

I'm speaking of being able to hover my cursor over some text and typing Control-Command-D to bring up the pop-up dictionary. Having an Open In Dictionary option in the Control-Click contextual menu. Even access to that awful looking Apple Fonts palette because I do make sets of font in Font Book and I cannot see those sets in ID's font menus. How about access to the Character Palette in the Edit menu? Do I need more? Yes! Why does the new version of ID default to taking up the entire screen as a Windows program? This is not the Macintosh way, I think.

Microsoft learned their lesson a long time ago when they released a version of Office that they bragged was exactly the same as the Windows counterpart. Well, it was very, very slow to launch and I think it sold miserably. After that, they have gone out of their way to produce Mac-versions of their programs, I think, even having that Mactopia website for a while. I wish Adobe would learn this lesson, too. Besides pricing CS4 upgrades awfully high, I think, same as Windows approach is one of the major reasons I will not upgrade to CS 4.

[PJ_Y...@adobeforums.com]

You can change the display option so that Id CS4 looks more like a Mac app from the Window menu by deselecting Application Frame. This feature is also in Ai and Ps CS4.