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Leverage the familiar InDesign environment and your existing expertise to deliver design in more media. Just one example: Export an InDesign layout as XFL, open it in Flash, edit text and graphics, and then add interactive elements to produce a compelling dynamic document. Click to enlarge.

Drag a Photoshop image into a Dreamweaver page to create a dynamically linked Smart Object. If the source file changes, a badge shows that the Dreamweaver version is no longer current. To update the image, simply click the Update icon in the Properties panel. Click to enlarge.

In Illustrator, create and arrange up to 100 artboards of differing sizes, and then save them in a single, multipage PDF file or export them as sequentially numbered files. Click to enlarge.

In Photoshop, rotate canvas and image together to any angle for convenient viewing and editing. Click to enlarge.

Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design

Ultimate design toolset
Design for print, web, and mobile devices in a powerful, integrated, and comprehensive creative environment. Plus, enjoy innovative services for collaborating, finding inspiration, and mastering your design tools.

Compelling vector graphics and digital images
Create eye-catching vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS4 and powerful digital images in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. Deliver imaginative combinations of graphics and images in many media.

Layout and production for print, web, and mobile
Use Adobe Fireworks CS4 to prototype websites, Adobe InDesign CS4 to create short and long documents for print or digital delivery, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 for standards-based web production, and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional to build engaging interactive experiences.

Ideas in motion
In Flash CS4 Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps. Use Photoshop CS4 Extended to enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to the audio track. Incorporate animations and video in PDF, web, or mobile creations.

Powerful 3D possibilities
Edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D content and even paint directly on 3D models with Photoshop CS4 Extended. Wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes, and create 3D animations by controlling movement, camera position, and rendering.

Mobile designs for millions
Deliver compelling content to mobile subscribers worldwide. Use Adobe Device Central CS4 to easily create, preview, and test mobile content on an extensive selection of devices under simulated real-life conditions directly from your desktop.

Innovative collaboration and presentations
Access the Adobe ConnectNow service to easily share your screen to present, review, or brainstorm from within your design software. Showcase your work in a dynamic, customizable PDF Portfolio that is easy to distribute and view.

Quality testing as you work
Catch production errors on-the-fly with Live Preflight in InDesign CS4, use preflight checks and corrections in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, preview content under real-world browser conditions with Live View in Dreamweaver CS4, and test mobile designs in Device Central CS4.

Convenient common interface and native file support
Work quickly and intuitively using common interface elements. Flexibly arrange multiple documents in a single window to compare content or drag-copy objects between them. Benefit from using native file formats that streamline moving files between Design Premium components.

Answers when you need them
Connect to the expertise of the online design community through your creative desktop. Access information ranging from basic tips, Adobe Help content, and video tutorials to community discussions and blogs.

In InDesign, sort by any column and easily scan the thumbnails in the enhanced Links panel to view detailed, customizable information about linked content. Click to enlarge.

In InDesign, quickly create a compelling interactive document by using the new Page Transitions panel to add animated transitions such as Page Turn. Then export the document as a SWF file that anyone with Adobe Flash Player or a web browser that supports Flash can conveniently view. Click to enlarge.

Creating a basic Flash animation is now a simple two-step process: Select an object and choose Create Motion Tween, and then drag the object. The resulting motion path can be easily edited using Bezier curves. Click to enlarge.

Paint directly on 3D objects in Photoshop Extended and view the results immediately. Click to enlarge.

Quickly and reliably test mobile content in a variety of simulated lighting environments by controlling test settings for backlight, reflections, contrast, and more. Click to enlarge.

Combines:

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

Adobe InDesign CS4--Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing

Publish persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences in less time and with fewer steps.

Experience fluid workflows
Design with ease using customer-inspired enhancements to your everyday toolset and a more flexible layout environment.

Create rich interactive documents
Create dynamic documents for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime as well as engaging PDF content that both include professional typography and top-quality page design.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended--Discover new dimensions in digital imaging

Easily access full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended software offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.

Work more efficiently
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.

Edit 3D and motion-based content
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop software on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.

Perform advanced image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.

