{"id":17708,"date":"2012-08-15T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T18:05:26","slug":"coming-soon-to-illustrator-package-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/coming-soon-to-illustrator-package-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon to Illustrator: Package Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Cloud subscriptions carry a key advantage: Apps will get periodic\u00a0feature enhancements (i.e. early access to functionality that would otherwise have had to wait until the next major product release). \u00a0Here&#8217;s a peek at what&#8217;s coming soon to Illustrator subscribers:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-JMSn24U6g\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I suppose someone will make a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/infiniteresolution\/2012\/08\/illustrator-cs6-update-for-adobe-creative-cloud-sneak-peek.html\">comment<\/a> like &#8220;You are telling me that you are punishing customers who have purchased a license the way it has always worked.&#8221; No, actually: no one is getting punished. You now have a way to get <em>early access<\/em> to new features, but that&#8217;s up to you.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to buy a license the traditional way, that&#8217;s perfectly fine, and you can wait until the next major version release (CS7) to get these &amp; other improvements. If you subscribe, however, you get an additional advantage.<\/p>\n<p>We should also differentiate these periodic <em>feature enhancements<\/em> (which are a subscriber benefit) from <em>bug fixes <\/em>&amp;<em> compatibility updates<\/em> (which will go to all customers, same as always). We&#8217;ll work on being clearer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2012\/06\/photoshop-cs6-retina-display-support.html#comments\">latter<\/a> (<em>believe<\/em> me, I share your frustration at the pace of info-sharing). The key point, though: nothing is being lost, and something cool is being gained.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Cloud subscriptions carry a key advantage: Apps will get periodic\u00a0feature enhancements (i.e. early access to functionality that would otherwise have had to wait until the next major product release). \u00a0Here&#8217;s a peek at what&#8217;s coming soon to Illustrator subscribers:\u00a0 I suppose someone will make a comment like &#8220;You are telling me that you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}