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What’s New in Adobe Creative Suite 2
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Adobe® Creative Suite 2 Premium soft ware is a unifi ed design environment that combines full, new versions of Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, InDesign® CS2, GoLive® CS2, and Acrobat® 7.0 Professional, with new Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos. Delivering the next level of integration in creative soft ware, Adobe Creative Suite 2 enables designers to realize their ideas anywhere -- in print, the Web, or mobile devices. Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives designers a cohesive and complete design environment that lets them fl uidly transform their ideas into sophisticated, fi nished designs for print, the Web and mobile devices. Th is powerful, unifi ed design environment also off ers more consistent color across components of the suite, simplifi ed and consistent Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) creation, and enhanced fi le collaboration and version management, all of which make it easier to share fi les and work more productively with colleagues and clients. Adobe Creative Suite 2 lets designers’ productivity keep pace with their imagina-tion as they breathe life into their creative visions.
Fuel your ideas. When creative ideas are fl owing, the last thing any designer wants is to be slowed down by technical roadblocks. With Adobe Creative Suite 2, they won’t be. Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives momentum to the creative process, with tight integration and innovative technologies that let creative professionals push their productivity to new heights. Manage, search for, and preview assets easily using the new Adobe Bridge visual fi le browser, with improved access to new Version Cue CS2; view, try, buy, and manage hundreds of thousands of stock images easily, without leaving Adobe Creative Suite 2, using the new Adobe Stock Photos service; enjoy more consistent color across components of the suite and create Adobe PDF fi les more easily and consistently. Adobe Creative Suite 2 opens a world of production effi ciency, so creative professionals can focus on doing what they love best—designing beautiful content.
Design with agility. Adobe Creative Suite 2 delivers a tightly integrated set of professional design tools, enabling superb image-editing, illustration, page layout, Web and mobile authoring, and Adobe PDF work-fl ow support. Off ering the full, new versions of the world’s leading design tools—Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional—Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives designers such powerful new features as enhanced support for digital images captured in raw format; a new paradigm in vector graphics creation; signifi cantly more productive page layout tools; and the capability to design, develop, and deploy mobile sites that conform to open industry standards. And because the compo-nents of Adobe Creative Suite 2 are so tightly knit and cohesive, creative ideas fl ow onto the page uncompro-mised and undiminished, just as designers envision them.
Work well with others. Designers have the vision, but they don’t work in a vacuum. That’s why Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives designers the tools they need to collaborate effectively with clients and colleagues. Features such as effi cient and fl exible electronic design reviews that now include reviewers who use the free Adobe Reader 7.0 software and powerful version control within Adobe Bridge using Version Cue CS2, afford tremendous time and cost savings during the design and print production process. Adobe Creative Suite 2 makes collaboration with clients and colleagues more effi cient, more fun, and ultimately more supportive of the entire design process.
This document introduces the new features in Adobe Creative Suite 2, including high-level descriptions of the new features in Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe GoLive CS2, and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional. It concludes with pricing and availability, a description of what comes in the box, and system requirements. For detailed information about the new features in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive CS2, as well as Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional and Adobe Stock Photos, please see the documents indicated in each respective section of this guide.
