Key Features
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.
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 Creative Suite 4 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.
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.
Designing for many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to Adobe AIR, HTML, 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 CS4. Create HTML-based Adobe 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.
Live View
Design your web pages under real-world browser conditions with
the new Live View in Dreamweaver CS4 — while still retaining
direct access to the code. Changes to the code are immediately
reflected in the rendered display.
Related Files and Code Navigator
Manage the various files that make up today's web pages more
efficiently in Dreamweaver CS4. Click any related file to see
both its source in Code view and the parent page in Design
view. The new Code Navigator feature shows you all the CSS
source code that affects your current selection.
Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
Write JavaScript more quickly and accurately with improved support
for JavaScript core objects and primitive data types. Put the
extended coding functionality of Dreamweaver CS4 to work by
incorporating popular JavaScript frameworks including jQuery,
Prototype, and Spry.
CSS best practices
Implement CSS best practices without writing code. Create new
CSS rules in the Property inspector and get clear, simple explanations
of where each property fits in the cascade of styles.
HTML data sets
Integrate the power of dynamic data with your web pages without
the learning curve of mastering databases or XML coding. Spry
Data Sets recognize content in a simple HTML table as an interactive
data source.
Adobe Photoshop Smart Objects
Insert any Adobe Photoshop® PSD document in Dreamweaver to
create an image Smart Object. Smart Objects are tightly linked
to the source file. Make any changes to the source image and
update your image in Dreamweaver without opening Photoshop.
Subversion integration
Use Subversion® software, an open source versioning control
system integrated with Dreamweaver CS4, for a more robust check-in/checkout
experience. Update your site and check in modifications directly
from within Dreamweaver.
Delivery for the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player
Continue to reach wide audiences around the world by delivering
to the most popular media player on the Internet today.
New, standard user interface
Work faster and smarter across Creative Suite 4 components with
a shared user interface design. Toggle quickly from one work
environment to the next with the Workspace Switcher.
Spring-loaded panels
Drag related content from one panel to another without first
opening the receiving panel. For example, drag a swatch from
the Swatches panel into the Color panel without opening it
first. Easily collapse and expand panels for workspace flexibility.
Application Bar
Use a new control button in the menu bar to quickly switch to
a new workspace, modify the view of a document, perform a search,
or quickly access elements such as Adobe Bridge CS4.
New, standard user interface
Work faster and smarter across Creative Suite 4 components with
a shared user interface design. Toggle quickly from one work
environment to the next with the Workspace Switcher.
Spring-loaded panels
Drag related content from one panel to another without first
opening the receiving panel. For example, drag a swatch from
the Swatches panel into the Color panel without opening it
first. Easily collapse and expand panels for workspace flexibility.
Application Bar
Use a new control button in the menu bar to quickly switch to
a new workspace, modify the view of a document, perform a search,
or quickly access elements such as Adobe Bridge CS4.
Object-based animation
Gain complete control over individual animation attributes with
object-based animation, which applies tweens directly to objects
instead of keyframes.
Motion paths
Experience granular control over object animation paths — Flash
CS4 Professional now automatically generates motion paths that
can be easily modified using familiar Bezier handles.
Motion presets
Jump-start your project with prebuilt animations that can be
applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create
and save your own. Share presets with others to save animation
time.
Improved library
Work with assets more easily, thanks to an improved library that
includes search capability and prioritization.
Vertical Property inspector
Take better advantage of wider displays and gain screen space
with the new vertically displayed Property inspector.
Support for Adobe Pixel Bender
Easily apply custom filters and effects at runtime for real-time
creative expression. Use the Adobe Pixel Bender™ Toolkit,
included with Flash, to create unique filters, blends, and
fills to produce compelling, on-demand visual effects for the
Flash Player runtime. Your visual effects are now portable
to multiple applications.
CSS-based export
Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and
then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, complete
with external style sheets, in one step. Start with one of
the six most common layouts and integrate foreground and background
graphics with automatic margin and padding detection. Drop
Fireworks rich symbols on your layouts to specify headings,
links, and form properties for precise CSS control.
Adobe PDF file export
Generate high-fidelity, protected Adobe PDF documents from your
Fireworks design comps for enhanced client communication. Help
safeguard your designs with optional password protection — separate
passwords are definable for viewing and other tasks such as
printing, copying, and commenting.
Live Styles
Customize a Fireworks object or text with professionally designed
styles or your own custom collection of styles. Update applied
effects, colors, and text attributes for all instances of a
style by modifying a single style source.
Workspace improvements
Quickly place Smart Guides on your canvas for swift, accurate
positioning and measurement of guides and elements — the
heads-up display lets you know where you are on the canvas
as you drag guides in place. Edit symbols in place for precise
symbol refinement in context with the rest of your design.
Optimization and scaling tools
Optimize graphics for virtually any delivery scenario with preview,
cross-platform gamma preview, selective JPEG compression, and
a wide range of export controls. Intelligently scale buttons
and graphic symbols (in vector or bitmap) with 9-slice scaling.
Combine 9-slice scaling with the Auto Shape Library to accelerate
website and application prototyping.
Customizable and reusable assets
Jump-start your design process with the Common Library, a repository
of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations
frequently used in web and software applications, interfaces,
and websites. Expand your collection with your own custom symbols
and styles for continued rapid design.
Superb design tools
Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify
native Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator® files. Apply lighting
effects, shadow effects, styles, and blend modes, including
seven new blend modes from Photoshop, to add depth and character
to text and symbols.
Intelligent integration with other Creative Suite 4 components
Streamline your mobile authoring workflow through tight integration
between Adobe Device Central CS4 and other Creative Suite 4
components, including Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop
CS4, Illustrator CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe Premiere® Pro
CS4, and After Effects® CS4.
Dynamically updated online library of device profiles
Access the latest device profiles available for use in Device
Central CS4 through the dynamically updated online device library,
which contains more than 450 Adobe Flash Lite™ enabled
devices. Browse, search, and sort device profiles; directly
compare multiple devices along several dimensions; and create
custom sets of devices for quick project access.
Smart testing environment
Easily preview and test the appearance, performance, and behavior
of mobile content right on the desktop. Simulate various display
conditions, such as backlight timeout and sunlight reflections,
in the context of mobile device skins to better tune designs
for real-world conditions.
Adobe AIR prototypes with Fireworks CS4
Create your Adobe AIR prototype directly within Fireworks, ready
to be deployed to HTML and CSS, Flex, or SWF. Easily convert
your click-through mock-up.
Interactivity on the desktop
Deliver interactive experiences created with Flash CS4 Professional
to the desktop with new capability to publish to the Adobe
AIR runtime. Reach even more audiences across more devices — web,
mobile, and now the desktop.
Adobe AIR and Dreamweaver CS4
Create new HTML and JavaScript based Adobe AIR applications within
Dreamweaver. Preview AIR applications without leaving Dreamweaver.
Get your AIR application ready to deploy with AIR packaging
and code-signing features.
Flexibility in how you work
Take advantage of the latest advancements in hardware technology.
Creative Suite 4 Web Standard is available for PowerPC and
Intel based Macs as well as Microsoft Windows XP and Windows
Vista systems. Design in your preferred system and then deliver
across platforms with reliable, consistent, and high-performance
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