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Photoshop CS3 Extended for new dimensions in digital imaging

Illustrator CS3 for powerful vector graphics creation

InDesign CS3 for professional page design

Flash CS3 Professional for creating rich interactive content

Dreamweaver CS3 for developing standards-based websites and applications

Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF in Acrobat 9 Pro.

Contribute CS3 for updating websites and blogs

Fireworks CS3 for web prototyping and designing

Design Across Media

Design professionals
Expand your creative horizons and express your ideas in virtually any medium using Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection software. Work in a comprehensive creative environment that combines the latest versions of essential tools for professional print, web, interactive, motion, film, video, and mobile design. New Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro offers enhanced preflighting, improved black handling, and intelligent overprint preview for more reliable print production, along with exciting new integration with Adobe Flash software for delivering visually rich, dynamic content in a more secure PDF document. Visually manage your creative assets, coordinate projects efficiently, test mobile content, preview video compositions without rendering, and collaborate effectively with colleagues using Master Collection. Blur boundaries and break the rules as you explore and express your ideas with the highly integrated, productive tools in Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection.

Web design professionals
Take your content beyond the web and express your ideas in virtually any medium using Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection software. Work in a comprehensive creative environment that combines the latest versions of essential tools for professional print, web, interactive, motion, film, video, and mobile design. Include video in your websites, design print deliverables, enjoy efficient workflows, and keep up with current technology, industry standards, and best practices. New Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro enables exciting integration of content created with Adobe Flash. Embed animation and video files created with Flash, including video and widgets, to make your PDF documents come alive. Produce more compelling communications by packaging diverse documents in a single dynamic PDF portfolio, customize the front-end look and navigation using templates based on Flash technology, and then deliver it for secure online and offline viewing with free Adobe Reader. Blur boundaries and break rules as you explore and express your ideas with the highly integrated, productive tools in Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection.

Film and video professionals
Tell compelling stories in virtually any medium using Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection software. Work in a comprehensive creative environment that combines the latest versions of essential tools for professional print, web, interactive, motion, film, video, and mobile design--including new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro which enables exciting integration of content created in Adobe Flash. Embed video encoded with Flash technology (H.264) into your PDF files for amazing viewing experiences. Use templates and navigation based on Flash technology to customize rich, compelling PDF portfolios, which are more secure and viewable online and offline using free Adobe Reader. Master Collection enables exceptional efficiency between video editing and effects, motion, and audio tools. Convey emotionally compelling content and increase production values on ever-shrinking budgets, taking your story not only to video, but to print and the web. Blur boundaries and break rules as you explore and express your ideas with the highly integrated, productive tools in Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection.

Top Features of Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection

All the latest, greatest creative tools
Discover new creative opportunities and efficiencies with Adobe's professional tools for print, web, interactive, film, video, and mobile design. This comprehensive creative environment combines the latest versions of:

• Adobe InDesign CS3 for professional page design
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended for new dimensions in digital imaging
• Adobe Illustrator CS3 for powerful vector graphics creation
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for Adobe PDF creation, collaboration, and high-end output
• Adobe Flash CS3 Professional for creating rich interactive content
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 for developing standards-based websites and applications
• Adobe Fireworks CS3 for web prototyping and designing
• Adobe Contribute CS3 for updating websites and blogs
• Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional for industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 for capturing, editing, and delivering video
• Adobe Encore CS3 for authoring DVD and Blu-ray Discs and exporting SWF files to the web
• Adobe Soundbooth CS3 for creating and editing audio quickly and intuitively

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 for capturing, editing, and delivering video

Adobe Encore CS3 for preparing DVD titles

Improve efficiency and incorporate a tapeless workflow during shoots by using Adobe OnLocation CS3 to monitor your camera's video signal and record it directly to a computer hard drive.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

An amazing value
Expand your technical skills without breaking your budget. Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection combines the best of the Design Premium, Web Premium, and Production Premium editions into one value-packed offering.

Highly efficient integration
Work more productively than ever before thanks to the exceptional integration of tools in Master Collection. Come up to speed quickly using a familiar Adobe interface in Flash--and easily exchange native file formats to streamline content creation across design disciplines. Import layered Photoshop files into Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Flash, After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Encore. Export InDesign files such as XHTML, to jump-start web designs in Dreamweaver. Paint video layers in Photoshop CS3 Extended and export them to a variety of video formats, including FLV, to incorporate into a website or an After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro project.

