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Design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications--from start to finish--with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Upgrade software. Built for designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers both a visual layout interface and a streamlined coding environment. Intelligent integration with related Adobe software ensures an efficient workflow across your favorite tools.

Dreamweaver CS3 offers both a visual layout interface and a streamlined coding environment.

The Spry framework for Ajax lets you add user interface components such as the expandable areas seen in the Event information (open) and Event Directions (closed) regions here.

Create rich web content
A higher standard in web design and development is emerging, powered by Dreamweaver CS3. Create rich, dynamic interfaces that tightly weave static structures together with responsive interactivity. Use the new Spry framework for Ajax to develop energetic web experiences that will leave your competition standing still. In other words, think deep, dream big, and then execute flawlessly with the most exciting web design and development tool we've ever devised.

Maximize efficiency
Accelerate your workflow with Dreamweaver CS3, a faster, smoother version of the preferred web design and development tool. Drop in FLV files, add images from Adobe Photoshop, and test your content for mobile devices. Create visually or code directly, work on your choice of Macintosh or Windows, and enjoy the benefits of intelligent integration with other Adobe tools.

Apply best practices
Dreamweaver CS3 makes it easy to apply best practices and accepted standards to ensure your websites and applications play well with others. Build CSS-based websites from the ground up with new CSS layouts, the unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization and management tools. Ensure more reliable and consistent performance with the new Browser Compatibility Check. Instantly preview your content for PCs, mobile devices, and print, and find fast solutions to browser-specific CSS issues with the new CSS Advisor website.

Audience Benefit

Web designers--Discover an exceptional web design workflow with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Design and maintain websites from start to finish with your choice of either a powerful visual design interface or an efficient coding environment. Streamline design with helpful CSS features; preview your pages for PCs, mobile devices, and print; and easily test pages for browser compatibility. Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Fireworks CS3, and other Adobe tools.

Web developers--Develop more reliable, consistent web applications based on universally accepted development standards with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, and Ajax, for both internal and external projects. Ensure consistency with helpful CSS features and automated cross-browser compatibility testing.

Comments embedded in the code offer tips about how to work with CSS.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Industry-leading tool
Take advantage of all the flexibility and power of a world-class web design tool. Manipulate pixel-perfect designs in Design view, craft complex code in Code view, or do a little of each. Work the way you work best.

Integrated workflows
Design, develop, and maintain content within Dreamweaver CS3 while taking advantage of intelligent integration with other Adobe tools, including Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Contribute CS3, and new Adobe Device Central CS3 for creating mobile device content.

Complete CSS support
Discover the advantage of visual CSS tools that make it easy to view, edit, and move styles within and between files, as well as see how your changes will affect the design. Accelerate your workflow with new CSS layouts, and test your design with the new Browser Compatibility Check.

Integrated coding environment
Organize and accelerate your coding with code collapse, color coding, line numbering, and a coding toolbar with comment/uncomment and code snippets. Apply code hints for HTML and server languages.

Support for leading technologies
Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, and JSP.

Effortless XML
Quickly integrate XML content using either XSL or the Spry framework for Ajax. Point to an XML file or XML feed URL, and Dreamweaver CS3 will display its contents, enabling you to drag and drop appropriate fields onto your page.

Adobe Flash Video support
Easily add Flash Video to your web pages in just five clicks, with no knowledge of Flash required. Customize the video environment to match your website.

Learning resources
Learn as you go with comprehensive in-product tutorials, reference content, and instructional templates that make it easy to expand your skill set and adopt the latest technologies.

Extended Dreamweaver community
Enjoy all the benefits of the extensive Dreamweaver community, including the online Adobe Design Center and Adobe Developer Center, training and seminars, developer certification programs, user forums, and more than 1,000 downloadable extensions available in the Dreamweaver Exchange.

Cross-platform support
Pick your platform: Dreamweaver CS3 is available for Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh computers, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Design in your preferred platform and then deliver across platforms with more reliable, consistent, and high-performance results.

Additional Features

Browser Compatibility Check
Save time and ensure a more consistent experience across browsers and operating systems with the new Browser Compatibility Check. Generate reports that identify CSS-related issues in a variety of browsers, without needing to launch the browsers.

CSS management
Easily move CSS code from inline to head, from head to external sheet, from document to document, or between external sheets. Cleaning up existing CSS in older pages has never been easier.

CSS layouts
Easily incorporate CSS into your project with the new CSS layouts. Extensive comments in each template explain the layout, so beginning and intermediate designers can learn quickly. Each template can be customized for your project.

Spry data
Integrate data into web pages using XML from an RSS feed or a database. Integrated data can be easily sorted and filtered.

Spry widgets
Easily add common interface components such as lists, tables, tabs, form validation, and repeatable regions to web pages with widgets from the Spry framework for Ajax.

Spry effects
Easily add visual transitions to page elements to make them grow, shrink, fade, highlight, and more with the Spry effects for Ajax.

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2007-04-20
ISBN/EAN: 0883919090825

New Price: $139.00 / Used Price: $243.86

From exploring design concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the tightly integrated tools in Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real--in print, on the web, and on mobile devices.

Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design

Design Professionals
Express your ideas virtually anywhere, from paper to pixels, using intuitive tools that help you stay true to your creative intent. Using Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium software, you can publish across media more easily than ever. With native support for Adobe Flash technologies in new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software, you can seamlessly embed video and applications created with Flash in PDF documents for a rich viewing experience. The special introduction of Adobe Fireworks CS3 software to Design Premium enables you to rapidly prototype websites to jump-start your web projects and more easily express your ideas online. Along with essential creative tools for image editing, illustration, and web and mobile design, Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium provides visual asset management, mobile content previewing, and more. With Design Premium, not only can you create beautiful, engaging content, but you can also be fully equipped for new business opportunities and more efficient ways of working that can give you a competitive edge.

Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing

Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation

Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout

Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design

Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development

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

Fireworks CS3 for web prototyping and designing

Print Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium software provides enhancements to industry-standard tools for print design and production. New Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software includes enhanced preflighting with deeper file testing and tracking of preflight history in the PDF file. Color conversion is more reliable with improved black handling. Previews now include a new object inspector and automatic, intelligent overprint preview. Plus, the special introduction of Adobe Fireworks CS3 software enables you to rapidly prototype websites to jump-start your web projects and help diversify your service business--all using tools that are intuitive, easy to master, and well integrated with your other favorite design and production tools. Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium gives you the most trusted tools for the job in a unified environment so you can realize smooth production processes, maintain quality, and save time and money as you see your projects emerge in print and onscreen.

IT Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium software enables creative teams to explore and publish ideas more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Built on industry standards to enable long-term compatibility, Design Premium can be deployed across networks, is extensible and scriptable, and can be tailored to meet a variety of specialized design and publishing needs. It combines full versions of Adobe's essential design tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, and Dreamweaver CS3--with new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software and, as a special introduction, Adobe Fireworks CS3 software. Design Premium also includes Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, and more. Offering a single installer and serial number for easy installation, and backed by the quality and reliability Adobe is known for, Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium meets your critical IT needs as well as the creative needs of your design teams.

Edition comparison: Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard

Top reasons to buy Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium

The latest versions of essential creative tools
Experience the ultimate creative toolset with Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout, Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing, Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation, Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design, and Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development. Now includes new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for Adobe PDF workflows, plus a special offer of Adobe Fireworks CS3 for rapid website prototyping.

Unparalleled integration
Use native files any way you need to, moving smoothly between tools. Open native Photoshop files in Illustrator and native Illustrator files in Photoshop. Import Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into InDesign layout or Flash projects while preserving layers, effects, and more, or copy and paste Photoshop files into Dreamweaver pages. Open and edit Adobe PDF files in Illustrator and Photoshop, and place them in InDesign layouts.

Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3
Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing.

Industry-leading image editing and illustration
Experience unrivaled image editing and compositing, and even perform advanced image analysis, using Photoshop CS3 Extended. Create inspired vector graphics with Illustrator CS3, where you can now interactively explore, apply, and control color. And work seamlessly between the two components with native file format support.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

Coordinate with team members using Adobe Version Cue

Host real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect

Fluid web workflows
Become more proficient at web and interactive design. Mock up designs quickly in Fireworks CS3 or leverage assets from Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash. Move your designs smoothly into Dreamweaver CS3, where you can get a quick start with CSS layouts and easily develop and deploy engaging web experiences. You can also ramp up quickly in Flash, which now features a more familiar Adobe-standard interface, an object-oriented drawing mode, and a Pen tool that works like the one in Illustrator.

Stronger designer-developer workflows
Enrich web and interactive projects by designing with your favorite creative tools and then moving those files easily into a developer environment. Save significant production time by importing native Photoshop and Illustrator files, with layers and effects preserved, into Flash projects and then animating them. Prototype website designs rapidly and intuitively in Fireworks and then export them to Dreamweaver for further development. Or use the new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages and dynamic user interfaces using the Spry framework for Ajax. With Design Premium, design and development work hand in hand.

Reliable print production and innovative communication with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Experience improved PDF print workflow with deeper preflight testing and tracking, better black handling, and intelligent previews. You can now embed content created in Adobe Flash including video and widgets. Assemble layouts, graphics, video, audio, and other files into dynamic PDF portfolios; then add richly interactive front ends using customizable Flash templates, and incorporate branding elements, control the presentation order, and add content descriptions. Adobe PDF is simply more versatile than ever.

Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Easily organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; playback of files created with Flash; and nondestructive batch editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files.

Integrated support for mobile design
Produce compelling mobile graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop Extended, add interactivity in Flash, and code pages for mobile display in Dreamweaver. At every step of the way, you can preview and test your designs using mobile device profiles in Adobe Device Central CS3.

Rapid prototypes of web designs with Adobe Fireworks CS3
Use the flexibility of Fireworks CS3 for protyping web projects and quickly editing vector artwork and bitmap images. Pull from a common library of prebuilt assets, and take advantage of timesaving integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash. Create mock-ups rapidly in Fireworks, and then move your designs directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

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

Creative Suite 3 Design Premium now with Fireworks CS3

Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to:

• Edit both vector and bitmap images
• A common library of prebuilt assets
• Timesaving integration with Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and Flash CS3 software
• Mock up designs quickly in Fireworks, or leverage other assets from Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash. Then move directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

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

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-07-14
ISBN/EAN: 0883919146775

New Price: $135.00 / Used Price: $178.05

Design your comp in Fireworks CS4, and then export it to web-standards compliant HTML and CSS to open in Dreamweaver CS4. The shared user interface makes it easy to move between Web Premium components. Click to enlarge.