Adobe Creative Suite 2 combines the full versions of:
• Adobe Photoshop CS2 • Adobe Illustrator CS2 • Adobe InDesign CS2 • Adobe GoLive CS2
• Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional • Adobe Bridge
• Adobe Stock Photos • Version Cue CS2
Table of Contents
Adobe Bridge ... p. 2 Adobe Stock Photos ... p. 5 Help Center and Expert Support ... p. 6 Consistent color ... p. 6 Consistent PDF creation ... p. 8 Adobe Photoshop CS2 ... p. 9 Adobe Illustrator CS2 ... p. 9 Adobe InDesign CS2 ... p. 10 Adobe GoLive CS2 ... p. 10 Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional ... p. 11 Adobe PDF reviews ... p. 11 Version Cue CS2 ... p. 12
Fuel your ideas
Adobe Creative Suite 2 helps remove technical roadblocks to the creative process so that designers can create artwork, pages, Web sites, and more with greater fl uidity and ease. The key way in which Adobe Creative Suite 2 gives momentum to the design process is through the new Adobe Bridge visual fi le browser, which is a greatly enhanced version of the File Browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Bridge not only allows creative professionals to quickly manage and locate assets but it also provides access to the new Adobe Stock Photos service and lets designers achieve more consistent color across Adobe Creative Suite 2. Finally, centralized and streamlined Adobe PDF creation is also a tremendous new productivity feature in Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Adobe Bridge visual fi le browser
Adobe Bridge is the hub for productivity, imagery, and inspiration in Adobe Creative Suite 2. Accessible from within Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, and GoLive CS2 as well as independently, Adobe Bridge allows designers to effi ciently organize, browse, and locate the assets they need every day to create content for print, the Web, and mobile devices. Adobe Bridge keeps native PSD, AI, INDD, and Adobe PDF fi les, as well as other Adobe and non-Adobe application fi les, at designers’ fi ngertips, and is a natural gateway to Adobe Stock Photos. With drag-and-drop ease, designers can place assets into their layouts as needed, pre-view them, add valuable metadata to them, and track them using Version Cue. Adobe Bridge also automates a variety of traditionally labor-intensive tasks with built-in scripts that work across components of the suite. An effi cient fi le-management system that gives designers direct access to their creative assets as well as offers greater control over them, Adobe Bridge greatly expands the power of Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Accessing Adobe BridgeDesigners often need to access assets when they’re in the middle of creating an image composition in Adobe Photoshop, or maybe when they’re designing a page in Adobe InDesign. They’ll need a different background image, or a client’s logo, or perhaps to import some text. When a designer is so fully engaged in being creative, even the few rote steps required to fi nd and preview a necessary asset can slow their productivity to a crawl. So Adobe Creative Suite 2 makes it easy: designers can launch Adobe Bridge from within Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, and GoLive CS2 and automatically jump to their home directory in the Bridge browser window, where they can locate the fi le they need.
With a minimum of disruption to their creative fl ow, designers now have visual access to all of the fi les on their hard drive or network. To make more onscreen space available at any time, designers can toggle on a compact mode for Adobe Bridge, reducing it to a fl oating palette that can be accessed from any component of Adobe Creative Suite 2. This makes it easier to drag fi les out of Bridge and in layouts or comps.
Previewing assets The Adobe Bridge browser window features navigational and informational panes on the left and a preview area on the right. The pane in the upper left corner is where designers choose the location, such as their hard drive, a network folder, or a Favorites directory. As they navigate to the desired location, the preview pane on the right updates interactively, showing thumbnail previews of asset fi les if they’ve been embedded with the fi le.
Launch Adobe Bridge from the File menu in Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, or GoLive CS2, or click the Browse button in the Control palette of those applications.
Previews in Adobe Bridge are highly interactive and can be customized. They can be resized by simply dragging the slider at the bottom of the window. Designers can select from Details view, Filmstrip view, or Versions and alternates view, each of which displays the preview and asset’s metadata in a different way. When a thumbnail is selected, the Preview pane offers some basic details, such as its fi le type and creation date and time; additional information, if available, appears in the Metadata pane at left. Metadata informa-tion also appears when you roll the cursor over any thumbnail. Panes can be resized for optimal viewing, and Adobe Bridge even supports previews of multipage Adobe PDF fi les.
Previews in Adobe Bridge can be resized using the slider at the bottom of the window, and you can click a button to choose Thumbnails, Filmstrip, Details, or Versions and Alter-nates view.
Adobe Bridge displays previews of multipage Adobe PDF documents, as shown in this Filmstrip view.
Adding and searching metadata Thanks to support for industry-standard XMP metadata, designers can add useful information to a fi le and view that information in Adobe Bridge without having to open the fi le. Meta-data may include everything from digital image capture information such as ISO speed and aperture value to GPS data to copyright informations.
With complete, up-to-date metadata information, designers can conduct complex searches based on meta-data criteria to quickly fi nd the assets they need. For example, they can search for all InDesign fi les that use a certain Pantone color, or a particular font. Then, when the designer locates the desired asset, he or she can open it in its originating application by double-clicking the thumbnail preview in Adobe Bridge. Bridge even launches Microsoft Offi ce applications.
One-stop shopping with Adobe Stock Photos
Adobe Bridge features extensive support for XMP metadata, including descriptive informa-tion, GPS data, digital camera data, and stock photo data.
Adobe Bridge lets designers search across a network and by multiple metadata criteria.