Adobe Illustrator CS4--Explore new paths with the essential vector tool

Explore new features
Powerful additions such as the Blob Brush tool and transparency in gradients inspire new creativity. The highly anticipated multiple artboards feature prompts new ways of working.

Discover hidden gems
Existing features have been polished, and hidden functions have been uncovered to reveal usefulness and depth, enabling you to learn more quickly and take better advantage of the power of Illustrator.

Work efficiently
Illustrator CS4 offers improved interaction with options and tools, plus you can do more directly on the artboard. Innovations with Smart Guides and Isolation Mode plus new panel behaviors enable a smoother, more efficient workflow.

Deliver almost anywhere
Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity and shared formats among Adobe Creative Suite tools, work across applications is virtually seamless.

Using Live Preflight in InDesign, you can open the Preflight panel to be alerted to errors as they occur rather than when the presses are just about to roll. Click to enlarge.

Live View lets you see exactly how your pages will appear in a web browser directly from within Dreamweaver, so you can quickly tweak the code right then and there. Click to enlarge.

Live View lets you see exactly how your pages will appear in a web browser directly from within Dreamweaver, so you can quickly tweak the code right then and there. Click to enlarge.

To allow you to work smoothly and swiftly within components and to move effortlessly among them, Design Premium offers several elegant, cross-component interface enhancements, including N-up view, an application bar, an application frame, and tabbed documents, and task-based workspaces. Click to enlarge.

Flash CS4 Professional--Create and deliver rich interactive content

Design with ease and efficiency
Quickly create and modify animations while retaining a great degree of control. Powerful new object-based animation, Bezier controls, and motion presets make working in Flash easier and more intuitive.

Explore new creative possibilities
Express your creative vision in innovative ways with exciting new design tools. Animate 2D objects through 3D space with 3D translation and rotation. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like effects or distort shapes. Add the expressive power of patterns to your designs with the Deco tool.

Collaborate across workflows
Collaborate smoothly across designer and developer workflows. Easily import content into Flash from Adobe InDesign and After Effects software using the XFL format. Enjoy common user interface elements and tools across the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family.

Deliver for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices. The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR runtime, are right at your fingertips.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4--Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Create next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.

Learn best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.

Take control of your content
Design your pages in Dreamweaver so your clients can make updates to their web pages directly from the browser using the Adobe InContext Editing online service. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.

Adobe Fireworks CS4--Rapidly prototype and design for the web

Take prototyping to the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Fireworks CS4 software. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.

Collaborate more smoothly
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Adobe Creative Suite 4 components, including Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4.

Design once, deploy to many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, Flash, or Flex software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready, export web standards-compliant CSS to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software. Create HTML-based Adobe AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro--Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF

Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

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: 2008-11-07
ISBN/EAN: 0883919164328

New Price: $1,778.99 / Used Price: n.a.

Design and print graphically rich materials such as magazine spreads with the tightly integrated, productive tools in Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard.

Design with essential tools
Take your designs from concept to completion with Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard, which helps you create and print your best work. From sketching concepts to finessing production details, you can create beautiful, sophisticated designs with Creative Suite Design Standard. Take advantage of new creative effects and finer transparency controls in Adobe InDesign software; explore, apply, and control color variations using the new Live Color environment in Adobe Illustrator software; and apply new nondestructive Smart Filters in Adobe Photoshop software. Design Standard helps you express your best ideas more easily and efficiently than ever before.

Keep your ideas flowing
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard lets you slip into the creative zone and stay there by offering tight integration and shared productivity features that enable you to move fluidly between tasks. Easily share assets among components--double-click an asset in an InDesign layout to quickly open it in Photoshop or Illustrator, for example, or use Smart Objects to nondestructively edit Illustrator artwork in Photoshop. Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge, manage workgroup files with Adobe Version Cue, and shop for royalty-free images using Adobe Stock Photos--all from within Design Standard.

