Features
Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, achieving typographic finesse, creating stunning digital images and vector graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity within a single, unified creative environment.
- Tightly integrated creative environment
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Latest and greatest design tools enhanced
Discover new levels of creative opportunity and efficiency with all-new versions of professional Adobe tools for print, web, interactive, and mobile design.
Common user interface enhanced
Come up to speed quickly with the help of the consistent interface across all of the creative tools.
Exceptional integration
Work more productively than ever thanks to the exceptional integration of tools in Creative Suite 4. Easily exchange native file formats to streamline content creation across design disciplines. Import layered Adobe Photoshop® files into Adobe Illustrator®, InDesign®, Fireworks®, or Flash®, or copy and paste from Photoshop to Adobe Dreamweaver®.
Support for industry standards and best practices enhanced
Get the professional output options you need for every design discipline, from print to web to mobile. Adobe's ongoing focus on open standards means your work can easily go wherever you want.
Support for the latest Mac OS and Windows systems enhanced
Experience the ultimate in performance by running Design Premium natively on Intel® based Macs and computers running Microsoft® Windows Vista®. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC® based Macs and Windows® XP systems, as well.
Efficient installation and management
Simplify installation and software management using a single installer and serial number. Install all components at once, or install only those you most need now, and add more components later (one user per license).
- Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS4
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Creative possibilities enhanced
Create stunning designs using tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects, and placed images.
Productivity that flows enhanced
Move between tasks naturally and efficiently for fast, productive page layout in a flexible design environment.
Persuasive content enhanced
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences using logical, condensed steps and advanced features such as automatic page addition and deletion.
Rich interactive documents new
Build rich content using Adobe Flash technology and create engaging PDF documents that include professional typography and top-quality page design.
- New dimensions in digital imaging with Photoshop CS4 Extended
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Access to full editing power enhanced
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.
More efficient way to work enhanced
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.
3D and motion-based editing enhanced
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.
Precise image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.
- Inspired vector graphics creation with Adobe Illustrator CS4
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Powerful creative tools enhanced
Explore multiple design options and generate intricate graphics using robust creative features in Illustrator CS4. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely and quickly achieve just the look you want.
Smooth and efficient workflow enhanced
Accomplish more and stay in the groove by working directly on the artboard. Interact with tools and options more easily and complete your projects efficiently using a wealth of innovative, timesaving features and shortcuts.
Delivery virtually anywhere enhanced
Move easily between Illustrator and other Creative Suite 4 components while confidently delivering graphics for print, interactive experiences, video, mobile, and motion effects. Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity among the tools, work across Creative Suite components is virtually seamless.
- PDF file creation and collaboration with Acrobat 9 Pro
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Rich interactive content and versatile print design combined new
Enjoy native support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations, and applications in Adobe Acrobat® and Reader® software. PDF files have never been so lively and compelling.
Convenient, effective collaboration online enhanced
Help ensure that colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same page at the same time with the new ability to conavigate documents, to provide clarity and enhance discussion.
Unparalleled PDF workflows for professional creative production enhanced
Prepare high-quality, press-ready PDF files for print production workflows faster and more intuitively with enhanced preflight and automatic correction features. Intelligent, automatic overprint preview helps ensure that overlapping elements will print correctly.
- Rich interactive content development with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
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Easy and efficient design enhanced
Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Flash CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.
New creative possibilities new
Extend the limits of creative possibility with powerful new drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Enrich your projects with advanced video and audio capabilities.
Collaboration across workflows new
Enjoy timesaving integration among Adobe Creative Suite components with common tools and interfaces, and easily exchange assets between components with powerful new file formats.
Delivery for a wide reach enhanced
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.
- Professional website design with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
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Next-generation web experiences enhanced
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.
Support for best practices enhanced
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.
Control of your content new
Enable your clients to make updates to web pages directly from the browser. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.
- Web prototyping and image editing with Adobe Fireworks CS4
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Prototyping at the next level enhanced
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Fireworks CS4. 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.
Smooth collaboration enhanced
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 Creative Suite 4 components, including Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4.
Designing for many platforms enhanced
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, or Adobe 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 standards-compliant CSS to Dreamweaver. Create HTML-based AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.
- Adobe Device Central CS4
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Mobile content testing enhanced
Simplify the production of innovative and compelling content for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices with Adobe Device Central CS4. Save time by automating testing and simulating the network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated library of device profiles.
Delivery of engaging experiences enhanced
Create mobile projects to manage assets, target device profiles, and export tasks in one central location. Record content as it plays and send high-quality movie clips to pitch ideas more easily to clients. Thanks to intelligent integration with Creative Suite 4 components, Device Central CS4 helps creative professionals and mobile developers deliver engaging experiences to millions of mobile subscribers.
- Online services
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Adobe Community Help new
Access the power of an online search engine from within Creative Suite 4, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth, product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities.
Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com new
Sign up for Acrobat.com, a set of online services you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the ability to access one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, from within many Creative Suite 4 components, you can meet live over the web and share your screen with up to two online guests for no charge.
Adobe Kuler enhanced
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler™. Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community, accessible from the new Kuler panel within some Creative Suite 4 components, the Kuler website, and the Kuler Adobe AIR application. Browse and search for thousands of themes, download directly into your Swatches panel, and even upload your own themes to share.