One-stop shopping with Adobe Stock Photos
Stock photography is a key component of professional page layouts and Web sites, but acquiring it has his-torically been a tedious task that involves visiting multiple Web sites, conducting time-consuming searches, losing track of images, and purchasing from several agencies for a single project. Enter Adobe Stock Photos, which makes the process much more convenient. Adobe Stock Photos, accessible from within Adobe Bridge, is an exciting new service to help get designers’ creative juices fl owing. Offering designers one-stop shopping for high-quality, royalty-free stock images from within the familiar Adobe interface, Adobe Stock Photos is an effi cient and convenient way for creative professionals to view, try, buy, and manage stock images from some of the world’s leading image libraries—or to simply get inspired.
Search and browse stock images Adobe Stock Photos lets creative professionals search for and browse stock images from a selection of premiere stock suppliers without ever leaving Adobe Creative Suite 2. With a document open in InDesign, for example, designers can jump to Adobe Bridge, seamlessly search collections from multiple stock suppliers, browse the results, and download low-resolution comps into their designs without missing a creative beat. Then they can rename the comps to be more intuitive for their own work-fl ow, and Adobe Stock Photos will preserve the link to the original image for when the designer is ready to purchase the high-resolution version.
Purchasing and managing stock images When their client approves the layout, the designer can purchase and download full-resolution images in a single transaction from within Adobe Creative Suite 2, even if they are buying images from more than one source. Because usage rights are centralized in Adobe Stock Photos, pricing is straightforward and terms and conditions are consistent, making the process easy to manage. Once the comps and/or high-resolution images are downloaded, they’re accessible through Adobe Bridge like all other assets, and can be previewed, organized, and searched for easy retrieval and reuse. Images acquired through Adobe Stock Photos include extensive metadata information, which travels with the image and can be searched, customized, and accessed throughout Adobe Creative Suite 2. For more information about Adobe Stock Photos, see the Adobe Stock Photos Reviewer’s Guide.
Adobe Stock Photos lets designers view, try, and buy stock images from some of the leading stock photo libraries.
Adobe Stock Photos Availability At the time this document went to press, Adobe planned to make Adobe Stock Photos available for purchase in the following coun-tries. This list, however, is subject to change before the launch of Adobe Creative Suite 2. For the fi nal list, please visit www.adobe.com at the time of ship of Adobe Creative Suite 2. Australia Austria Belgium Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Hong Kong Ireland Italy Japan Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Portugal Singapore South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan USA
With Adobe Stock Photos, designers can download and purchase stock images from multiple suppliers in a single transaction.
Help Center and Expert Support Adobe Stock Photos is just one way that Adobe Creative Suite 2 boosts designers’ productivity. Adobe Help Center, a centralized repository for quick, consistent, and in-depth how-to information for all of the components of Adobe Creative Suite 2, is another. In addi-tion, Adobe Expert Support gives designers direct access to senior Adobe support professionals to help troubleshoot technical problems and provide how-to advice for times when designers have an idea but they’re not sure how to execute it in Adobe Creative Suite 2. For more on Expert Support, visit
www.adobe.com/support/expert_support/main.html.
Consistent color onscreen across Adobe Creative Suite 2
Designers don’t want to manage color; they just want it to look right, onscreen and in print. With Adobe Creative Suite 2, it does. Adobe Creative Suite 2 signifi cantly improves the reliability of color across its com-ponents: using Adobe Bridge, designers can synchronize their color settings for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, and InDesign CS2 so that they are consistent. So, for example, a designer can create a gorgeous compos-ite in Photoshop, set some type on it in Illustrator, and then place the completed work of art in an InDesign layout—and the colors will appear consistently in each. In addition, new features in Illustrator CS2 and InDesign CS2 improve creative professionals’ control over rich blacks and CMYK values.
Synchronizing color settings Designers can synchronize color settings for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, and InDesign CS2 using the Suite Color Settings dialog in Adobe Bridge. Adobe Bridge offers a wide selec-tion of presets for many common workfl ows, such as North America prepress or North America Web/Inter-net settings. Once suite-wide color settings are turned on, colors—even spot colors—appear consistent in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, and designers don’t have to worry about color management any more.
The Adobe Help Center, available from within the components of Adobe Creative Suite 2, provides access to free how-to information as well as to fee-based Expert Support.