Print with confidence
Enjoy rock-solid, streamlined print production using Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard. Generate predictable printed output with features such as synchronized color settings and shared PDF presets. Help minimize errors by using output previews before you print, and exert fine control over output using consistent, comprehensive, professional printing options. Streamline prepress using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software to preflight and correct Adobe PDF files and to automate workflows with JDF. With Design Standard, you can reliably print beautiful content with the utmost efficiency.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 for unrivaled image editing

Adobe Illustrator CS3 for inspired vector graphics creation

Adobe InDesign CS3 for professional page layout

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

Master Deadlines in Design and Print Production

Design Professionals
Express your ideas in print using Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard software, the graphic designer's indispensable toolkit for professional design and print production. Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard offers a tightly integrated, unified creative environment that combines essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with visual asset management, workgroup file management, and other shared productivity features. With Design Standard, you can remove technical distractions and find your creative flow, producing and printing beautiful content faster and more easily than ever before.

Print Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard software is Adobe's high-quality creation and production environment for reliable print layout and output. It combines full new versions of Adobe's leading design and print production tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Acrobat 9 Pro--with integrated productivity features, all in a unified creative environment. Design Standard gives you and your customers streamlined controls for more consistent color and press-ready Adobe PDF files, including support for new PDF/X-4 (draft) and PDF/A industry standards in Acrobat 9 Pro, as well as preflighting with automated file correction and support for JDF automation. Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard helps you realize smooth production processes and reliable final output.

IT Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard software enables creative teams to realize their ideas more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Built on industry standards to provide long-term compatibility, Design Standard can be deployed easily across networks, is extensible and scriptable, and can be tailored to meet a variety of specialized publishing needs. Design Standard combines full new versions of Adobe's essential design and print production tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Acrobat 9 Pro--with integrated productivity features for creative workgroups. 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 Standard meets the design and print production needs of your creative team.

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

Top Features of Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard

The latest versions of essential creative tools
Experience a highly productive creative toolkit with Adobe InDesign CS3 for professional page layout, Adobe Photoshop CS3 for unrivaled image editing, Adobe Illustrator CS3 for inspired vector graphics creation, and Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for efficient Adobe PDF workflows.

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

Unified design environment
Work efficiently in an interface that's common across many components of Design Standard. New self-adjusting panels dock conveniently out of your way when not in use, and pop out when you need them. Maximize Screen mode keeps panels from overlapping the document window.

Support for the latest Mac and Windows systems
Get the most out of Design Standard on Intel based Mac systems and Microsoft Windows Vista computers. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC based Mac and Windows XP systems as well.

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.

Inspired vector graphics creation in Adobe Illustrator CS3
Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color in Illustrator CS3. Select and align points and edit paths more easily than ever, define crop areas interactively for print or export, and enjoy improved operating performance.

Powerful digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS3
Select image regions more intuitively, apply filters nondestructively, and align and blend similar images to quickly produce the best composite using Photoshop CS3.

PDF file creation and collaboration with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Create reliable final print documents using Acrobat 9 Pro. Conduct server-based shared reviews, preflight and automatically correct Adobe PDF files, and work in a more streamlined, intuitive interface.

Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Efficiently organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; nondestructive batch-editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files; direct playback of Flash files; and direct access to useful services such as Adobe Stock Photos.

Real-time, interactive web conferences with Acrobat Connect
Use Bridge or Acrobat to launch Acrobat Connect, the web-based conferencing system for real-time, interactive meetings such as design reviews. For a low monthly fee, host online conferences in a meeting room that you set up once and is readily available.

Advanced workgroup file management with Adobe Version Cue CS3
Use Version Cue to manage the use of files within creative teams. Track multiple versions, prevent overwriting, find the files you need quickly, conduct browser-based Adobe PDF reviews, and control access to files on a project-by-project basis.

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

Take your designs from concept to completion with Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard. It is the indispensable toolkit for professional design and print production. Design Standard provides essential tools for page layout, image editing, and illustration and features Adobe PDF workflow enhancements with Acrobat 9 Pro software. Print reliably with more powerful preflighting, improved black handling, a new object inspector, and intelligent overprint preview. Make your PDF documents come alive with embedded content created in Adobe Flash software, and customize dynamic PDF portfolios using templates and navigation based on Flash technology in Acrobat 9 Pro.

