Looks like this has been around since .

Adobe has decided that the best way to free up the bandwidth and drive space needed to verify installs of the now outdated Photoshop CS2 is... not to do so. So, they are giving it away for .

There is a lot of stuff there. Including InDesign 2... a pretty danged good desktop publisher, even if it is old.

Sometimes corporate laziness can be applauded - they could have just closed it down, instead they opened it up. My hat off to them.

The Auld Grump

thanks for the link

Acrobat 8 Professional is great for PDF's!

It's not really clear that this is LEGALLY free. Apparently, Adobe posted this stuff for LEGAL purchasers of these products to be able to get and install (reinstall) their products because Adobe wanted to shut down their activation servers for those old products. The official wording on Adobe's sites doesn't really clarify it well, though. Here are a few articles with further info and links to Adobe's official statements about it:

http://www.diyphotography.net/download- ... 2-for-free

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/20 ... rvers.html

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1114930?start=0&tstart=0

So it's the whole suite. Wow, very nice.