The green symbol in the upper left corner of a PSD file inserted into Dreamweaver tells you that the source file and web-ready instance are in sync. Click to enlarge.

Use the Workplace Switcher in Dreamweaver (shown here), Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop Extended, and Illustrator to quickly switch among design environments. Click to enlarge.

Combine Live View with Live Code to reveal code as rendered in an interactive state, like hovering over and selecting a Spry data image. Armed with these details, you can quickly modify relevant CSS rules. Click to enlarge.

Left: A group of symbols with bones already defined between them in Flash CS4. Right: When one of the symbols is moved, all of the connected symbols move and react in a defined relationship to each other. Click to enlarge.

Upgrade to CS3 to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium

New versions, new integration
Enjoy updated versions of the creative tools you rely on. Creative Suite 4 Web Premium includes new versions of Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Fireworks, Acrobat Pro, Soundbooth, and Contribute.

Complex pages made approachable
Design and develop more sophisticated websites with new Live View in Dreamweaver CS4, featuring interactive code editing. Rely on the new Related Files and Code Navigator features to dive deeply into complex pages.

Powerful animation tools
Give your content a greater sense of depth with the new 3D transformation tools in Flash CS4 Professional, complete with multireference rotation options. Bring your animations to life with the advanced inverse kinematics of the Bones tool.

Multiple export options from a single creative source
Design once and deploy to many formats without having to re-create your work. Move from Photoshop, Illustrator, or Flash Professional to Fireworks with confidence, thanks to a universal interface design.

Faster, more expressive design tools
Photoshop CS4 Extended introduces greater precision, more intuitive selection, and smoother image navigation, along with comprehensive 3D painting and ray-trace rendering. Illustrator CS4 incorporates multiple artboards, live preview, in-place editing, and robust gradient handling.

Intuitive audio
Amplify your impact with Soundbooth CS4. Multitrack recording capabilities and professional audio editing features make Soundbooth an essential component of your creative toolset, fully integrated into Web Premium.

Advanced application development
Design and create your Adobe AIR interactive prototype in Fireworks for deployment in Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, or Flex software. Enhance your Adobe AIR application with HTML and JavaScript in Dreamweaver--and then preview or deploy it immediately.

Mobile authoring integration
Adobe Device Central CS4 offers tighter integration with Flash Professional and other Creative Suite 4 components and enables full-featured content testing including web pages, video, images, and interactive SWF files.

Direct connection with clients and coworkers
Share your ideas by accessing the Adobe ConnectNow web conferencing service. Browse and create color themes using the Adobe Kuler web-hosted application. Visit Adobe Community Help for quick access to tips, Adobe Help, and community-generated tutorials.

PDF collaboration
Communicate with your clients professionally with PDF export from Fireworks CS4. Fireworks automatically transforms linked pages into interactive PDF elements so clients can quickly experience how your design flows from one page to another.

Combines:

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
• Adobe Soundbooth CS4
• Adobe Contribute CS4

Top new benefits of Creative Suite 4 Web Premium

When exported with the new CSS and Images option, the car image will be linked from a CSS rule, rather than as an "img" tag in the HTML, because the slice type is set to Background Image. Click to enlarge.

Simply drag with the new Rotate View tool in Photoshop CS4 to spin your canvas to the orientation that works best for you. Click to enlarge.

Amplify the impact of your site or application with the added dimension of audio by using Soundbooth CS4. Click to enlarge.

Re-use page elements from your Fireworks CS4 site design to prototype an Adobe AIR application. Click to enlarge.

Once you've exported your Fireworks CS4 comp to PDF, your client can easily add their comments through Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat software. Click to enlarge.

Preview your content in Device Central CS4 to reveal how it will look on a range of different devices. Click to enlarge.

New versions, new integration
Updated versions of all of the creative tools you rely on to deliver your ideas to the web, device, and desktop are included in Creative Suite 4 Web Premium. Better integration highlights the new versions of Photoshop CS4 Extended and Dreamweaver CS4, the software used by designers around the world to create award-winning output. Create a graphic in Photoshop CS4 Extended and open it in Dreamweaver CS4 to create an image Smart Object. Unlike standard web-page graphics, a Smart Object is tightly linked to the source file. A small indicator on the Smart Object in Dreamweaver CS4 shows when the source and instance are in sync. Make any changes to the source image and Dreamweaver notes that the files are out of sync; click the Properties panel icon to update your image without opening Photoshop.

Create optimized, web-ready assets in Fireworks CS4 with source files from Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator CS4, or Flash CS4 Professional--without redoing any work. Files are imported faithfully with layers, vector paths, text, and effects intact and editable. Export your web-page comps from Fireworks to Dreamweaver as web-standards compliant, CSS-based layouts. Export Adobe AIR layouts from Fireworks CS4 for development in Dreamweaver CS4 or Flash CS4 Professional, complete with digitally-signed packaging for online deployment.