Version Cue CS3 - a server-based workgroup collaboration system Device Central CS3 simplifies the creation of mobile content Acrobat Connect - professional-level meeting, presentation, and instructional tool Acrobat 9 Pro for Adobe PDF creation, collaboration, and high-end output

Unified design environment - Work efficiently in an interface that's common across many components of Design Standard Efficient, powerful page design - powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing Inspired vector graphics creation - Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color in Illustrator CS3 Powerful digital imaging PDF file creation and collaboration Visual media management Real-time, interactive web conferences Advanced workgroup file management For Mac OS X Intel, Leopard Upgrade from Creative Suite 2.x or 1.x Premium, or Creative Suite 2.x or 1.x Standard

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-07-14
ISBN/EAN: 0883919148472

New Price: $398.99 / Used Price: $488.74

Leverage the familiar InDesign environment and your existing expertise to deliver design in more media. Just one example: Export an InDesign layout as XFL, open it in Flash, edit text and graphics, and then add interactive elements to produce a compelling dynamic document. Click to enlarge.

Drag a Photoshop image into a Dreamweaver page to create a dynamically linked Smart Object. If the source file changes, a badge shows that the Dreamweaver version is no longer current. To update the image, simply click the Update icon in the Properties panel. Click to enlarge.

In Illustrator, create and arrange up to 100 artboards of differing sizes, and then save them in a single, multipage PDF file or export them as sequentially numbered files. Click to enlarge.

In Photoshop, rotate canvas and image together to any angle for convenient viewing and editing. Click to enlarge.

Upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection

More speed and control in everyday design tasks
Catch production errors on-the-fly with Live Preflight and manage placed files more efficiently with the newly customizable Links panel in Adobe InDesign CS4. Zoom in on images more smoothly and rapidly than ever, and rotate your canvas to any angle in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. Combine multiple artboards in a single document in Adobe Illustrator CS4. And do more with dozens of other enhancements that help you deliver the design work you do today, faster.

New dimensions in image editing
Use the indispensable tools in Photoshop Extended as a starting point in any medium: Apply the revolutionary new Content-Aware Scaling to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas of the image as it adapts to new dimensions. Paint, composite, and animate 3D models using familiar tools. Enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to an audio track.

Rich interactive documents
Export a dynamic presentation or interactive brochure as a SWF file with interactive buttons, hyperlinks, and unique page transitions, such as curl, wipe, dissolve, and fade. Or, combine the page layout strength of InDesign and the authoring power of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional to customize rich interactive documents. For example, export an InDesign layout as an XFL file and open it with full visual fidelity in Adobe Flash Player. Then add sophisticated interactivity, animation, and navigation in Flash to produce engaging online experiences.

New animation controls for richer online experiences
Simplify the creation and updating of animations with Flash CS4 Professional without losing creative flexibility. Apply tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes with greater control over individual animation attributes. Use the new 3D translation and rotation tools to animate 2D objects on x, y, and z axes in 3D space. Create more natural animated interactions between linked objects or distort a single shape using the new Bones tool.

Easier interactions with complex web pages
Design and develop more sophisticated websites with new Live View in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, which features interactive code editing. Use 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 then review changes in the master document's Design view.

Exceptional productivity in video post-production
Move content among Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Soundbooth CS4, and Encore CS4 with unparalleled efficiency, so you have more time to craft your vision. Expanded Adobe Dynamic Link enables you to link content between components, so you can see updates without rendering.

Direct-to-disk recording and tapeless workflows
Shoot footage directly to disk from nonfile-based cameras with redesigned Adobe OnLocation CS4, which now runs natively on Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems.

Import and natively edit a wide variety of tapeless formats
including AVCHD, P2, and XDCAM EX--without transcoding or rewrapping in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

Project intelligence with XMP metadata
Capture valuable XMP metadata from your camera, and accumulate key information throughout the production process for intelligent media management. Use new Speech Search technology in Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth to turn spoken dialog into metadata, making it easy to find particular clips and your video assets searchable online.

In InDesign, sort by any column and easily scan the thumbnails in the enhanced Links panel to view detailed, customizable information about linked content. Click to enlarge.

