Key Features
Creative possibilities
Create stunning designs in Adobe InDesign® CS4 using
tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control
over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects,
and placed images.
Productivity that flows
Move between tasks naturally and efficiently for fast, productive
page layout in a flexible design environment.
Persuasive content
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
Build rich content using Adobe Flash® technology and
create engaging PDF documents that include professional typography
and top-quality page design.
Access to full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop® CS4
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
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
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.
Powerful creative tools
Explore multiple design options and generate intricate graphics
using robust creative features in Adobe 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
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
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.
Rich interactive content and versatile print design combined
Enjoy native support for Adobe Flash technology, enabling
reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations,
and applications in Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro and Adobe
Reader® software. PDF files have never been so lively
and compelling.
Convenient, effective collaboration online
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
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.
Easy and efficient design
Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools
in Adobe 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
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
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
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.
Next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF,
and dynamic content directly in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4.
Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most
popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.
Support for best practices
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
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.
Prototyping at the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other
interactive designs with Adobe 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
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
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, 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 CS4. Create HTML-based AIR prototypes
directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design
and to display user interaction before developing your
application.
Delegation of work while retaining control
Delegate content publishing to content owners without compromising
the integrity of your websites. Define and enforce custom
publishing workflows to meet your organization's review
and approval requirements for published content.
User engagement
Empower end users to quickly and easily publish content to
static and dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG authoring.
Give users the choice of editing websites directly from
their favorite browsers or composing and publishing web
content from within Microsoft Office applications. Enable
easy collaboration between users in the content publishing
process.
Compatible and affordable tool
Publish to the web in almost any computing environment thanks
to compatibility with existing web and IT infrastructures
and cross-platform interoperability. Adobe Contribute® CS4
is affordable and works on Intel® and PowerPC® based
Macs and on Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows
Vista® systems.
Visual innovation
Achieve creative control over virtually every element of
your production in the highly responsive 2D and 3D compositing
and animation environment of Adobe After Effects® CS4.
Flexible and efficient tools
Easily handle a wide range of post-production tasks — from
keying and motion tracking to color correction, rotoscoping,
and more — using flexible tools in a user interface
optimized to save you time.
Delivery to a wide range of formats
Easily create output for delivery to a wide range of media
formats and platforms — from traditional film and
video to the web and mobile devices — from a single
project.
New post-production workflows
Work with the formats you want, from DV and HD to 4K and
beyond. Support for industry standards in Adobe Premiere® Pro
CS4 enables you to interchange easily with other industry-standard
tools.
Editing efficiency
Focus on telling your story with powerful, flexible editing
tools that help save you time. Exploit the potential of
tapeless workflows to achieve new levels of efficiency
Creative excellence
Achieve your vision with professional color correction, quick
and precise multicam editing, and much more — all
from within a familiar, customizable interface.
Intuitive, task-based tools
Take command of audio for your film, video, or rich media
project. Task-based tools help you clean up recordings,
polish voice-overs, customize music and sound effects,
and much more. High-quality production becomes more efficient
with Adobe Soundbooth® CS4, without sacrificing creative
control.
Ready-to-use audio assets
Select from dozens of Soundbooth Scores, adjust the intensity
of your soundtrack to suit the mood, and create audio using
thousands of sound effects available via Resource Central
(Internet connection required).
Tighter integration
Work on audio in After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4,
or Flash CS4 Professional more efficiently than ever with
the Edit in Soundbooth option that edits your audio files
directly in Soundbooth.
Enhanced audio editing
Tackle everyday audio editing and cleanup with the power
of nondestructive editing. Quickly and easily heal sound;
remove pops, clicks, and other unwanted noises; and match
volume levels.
Metadata-driven workflow
Use fast, efficient logging tools during recording in Adobe
OnLocation™ CS4 to add metadata that increases productivity
at every stage in the production process.
Direct-to-disk recording
Capture DV, HDV, and DVCPRO HD footage directly to disk and
start editing sooner by eliminating the tedious capturing
process.
Professional on-set monitoring tools
Use professional on-set monitoring tools to calibrate your
camera, set levels, and monitor signals to obtain high-quality
video and audio and help avoid time-consuming and potentially
costly problems.
Easy DVD, Blu-ray, and SWF authoring
Create DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray discs with pop-up menus,
and interactive SWF files for the web with Adobe Encore® CS4.
The enhanced Flowchart helps you define and view your project's
points and links. Build and arrange slide shows with ease.
Intelligent workflow
With Adobe Dynamic Link, open your Adobe Premiere Pro sequences
directly in Encore — complete with chapter markers — without
intermediate rendering so you can work quickly and stay
focused.
Design control and freedom
Import images and illustrations from Photoshop Extended and
Illustrator into Encore without loss of quality. Create
motion menus in After Effects or use integrated text design
tools to realize your creative vision. |
