Adobe CS 5.5: Evaluating Bundle, Feature Upgrades
Flash, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver are among the updated Adobe Creative Suite bundles. Take a look inside a few along with the latest feature enhancements.
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Adobe's Creative Suite comes in variety of different bundles (such as Web, design, production, and master collection), and these include popular applications such as Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash. However, not all of the products in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 have been upgraded in this release.
Major applications, such as Acrobat and Photoshop, have received only minimal changes since the previous version 5 release. However, products such as Dreamweaver, InDesign, and the Flash development tools have all added significant new features in this release.
The rise of mobile devices and the need to develop applications for the many new smartphones and tablets in use today is addressed by Creative Suite 5.5. Plus, much of the new functionality is geared towards developing applications and websites that take advantage of the emerging HTML 5 standard. Several new capabilities available within Creative Suite 5.5 also take advantage of the touch interfaces available in devices such as Apple's iPad.
Although much of Creative Suite 5.5 has improved features for creating content for Apple iOS devices, for the most part these capabilities aren't fully available for Windows-based developers and will often require a Mac version of the suite in order to build and deploy the iOS apps.
A welcome new feature in Flash Professional 5.5 is the inclusion of content scaling capabilities that make it possible to resize content for different screen sizes (such as for smartphones and tablets).
When creating a Flex mobile project in Flash Builder 4.5, developers can choose the target platform, supported platforms are Android, iOS and Blackberry.
A welcome new feature in Flash Catalyst 5.5, which makes it possible to create graphical content in Photoshop, Fireworks, or Illustrator and then build interactive content for Flash and other Adobe RIA platforms using those graphical components, is the ability to create resizable components for applications.
The new multiscreen support in Dreamweaver 5.5 lets developers get a clean, side-by-side view of how content would display on multiple formats, including desktops, smartphones, and tablets.
Dreamweaver 5.5 now includes improved support for the jQuery Mobile Framework.
Improved features for creating e-books based on the broadly supported EPUB standard are now included for InDesign 5.5.
Device Central 5.5, the tool for creating and testing rich content for multiple devices, now includes increased device emulation profiles and HTML 5 emulation.
The audio editing application Audition now includes improved effects and workflow capabilities.
The audio editing application Audition now includes improved effects and workflow capabilities.
Adobe's Creative Suite comes in variety of different bundles (such as Web, design, production, and master collection), and these include popular applications such as Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash. However, not all of the products in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 have been upgraded in this release.
Major applications, such as Acrobat and Photoshop, have received only minimal changes since the previous version 5 release. However, products such as Dreamweaver, InDesign, and the Flash development tools have all added significant new features in this release.
The rise of mobile devices and the need to develop applications for the many new smartphones and tablets in use today is addressed by Creative Suite 5.5. Plus, much of the new functionality is geared towards developing applications and websites that take advantage of the emerging HTML 5 standard. Several new capabilities available within Creative Suite 5.5 also take advantage of the touch interfaces available in devices such as Apple's iPad.
Although much of Creative Suite 5.5 has improved features for creating content for Apple iOS devices, for the most part these capabilities aren't fully available for Windows-based developers and will often require a Mac version of the suite in order to build and deploy the iOS apps.
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