In InDesign, quickly create a compelling interactive document by using the new Page Transitions panel to add animated transitions such as Page Turn. Then export the document as a SWF file that anyone with Adobe Flash Player or a web browser that supports Flash can conveniently view. Click to enlarge.

Creating a basic Flash animation is now a simple two-step process: Select an object and choose Create Motion Tween, and then drag the object. The resulting motion path can be easily edited using Bezier curves. Click to enlarge.

Paint directly on 3D objects in Photoshop Extended and view the results immediately. Click to enlarge.

Quickly and reliably test mobile content in a variety of simulated lighting environments by controlling test settings for backlight, reflections, contrast, and more. Click to enlarge.

Search for spoken dialog, make video clips searchable, and access rights management information and other types of project intelligence thanks to new support for XMP metadata across Production Premium. Click to enlarge.

Intuitive audio
Amplify your impact in your video, film, and online interactive projects with Soundbooth CS4. Multitrack recording capabilities, a visual approach to professional audio editing, and tight integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash, and Encore, make Soundbooth a valuable addition to your creative work.

PDF collaboration
Communicate effectively with clients, colleagues, and others using Adobe PDF files. Add video and audio created in Flash to PDF files for smooth playback in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and Adobe Reader 9 software. Quickly export interactive web prototypes from Adobe Fireworks CS4 to PDF for client review. Embed video into PDF files for clients to add timecode-specific comments, and then view those comments mapped to an Adobe Premiere Pro timeline. Package documents in dynamic PDF Portfolios with customizable interactive navigation.

Combines:

• Adobe InDesign CS4
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Contribute CS4
• Adobe After Effects CS4
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
• Adobe Soundbooth CS4
• Adobe OnLocation CS4
• Adobe Encore CS4

Adobe InDesign CS4--Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing

Publish persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences in less time and with fewer steps.

Experience fluid workflows
Design with ease using customer-inspired enhancements to your everyday toolset and a more flexible layout environment.

Create rich interactive documents
Create dynamic documents for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime as well as engaging PDF content that both include professional typography and top-quality page design.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended--Discover new dimensions in digital imaging

Easily access full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended software offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.

Work more efficiently
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.

Edit 3D and motion-based content
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop software on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.

Perform advanced image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.

Adobe Illustrator CS4--Explore new paths with the essential vector tool

Explore new features
Powerful additions such as the Blob Brush tool and transparency in gradients inspire new creativity. The highly anticipated multiple artboards feature prompts new ways of working.

Discover hidden gems
Existing features have been polished, and hidden functions have been uncovered to reveal usefulness and depth, enabling you to learn more quickly and take better advantage of the power of Illustrator.

Work efficiently
Illustrator CS4 offers improved interaction with options and tools, plus you can do more directly on the artboard. Innovations with Smart Guides and Isolation Mode plus new panel behaviors enable a smoother, more efficient workflow.

Deliver almost anywhere
Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity and shared formats among Adobe Creative Suite tools, work across applications is virtually seamless.

Using Live Preflight in InDesign, you can open the Preflight panel to be alerted to errors as they occur rather than when the presses are just about to roll. Click to enlarge.

Live View lets you see exactly how your pages will appear in a web browser directly from within Dreamweaver, so you can quickly tweak the code right then and there. Click to enlarge.

Live View lets you see exactly how your pages will appear in a web browser directly from within Dreamweaver, so you can quickly tweak the code right then and there. Click to enlarge.

To allow you to work smoothly and swiftly within components and to move effortlessly among them, Design Premium offers several elegant, cross-component interface enhancements, including N-up view, an application bar, an application frame, and tabbed documents, and task-based workspaces. Click to enlarge.

Multitrack support lets you quickly assemble all your audio elements, and save them as an ASND file that can be shared with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and Adobe After Effects CS4 software. Click to enlarge.

Adobe Media Encoder lets you use any combination of sequences and clips as source files and encode to an extensive variety of formats. Click to enlarge.

Navigating nested compositions in Adobe After Effects CS4 is made easier by the Composition navigator along the top of each Composition panel (right). A Mini Flowchart (below) reveals the nesting organization of related compositions Click to enlarge.