Easy collaboration between designers and developers
Produce rich, engaging content that can be freely deployed on the web and on a wide variety of mobile and other devices. Quickly copy motion to ActionScript 3.0 language to hand off to a developer working with Flash, or use scripts to automate tasks across components of the software. Master Collection offers robust features for producing and deploying cutting-edge content as well as for improving efficiencies between designers and developers.

Complete creative freedom
Whether you need to produce printed brochures, compelling websites, rich interactive experiences, engaging mobile content, or stories told through motion and sound, find the perfect mode of expression for your ideas with Master Collection. You'll also find learning resources, CSS-based web-page starting points, animation presets, and other support for quickly getting high-quality results in design disciplines you're just starting to explore.

Tools to grow your business
Venture into new creative territory with Master Collection, which offers everything you need to excel in your core discipline and meet changing customer requirements while expanding your creative business in new directions.

Streamlined cross-media publishing
Easily publish content to multiple media. Preview Photoshop or Illustrator artwork for mobile devices using Adobe Device Central CS3. Prepare audio in Soundbooth, and then layer it over video in Adobe Premiere Pro--export the result as FLV for use on a website. Repurpose InDesign layouts using XML or export them as XHTML that you can open in Dreamweaver. Master Collection makes it easy to leverage your content for multiple media.

Standards-based professional output
From high-quality print to high-definition video, Master Collection meets your most rigorous output criteria. It offers the professional output options you need for every design discipline, from print to web to video. Adobe's ongoing focus on open standards ensures that your work can easily go wherever you need it to.

Support for the latest Macintosh and Windows systems
Design on your preferred platform and work across platforms with consistent results. Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection is available for Mac OS, including Intel based Macintosh computers running Mac OS X (Leopard); Windows XP; and Windows Vista.

Efficient installation and management
Simplify installation and software management using a single installer and serial number. Install all components at once, or install select components now and add the balance later.

What's New in Acrobat 9 Pro

Creation & Collaboration

• PDF Portfolios and native support for Flash transform communications
  Summarize and share a wide range of documents, images and videosin a cohesive manner using PDF Portfolios, which are easy to customize with your brand. Embed video, audio, and applications created with Adobe Flash into PDF files with smooth playback.
• Works with Acrobat.com hosted services (beta)
  Collaborate and co-navigate document views in real-timefrom anywhere
• Improved forms authoring and workflow
  Easily create forms and distribute, collect, and analyze form data without IT involvement
• 2 to 3 times faster to launch

Unparalleled PDF-Based Print Production

• Quality and leadership in Adobe PDF workflows
• Full support for PDF/A, PDF/X (including PDF/X-4p and PDF/X-5), and PDF/E in both Acrobat 9 Pro & Adobe Reader 9
• Support for end-to-end native PDF workflows from creation to output: for example, integrates with new Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.0

Highlights of Acrobat 9 Pro:

• Enhanced preflight and automatic correction features
• Accurate RGB & CMYK to K conversion, plus spot color remapping with built-in Pantone libraries
• Intelligent Overprint Preview in Acrobat 9 Pro and Adobe Reader 9
• New Object Inspector for reviewing metadata on any selected object
• Robust compare to easily identify differences in text, images, line weights and more between documents

Adobe Creative Suite 3.3: What's in Each Edition?

	ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3.3 EDITIONS
	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	WEB STANDARD	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
Adobe InDesign CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Fireworks CS3
Adobe Contribute CS3
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Adobe Soundbooth CS3
Adobe Encore CS3
	SHARED APPLICATIONS, FEATURES AND SERVICES
Adobe Bridge CS3
Adobe Version Cue CS3
Adobe Device Central CS3
Adobe Acrobat Connect
Adobe Dynamic Link
Adobe OnLocation CS3*
Adobe Ultra CS3*

*Windows only

Meet deadlines while you explore and express your creative ideas with Adobe Creative Suite 3.3. The Master Collection is a comprehensive, highly integrated creative environment for print, web, interactive, film, video, and mobile content design. This is a value-packed offering that helps you meet deadlines while you explore and express your creative ideas. Now, with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, you can make your PDF documents more engaging with embedded content created in Adobe Flash and customize high-impact PDF portfolios using templates based on Flash technology.

