Transitioning from Creator to Adobe Suite

[Joe Sporleder]

I'm glad that Creator works with the most recent update of El Capitan. I've been testing on such a configuration at home, so far, so good. However, I think it's time to start transitioning to the Adobe Creative Suite (we have the Cloud subscription for all of our designers). Does anyone know of a way to come close to Creator's file palette in InDesign? I know one can use Bridge but seems overkill at times. We are a shopping guide, and we have an auto section, farm section, real estate section and so forth - basically our entire publication looks like the classified section of most newspapers. I like being able to toss a folder of farm ads, in EPS form, say 30 of them, for example, to Creator's file palette, and then Creator check marks each file as I place each ad in a multiple page Creator doc representing the complete paginated version of our shopper. If I delete an EPS from a page, Creator un checks it in the file list and then rechecks it as I put it on another page. Simple and elegant. Is there anyway to come close to Creator's file palette in InDesign? Is a plug-in required?

Joe Sporleder
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[Muffin]

Creator is not going anywhere, it is either going to be updated by the company who has acquired it or it will be sold to a company who will. They know and everyone knows the program is too good to leave it go by the waist side.

[Steve Mills]

On Dec 22, 2015, at 02:06 PM, Muffin <jmeh...@matthewsintl.com> wrote:

Creator is not going anywhere, it is either going to be updated by the company who has acquired it or it will be sold to a company who will. They know and everyone knows the program is too good to leave it go by the waist side.

I can't speak for the new owners or the existing employees, but as a former developer of Creator for 16 years and a developer who spent 3 years helping to modernize an app that was in the same boat as Creator (and in those 3 years, we ended up with what I consider a very large bandaid, ready to fall off at any time, taking the scab with it), I can tell you it would be a huge, enormous, gigantic job to rewrite Creator to be a modern app that will survive the next several Apple OS updates. It would require years of work and a whole lot of capital to pay multiple developers. I don't know the new owners, but I imagine they wouldn't want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on something that generates a fraction of that in income. Outsourcing it to India would be an even bigger mistake - you'd end up with PaintShopPro.

That's my 2¢.

Sent from iCloud's ridiculous UI, so, sorry about the formatting

 

[Muffin]

Thanks Steve for your honesty and for shredding any glimmer of hope I had for an application I devoted 20 years of my life to. Countless of resources went into Creator easily surpassing $100,000. But it managed to put our company on the map and make us millions. And Steve, I thank you for that. So now what.Hopefully it can survive through El Captian because that is the next OS we decided to standardize on. Maybe Apple Pages can take Creator's place. It is free and I been using the program for awhile now and I think its doable. I do not want to enter the haunting adobe cloud. Its all a ripoff. Steve, if you know of any other apps similar to Creator's usefulness, let us know.