The new Cartoon effect in Adobe After Effects CS4 allows you to convert live action footage (left) into stylized imagery (right). Click to enlarge.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro--Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF

Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Flash CS4 Professional--Create and deliver rich interactive content

Design with ease and efficiency
Quickly create and modify animations while retaining a great degree of control. Powerful new object-based animation, Bezier controls, and motion presets make working in Flash easier and more intuitive.

Explore new creative possibilities
Express your creative vision in innovative ways with exciting new design tools. Animate 2D objects through 3D space with 3D translation and rotation. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like effects or distort shapes. Add the expressive power of patterns to your designs with the Deco tool.

Collaborate across workflows
Collaborate smoothly across designer and developer workflows. Easily import content into Flash from Adobe InDesign and After Effects software using the XFL format. Enjoy common user interface elements and tools across the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family.

Deliver for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices. The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR runtime, are right at your fingertips.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4--Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Create next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.

Learn best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.

Take control of your content
Design your pages in Dreamweaver so your clients can make updates to their web pages directly from the browser using the Adobe InContext Editing online service. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.

Adobe Fireworks CS4--Rapidly prototype and design for the web

Take prototyping to the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Fireworks CS4 software. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.

Collaborate more smoothly
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Adobe Creative Suite 4 components, including Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4.

Design once, deploy to many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, Flash, or Flex software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready, export web standards-compliant CSS to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software. Create HTML-based Adobe AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.

Save time on every project by dynamically linking content between select components of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium. With Adobe Dynamic Link, you can see and hear updates instantly--without rendering--as you refine your project's assets. Click to enlarge.

Use the powerful new Speech Search feature in both Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4 to automatically generate metadata that makes video searchable by linking the spoken word to timecode-specific text. Click to enlarge.

The redesigned user interface puts all of the controls for Adobe OnLocation on a single screen, while the Shot List (inset) lets you input vital information, comments, and more. Click to enlarge.

Robust timecode display options throughout Adobe Premiere Pro give you the ability to work with SMPTE or frame-count timecode. Click to enlarge.

Adobe Contribute CS4--Simplify web content management

Delegate work while retaining control
Delegate content publishing to content owners without compromising the integrity of your websites. Define and enforce custom publishing workflows to meet your organization's review and approval requirements for published content.

Engage users
Empower end users to quickly and easily publish content to static and dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG authoring. Give users the choice of editing websites directly from their favorite browsers or composing and publishing web content from within Microsoft Office applications. Enable easy collaboration between users in the content publishing process.

Work with a compatible, affordable tool
Publish to the web in almost any computing environment thanks to compatibility with existing web and IT infrastructures and cross-platform interoperability. Contribute CS4 is affordable and works on Intel and PowerPC based Macs and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.

Adobe After Effects CS4--Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard

Innovate visually
Enjoy creative control over virtually every element in a highly responsive 2D and 3D compositing and animation environment. With After Effects CS4, you can create virtually whatever you envision.

Work with efficient tools
Easily handle a wide range of post-production tasks--from keying and motion tracking to color correction, rotoscoping, and more--using flexible tools in a user interface optimized to help save you time.

Deliver to virtually any screen
Easily create output for delivery to a wide range of media formats and platforms--from traditional film and video to the web and mobile devices--from a single project.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4--Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device

Discover new post-production workflows
Work with the formats you want, from DV and HD to 4K and beyond. Support for industry standards enables you to interchange more easily with other industry-standard tools. Powerful new metadata management features help you deliver video content to virtually any screen.

Work with efficient post-production tools
Edit faster with a broad selection of professional editing tools and tighter-than-ever integration with other Adobe software. Maintain pristine quality across the production process with an efficient tapeless workflow, find specific areas of your content faster with the innovative Speech Search feature, and stay focused on your work with background batch encoding.

Achieve creative excellence
Maximize your creative options with powerful enhancements that help you bring new dimensions to your work. Achieve your vision with professional color correction, quick and precise multicam editing, and much more--all from within a familiar, customizable interface. Tap into a wealth of tutorials, stock footage, visual effects, and more to elevate your production quality, and connect to the creative community to share ideas. From acquisition to delivery, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 offers tools that help you deliver excellent results.