Synchronize color settings for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, and InDesign CS2 in this one dialog in Adobe Bridge.
Creative professionals can speed print production and improve the fi nal printed quality of their work by selecting a standard press characterization, such as U.S. Prepress Defaults or Japan Color for Newspaper; by customizing a preset using options specifi ed by their prepress partner; or by simply using a preset shared by their prepress partner. This will ensure closer matching between a designer’s desktop proof and their printer’s press characteristics, speeding the proofi ng process and reducing unwanted (and potentially costly) surprises at the last minute.
Rich blacks A new preference in Illustrator CS2 and InDesign CS2 controls the onscreen appearance of black, including rich blacks. Rich blacks, which comprise 100% black plus some CMY values, can result when RGB blacks are converted to process color. Rich blacks look darker than 100% K blacks, and now designers can choose whether they want to see and print rich blacks accurately (as dark gray) or consistently, as they have in the past (solid black).
CMYK control in InDesign CS2 Some designers prefer to do it by the numbers. That’s why there’s a new policy in the color settings in InDesign CS2 to preserve the CMYK values of imported images. If, for example, a designer converts an image in Adobe Photoshop and wants those numbers to stick, they will—the designer doesn’t have to turn off color management to work the way they want and still achieve consistent color. Profi les still travel with the image, in case they’re needed later in the workfl ow, but designers will experience fewer warning dialogs, which reduces confusion and instills greater confi dence in the reliability and predict-ability of color across components of the suite.
InDesign CS2 and Illustrator CS2 let designers display rich blacks accu-rately (as dark gray) or consistently (as pure black) both onscreen and in print.
The Color Settings dialog in InDesign CS2 includes an option to preserve CMYK values in images imported from Photoshop.
Consistent Adobe PDF creation
One of the many enhancements to an Adobe PDF workfl ow in Adobe Creative Suite 2 is new global Adobe PDF export presets that allow for consistent Adobe PDF creation from across components of the suite. Whether designers save an Adobe PDF document from Photoshop or Illustrator, export one directly from InDesign, export HTML as PDF from GoLive, or use Distiller, they choose from a selection of shared presets. This greatly simplifi es the process, letting designers create Adobe PDF fi les consistently, reliably, and easily. Adobe Creative Suite 2 ships with six default presets for a variety of common workfl ows, including Smallest File Size, for Adobe PDF fi les being distributed on the Web or for e-mail-based review; High Quality Print, which is suitable for design comps; and PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3, for prepress workfl ows that use those print industry standard formats. Presets are stored in a single location, which makes them easy to manage, and they have a common interface, which makes them easy to use. They can be customized for specifi c work-fl ows, loaded into any component in Adobe Creative Suite 2, and shared with clients and print
production partners.
The PDF presets in Adobe Creative Suite 2 are even shared by Acrobat Distiller, so if designers create their Adobe PDF fi les using the Adobe PDF 7.0 Printer in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, or GoLive, or if they print to Adobe PDF from non-Adobe applications, they will still achieve consistent results.
Adobe Creative Suite 2 features shared presets and a consistent interface for easy creation of Adobe PDF documents.
Design with agility
Adobe Creative Suite 2 includes the full, new versions of the world’s leading design tools. Packed with new features, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional let designers create content for print, the Web, and mobile devices with greater freedom and fl exibility than ever before. Here are brief overviews of the key new features in these components of Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Greater control over images in Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Photoshop is the benchmark for digital imaging excellence, and Photoshop CS2 introduces new levels of power, precision, and control with an exciting combination of revolutionary new features and next-generation enhancements. Vanishing Point, for example, allows designers to automatically adjust the visual perspective of their composites so that they can make the most of every creative impulse. Designers can also be more productive thanks to Smart Objects, which lets them non-destructively edit Illustrator artwork in Photoshop, and thanks to more intuitive and direct control over multiple-layer selection. Finally, design-ers can customize their Photoshop environment to suit pdesign-ersonal preferences or project requirements, with custom menus, keyboard shortcuts, and palette locations. Photoshop CS2 pushes the boundaries of digital image editing and helps designers turn their dreams into designs faster and more easily than ever before. For more information about the new features in Photoshop CS2, see What’s New in Photoshop CS2.
