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Stay focused on the code in Dreamweaver 8 with Code Collapse. See what's new in Dreamweaver 8

Flash Professional 8 features integrated and stand-alone video encoding and support for alpha transparency. See what's new in Flash Professional 8

Fireworks 8 sports new batch image processing options. See what's new in Fireworks 8

Contribute 3 frees designers and developers from web maintenance.

Expressing Creativity with Efficiency
Studio 8 offers the broadest range of creative tools for expressiveness and creation of vibrant interactive media, websites, or applications. Enhanced tools let you use advanced graphics, text, animation, video, and audio tools with precision control and quality. From simple animated graphics to sophisticated interactive experiences, Studio 8 provides a full suite of tools for limitless creativity that allow you to get more done. Studio 8 also speeds the design, development, and maintenance process with reliable round-tripping between Macromedia products, integration with third-party products, and key features such as batch processing, batch encoding, and general performance enhancements to speed up your projects. Support for both Windows and Mac OS X enables Studio 8 to deliver projects on the platform of choice. This allows you to deliver projects that support the widest range of operating systems, browsers, and server technologies. Develop applications using HTML, XHTML, XML, ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, or PHP with drag-and-drop visual tools and components, code libraries, and extensive code-editing support.

Studio 8 Applications
Included with Studio 8 is Dreamweaver 8, the industry-leading web development tool that enables users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications. Dreamweaver is the quintessential and standard-setting web development application available today. Flash Professional 8 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Flash Professional is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. With Flash Professional, you can design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.

Also included with Studio 8 is Fireworks 8. Fireworks lets you balance maximum image quality with minimum compression size as you create, edit and optimize images for the web with precise control. Create animated rollovers and pop-up menus with Firework's intuitive visual tools, and utilize round-trip editing capabilities with Dreamweaver and Flash Professional for even greater efficiency. Contribute 3 helps to free designers and developers from web maintenance, allowing others to easily update content in a controlled environment that preserves the integrity of the website. Contribute 3 makes website maintenance easy and lets everyone in an organization publish to websites and bring them alive with up-to-date information. Simply put, there is no easier or more affordable way to keep web content current and relevant. Contribute 3 redefines web publishing, making it an activity open to everybody, every day. And finally, FlashPaper 2 lets anyone easily convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets and other file types into Macromedia Flash documents or PDF files with a single click.

A True All-in-One Tool
Studio 8 makes the best practices of web design and development available to everyone, from users working on their first website to those developing advanced web applications. Design and develop with confidence that Studio projects will integrate with and support the latest technologies, platforms, operating systems, and industry standards from CSS and XML to the latest Flash Player 8 client runtime. Studio 8 makes integrating video into projects easier than ever. Drag and drop Flash Video in Dreamweaver 8 to quickly incorporate video to websites and applications. The new high-quality video encoder in Flash Professional 8 is integrated (or works standalone) for distributed batch encoding.

Plus, new run-time support for Alpha channels, embedded cue points in Flash Video files, and the improved, easily-skinnable video playback component will engage more viewers. Going from on-screen to online is effortless using many nonlinear editing systems that export natively to the Flash Video format. Deliver rich content efficiently and consistently with the Flash standard file format (SWF); its structure (and compact size) is optimized for streaming to web users at all connection speeds. The Macromedia Flash Player, installed on over 98 percent of desktops globally, reaches the widest possible audience. Studio 8 parallels the introduction of Flash Player 8, which now hosts more interactive features, lightweight experiences, better performance, and easy auto-updating for the ultimate viewing experience.

Studio 8 also works and plays well with others. In addition to its integrated workflows across Macromedia products, Studio 8 supports optimized workflows with third-party applications. Import graphical elements, EPS and PDF files from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Creative Suite. Add content from Microsoft Office products with design accuracy using the improved copy and paste in Dreamweaver, or use FlashPaper to convert Microsoft files into PDF or FlashPaper files with one click.


Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2006-01-23
ISBN/EAN: 0718659575007

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Flash Player 8 adds a new, far more advanced video codec, On2 VP6. This codec provides superior video quality that is competitive with today's best video codecs at a much smaller file size. View larger.

Build content once and test it on a wide variety of devices using preset profiles for every mobile device that supports Flash Lite. View larger.

Script Assist provides a visual user interface for editing scripts that includes automatic syntax completion as well as descriptions for the parameters of any given action. View larger.

A revolutionary new font rendering engine that provides clear, highest-quality font rendering, FlashType makes small fonts look amazingly clear and greatly improves readability. View larger.