Adobe Soundbooth CS4--Create and edit audio with ease

Rapidly enhance and edit audio
Take command of the audio in creative projects with task-based tools that help you create, clean up, and polish sound. Multitrack support and automatic volume matching give you more flexibility and control. Visually remove unwanted noises with the editing tools available in Spectral view.

Work with ready-to-use audio assets
Personalize your soundtracks with the enhanced Soundbooth Score editing workflow. Download Soundbooth Scores from Resource Central, and use new multitrack support to customize, combine, or layer multiple scores. Add effects to adjust the mood, or stretch or shorten the file to alter duration.

Use intuitive, task-based tools
Tackle everyday audio editing and cleanup with the power of nondestructive editing in the new Adobe Sound Document (ASND) format. Quickly and easily heal sound, match volume levels, create sound effects, and choose from a library of high-quality audio filters and streamlined mastering tools.

Enjoy tighter integration
Eliminate the need for intermediate rendering and streamline the process of editing audio in Soundbooth while working in various Adobe Creative Suite components with features such as new nondestructive roundtrip editing and Adobe Dynamic Link.

Adobe OnLocation CS4 for shooting direct to disk and monitoring footage

Shooting and capturing video directly to disk lets you record a two-hour event as a single clip or shoot as many takes of a scene as you need to get it right--no changing tapes, no solid-state memory time limits, no missed action. It's a director's dream come true--but when you're editing, finding that one perfect take among dozens of outtakes can be difficult. To make it easier, Adobe OnLocation CS4 offers a Shot List that enables you to re-record multiple takes of the same scene retaining the metadata automatically from the original master shot. When you edit the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro, you can search for a favorite take simply by searching for metadata logged while you originally recorded the footage. Or, run the speech-to-text feature in Adobe Premiere Pro, which uses new metadata support to find words spoken by the talent.

Adobe Encore CS4

While on location, use Encore to output SWF file versions of your dailies to post online.

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.

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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.

Creative Pro Online Services: Information, ideas, and inspiration

• Get the power of a targeted, online search engine with Adobe Community Help. Searchable content includes in-depth, product-specific results, plus additional relevant content chosen by Adobe experts and real-world design and production community leaders.
• Share your screen and collaborate in real time with colleagues, clients, and peers--regardless of their location--using Adobe ConnectNow, one of the services of Acrobat.com. Invite up to two online guests at a time to view and collaborate live for no additional service charge.
• 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.
• 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 audio-visual production communities at large.

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Leverage the familiar InDesign environment and your existing expertise to deliver design in more media. Just one example: Export an InDesign layout as XFL, open it in Flash, edit text and graphics, and then add interactive elements to produce a compelling dynamic document. Click to enlarge.

Drag a Photoshop image into a Dreamweaver page to create a dynamically linked Smart Object. If the source file changes, a badge shows that the Dreamweaver version is no longer current. To update the image, simply click the Update icon in the Properties panel. Click to enlarge.

In Illustrator, create and arrange up to 100 artboards of differing sizes, and then save them in a single, multipage PDF file or export them as sequentially numbered files. Click to enlarge.

In Photoshop, rotate canvas and image together to any angle for convenient viewing and editing. Click to enlarge.

Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design

Ultimate design toolset
Design for print, web, and mobile devices in a powerful, integrated, and comprehensive creative environment. Plus, enjoy innovative services for collaborating, finding inspiration, and mastering your design tools.

Compelling vector graphics and digital images
Create eye-catching vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS4 and powerful digital images in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. Deliver imaginative combinations of graphics and images in many media.

Layout and production for print, web, and mobile
Use Adobe Fireworks CS4 to prototype websites, Adobe InDesign CS4 to create short and long documents for print or digital delivery, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 for standards-based web production, and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional to build engaging interactive experiences.

Ideas in motion
In Flash CS4 Professional, create simple but engaging animations in as few as two steps. Use Photoshop CS4 Extended to enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to the audio track. Incorporate animations and video in PDF, web, or mobile creations.

