adobe cs4 master collection is missing a part

I was asked to completely uninstall everything and start again from the download page. Update: Just after finishing this review I got an interesting email from Adobe, telling me that there had been a mistake at their end and the download file was a pre-release version instead of the correct final version. Within about 20 minutes CS4 was all ready to go. I installed over the top of CS3 and it went very smoothly. Oh well, a few hours later I finally had a working file. Unfortunately the main installation file threw an error: 'Unable to extract files. The instructions weren't particularly clear but I figured out which exe file to run in order to extract all the required files (they come compressed in 7z format).

Of course the download wasn't exactly instant-it took around 10 hours to download the files which came to around 10GB-but it was a lot nicer than waiting days or even weeks to have the box shipped. This time I was pleased to discover that I could not only purchase online but use the download option as well. Previously, when I tried to buy from the international store (I'm in New Zealand) I was taken on a game of follow-the-links-to-nowhere, eventually to deduce that Adobe still didn't ship to my country. This is the first time I've been able to make a major purchase online from. I have the Master Collection but I don't use all the programs on a regular basis so I'll be concentrating on the ones I do use. In this review I hope to provide a general overview of Adobe's CS4 release (October 2008).

Adobe cs4 master collection is missing a part