New power for vectors in Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2 puts industry-standard drawing tools at designers’ fi ngertips so that they can create logos, artwork, packaging, maps, posters, Web graphics, and much more with ease. And Illustrator CS2 offers an entirely new paradigm for creating vector graphics, thanks to the new Live Trace feature. Live Trace, a breakthrough new tracing tool, lets designers convert scanned line-art or bitmap images to scalable, editable vector paths and anchor points in just seconds. They can also use the new Live Paint feature to easily and intuitively apply fi lls and strokes to artwork. And they can access all tools directly from the new context-sensitive Control palette, or open, save and share custom workspaces with palettes arranged exactly the way they want. For more information about the new features in Illustrator CS2, see What’s New in Illustrator CS2.
Paste Illustrator artwork as a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CS2, and then freely trans-form it without a loss of quality. Convert bitmap images (left) to detailed and editable vector drawings (right) in Adobe Illustrator CS2.
Rich, versatile content with Adobe InDesign CS2
Adobe InDesign is the page layout program of choice for leading graphic designers and publishers around the world, streamlining layout and production while improving the visual quality of the fi nal piece of work. Now InDesign CS2 delivers innovative features that once again introduce new levels of production effi ciency while nurturing a fl exible creative process. With InDesign CS2, designers can more easily search for and incorporate assets into their layouts using the new Adobe Bridge; save drop shadow, fi ll and stroke, text attri-butes, and other settings as object styles for quick, consistent formatting throughout a document; control the visibility of layers in imported Photoshop and Adobe PDF fi les; collaborate more effectively thanks to enhanced integration with Adobe InCopy CS2; and save selected text and graphics elements on a page— including relative positioning—as snippets that can be dropped into any layout for reuse. For more informa-tion about the new features in InDesign CS2, see What’s New in InDesign CS2.
Standards-based Web and mobile authoring with GoLive CS2
Adobe GoLive CS2 takes Web and mobile authoring to the next level with innovative new tools for build-ing Web sites and creatbuild-ing mobile content, as well as with tighter integration with the other components of Adobe Creative Suite 2. Now designers can produce Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)-based Web sites more easily using intuitive drag-and-drop CSS objects to lay out pages, signifi cantly reducing the complexity of work-ing with and lettwork-ing designers produce visually rich sites that have all of the advantages of CSS—smaller site fi le sizes, improved accessibility, and simplifi ed maintenance. In addition, GoLive CS2 expands its support for mobile content and application development based on open standards such as XHTML and SVG-t, so designers can now design, develop, and deploy mobile content that adapts smoothly to a wide variety of devices. GoLive CS2 also integrates more tightly with other components of Adobe Creative Suite 2 with such new support as direct export of InDesign content to XHTML Web pages. For more information about the new features in GoLive CS2, see What’s New in GoLive CS2.
Control which layers and layer comps are visible in imported Photoshop images in Adobe InDesign CS2.
Adobe GoLive CS2 supports Cascading Style Sheets in a visual layout.
Eff ective collaboration and printing with Acrobat 7.0 Professional
Collaborate more effectively with clients and colleagues and prepare designs created in other components of Adobe Creative Suite 2 for print using Acrobat 7.0 Professional. The new capability to enable commenting tools in the free Adobe Reader 7.0 expands the circle of participants in e-mail-based reviews, while improved print production features let designers generate more reliable, high-quality fi nal output: prefl ighting now supports droplets for automation; print production tools let creative professionals correct common mistakes in Adobe PDF documents, such as converting RGB images to CMYK; enhanced output previews minimize last-minute problems; and improved support for the PDF/X and JDF print industry standards allow creative professionals to work together more effectively, so that everyone can meet critical deadlines and stay on tight budgets. For complete information about the new features in Acrobat 7.0 Professional, see the Acrobat 7.0
Professional Reviewer’s Guide.
Work well with others
Effective collaboration is critical to a smooth and effi cient design process. Creative professionals lose valuable time each day searching for fi les, preparing fi les for hand-off, tracking feedback from clients, and many other essential tasks—but tasks that nonetheless detract from time spent doing what they love to do most: being creative. Adobe Creative Suite 2 takes great strides in streamlining electronic-review and version-control processes to enhance communications between designers, their clients, and their print production partners, saving everyone time and money and helping them meet their deadlines and stay on budget.