Powerful 3D possibilities
Edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D content and even paint directly on 3D models with Photoshop CS4 Extended. Wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes, and create 3D animations by controlling movement, camera position, and rendering.

Mobile designs for millions
Deliver compelling content to mobile subscribers worldwide. Use Adobe Device Central CS4 to easily create, preview, and test mobile content on an extensive selection of devices under simulated real-life conditions directly from your desktop.

Innovative collaboration and presentations
Access the Adobe ConnectNow service to easily share your screen to present, review, or brainstorm from within your design software. Showcase your work in a dynamic, customizable PDF Portfolio that is easy to distribute and view.

Quality testing as you work
Catch production errors on-the-fly with Live Preflight in InDesign CS4, use preflight checks and corrections in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, preview content under real-world browser conditions with Live View in Dreamweaver CS4, and test mobile designs in Device Central CS4.

Convenient common interface and native file support
Work quickly and intuitively using common interface elements. Flexibly arrange multiple documents in a single window to compare content or drag-copy objects between them. Benefit from using native file formats that streamline moving files between Design Premium components.

Answers when you need them
Connect to the expertise of the online design community through your creative desktop. Access information ranging from basic tips, Adobe Help content, and video tutorials to community discussions and blogs.

In InDesign, sort by any column and easily scan the thumbnails in the enhanced Links panel to view detailed, customizable information about linked content. Click to enlarge.

In InDesign, quickly create a compelling interactive document by using the new Page Transitions panel to add animated transitions such as Page Turn. Then export the document as a SWF file that anyone with Adobe Flash Player or a web browser that supports Flash can conveniently view. Click to enlarge.

Creating a basic Flash animation is now a simple two-step process: Select an object and choose Create Motion Tween, and then drag the object. The resulting motion path can be easily edited using Bezier curves. Click to enlarge.

Paint directly on 3D objects in Photoshop Extended and view the results immediately. Click to enlarge.

Quickly and reliably test mobile content in a variety of simulated lighting environments by controlling test settings for backlight, reflections, contrast, and more. Click to enlarge.

Combines:

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

Adobe InDesign CS4--Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing

Publish persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences in less time and with fewer steps.

Experience fluid workflows
Design with ease using customer-inspired enhancements to your everyday toolset and a more flexible layout environment.

Create rich interactive documents
Create dynamic documents for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime as well as engaging PDF content that both include professional typography and top-quality page design.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended--Discover new dimensions in digital imaging

Easily access full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended software offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.

Work more efficiently
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.

Edit 3D and motion-based content
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop software on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.

Perform advanced image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.

Adobe Illustrator CS4--Explore new paths with the essential vector tool

Explore new features
Powerful additions such as the Blob Brush tool and transparency in gradients inspire new creativity. The highly anticipated multiple artboards feature prompts new ways of working.

Discover hidden gems
Existing features have been polished, and hidden functions have been uncovered to reveal usefulness and depth, enabling you to learn more quickly and take better advantage of the power of Illustrator.

Work efficiently
Illustrator CS4 offers improved interaction with options and tools, plus you can do more directly on the artboard. Innovations with Smart Guides and Isolation Mode plus new panel behaviors enable a smoother, more efficient workflow.

Deliver almost anywhere
Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity and shared formats among Adobe Creative Suite tools, work across applications is virtually seamless.

Using Live Preflight in InDesign, you can open the Preflight panel to be alerted to errors as they occur rather than when the presses are just about to roll. Click to enlarge.

Live View lets you see exactly how your pages will appear in a web browser directly from within Dreamweaver, so you can quickly tweak the code right then and there. Click to enlarge.

Live View lets you see exactly how your pages will appear in a web browser directly from within Dreamweaver, so you can quickly tweak the code right then and there. Click to enlarge.

To allow you to work smoothly and swiftly within components and to move effortlessly among them, Design Premium offers several elegant, cross-component interface enhancements, including N-up view, an application bar, an application frame, and tabbed documents, and task-based workspaces. Click to enlarge.

Flash CS4 Professional--Create and deliver rich interactive content

Design with ease and efficiency
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