Components of Creative Suite 4 Web Premium and Creative Suite 4 Web Standard now employ a common user interface for a more efficient workflow. Collapse and expand panels the same way in Dreamweaver CS4, Fireworks CS4, and Flash CS4 Professional as you do in Photoshop CS4 Extended and Illustrator CS4. Customize your workspaces to fit your tasks and then put them to use immediately through the new Workspace Switcher in Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4.

Complex, compound web pages made accessible
Design and develop more sophisticated websites with the real-world experience of the new Live View in Dreamweaver CS4. Live View combines actual browser rendering with interactive code editing so you can freeze a navigation submenu or keep an Ajax accordion panel open and then modify the code as needed. Rely on the new Related Files and Code Navigator features to dive deeply into complex pages that include HTML files, link to external JavaScript documents, and integrate XML data. Update your code in the associated files and review changes instantly in the master document's Design View.

Animation enhancements
Harness the power of rich interactive content in Flash CS4, where object-based animation now offers greater control combined with increased ease of use. Expand your content's sense of depth with new 3D transformation tools in Flash CS4, complete with multi-reference rotation and translation options. Give your animated characters lifelike motion with advanced inverse kinematic effects, now made easier with the new Bones tool that connects existing symbols with an armature layer. Once you've added "bones" to your symbols, figures can be animated in an organic fashion to broaden the range of motion and interactionpossible in Flash CS4.

Multiple export options from a single creative source
Design once and deploy to many formats, without waste or re-created work. Move from Photoshop, Illustrator, or Flash to Fireworks with the confidence made possible by a consistent, intuitive interface design that spans Creative Suite 4 Web Premium. Pass your newly completed comps to your clients or other team members using the industry-standard Adobe PDF format. Your clients will enjoy the interactive click-through capabilities, while you gather feedback more quickly and enhance your productivity. When approved, in just one step export your rich Fireworks CS4 graphic designs to web-standards compliant, CSS-based layouts, complete with external style sheets.

Faster, more expressive design tools
The market-leading digital editing tools in Creative Suite 4 Web Premium are now richer than ever. Photoshop CS4 Extended introduces new Adjustment and Masking panels for a fluid and intuitive user interface to leverage the unrivaled editing power of Photoshop. It includes comprehensive 3D painting, animation and compositing for creative visualizations. In Illustrator CS4, lay out and design multi-part web components using up to 100 variable-sized artboards in a single document; easily create complex vector shapes with the new Blob brush; and specify transparent colors within gradients to create and fine-tune subtle interactions between objects.

Everyday audio creating and editing
Amplify the impact of your site or application with the added dimension of audio by using Soundbooth CS4. With new multiple track support that can be used to mix any number of mono or stereo clips as well as royalty-free Soundbooth Scores and sound effects, Soundbooth is a vital audio tool fully integrated in Creative Suite 4 Web Premium. Record directly into Soundbooth or cut, copy, paste, fade, or stretch any imported audio asset. Automatically detect and fix common flaws in audio recordings such as hisses, hums, rumbling, crackling, and pops. Coordinate audio in your Flash project by laying down markers that can be exported as XML or FLV files. Plus, the new Adobe sound document packages your multitrack audio projects into a nondestructive ASND file format that can be easily shared with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and Adobe After Effects CS4 software. Professional quality sound has never been this easy.

Advanced application development
Explore the upper reaches of web development with the new Adobe AIR integration in Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4. Design and create your Adobe AIR interactive prototypes in Fireworks for the Adobe Flex framework or SWF file created with Flash. Alternatively, you can embed your prototype design in HTML and JavaScript pages created in Dreamweaver--and preview them immediately. Deploy your application online with full Adobe AIR packaging capabilities from within either Dreamweaver or Flash.

PDF everywhere
Work more efficiently with high-quality PDF representations of your Fireworks CS4 comps or Flash CS4 visuals. Convert your graphic layouts and comps to industry-standard PDF documents for electronic delivery to your clients for easy commenting in Adobe Reader software. Fireworks CS4 transforms your linked pages to a click-through mock-up in PDF format so clients can get a sense of how your design flows from one page to another.

Mobile authoring integration
Extend your creations to mobile devices with high fidelity and efficient workflows. Device Central CS4 brings improved integration with Dreamweaver, Flash, and other Creative Suite 4 Web Premium components. Quickly acess the latest device profiles through the dynamically updated online device library containing over 450 devices that support Flash, including popular consumer electronic devices such as the PSP and Wii. Browse, search, and sort device profiles, directly compare multiple devices along several dimensions, and create custom sets of devices for quick project access. Easily preview and test the appearance, performance, and behavior of mobile content right on the desktop. Simulate various display conditions, such as backlight timeout and sunlight reflections, in the context of mobile device skins to better tune designs for real-world conditions. Design, create, test, and publish your mobile content--whether website, video, images, or interactive applications--with the enhanced integrated tools and increased productivity of Device Central CS4.

Creative Pro Online Services

Adobe Community Help
Get the power of an online search engine within your Creative Suite 4 software, but with more targeted results thanks to Adobe Community Help. Searchablecontent includes the in-depth product-specific that Help Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and real-world design and production communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you need, fast. (Internet connection required for extended content.)

