Adobe 2026 - worth updating?
Has anybody in commercial print/prepress updated to Adobe 2026 yet?
I usually stay about a year behind because every time I update too early, something breaks. Crashes, weird PDF issues, RIP problems, fonts acting stupid, whatever.
Just wondering how it’s been for everybody so far before I mess with it.
Any major issues with:
* Illustrator?
* InDesign?
* Photoshop?
* PitStop/plugins/scripts?
* PDF exports?
* Color profiles?
Also curious if any of the newer AI/Gemini stuff is actually useful in production or if it’s mostly marketing hype right now.
The vector tracing stuff in Illustrator looks interesting, but I can’t tell if it’s actually good enough to help in a real workflow or if it’s one of those “looks cool in the demo” features.
For context, I’m in commercial print/prepress, so stability matters way more to me than having the newest features.