Adobe Creative Cloud for higher education institutions

For new versions of most of their products, including internationally, Adobe still offers only rental licenses ('Creative Cloud'). The distribution model offered by Adobe for this, 'VIP' is unsuitable in some ways: for example, the link to personal accounts is unsuitable, because no functional e-mail addresses are allowed. The cloud services are also unsuitable for higher education institutions because solutions for data protection, employee lifecycle and provision of computer rooms and laboratories are lacking.

Existing contracts and follow-up contracts

Please learn about existing Adobe contracts.

Alternatives to Adobe products

In the following, we’ll give you an overview of possible alternatives to the most popular Adobe products. This is merely a selection. The list is by no means complete.

Adobe product: Acrobat for Mac and Windows

Alternative	Licence	Platforms	Weblink
Abbyy PDF Transformer+	proprietary	Windows	https://www.abbyy.com/en-gb/finereader/features/'
Corel PDF Fusion	proprietary	Windows	http://www.wordperfect.com/rw/product/pdf-creator
Foxit PhantomPDF	proprietary	Windows	http://www.foxitsoftware.com/PDF_Editor
Nitro Pro	proprietary	Windows	http://www.nitropdf.com/
Nuance PDF Converter for Mac	proprietary	Mac	http://www.nuance.de/products/pdf-converter-mac
Nuance Power PDF	proprietary	Windows	http://www.nuance.de/for-business/document-imaging-and-scanning/power-pdf-converter'
Oracle PDF Import Extension	(To be announced)	Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris	http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/oracle-pdf-import-extension
PDF-XChange PRO	proprietary	Windows	http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-pro
diverse		Ubuntu	http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/PDF
diverse		diverse	http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_PDF-Software

Adobe product: InDesign for Mac and Windows

Alternative	Licence	Platforms	Weblink
QuarkXPress	proprietary	Mac, Windows	http://www.quark.com/
Scribus	GPL, free software	Linux, Mac, Windows, more	http://www.scribus.net/

Adobe product: Illustrator for Mac and Windows

Alternative	Licence	Platforms	Weblink
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite	proprietary	Windows	http://www.coreldraw.com/de/product/grafikprogramm
Inkscape	GPL, free software	Linux, Mac, Windows	http://inkscape.org/

Adobe product: Photoshop for Mac, Windows and other platforms

Alternative	Licence	Platforms	Weblink
Corel PHOTO-PAINT	proprietary	Windows	http://www.coreldraw.com/de/pages/photo-paint
GIMP	GPL and LGPL	Linux, Mac, Windows, more	http://www.gimp.org/

Adobe product: Photoshop Lightroom for Mac and Windows

Alternative	Licence	Platforms	Weblink
ACDSee Pro	proprietary	Windows	http://www.acdsee.com/de/products/acdsee-pro-7
Aperture	proprietary	Mac	http://www.apple.com/de/aperture/
Corel After Shot Pro and Paint Shop Pro			http://www.aftershotpro.com/de, http://www.paintshoppro.com/de
LightZone	OpenSource, free of charge	Linux, Mac, Windows	http://www.lightzoneproject.org/

Simple video processing

Adobe product: Premiere Elements for Mac and Windows

Alternative	Licence	Platforms	Weblink
Avidemux	GPL, free software	Linux, Mac, Windows	http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Corel VideoStudio Pro	proprietary	Windows	http://www.videostudiopro.com/de/
CyberLink PowerDirector	proprietary	Windows	http://de.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-ultra
Magix Video deluxe	proprietary	Windows	http://www.magix.com/de/video-deluxe
diverse		Ubuntu	http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Videobearbeitung
diverse		diverse	http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoschnittsoftware

Advanced video processing

Adobe product: Premiere Pro for Mac and Windows

Alternative	Licence	Platforms	Weblink
Corel Pinnacle Studio	proprietary	Windows	http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/en/Products/studio/

Adobe product: Captivate for Mac and Windows

Alternative	Licence	Platforms	Weblink
Camtasia Studio	proprietary	Windows, Mac	https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html