Flexible and inclusive design reviews
Electronic design reviews have long been a strength of Acrobat, with features such as the capability to initiate e-mail-based reviews, robust tools that let reviewers comment on documents electronically, and the Review Tracker to manage feedback. Acrobat 7.0 Professional makes electronic reviews more fl exible and inclusive with a new feature that allows even more clients and colleagues to participate.
Commenting and overprint preview in Adobe Reader 7.0 With Acrobat 7.0 Professional, creative profession-als can work more fl exibly with clients who use the free Adobe Reader 7.0 and who don’t own a full version of Acrobat. Designers simply turn on a set of Reader extensions when they initiate an e-mail-based review from within Acrobat 7.0 Professional, thereby expanding their circle of reviewers, improving their communi-cations with clients, and streamlining the review process.
The Acrobat 7.0 Professional Print Production toolbar (lower left) lets designers correct common problems in Adobe PDF documents; droplets (upper left) automate the prefl ight process; the improved Prefl ight dialog (right) features enhanced support for the PDF/X standard.
Because reviewers using the free Adobe Reader 7.0 may be unfamiliar with commenting on Adobe PDF documents, the software helps them through the process. Commenting tools appear automatically, along with instructional text, highlighted in yellow, that explains how to use them. A How To pane gives additional instructions.
With extensions enabled in Adobe Reader 7.0, reviewers can also toggle on an overprint preview preference. Overprint preview mode provides an onscreen simulation that approximates how blending and overprint-ing will appear in color-separated output. Allowoverprint-ing clients to see this effect in Adobe Reader 7.0 can reduce potentially costly errors that might occur later during print production.
Powerful version control with Version Cue CS2
Creative professionals spend at least 10% to 20% of their time managing fi les—fi nding, opening, moving, and renaming the many fi le versions generated in typical creative projects. That’s a lot of lost hours. But creative professionals can get this time back using Version Cue CS2, the fi le-version manager that has been enhanced and improved in Adobe Creative Suite 2 to be more intuitive, visual, and robust. Creative profes-sionals can now manage and share both Adobe and non-Adobe project fi les, access historical fi le versions as well as version “alternates,” access Version Cue through Adobe Bridge, and use Version Cue to initiate Adobe PDF reviews.
Simplified file versioning Version Cue lets designers access historical versions of fi les as well as parallel “alternates” of project fi les, including both Adobe and non-Adobe fi le formats. Alternates give design-ers much more fl exibility. They can create two or more vdesign-ersions of a comp, for example, defi ne one as the primary version and the others as alternates, and send all out for review. Other valuable uses of alternates include creating print, Web, and foreign language versions of documents.
Instructional text (in yellow, under the toolbar) and a How-to pane (at right) guide reviewers who are using the free Adobe Reader 7 to mark up Adobe PDF documents with comments. Acrobat 7.0 Professional allows clients or colleagues with only the free Adobe Reader 7.0 to participate in electronic design reviews.
Collaboration and file sharing With Version Cue, designers can share fi le versions with peers with confi dence that their work won’t be lost and that edits don’t confl ict. For example, if a designer opens a Version Cue fi le at the same time as someone else on the design team, Version Cue will ensure that one version doesn’t overwrite the other. When a Version Cue project fi le is opened, Version Cue actually creates a working copy on that individual’s hard drive, and then the designer can save a new version back to Version Cue from the working copy when he or she is ready. In addition, it will store all versions of a fi le with consistent, clear names, to avoid the confusion that can occur when multiple members of a team use different fi le-naming conventions.
Access through Adobe Bridge With Adobe Creative Suite 2, designers can organize, access, and search Version Cue fi le versions within Adobe Bridge, and preview search results without having to open the fi le. Version Cue workspaces can appear in the Favorites pane, making versions easier to fi nd, and as with other assets, designers can view scalable thumbnail previews for all available Version Cue project fi les. They can even choose to view versions or alternates. They can identify which fi les are the newest versions, which fi les are in use, and if they’re synchronized—without opening the fi le. Other useful information includes the name of the last person who worked on the fi le and comments that describe what he or she did.
The search capabilities in Version Cue CS2 have also been improved—namely, designers can conduct Version Cue searches from within Bridge, and they can search on expanded metadata fi le information as well as search by project.
