purchasing illustrator?

**manny2k** · 15 March 2008, 10:35 AM

I have illustrator CS3 on a trail at the moment and am thinking of purchasing it, it’s $599 from the US website and £569 on the UK website, so my question is, is there anything stopping me buying it from the US website as a download and using that key to unlocked the trial version that I have downloaded seeing as the exchange rate is good so it would nearly be around half price.

**pauland** · 15 March 2008, 10:58 AM

If you are talking about purchasing from Adobe, you'll find you'll be unable to purchase from the US store using a UK address.

Any particular reason for buying it rather than just using Xtreme?

Paul

**manny2k** · 15 March 2008, 05:20 PM

Hi Pauland

Yeah I just noticed that you can only purchase if you are in that territory.

I would go for Xtreme but I’m on OSX, do you know if there are any plans to support the Mac platform on Xara products

**pauland** · 15 March 2008, 07:08 PM

If I remember correctly, Xara have advertised in the past for a Mac developer, but there's never been a public announcement as far as I know.

If you have a recent machine, how about parallels?

Paul