Flash CS3 Professional for creating rich interactive content Dreamweaver CS3 for developing standards-based websites and applications Fireworks CS3 for web prototyping and designing Contribute CS3 for updating websites and blogs After Effects CS3 Professional for industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects Premiere Pro CS3 for capturing, editing, and delivering video Encore CS3 for authoring DVD and Blu-ray Discs and exporting SWF files to the web Soundbooth CS3 for creating and editing audio OnLocation CS3 - powerful direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software to help you produce superior-quality results from your video camera Ultra CS3 - transform keying into a daily production tool for video projects

Design Across Media Efficient integration Produce content for the web & mobile devices Creative freedom Business tools Cross-media publishing Consistent results across platforms For Windows XP with SP2 or Windows Vista Upgrade from CS 1.x or 2.x Premium or Standard, Macromedia Studio MX, MX 2004 or 8, or Production Studio Premium or Standard

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-07-14
ISBN/EAN: 0883919149707

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Since its initial launch, Dreamweaver has charmed Web developers with an easy-to-use, yet versatile editing environment. Boasting an impressive collection of resources for both hand coders and visual layout designers, complex code is cleanly served up via a powerful visual layout editor or a text editor that inspects source code. In-depth features that create forms, Flash files, frames, cascading style sheets, Java, and ActiveX files are perfectly integrated into the application. For professional Web development crews, a multi-user environment efficiently manages the fast-paced flow of page content updates. Add an ever-growing Web community offering hundreds of extensions that automate and simplify the development process, and it's easy to see why Dreamweaver is a favorite Web-authoring tool.

Dreamweaver 4.0 offers a fresh set of features, upgrades, and improvements. Already a great visual editor, Dreamweaver 4.0 pumps up its hand-coding capabilities with a new Code View feature--a text editor with such customizable features as live syntax coloring, tag balancing, and auto indenting. In Split View, the Code and Design views display simultaneously, providing the best of both worlds for novice and pro coders alike. A Code Reference feature provides a thorough guide to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Graphic designers will enjoy Dreamweaver 4.0's seamless integration with other Macromedia products, such as Fireworks and Flash. One can now create editable vector graphics--Flash buttons and text--directly in Dreamweaver, a feature we found particularly useful.

Current users may want to consider taking a close look at Macromedia's Dreamweaver 4.0 Web site to ensure that the collection of new features warrants an upgrade this time around. New users, especially Web-building novices, may find the initial learning curve a bit steep, though frequent visits to the help files are well worth the enormous power this program yields. --Eric Twelker--This review refers to the Windows version of Dreamweaver 4.0.

Dreamweaver 4 is everything that you need to create and manage small business sites, corporate Intranets, and complex Web businesses. Familiar page-layout techniques let you "draw" complex table-based layouts with pixel-precise accuracy, while generating clean, version-3.0-friendly table code. Professional hand-coding environment includes autoindenting, punctuation balancing, and the ability to debug client-side JavaScript directly in your browser. And, if you're ready to master the nuances of HTML, you can refer to the integrated online reference material from O'Reilly Publications. Dreamweaver 4 makes it simple to incorporate content from Microsoft Office and graphics from Macromedia Fireworks. You can even generate Macromedia Flash (.swf) graphics directly in Dreamweaver to create engaging Web experiences. Working on teams and tracking projects is easier, too. Quickly organize site assets, create sitewide reports, and integrate with WebDAV and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows for maximum productivity.

Publisher: Macromedia
Author: Macromedia
Release Date: 2000-12-23
ISBN/EAN: 0044431730440

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This is a visual editor, which means you can create and edit a Web page by selecting items such as tables, forms, and images from a tabbed palette. The Properties panel lets you specify details such as borders, styles, and hyperlinks, and you can also use the visual editor for frames and layers. Many designers also like to edit the underlying HTML, and this is where Dreamweaver MX comes into its own. It supports either a pure code view or a split view that lets you click seamlessly between the code and visual editors. A lot of the features previously found in HomeSite, Macromedia's text-based Web editor, are now integrated into Dreamweaver, including pop-up code hints, a snippets panel that lets you keep handy pieces of code for reuse, and a tag chooser that lets you grab the right tag from a list. An O'Reilly tag reference is built in.

Dreamweaver's template support deserves special mention. Templates give you a quick start with a number of predesigned pages. In Dreamweaver MX, they can also be used to lock down areas of the page, so that contributors can create and edit a story without disturbing the design. Templates can be nested so that changes to an underlying template ripple through the pages that use it for powerful site-wide updates.

Macromedia used to market a product called Dreamweaver UltraDev, which allowed for rapid development of Web applications featuring online databases, member login, and other server-side elements. In Dreamweaver MX, this capability is built in. It has also been extended, adding support for ASP.NET and PHP as well as ColdFusion, JavaServer pages, and traditional ASP. Nonspecialists will find themselves able to build rich dynamic pages, while the integrated code editor makes this a capable development product as well. In fact, Dreamweaver MX has also replaced ColdFusion Studio as the primary development tool for ColdFusion MX. It is a uniquely flexible package.

