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 Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced a new release of Adobe Creative Suite, the powerhouse design environment that revolutionized print and Web workflows for creative professionals worldwide.
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition integrates new full-versions of indispensable design software ?? Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, and Adobe GoLive CS2 ?? with the all-new Version Cue CS2. The recently released Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional is also included, as a key application in this milestone software release.
 A radical new Adobe Creative Suite component, Adobe Bridge, acts as
a hub for productivity, imagery and creativity, providing multi-view
file browsing and smooth cross-product integration across Adobe
Creative Suite 2 software. It also provides access to Adobe Stock
Photos, a new stock photography service that offers one-stop shopping
for high-quality, royalty-free images for layout and design (see
separate press release). With advanced mobile authoring, for standards
such as SVG-t, Adobe Creative Suite 2 accelerates design and publishing
workflows ?? for print, the Web and the latest generation of handheld
devices.
"Through their work in design, advertising and publishing our customers
change the way the world looks everyday," said Shantanu Narayen,
president and chief operating officer at Adobe. "Our goal is to develop
a technology platform that the creative community can rely on and build
upon. With Creative Suite 2 we've delivered the essential tools
designers need to efficiently realize and create their best work:
online, in print or for the latest handheld device."
Introducing Adobe Bridge and Adobe Stock Photos
Adobe Bridge is a visual file browser that lets designers easily
browse, organize, and process design assets within Adobe Creative Suite
2 software components. Designers can preview multi-page Adobe Portable
Document Format (PDF) files, drag and drop from floating Compact Mode
windows, process images with built-in Camera Raw 3.0, edit and search
for Adobe XMP metadata, and track assets managed in Version Cue CS2.
Simplifying the purchase and management of stock imagery, Adobe Stock
Photos is a single resource that brings together, at one convenient
location, more than 230,000 images from some of the world's leading
stock photography providers, including: Photodisc by Getty Images;
Comstock Images by Jupitermedia; Digital Vision; imageshop royalty free
by zefaimages; and amana.
"The first version of Adobe Creative Suite enabled substantial
productivity gains and more refined creative results at JWT," said Tim
McCaffrey, partner and senior design producer for JWT, the largest
advertising agency brand in the United States and the fourth largest
full-service network in the world. "With innovations such as Adobe
Bridge and the new stock photography service, Adobe Creative Suite 2 is
an even more integrated, comprehensive design environment that is
eliminating steps from our workflow and promoting enhanced productivity
and quality."
Enhanced Collaboration, Color Consistency and Reliable PDF Creation
Version Cue CS2, a powerful file-version manager and collaboration
tool, helps users visually preview, track and access historical and
alternate versions of files in Adobe Creative Suite 2 projects.
Workgroup users can easily share their work, and can now initiate a
Web-based collaborative review of PDF project files. Using a single
dialog box in Adobe Bridge, designers can synchronize color settings
for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2 and GoLive CS2,
avoiding painful after-the-fact color adjustments. New global export
presets allow for consistent creation of Adobe PDF documents across
components of Adobe Creative Suite to save time and avoid costly errors
when projects go to print. Presets are stored in a single location and
can be customized for specific workflows.
Pricing and Availability
Adobe Creative Suite for Mac OS X version 10.2.8 through 10.3.8, Java
Runtime Environment 1.4.1, Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2, will begin shipping in May to
customers in the United States and Canada, and will be available
through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at
www.adobe.com/store . International versions are expected to begin
shipping in late May and early June. Estimated street price for the
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition is US$1,199 and US$899 for
Creative Suite 2 Standard Edition. Upgrade pricing is available for
customers of Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe Photoshop. For more
detailed information about features, upgrade policies and pricing,
please visit: www.adobe.com/creativesuite . Adobe Stock Photos may not
be available in all countries, languages, and currencies and is subject
to change. For details on availability visit:
www.adobe.com/adobestockphotos.
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