Hi,
I'm writing on behalf of one of our students. Our (German) university provides colleagues and students with a legit disc of Adobe CS4 Design Premium, provided by a central IT department.
Unfortunately at setup time, using this DVD, no language choice is available except German, which proves problematic for most foreign students (either from other European countries, e.g. France, or farther, e.g. China).
Activation and registration of this German-only version succeeds with the provided serial, however this very serial number does not allow any later "on top" installation of another language, for instance from international ESD versions of CS4 (LS1 or LS3). We expected to add some Chinese or at least English language.
Browsing the various forums does not give very clear answer as to the language-switching ability of these various Creative Suites setup files. It is not even clear to us if our installation medias are language-locked, country-specific or such.
To the questions:
• are (legit) serial numbers language-specific? is there any restriction as to which languages a serial number allows to install?
• is there any way to "unlock" additional languages from our CS4 installation DVD? or are there any language packs to install, for Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator?
• in case our license is language-restricted, what pricing options are there? (upgrade discount, separate language disc?)
I'm asking on these forums hoping to get some enlightenment, but will gladly contact the customer service if things prove more complicated than expected.