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Adobe Creative Suite 4 enterprise deployment

Creative Suite 4 Deployment Toolkit

The Creative Suite 4 Deployment Toolkit is an efficient, easy-to-use, and reliable application that configures Adobe Creative Suite 4's installers for
silent deployment. Its Adobe AIR-based (Adobe Integrated Runtime) interface allows you to create a remotely deployable install package without laboriously hand-editing configuration files.

Deployment and Provisioning Concepts

Purpose: Provide definitions for terms and explanations for concepts and situations common to installing, updating, and licensing Adobe Creative Suites software products.
Contents: Explains what it means to buy and install Adobe Creative Suites software, from versions CS4 and up. Defines terms used throughout all documents that cover various aspects of this larger activity. Defines the main terms deployment and provisioning. Defines other terms related to these two main areas. Explains how deploying and provisioning are distinct concepts that can be identified as distinct entities in an architecture and implemented as separate software modules, while remaining inextricably entwined in actual practice.

Deployment and Provisioning Concepts (PDF, 137k)

Enterprise Deployment Guide

Purpose: Enable enterprise administrators to deploy Adobe Creative Suite 4 products, using CS4 deployment packages, with little to no help from Adobe support.
Contents: Defines the assumed deployment framework and describes the overall deployment process. Describes Adobe CS4 deployment packages and the advantages of using the CS4 deployment toolkit. Describes the deployment planning process, referring to accompanying worksheets. Describes possible deployment configurations, and the requirements and issues for each configuration. Explains how to use ARD on the Mac and SMS on WIndows to deploy CS4 deployment packages. Gives solutions or workarounds to common problems and situations, and discuss challenges and issues that arise during enterprise deployment. We will mention the CS4 Serialization Toolkit when it becomes available.

Enterprise Deployment Guide (PDF, 507k)

Enterprise Deployment Toolkit Guide

Purpose: Enables enterprise administrators to create CS4 deployment packages for silent installations without needing help from Adobe support.
Contents: Explains in detail what packages contain and how to create them with the toolkit. Includes screen shots of the toolkit interface. Includes reference information about shared and supporting component and toolkit error messages. Gives system requirements for the toolkit and tells you how to obtain it.

Enterprise Deployment Toolkit Guide (PDF, 1.5M)

Enterprise Deployment Reference

Purpose: Provide in-depth information about how the Adobe installers, deployment packages, and related tools and files work. This information augments that given in the Deployment Toolkit Guide and the Deployment Guide. Using this information, you could hand assemble the equivalent of a deployment package.
Contents: Gives reference information about deployment packages, including contents of package XML files and the operation of and command line arguments for the package programs. Gives reference information, including command line arguments, for the Setup program. GIves information necessary to implement a deployment package by hand without use of the toolkit. Reference information about the Serialization Toolkit.

Enterprise Deployment Reference (PDF, 98k)

Enterprise Deployment Worksheets

Purpose: Serve as a learning tool, planning tool, and communication vehicle for CS4 product deployment.
Contents:

Scope Skins

If you’ve been creating Photoshop panels or developing with PatchPanel or Switchboard, you’ll appreciate Scope Skins. Scope skins (for Flexbuilder 3) were created to skin Adobe Flex apps to provide the same UI as a native Creative Suite panel. This was done with little impact to the functionality of the standard Flex 3 components.

To use these skins:

  1. Download this file. Don’t unzip it.
  2. Use File->import->Flex Project… Select “Archive file” and browse to the zip file you just downloaded. Click on “Finish”
  3. This created a new Flex project called “Fx3_Scope_Skinning”
  4. Open “src/Fx3_Scope_Skinning” and compile. This exhibits all of the components using the new Scope Skins.
  5. Comment out line 41 “<mx:Style source=”scope_skins.css”>” and recompile. Now you’ll see the same components, but with the standard Flex UI

To use these skins in your own projects:

  1. Include “<mx:Style source=”scope_skins.css”>” in your main source file
  2. Copy the “assets” folder to your project
  3. Copy “scope_skins.css” and “scope_skins.swf” to your source folder
  4. Compile – it should now show up with the new UI.

Note that the scope skins attempts to leave the API untouched, and for this reason, these skins use only the built in styles and properties of the components. The components are not extended in any way. As a result, DropDown, ComboBox, TextInput and TextArea are not skinned.

Note: These components are provided for use ONLY with projects that will be used with Adobe Creative Suite.

In the Creative Suite community

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