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@Rob
OK – I read the thread :) and just added an .exe to the end – works fine now, thanks!
Glad you got it sorted out Rob, thanks.
Links aren’t working anymore, at least for me. I’m getting the same error as a lot of people before me.
“HTTP ERROR: 404 /support/downloads/dlm/main.jsp”
Hi Cameron, have you carefully followed the download instructions in the article?
If still no luck, try a different browser, computer, and/or Internet connection and see if that helps. Or read Kate’s earlier comments, the things she tried, and the series of replies which follow – and hopefully that will get you going.
Hey!
This is great by the way!
I’m downloading CS4 Premium Design Suite for Mac.
Firstly file 1 seems to be taking forever, currently estimating 9 hours and 20 minutes remaining, is this normal?
Also the link above in the instructions called ‘production installation instructions here’ doesn’t seem to lead anywhere useful.
After the two files have downloaded, do i double click the first file? HELP.
Hello Stephanie, the download time is going to depend entirely on the speed of your connection… That file you’re downloading is nearly 5 GB so it certainly could be that long.
Try to avoid Wi-Fi if you can, and use a wired connection – it’s faster and more reliable.
Normally you just double-click on file 1, the .exe or .dmg, and take it from there. If you need more detailed installation instructions, see this previous response to Catrina.
downloaded 9 hours later and did nothing! it went through the whole setup, said installed and then i can’t find it anywhere on my computer.
Check for an Adobe directory on your Desktop and/or in your Programs.
Server doesn’t allow me to download
Hey Mak, please see the comments just above with Cameron – thanks.
I had the file 1 download for InDesign CS4 work fine for me. no error messages or anything, then i rebooted my computer (not because of the download, but because i was trying to run win8 on a virtual box, but thats irrelevant.) anyway, when i got back onto the site i got that silly http error message. so i followed ALL the instructions but it STILL WON’T WORK, i desperately need the file 2 download for InDesign CS4, can someone please help me……
Greetings Rob, the links all still work fine here – see the response to Cameron just above for some advice if you’re having difficulties.
and also, now that CS6 is out, do you think adobe may have changed there server directory to fit the old CS5 stuff?
No, nothing has changed for the older releases – all the files still remain in their same places in Adobe’s server repository.
@ Rob
what do you mean by “added .exe at the end.” the end of what?
Sometimes if you use Internet Explorer to download, it will drop the “.EXE” off the end of the Windows executable file… and you just need to add it back to the end.
Does this trial end after a certain amount of time or is it unlimited?
Hi Kay, all Adobe trials will work fully for 30 calendar days on the computer you install them to.
Can I convert Audition 3.0 to a full license at this point? My impression is that the CS products add a lot of stuff I do not need. All I want to run is Audition and do simple editing in a stand-alone environment.
Welcome James, thanks for your question. Adobe no longer sells Audition 3.0, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a safe and legitimate copy anywhere else…
Your best bet is to just get Audition CS6 standalone. It’s gotten much much better since the CS5 release, and if you want to see that then just download and run the free CS6 trial to see for yourself.
Hope this helps!
None of the above links seem to be working, I keep getting the following:
HTTP ERROR: 404 /support/downloads/dlm/main.jsp
RequestURI=/support/downloads/dlm/main.jsp
are these links no longer active?
Thank you,
eldon
Yes, they all work fine but you have to carefully follow the download instructions in the article, thanks Eldon.
I tried downloading the Mac trial version of CS4 and the link does not seem to be working. Any help?
Thanks!
Hello Jay, see previous comment. What happened when you tried the link?
If still no luck, try a different browser, computer, and/or Internet connection and see if that helps. Or read Kate’s earlier comments, the things she tried, and the series of replies which follow – and hopefully that will get you going.
Got it — thanks. I was not able to use the link because I was trying to download from a PowerPC (hence the need for CS4), but I able to get it from my MacBook Pro. Then I transferred the files (long process) to the other computer.
Thanks for your quick reply!
You bet Jay, glad to hear it worked out and thanks for letting us know.
Folks – I was getting the same .jsp errors as reported above but resolved it. I suspect that many may have mis-read the instructions as I did. Step 1 says “Click here to visit this page like you want to try Photoshop CS5.1…” I interpreted this to mean to click only if I want to try Photoshop, so I did not click it, and got the errors. Suggest rewording it by taking out the reference to Photoshop – that step is mandatory to activate any of the links below. By the way, that link leads to Photoshop 6. In any case, thank you ProDesign for making this all available.
Thanks Ron, those are some great points and you’re absolutely right. We will work on clarifying and updating that a bit… Appreciate the feedback!
I’m trying to get a trial of Photoshop CS4 downloaded and I’ve followed the instructions on this page.
The problem is that I can’t get the download to work with Free Download Manager. I can get the download going fine with the built-in download tool in Firefox, but the same link placed into FDM just stops with “File Not Found.”
Since some kind of cookie is placed in the browser by Adobe in order to allow access to the trial files, I figure that FDM is not being recognized like the FF default downloader is and isn’t getting access to the file.
I even tried installing Flashgot to associate FDM more closely with FF, but I get the same result.
I’m still on dial-up, so I need to download files this large with a DM that supports resuming from broken downloads and the FF default download app does not offer this. (I don’t know why…It seems like a simple way to boost the utility of their downloader.)
Is there any way to get this file to download with something other than the FF built-in downloader? There’s no way that my connection will ever remain good for anything close to the two days it would take this file to download!