Adobe Kuler panel
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kick start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community. Browse thousands of themes by newest, most popular, or highest rated; or search themes by tag word, title, or creator. Themes can be downloaded and moved to your Swatches panel with a single click. Or use an interactive color wheel that supports standard harmony rules to develop your own color themes that you can save, move to your Swatches panel, and upload to share with others. (Internet connection required for community functionality.)

Acrobat.com
Use Acrobat.com services with Acrobat to store and share large documents, collect form data, and review documents with anyone, anywhere. Thanks to the connection between one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, and Creative Suite 4 Web Premium, you can meet live over the web to share your screen, present creative concepts and ideas, and brainstorm with up to two online guests for no additional service charge. To share your screen with colleagues and clients, choose File > Share My Screen from Adobe CS4 components, such as Photoshop CS4 Extended or Flash CS4 Professional, or choose File > Collaborate > Share My Screen from Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. Guests can then see your desktop on their screens as you work. You can exchange ideas using the chat pod, add a live video or audio feed, or use the Whiteboard feature to enable guests to comment on content. You can even temporarily hand over control of the screen to a guest to collaborate on a file. Additional Acrobat.com services, such as Share, Create PDF, My Files, and Adobe Buzzword, are accessible via Acrobat 9 Pro, an Adobe AIR version of Acrobat.com (included with this edition of Creative Suite 4), and your web browser. (Internet connection required.)

Adobe InContext Editing
Make your web page content available for online editing by others when you use InContext Editing. Offer your colleagues, clients or end users an easier way to make simple edits without negative impact on the design integritythe design integrity of your web pages--and without help from you or additional software on their computers. Use the InContext Editing toolbar in Dreamweaver to set up your web pages, and then use the preview of this online service to enable content changes by others. (This service will be available as a preview technology, and accessible from within Adobe Dreamworks CS4. During this preview, you can use it at no additional charge. Further availability information will be posted to www.adobe.com/dreamweaver when appropriate. Internet connection required).

Adobe Bridge Home
Visit Adobe Bridge Home--an online channel available in Adobe Bridge CS4--and stay up to date with what's new from Adobe and the design, web development,and video and audio production communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 software, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you work smarter and faster, making the most of your Creative Suite 4 software. (Internet connection required.)

Adobe Resource Central
Access product-related news and tutorials by using the Resource Central panel in Adobe Soundbooth. Jump-start your audio projects with drag-and-drop efficiency using Soundbooth Scores and audio effects offered online. (Internet connection required. There are additional fees for some content accessed through Resource Central.)

About Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Standard

Choose Your Edition

Adobe Creative Suite 4 also allows you to access features and services that are hosted online, such as Adobe Community Help, Adobe Kuler, Adobe ConnectNow (a service on Acrobat.com), Adobe InContext Editing, and Bridge Home.*

* This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The online services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages and/or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the online services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Adobe privacy policy, and access to these services may require user registration. Some online services, including services initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees. For additional details and to review the terms of use and privacy policy, please visit www.adobe.com.

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-11-14
ISBN/EAN: 0883919161310

New Price: $594.99 / Used Price: n.a.

From exploring design concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the tightly integrated tools in Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real--in print, on the web, and on mobile devices.

Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design

Design Professionals
Express your ideas virtually anywhere, from paper to pixels, using intuitive tools that help you stay true to your creative intent. Using Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium software, you can publish across media more easily than ever. With native support for Adobe Flash technologies in new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software, you can seamlessly embed video and applications created with Flash in PDF documents for a rich viewing experience. The special introduction of Adobe Fireworks CS3 software to Design Premium enables you to rapidly prototype websites to jump-start your web projects and more easily express your ideas online. Along with essential creative tools for image editing, illustration, and web and mobile design, Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium provides visual asset management, mobile content previewing, and more. With Design Premium, not only can you create beautiful, engaging content, but you can also be fully equipped for new business opportunities and more efficient ways of working that can give you a competitive edge.

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

Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing

Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation

Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout

Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design

Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development

Fireworks CS3 for web prototyping and designing

Print Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium software provides enhancements to industry-standard tools for print design and production. New Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software includes enhanced preflighting with deeper file testing and tracking of preflight history in the PDF file. Color conversion is more reliable with improved black handling. Previews now include a new object inspector and automatic, intelligent overprint preview. Plus, the special introduction of Adobe Fireworks CS3 software enables you to rapidly prototype websites to jump-start your web projects and help diversify your service business--all using tools that are intuitive, easy to master, and well integrated with your other favorite design and production tools. Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium gives you the most trusted tools for the job in a unified environment so you can realize smooth production processes, maintain quality, and save time and money as you see your projects emerge in print and onscreen.

IT Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium software enables creative teams to explore and publish ideas more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Built on industry standards to enable long-term compatibility, Design Premium can be deployed across networks, is extensible and scriptable, and can be tailored to meet a variety of specialized design and publishing needs. It combines full versions of Adobe's essential design tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, and Dreamweaver CS3--with new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software and, as a special introduction, Adobe Fireworks CS3 software. Design Premium also includes Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, and more. Offering a single installer and serial number for easy installation, and backed by the quality and reliability Adobe is known for, Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium meets your critical IT needs as well as the creative needs of your design teams.

