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Photoshop Read Me - Wri
Photoshop Read Me - Wri
This file contains last-minute product information and troubleshooting tips. Please refer to the User Guide or the How To Install document for installation instructions. For further troubleshooting and performance information, see the User Guide, Help, or the document "Understanding the Photoshop CS2 Installation Process" (http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331296.html) available online. If you acquired Photoshop as part of an Adobe Creative Suite, you will find the Photoshop Goodies folder on one of your Content CD's. If you acquired Photoshop as an Electronic Software Download (ESD), you will not have a CD-ROM, but the folder structure created on your hard drive after decompressing your download will contain a Goodies folder and other folders described in this document. If you purchased Photoshop CS2 through a Windows Tryout, you will receive a URL to download content not included with the Tryout on your receipt. Certain instructions in this document may be slightly different for you, such as Serial Number information. Please refer to your Creative Suite Read Me, or the e-mail confirmation you received when you purchased the ESD version for the latest information. Important: Please register your copy of Photoshop online at the end of the installation process, or by accessing the Registration item under the Help menu. You can also complete the registration card and mail it today. You must register to receive technical support and important product update information. Photoshop also requires Activation within 30 days of installation. Please reference the Activation Read Me.html file, located in the same folder as this Read Me, for more information.
Serial Numbers
You can find the 24-digit serial number (e.g. 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000) on the back cover of your CD holder. ESD customers and those who purchased from a Windows Tryout will find the serial number both on the receipt page from the online store, and in the e-mail confirmation you received. You will be asked for this number when installing Photoshop CS2. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Photoshop, you will need to use the new 24-digit serial number that came with your new Photoshop CS2 product. The serial number you used to install previous versions of Photoshop will not work to install Photoshop CS2. If you are upgrading from a version of Photoshop prior to Photoshop 5.5, you will need to contact Adobe Customer Service at 800-833-6687 for installation assistance. For those outside of North America, please contact Adobe Customer Service in your region for installation assistance. If you have purchased Photoshop CS2 and previously owned Photoshop LE, Adobe PhotoDeluxe , or Photoshop Elements , please use the serial number that came with your Photoshop CS2 product. If your new 24-digit serial number does not work, please contact Adobe Customer Service at 800-8336687 for assistance. For those outside North America, please contact Adobe Customer Service in your region for assistance.
Photoshop allows you to set a second plug-in folder in its preferences (Windows: Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins and Scratch Disk or Mac OS: Photoshop > Preferences > Plug-Ins and Scratch Disk). We recommend that you do not choose a folder that contains any plug-ins from Photoshop 7.0 or earlier. You will receive error messages if you do this.
Shared Files
Many files installed by Photoshop - such as TWAIN support files and MSVCRT*.* files (Microsoft runtime files) are shared with other programs. When you install or uninstall other programs that use these shared files, the file versions used by Photoshop may be overwritten or deleted. If you experience problems with features that depend on shared files, please reinstall Photoshop.
Windows 2000
Adobe Photoshop CS2 requires Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or higher.
File Associations
The Photoshop installer allows you to associate file types with either Photoshop or ImageReady. When you associate a file type with an application, you specify which application will open when a file of that type is double-clicked on the desktop or in the Windows Explorer. Windows allows all its applications to associate themselves to various file types. If you choose the defaults in the Photoshop installer, you may find that Photoshop or ImageReady will open instead of another application when you double click on certain files. The Photoshop installer allows you to turn off this association with Photoshop or ImageReady if you prefer. To do so, click on each file type you do not want to associate and, for each type, choose "Do not change". If you wish to change your file associations after installing Photoshop, please refer to the document, "How to Change File Associations in Windows" (http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/315812.html) in the Adobe Systems Technical Solutions Database on the Adobe website.
Language Settings
If you are using the English version of Windows XP or 2000 and add Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, or Japanese language components, you must set the language correctly in the Control Panel. For Windows XP, set the Language for non-Unicode programs in the Regional and Language Options control panel Advanced tab. For Windows 2000, set the System Locale using the Regional control panel, General tab, Set default button. Both systems will then require a reboot. If the language is not set correctly, you will experience display problems with text, file I/O, and Web features.
Accelerated Actions
The default playback option in Photoshop CS2 is now set to "Accelerated." If you'd like to see each step of an action on play-back, you can change the play-back option, found in the Action pop-up, to "Step by Step."
Scripting Photoshop
Scripting Support is built into Photoshop. Scripts can be written in Windows: Mac: Visual Basic or JavaScript AppleScript or JavaScript
Scripts let you automate operations in Photoshop. They can range from simple manipulation of a single selected object to complex control of multiple documents. You can even create workflows across multiple applications. Check out the built-in scripts, or load your own by choosing File > Scripts in Photoshop. For further assistance, please see the scripting and language reference guides on your Photoshop CDROM or in the Scripting Guide folder installed with Photoshop.
Changes in ScriptUI
The ScriptUI component of ExtendScript has been updated and extended in this release, and some features are incompatible with the Photoshop CS version. In Photoshop CS, panel coordinates were measured from outside the frame (including the title bar). In Photoshop CS2, panel coordinates are measured from in the frame (the content area). This means that if you use the same values to set the
vertical positions of child controls in a panel, the positions are slightly different in the two versions. In Photoshop CS, if a ScriptUI dialog contained one or more 'edittext' control elements, keyboard focus was automatically assigned to the first-created 'edittext' field. In Photoshop CS2, the keyboard focus is not automatically assigned to any control element. The script must specify which control, if any, should have the focus by setting its 'active' property to 'true'.
Compatibility Issues
Large File Printing Limitations
Photoshop CS2 can create and open documents as large as 300,000 x 300,000 pixels. Due to various OS and printer driver limitations, Photoshop can only print documents up to 30,000 x 30,000 pixels. When working with documents larger than 30,000 pixels in either direction, the Print menu item will be disabled. For more information on this issue, see the tech note "Print command is unavailable for documents larger than 30,000 pixels (Photoshop CS2)" (http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/329548.html).
Text Positioning
Due to the way Photoshop CS2 text engine renders certain text blocks, opening documents created in versions of Photoshop earlier than Photoshop CS may change the position of a text block. This specifically affects text blocks with hanging carriage returns, but may affect others as well.
Copyright 1989-2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe, Adobe PhotoDeluxe, ImageReady, and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in The United States and/or other countries. Portions Eastman Kodak Co., 1996, 1998. All trademarks noted herein are either the property of Adobe Systems Incorporated, PANTONE, Inc. or their respective companies. Six-color Process System Patent Pending -
PANTONE, Inc. Portions Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated 1967, 1988. Contains an implementation of the LZW algorithm licensed under various patents. This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
02/24/2005