Will, in our case, use of Adobe products is both mandated by company standards and by lack of comparable tools. We use FrameMaker to create thousands of pages of technical documents each year, use Acrobat to convert those docs to PDFs, and use Adobe RoboHelp to create online help for our software applications.
There are not products with equal capabilities available from any other vendor, regardless of platform. Believe me, we've looked.
We use Photoshop less and less, relying more on less expensive tools such as PaintShop Pro because we don't process digital photographs, we're just making bitmap graphics, and we use specialized tools such as Synapticad to capture timing diagrams for our data sheets.
And we don't upgrade just because it's available. But when the company rolls out Vista, probably next year, we will be forced to upgrade many of our tools that we might not otherwise.
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