A major product release for Macromedia, Flash Professional 8 has many brand new features including: amazing graphic effects, integrated and stand-alone video encoding complete with support for alpha transparency, high-quality text rendering with advanced anti-aliasing control, improved text tools, and a new video plug-in to export Flash Video (FLV) files from professional video products.

Get Full Creative Control
Great ideas deserve great tools. Flash provides full design control to maximize creativity, resulting in a consistent end-user experience across a variety of platforms. Flash Pro 8 gives you the creative and technical tools you need to unleash applications to the web, Windows, Macintosh, Unix, PDAs, and even cell phones. With Flash Pro 8, you can reach the widest possible audience via the free and widely distributed Flash Player, installed on 98 percent of desktops globally.

Flash Professional 8 includes a major focus on usability enhancements so developers can work more efficiently without the application getting in the way. Script Assist, formerly Normal Mode, is back, and it's better than ever. Script Assist provides a visual user interface for editing scripts that includes automatic syntax completion as well as descriptions for the parameters of any given action. With multiple files open, each open files is consolidated into a single panel that acts like all other panels in Flash -- it stays where it's put. This way you can navigate between open libraries more easily using the new drop-down list.

Improved panel management optimizes the workspace as you require. You can group panels together in tabbed-panel sets, ala Dreamweaver and Fireworks, thereby reducing on-screen clutter by grouping most commonly-used panels together. For projects that require large graphics that extend far beyond the size of the stage in Flash, Flash Professional 8 lets you view objects much further off-stage. To expand the size of the pasteboard, simply drag an object close to the edge and the pasteboard will automatically grow to fit.

Rich Animation, Video, and Mobile Capability
Flash Pro 8 gives you the tools to create compelling 2D animations. By taking advantage of the most widely deployed video platform on the Internet, you can take video where it has never gone before.

Flash Professional 8 offers continued momentum to the rapidly expanding Flash video platform and new functionality for mobile content developers. Build content once and test it on a wide variety of devices using preset profiles for every mobile device that supports Flash Lite. Configure the testing profile to include multiple devices and filter the supported device list by target content type to easily determine which handsets support screen savers, wallpapers, in-browser content, stand-alone player, and so on. This will greatly reduce development time and simplify your planning for delivery.

Flash Player 8 includes a new, advanced video codec that provides superior video quality that's competitive with today's best video codecs at a much smaller file size. It also offers support for a real alpha channel at run-time. This revolutionary new capability provides the unique ability to overlay video composited with a transparent or semi-transparent alpha channel over other Flash content. This allows you to create dynamic presentations such as splashing water, smoke and fire effects, and more.

Enhancing The Image
Flash Pro 8 lets you create more compelling designs with built-in filter effects like drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, gradient bevel, and color adjust. Filters are visual effects applied to MovieClips and text fields and are natively supported and rendered in real time by Flash Player. Going well beyond what other design tools offer, Flash Professional 8 offers run-time control over blend modes, allowing graphical effects to be composited for fully dynamic user interactivity.

Other enhancements include FlashType, a revolutionary new font rendering engine that provides clear, highest-quality font rendering. FlashType makes small fonts look amazingly clear and greatly improves readability. You can choose from several options for font rendering, each optimized for different use cases, as well as resize a text field using new, improved text handles.

You can also easily, intuitively, and precisely control the velocity of animated objects through an intuitive graph that provides independent control of position, rotation, scale, color, and filters. In addition to enhanced stroke functionality that allow you to select from a variety of cap and join types, you can apply a gradient to a stroke as well as a fill, and render stroke intersections better with stroke hinting.

FLASH PRO 8.0 (WIN 2000,XP/MAC 10.3 OR HIGHER)

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2006-01-01
ISBN/EAN: 0718659575588

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Photoshop CS3 Extended for new dimensions in digital imaging

Illustrator CS3 for powerful vector graphics creation

InDesign CS3 for professional page design

Flash CS3 Professional for creating rich interactive content

Dreamweaver CS3 for developing standards-based websites and applications

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

Fireworks CS3 for web prototyping and designing

Design Across Media

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

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

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

Top Features of Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection

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

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

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

Adobe Encore CS3 for preparing DVD titles

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

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What's New in Acrobat 9 Pro

Creation & Collaboration

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

Unparalleled PDF-Based Print Production

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

Highlights of Acrobat 9 Pro:

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

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

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

*Windows only

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-07-14
ISBN/EAN: 0883919148984

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