Adobe.illustrator.cs5.lite.portable Review

To understand why CS5 Lite is revered, you have to understand the bloat of modern software. A standard installation of Adobe Illustrator today is a behemoth, gobbling gigabytes of hard drive space and launching background processes that phone home, check licenses, and sync fonts you’ve never heard of.

The "Lite" designation in CS5 Portable is a masterclass in surgical reduction. Modders and enthusiasts stripped the software down to its chassis. They removed the "bloat"—the unnecessary language packs, the bloated help files, the Adobe Updater that relentlessly nagged users, and the licensing DRM that slowed boot times. Adobe.Illustrator.CS5.Lite.Portable

What remained was the pure engine. It was Illustrator stripped of its corporate weight, capable of launching in seconds on hardware that modern Creative Cloud wouldn't even deign to install on. It transformed a heavy industry standard into a lean, fighting-weight application. To understand why CS5 Lite is revered, you

If you have obtained the legitimate portable version (e.g., from a backup of your original CS5 license turned portable via tools like ThinApp or Cameyo), follow these steps: Pro Tip : Create a folder named Adobe

Pro Tip: Create a folder named Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings on your USB drive. Some portable versions allow you to redirect settings files so your preferences travel with you.

To understand this software, we must break its name down into three parts:

In essence, Adobe Illustrator CS5 Lite Portable is an unofficial, third-party repack of a decade-old professional tool, designed for maximum portability and minimal resource usage.

8 Comments

Jason Green on July 7, 2014 at 12:52 pm

Hi Ben,
Great article and a very comprehensive provisioning guide! Things are moving very fast at snom and the snom 7xx devices (except currently the 715) are now supplied automatically as “Lync ready” and can be easily provisioned straight out of the box. A simple command of text into the Lync Powershell and voila!

You can find all the details here:
http://provisioning.snom.com/OCS/BETA/2012-05-09 Native Software Update information TK_JG.pdf

Regards,
Jason
Jason Green on July 7, 2014 at 12:54 pm

Link above was broken:

http://provisioning.snom.com/OCS/BETA/2012-05-09%20Native%20Software%20Update%20information%20TK_JG.pdf
Ben Lee on July 7, 2014 at 2:03 pm

Hi Jason, Thanks. It’s good to hear that’s an option, this post was based off a mini customer deployment we had a few months ago…
(Also can’t wait to test out the upcoming BToE implementation)

Ben
Jan Boguslawski on October 14, 2015 at 10:43 pm

Hi Ben,

just stumbled across your great article. Please note the guide still available (now) here:
http://downloads.snom.com/snomuc/documentation/2012-02-06_Update-Guide-SIP-to-UC.pdf

is kind of superseded by the fact that for about 2-3 years the carton box FW image (still standard SIP) supports the UC edition documented MS hardcoded ucupdates-r2 record:

“not registered”: In this state the device uses the static DNS A record ucupdates-r2. as described in TechNet “Updating Devices” under: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg412864.aspx.

In short: zero-touch with DNS alias or A record is possible. SIP FW will not register but ask for the CAB upload based UC FW and auto-pull it if approved (but only if device was never registered: fresh from box or f-reset).

btw: the SIP to UC guide was made as temporally workaround, but I guess the XML templates still provide a good start line.

Also kind of superseded with Lync Inband Support for Snom settings:

http://www.myskypelab.com/2014/07/lync-snom-configuration-manager.html
http://www.myskypelab.com/2014/08/lync-snom-phone-manager.html

another great tool – powershell on steroids with Snom UC & SIP: http://realtimeuc.com/2014/09/invoke-snomcontrol/
(a must see !)

Please dont mind if I was a bit advertising.

Thanks and greetings from Berlin, also to @Nat,
Jan
Susan on October 15, 2015 at 5:55 pm

Fantastic article! Thanks for sharing. We’ll be transitioning our Snom 760s to provision from Lync shortly.

Are there any licensing concerns involved?
Ben Lee on October 15, 2015 at 6:11 pm

Thanks Susan,
From a licensing point of view you need to make sure you have the UC license for the SNOM phones and on the Lync side if you are doing Enterprise Voice need a Plus CAL for the user concerned…

Hope that helps?

Ben
Ben Lee on October 15, 2015 at 6:12 pm

Thanks Jan 🙂
Susan on October 15, 2015 at 6:12 pm

Thanks for the licensing info. It helps a lot!