Edition comparison: Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard

Top reasons to buy Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium

The latest versions of essential creative tools
Experience the ultimate creative toolset with Adobe InDesign CS3 for page layout, Photoshop CS3 Extended for specialized image editing, Illustrator CS3 for vector graphics creation, Flash CS3 Professional for interactive design, and Dreamweaver CS3 for web design and development. Now includes new Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for Adobe PDF workflows, plus a special offer of Adobe Fireworks CS3 for rapid website prototyping.

Unparalleled integration
Use native files any way you need to, moving smoothly between tools. Open native Photoshop files in Illustrator and native Illustrator files in Photoshop. Import Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into InDesign layout or Flash projects while preserving layers, effects, and more, or copy and paste Photoshop files into Dreamweaver pages. Open and edit Adobe PDF files in Illustrator and Photoshop, and place them in InDesign layouts.

Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3
Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing.

Industry-leading image editing and illustration
Experience unrivaled image editing and compositing, and even perform advanced image analysis, using Photoshop CS3 Extended. Create inspired vector graphics with Illustrator CS3, where you can now interactively explore, apply, and control color. And work seamlessly between the two components with native file format support.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

Fluid web workflows
Become more proficient at web and interactive design. Mock up designs quickly in Fireworks CS3 or leverage assets from Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash. Move your designs smoothly into Dreamweaver CS3, where you can get a quick start with CSS layouts and easily develop and deploy engaging web experiences. You can also ramp up quickly in Flash, which now features a more familiar Adobe-standard interface, an object-oriented drawing mode, and a Pen tool that works like the one in Illustrator.

Stronger designer-developer workflows
Enrich web and interactive projects by designing with your favorite creative tools and then moving those files easily into a developer environment. Save significant production time by importing native Photoshop and Illustrator files, with layers and effects preserved, into Flash projects and then animating them. Prototype website designs rapidly and intuitively in Fireworks and then export them to Dreamweaver for further development. Or use the new CSS layouts in Dreamweaver to jump-start standards-based web pages and dynamic user interfaces using the Spry framework for Ajax. With Design Premium, design and development work hand in hand.

Reliable print production and innovative communication with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Experience improved PDF print workflow with deeper preflight testing and tracking, better black handling, and intelligent previews. You can now embed content created in Adobe Flash including video and widgets. Assemble layouts, graphics, video, audio, and other files into dynamic PDF portfolios; then add richly interactive front ends using customizable Flash templates, and incorporate branding elements, control the presentation order, and add content descriptions. Adobe PDF is simply more versatile than ever.

Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Easily organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; playback of files created with Flash; and nondestructive batch editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files.

Integrated support for mobile design
Produce compelling mobile graphics in Illustrator and Photoshop Extended, add interactivity in Flash, and code pages for mobile display in Dreamweaver. At every step of the way, you can preview and test your designs using mobile device profiles in Adobe Device Central CS3.

Rapid prototypes of web designs with Adobe Fireworks CS3
Use the flexibility of Fireworks CS3 for protyping web projects and quickly editing vector artwork and bitmap images. Pull from a common library of prebuilt assets, and take advantage of timesaving integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash. Create mock-ups rapidly in Fireworks, and then move your designs directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

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

Creative Suite 3 Design Premium now with Fireworks CS3

Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to:

• Edit both vector and bitmap images
• A common library of prebuilt assets
• Timesaving integration with Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and Flash CS3 software
• Mock up designs quickly in Fireworks, or leverage other assets from Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash. Then move directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

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

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-07-14
ISBN/EAN: 0883919146782

New Price: $149.99 / Used Price: $170.00

Add exciting perspective to your interactive designs with the new 3D Rotation tool in Flash CS4 Professional. Click to enlarge.

Upgrade to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Licensed owners of Flash CS3 Professional, Flash Professional 8, or Flash MX 2004 are also eligible for special upgrade pricing to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium and Web Standard, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, or Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Object-based animation
Gain complete control over individual animation attributes with object-based animation, which applies tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Easily make changes to motion with Bezier handles.

3D transformation
Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate along the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformation to any object.

Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool
Create chain-like animation effects with a series of linked objects, or quickly distort a single shape using the new Bones tool.

Procedural modeling with Deco and Spray Brush
Turn symbols into instant design tools. Apply symbols in a variety of ways: Quickly create kaleidoscope-like effects and apply fills using the Deco tool, or randomly spray symbols across any defined area using the Spray Brush.

Motion editor
Experience detailed control over keyframe parameters, including rotation, size, scale, position, filters, and more, using the new motion editor. Refine easing control with graphical displays similar to those in Adobe After Effects software.

Motion presets
Jump-start your project with prebuilt animations that can be applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create and save your own. Share presets with others to save animation time.

Authoring for Adobe AIR
Deliver interactive experiences to the desktop with new integrated capability to publish to the Adobe AIR runtime. Reach even more audiences across more devices
web, mobile, and now the desktop.

Metadata (XMP) support
Add metadata to SWF files using the new XMP panel. Quickly assign tags for enhanced collaboration and better mobile experiences.

XFL support
Open content from Adobe InDesign or After Effects software and retain file integrity. With the cross-application XFL format, easily import content for further development in Flash.

