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Powerful graphics
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In-house design studios
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Professional printing
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Get creative
Design and creativity with PagePlus X3 can also mean stunning websites, emails, even multimedia PDF slideshows and interactive PDF forms.

Publisher: Serif
Author: Serif
Release Date: 2008-05-05
ISBN/EAN: 0703115681828

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Microsoft’s .NET tools are very different from their predecessors. Visual C++ can still compile standard Windows executables, but the other languages all target the .NET Framework, a runtime engine and class library that manages memory and enforces security. Framework applications perform well, since they are compiled to native code at runtime, but there is an overhead in terms of memory usage and the Framework runtime must be installed. In compensation, .NET brings many advantages. All the languages are fully object-oriented, the class library is rich, and XML support is deeply integrated. ASP.NET is for web applications, and represents a large advance on the old ASP. Instead of script, ASP.NET supports any of the .NET languages, running on the server and just-in-time compiled to native code. There is a visual web page designer, and carefully designed applications support a wide range of browsers. A new feature in this version of Visual Studio is Mobile Web Forms, which use adaptive rendering to support the browsers in mobile phones and PDAs.

The database technology in Visual Studio is called ADO.NET. It uses a disconnected model, which means that applications work with data locally, only contacting the server for data transfer or update. It’s a good model for laptops, smart devices, and wide area networks, but there’s a lot to learn for those skilled in older database APIs.

The Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 edition represents the best value in the range. There’s no Visual SourceSafe or Visio diagramming, and it lacks the server licences found in the high-end Enterprise editions, but it’s otherwise a fully comprehensive package.

For those wondering whether to make the jump to .NET, this release is probably the right moment to go ahead. The technology is maturing, and the inclusion of the Compact Framework makes the package more compelling. Students and newcomers to programming will welcome the clean object-orientation in C#, and the deep XML support on offer is essential for enterprise applications or integrating with other platforms. It’s still important to note the heavy system requirements, and that .NET applications do not run on Windows 95. In most cases, the higher productivity of .NET languages soon pays for any additional resources. --Tim Anderson, Amazon.co.uk

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional enables you to rapidly build a broad range of applications for Microsoft Windows, the Web, and mobile devices. Developers can use 2003 Professional to build professional software, reduce IT operating costs, and integrate with a wide range of applications, systems, and devices.

Extending visual design capabilities to the server is easier than ever with Visual Studio .NET 2003. The Component Designer provides a canvas for building and instantiating business logic components using the familiar drag-and-drop paradigm. In addition, the Server Explorer delivers direct access to server-side resources, including databases, message queues, event logs, Windows Services, Crystal Reports, and performance counters.

Visual Basic .NET 2003 delivers the most productive route to professional application development. Familiar Visual Basic syntax, expressive coding constructs, a powerful background compiler, and unsurpassed support for productivity within the code editor enable you to crank out software in record time. The fully modernized Visual Basic language supports Structured Exception Handling and optional power features including object-oriented constructs and multi-threading.

Publisher: Microsoft Software
Author: Microsoft Software
Release Date:
ISBN/EAN: 0805529139800

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Photoshop CS3 Extended for new dimensions in digital imaging

Illustrator CS3 for powerful vector graphics creation

InDesign CS3 for professional page design

Flash CS3 Professional for creating rich interactive content

Dreamweaver CS3 for developing standards-based websites and applications

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

Contribute CS3 for updating websites and blogs

Fireworks CS3 for web prototyping and designing

Design Across Media

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

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

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

Top Features of Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection

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

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

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

Adobe Encore CS3 for preparing DVD titles

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

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What's New in Acrobat 9 Pro

Creation & Collaboration

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

Unparalleled PDF-Based Print Production

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

Highlights of Acrobat 9 Pro:

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

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

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

*Windows only

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-06-27
ISBN/EAN: 0883919149639

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