Hey there GCH, normally in such situations we advise readers to try a different browser, computer, or Internet connection – something faster in your case, dial-up will be hopeless with the size of these files!
Try at your local library or at work or another local business, or perhaps a friend or colleague has faster access… Then you can put the downloaded files on a flash drive or a burnable DVD and bring them to your own system.
Also see Kate’s earlier comments, the things she tried, and the series of replies which follow – and that may help too. Good luck!
Where do I get Photoshop CS4 Middle East version? Please help me
Sorry, we don’t have that here and not sure where to find it…
If anyone has a direct download link for that from Adobe’s servers, please feel free to post it – or send it to us and we’ll post it.
Hey ProDesign, I’m having trouble installing After Effects CS4, as well as Premiere Pro CS4. I recently rebuilt my computer, and AE was on my hard drive, but I wiped it out while installing Windows. Now, when I try to install it, it has this error: “The file archive part of Adobe After Effects CS4 Installer is missing. You need all parts in the same folder in order to extract Adobe After Effects CS4 Installer. Please download all parts.”
The weird thing is, it didn’t do this last time, it just installed AE perfectly.
Help?
Sorry for wasting time, I fixed it by getting file 2… LOL.
Shoulda thought about it for a second >.<
LOL – glad you got it sorted, thanks Meep.
When I was trying to download any links of CS3/CS4 above, this message below always shown:
HTTP ERROR: 404 /support/downloads/dlm/main.jsp
RequestURI=/support/downloads/dlm/main.jsp
But I figured how to solve it. Before downloading, we should open the official Adobe site, but I suggest we open the product trial download site, for example Adobe InDesign CS6 (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=indesign), keep it opened, and you can open a new tab in your browsers then open this site (http://prodesigntools.com/download-adobe-cs4-and-cs3-free-trials-here.html) and then try download any CS3/CS4 product above. :D
I suggest you turn off the Download Manager (like IDM, FDM, FlashGet, etc) because sometimes the Download Manager would fail to retrieve the cookie link from the Adobe server :)
(sorry if there any mistakes in my English) :D
Thanks Kevin, those are good tips – we tried to cover most of those in the download instructions and in the article above… Appreciate it!
downloaded cs4 after effects, but when i try to run the program it says that the installer is missing. help!
sorry, ** the file archive part is missing
Hi Emma, for that message see this earlier comment and response, plus the page linked from there. Hope this helps and feel free to post back if you still run into difficulty.
hello,
I can’t dowload the CS4 MASTER free trial, the links are not good.
Hello Patrice, please make sure you are carefully following the instructions in the article – thanks.
@ProDesignTools
Oh, ye of little faith!
I switched over from FF to IE and got Free Download Manager to work! FDM says it got the whole thing — after five or six interruptions — on dial-up.
One weird thing though, is that the file size of what I downloaded is 857Mb. The trial download of Photoshop CS4 (basic, no extras) is supposed to be 814 Mb, so I’m wondering what’s going on with all that extra. I cancelled the download once to make sure that I had clicked the proper link, clicked again and got the same result — 857Mb. When the download started previously on the FF built-in downloader, it registered what it was supposed to: 814Mb.
In short, I don’t know what I’m going to end up with if I try to install this file. Do you have any ideas on the major discrepancy between 814Mb and 857?
Well that’s amazing – you get credit for persistence! Adobe’s file sizes for a particular product aren’t constant – they vary depending on platform (Windows / Mac) and language (English / Europe)… So if yours is a little different from what you saw posted, it may not actually be an issue.
But it won’t hurt to just run the .exe to unpack the contents and then launch the installer. If for some reason your download was incomplete or corrupt, the installer will let you know and won’t complete successfully.
As an addition to my previous statement on the file size discrepancy, I checked my Recycle Bin for the remains of the previous unsuccessful attempts at getting Photoshop CS4 through the Firefox built-in downloader (the ones that showed the “proper” file size of 814Mb) and noticed that the file extension was
“LS1.7z”.
The file extension on the full download I got through using Free Download Manager that showed a size of
857Mb was “LS4.7z”.
Maybe a later release than the 1.7z?
Anyway, You say that this is at least a two part download — what you have listed as “File 1″ and “File 2″. File 1 is called the “Adobe Extractor”, and the file extension on my copy is, “LS1.exe”.
So, now I have a few more specific questions:
Is the LS4.7z just a later release of the basic LS1.7z version? And if so, why do both versions show up from the same link?
Will the Adobe Extractor version LS1 work with the LS4.7z file I downloaded, or would I have to have an Extractor version LS4 (if there is such a thing)?
You might say, just man-up and try to run it and see what happens! But, really weird things can happen when you try to run stuff you aren’t sure of. Things that can take a lot longer to fix than just taking the time to become a bit less ignorant about what you might be getting into.
Thanks for any input that might serve to decrease my ignorance on this matter.
No, LS1 and LS4 are actually different Language Sets… It’s the same product but LS1 is English and LS4 is the European languages. They are different links in the tables above.
You need the proper .exe to match the .7z – they must be the same LS. Just make sure you’ve got a matching set and you’ll be good.
If you run into any problems with the installation, just download and run the Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool and then start again. Good luck!
Will the files linked above be activated with my product key for CS4 Standard student edition?
Yes Daisy, these trials should work with your valid student license key for the product.