H.264 support
Encode to any format recognized by the Adobe Flash Player runtime with Adobe Media Encoder, the same tool found in other Adobe video products and now with support for H.264.

Motion paths are automatically created in Flash CS4 and can be edited as normal Bezier paths. Each dot on the path represents a frame in the animation, making it easy to quickly identify an object's position in the Timeline. Click to enlarge.

The Motion Editor panel offers a level of control similar to that found in Adobe After Effects. Curves allow you to precisely control easing for specific attributes--even 3D transformations. Click to enlarge.

Procedural modeling with the Deco tool enables you to explore, using patterns and designs that previously required complex ActionScript. Click to enlarge.

Top new features of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Object-based animation model
In previous versions of Flash, creating an animation on the Timeline involved a myriad of keystrokes and commands involving symbol creation, manual placement of keyframes, and manual tween adjustments on the Timeline itself. Even upon the succesful creation of an animation, users faced time-consuming and sometimes difficult editing tasks whenever changes had to be made.

The adoption of an object-based animation model means that motion tweens are applied directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Now, Flash CS4 Professional is far more approachable for new users, while simultaneously providing advanced designers and developers far greater control of individual animation attributes.

Creating a motion tween
With Flash CS4, tweening, or the interpolation of steps between keyframes, is now applied directly to objects, rather than to keyframes in the Timeline. In fact, the new object-based animation model enables users to create animations without using the Timeline at all.

Creating an animation in Flash CS4 is now an incredibly simple two-step process:

1. Right-click on any object, and then choose Create Motion Tween.
2. Move the object.

That's it--you're done. It's really that easy.

But don't let the simplicity fool you. While a designer need only click the mouse a few times, Flash CS4 works behind the scenes to reduce the number of steps necessary to offer a smoother user experience. For example, experienced Flash users know that they must first convert objects to symbols before applying motion tweens to them. Now, if you try to apply a motion tween to an object that isn't a symbol, Flash CS4 automatically converts the object to a symbol without interrupting the tweening process. Streamlining object-to-symbol conversion allows new users to get started quickly with minimal frustration and expert users to get more done faster.

The new object-based animation model allows you to do things that were either extremely difficult or impossible to do with previous versions of Flash:

• Adjust the timing of any animation. Simply drag the span on the Timeline, and the animation--including any and all keyframes--scales accordingly.
• Apply individual animations to multiple symbols--all within the same frame.
• Easily edit a motion path. When an animation is created, a motion path is automatically generated, and can be edited as easily as any regular Bezier path.

In summary, the new object-based animation model in Flash CS4 brings valuable benefits for all kinds of users--beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

3D transformations
Bringing perspective and dimension to your design can add an element of excitement and fun to any project. But until now, the ability to create 3D motion was available only to expert users via ActionScript or other sophisticated tools. Now, with Flash CS4, you can animate 2D objects through 3D space with new easy-to-use 3D transformation tools, greatly extending creative possibilities. Built for inexperienced and advanced users alike, the 3D transformation tools make motion effects available to everyone.

Specifically, Flash CS4 features two new tools for applying 3D effects:

• The 3D Translation tool provides visually intuitive x-, y-, and z-axis object manipulation.
• The 3D Rotation tool allows you to spin and twirl your art within a 3D space.

You can apply local or global rotation to move an object within relationship to itself or to the stage and fine-tune perspectives with complete control over vanishing-point location and perspective angle. A global vanishing point enables you to define the location at which your animation disappears in the distance.

Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool
Those who live and breathe animation may be familiar with the term inverse kinematics, or IK, which is a method used to create chain-like effects with a series of linked objects or to quickly distort single objects. Much like the bones in the human body form a skeleton that moves and behaves in a definitive way, the new Bones tool in Flash CS4 allows you to link a series of symbols together with "bones" that can be quickly and easily animated and then controlled relative to one another.

With the new Bones tool, simply click and drag between separate symbols that you've already created. This defines an Armature layer that allows organic and complex motions. You can also control the motion by applying constraints to individual symbols. This makes puppeting and quick distortion practical and more approachable for most users.

To use inverse kinematics in Flash CS4, you use the Bones tool to link different symbols together or apply constraints on individual ones. To further control the distortion of single objects, use the Bind tool to carefully define how each part of the shape reacts when another part moves, bringing a new, sophisticated level of expressiveness to even single-shape animations.

Once you've defined an armature, you can even enable an option called Runtime in the Properties panel, which allows users to control or interact with the linked objects themselves as your content plays in Adobe Flash Player.

Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool allows new users to work with advanced Flash functionality sooner, opens up new creative possibilities for experienced designers, and saves time for almost any user who would have previously used ActionScript to define complex symbol interactions and behaviors.

Procedural modeling with the Deco tool
If you think Flash CS4 is all about technical stuff that does nothing for the design side of the brain, think again. The Deco tool is a fantastic new addition that literally blossoms forth with symmetry and creativity as you turn any symbol into an instant design element. Whether creating patterns or kaleidoscope-like effects using single or multiple symbols, the Deco tool provides a new way to create and apply symbols to your work.