Overall, it's hard to find fault with Dreamweaver MX. It's true that its complexity and professional features make it harder to pick up than some rival products. The abundance of panels and options can be confusing, and a high-resolution screen is required. In addition, the Studio MX products, which include Dreamweaver, are a better value for those who need more than one of the MX series. However, this takes nothing away from the excellence of Dreamweaver as the first-choice tool for professionals. --Tim Anderson

Build Web sites and Internet applications with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. Work within one environment to easily create and manage any professional Web site, whether it's built using HTML, XHTML, XML, Web services, ColdFusion, ASP.NET, ASP, JSP, or PHP. Dreamweaver MX is a complete solution combining the visual layout tools of Dreamweaver, the Web application features of Dreamweaver UltraDev, and the code editing support of HomeSite.

The new integrated workspace shared with Macromedia Flash MX and Fireworks MX includes tabbed document windows, dockable panel groups, customizable toolbars, and integrated file browsing. Prebuilt layouts and code, including site structures, forms, accessible templates, and JavaScript functions for interactivity, allow you to get started fast. A site setup wizard helps configure site information instantly for managing dynamic sites, staged sites, or sites hosted by ISPs.

Write code faster than ever before using features like code hints, tag editors, extensible color coding, tag choosers, snippets, and code validation. Accelerate development with support for XML, including creating, editing, validating XML code, and importing XML schemas. Easily introspect XML Web services. Ensure standards compliance with default creation of XHTML output, easy conversion from standard HTML to XHTML, and increased support for CSS2.

Note: This is an upgrade version for owners of Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver UltraDev, ColdFusion Studio 4.5 or later, or JRun Studio.

Publisher: Macromedia
Author: Macromedia
Release Date: 2002-06-11
ISBN/EAN: 0044431336543

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One of the best new features is the split code and design view, which lets you edit either the code or the visual design and see changes instantly echoed between them. There is also built-in security, so you can create login procedures and password-protected sites. Finally, the Live Objects wizards automatically create page elements to handle common tasks, such as a master/detail page set, or forms to insert and update records.

UltraDev supports three kinds of server-side scripting: Active Server Pages, JavaServer Pages, and Cold Fusion. Unfortunately, it does not support PHP, which is popular on Linux and Unix servers, although because UltraDev is extensible, there may be some third-party add-ins. The features for the three models are similar but not identical, although in every case there is excellent database support. Its great strength is that you can focus on designing your pages and let UltraDev handle the data access code. You can even display live data at design time, making it easier to get exactly the right appearance.

Everything in Dreamweaver is also in UltraDev, so this is the ideal package for Web authors who need to add dynamic content with a minimum of fuss. --Tim Anderson

Build ASP, JSP, or CFML Web applications quickly by using Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4. Rapidly build database-driven Web applications in a single design environment, and maintain total control over source code. Professional hand-coding environment includes ASP, JSP, and CFML keyword color-coding, autoindenting, punctuation balancing, and the ability to debug client-side JavaScript directly in your browser. View live, server-side data in the workspace, and make edits to layout and logic on the fly. Maximize productivity with built-in server behaviors, the ability to create your own library of reusable server behaviors easily, and powerful shortcuts for creating user authentication, master/detail pages, and more. Improve development efficiency with sitewide reports, project tracking, and integration with version-control systems like Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows and leading content-management systems.

Publisher: Macromedia
Author: Macromedia
Release Date: 2001-01-01
ISBN/EAN: 0044431320214

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The new integrated workspace shared with Macromedia Flash MX and Fireworks MX includes tabbed document windows, dockable panel groups, customizable toolbars, and integrated file browsing. Prebuilt layouts and code, including site structures, forms, accessible templates, and JavaScript functions for interactivity, allow you to get started fast. A site setup wizard helps configure site information instantly for managing dynamic sites, staged sites, or sites hosted by ISPs.

Write code faster than ever before using features like code hints, tag editors, extensible color coding, tag choosers, snippets, and code validation. Accelerate development with support for XML, including creating, editing, validating XML code, and importing XML schemas. Easily introspect XML Web services. Ensure standards compliance with default creation of XHTML output, easy conversion from standard HTML to XHTML, and increased support for CSS2.

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Author: Macromedia
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ISBN/EAN: 0044431336529

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