Based on settings specified by the designer in the Properties panel, the Deco tool, using andapplying algorithmic calculations to selected symbols in a process known as proceduralmodeling, enables designers to express their creativity with different drawing effects:

• The Vine Fill drawing effect fills any shape or background with a branching pattern formation. Designers can use already included images or substitute custom graphics.
• The Grid Fill drawing effect fills any shape or background with a pattern of the selected symbol. Designers interested in patterns, intricate drawing options, and rich textures and surfaces can now create and apply them to spaces or objects more easily.
• The Symmetry Brush allows designers to quickly create kaleidoscope-like effects and can be used with single and multiple symbols alike, providing even more creative options.

Motion Editor panel
With the new object-based animation model in Flash CS4 Professional, keyframes take on a new and significant role. You can now experience granular, independent control over every keyframe parameter, including rotation, size, scale, position, filters, and more, using the Motion Editor panel. Offering even more command over the creative presentation of your animations, the Motion Editor panel allows you to graphically control easing using curves.

Fine control over tweens was previously buried deep within Flash. Now, that power is brought to the surface through the Motion Editor panel, which enables Flash users to fine-tune animation parameters for each attribute. Advanced users will love this level of control, and the fact that it looks and behaves much like the keyframe editor in After Effects is an added bonus.

When you use the Bones tool to establish relationships between symbols, Flash CS4 creates an Armature layer, which allows you to fine-tune the IK behavior. Click to enlarge.

Left: A group of symbols with "bones" already defined between them. Right: When one of the symbols moves, all of the connected symbols move and react in a defined relationship to each other. Click to enlarge.

Motion Presets panel
Being efficient is a large part of being a successful designer or developer. To this end, Flash CS4 Professional provides a library of prebuilt animations to jump-start your project. A huge time-saver, motion presets are easy for anyone to create and use.

To define a motion preset, right-click on any object that has a tween applied to it, and choose Save As Motion Preset. To use a motion preset, simply select any symbol on the stage, choose a preset from the Motion Presets panel, and click Apply. Individual users who spend a lot of time with repetitive application of motion can increase their productivity through the use of motion presets. Additionally, motion presets can be shared or distributed to an entire team of users, enhancing team collaboration and consistency.

Authoring for Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR, the technology that makes Flash experiences on the desktop possible, is now built into Flash CS4 Professional. By extending Flash beyond the browser with custom desktop experiences and branding opportunities, Adobe AIR introduces exciting new methods for delivering interactive content. Using a new setting in the Publish dialog box, Flash CS4 automatically bundles all the necessary files to create an Adobe AIR application.

Adobe AIR allows you to leverage local desktop resources and data to deliver even more personal and engaging experiences. With the same skills you use to deliver to Flash Player, you can now reach even more audiences across more devices--web, mobile, and now the desktop.

XFL support
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional introduces support for XFL, a file format that allows for improved integration across the Creative Suite 4 family. Users can now easily export content from Adobe InDesign and Adobe After Effects to Flash. With XFL support, InDesign and After Effects users have new opportunities to begin using Flash.

For experienced creative professionals, XFL support means being better able to meet constantly changing production demands. While we know that print itself isn't dead, we also know that many designers are faced with providing content that appears both in print and on the web. Designers can now use Adobe InDesign to design their content for print, and then painlessly use XFL to export their layouts for use in Flash. This adds an entirelynew dimension to cross-media publishing and is a practical solution for publishing houses that want to expand their print publications to new media.

Metadata support
As more and more digital content fills your hard drives and servers, it becomes increasingly difficult to quickly find the files you need. Metadata plays an important role in solving this problem by making files "smarter" about the content they hold. With metadata, finding the right content at the right time not only becomes easy--it also enables a level of collaboration that was not previously possible.

Adobe has played an active role in the support of metadata by helping to define and develop the Extensible Metadata Protocol (XMP) standard. Components of the Adobe Creative Suite family of software have supported XMP in the past; now, Flash CS4 Professional adds support for XMP metadata as well, allowing designers to leverage the power of Adobe Bridge in their workflow.

But the benefits of the new metadata support in Flash CS4 extend far beyond the designer's desktop and work environment. Metadata also enables mobile devices to identify the type of content being played, allowing mobile and Flash developers to deliver a better user experience to mobile devices.

Adobe Media Encoder with H.264 support
Video content is fast becoming a first-class citizen on the web. As companies make the decision to add more video content to their online presence, designers and developers struggle to find that happy medium--video content that is high in quality but small in file size. With more and more people using their mobile devices to view video content, developers must be acutely aware of bandwidth issues--without budging an inch on quality. So it's no surprise that Adobe Flash Player 10 supports what has become the standard in high-quality/low-bandwidth video content--H.264.

Now, developers can deliver high-quality video with more control than ever before. Adobe Media Encoder--the same tool found in other Adobe professional video products such as Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 software and After Effects CS4--now supports H.264 and is included with Flash CS4 Professional.

Adobe Media Encoder automates the process of creating multiple encoded versions of your content using the batch encoder, making higher quality video delivery easier and more reliable--essential for the growing distribution of video created with Flash.

Maximizing productivity by encoding in the background while you work, Adobe Media Encoder lets you encode to a wide variety of video formats, including FLV and F4V. Adobe Media Encoder also offers improved video quality, thanks to two-pass variable bit-rate encoding and support for H.264.

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