When a designer opens a Version Cue fi le from Bridge, Adobe Creative Suite automatically launches the appropriate software depending on the fi le type—Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, or Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional—and the designer can get to work. New status bars in Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, and GoLive CS2 also let designers see the status of their open Version Cue documents at a glance.
The Version Cue Save As dialog now lets designers create alternate versions of fi les.
Designers can preview versions or alternates of Version Cue project fi les from within Adobe Bridge (versions are shown here).
Adobe PDF review initiation While creative professionals can install and use Version Cue right out of the box, a host of advanced fi le-administration features is also available. Version Cue includes a browser-based administration utility from which advanced users and IT managers can defi ne security options, manage user privileges, export and back up projects, and batch delete old versions of fi les. One of the new features in this administration utility is the capability to initiate browser-based Adobe PDF reviews and host internal Acrobat reviews on a Version Cue workspace. This can be especially useful if a designer has to cull several Adobe PDF fi les together to send out all at once, and eliminates the need to have a dedicated server to host online reviews, or involve IT departments to set it up.
Availability and pricing
In the United States and Canada, Adobe Creative Suite 2 is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2005. The price for Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition at the Adobe store is $1,199 (U.S.) for all platforms.
Upgrade pricing in the United States and Canada Licensed users of Photoshop may upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition at the Adobe store for $749 (U.S.). Licensed users of Adobe Creative Suite 1.x may upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition at the Adobe store for $549 (U.S.).x may upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition at the Adobe store for $549 (U.S.).x
Educational pricing Educational pricing for the full version of Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition at the Adobe store is as follows:
Region Estimated Street Price U.S. and Canada US$399 International English1 €469
European Languages2 €
429
Danish €379
1 International English version is available in all regions except North America. 2 European language versions are French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Dutch.
Volume licensing is also available. Please see www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/main.html for information.www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/main.html for information.www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/main.html
Online ordering Adobe Creative Suite 2 may be ordered directly from Adobe (please visit
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tomers. The suite is also available through Adobe’s worldwide distribution network of software retail-ers and mail-order outlets, as well as through Adobe value-added resellretail-ers and system integrators. In addition, Adobe transactional and contractual volume licensing plans provide fl exible options for enterprises that want to make volume purchases of Adobe Creative Suite 2. Details are available at
www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/main.html.
The Version Cue status bar in Photoshop CS2.
The Version Cue CS2 admin-istration utility lets designers initiate Adobe PDF reviews.
Adobe Store Pricing $1199 (U.S.) Premium Edition $899 (U.S.) Standard edition Adobe Store Pricing for Upgrades to Premium Edition
$749 (U.S.) from Adobe Photoshop $549 (U.S.) from the Adobe Creative Suite 1.x
Suite 1.x Suite 1.
Adobe Store Pricing for Upgrades to Standard Edition
$499 (U.S.) from Adobe Photoshop $349 (U.S.) from the Adobe Creative Suite 1.x
Suite 1.x Suite 1.
Expected Availability Second Quarter 2005
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Package contents
Premium Edition Standard Edition Description
Photoshop CS2 ✔ ✔ The professional standard in desktop digital imaging Illustrator CS2 ✔ ✔ Reinventing vector illustration InDesign CS2 ✔ ✔ A new standard in professional layout
and design
GoLive CS2 ✔ Professional standards-based Web and mobile authoring
Acrobat 7.0 ✔ Collect, produce, and share
Professional intelligent documents
Adobe Bridge ✔ ✔ Visual fi le browser
Adobe Stock Photos ✔ ✔ Manage the entire process of working with stock photos
Version Cue CS2 ✔ ✔ Integrated fi le version management
Design Guide ✔ ✔ Educational material
About Adobe Systems
Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated builds award-winning software solutions for network pub-lishing, including Web, print, video, wireless, and broadband applications. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, manage, and deliver visually rich, reliable content. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is the second largest PC software company in the U.S. with annual revenues exceeding $1.6 billion.
System Requirements*
Macintosh
PowerPC® G4 or G5 processor Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through v.10.3.8 (10.3.4 through 10.3.8 recom-mended; G5 requires v.10.3 or later), Java Runtime Environment 1.4.1 384MB of RAM to run any one cre-ative application with Adobe Bridge and Version Cue Workspace Additional RAM required to run mul-tiple applications simultaneously (512MB to 1GB recommended) 4GB of available hard-disk space to install all applications (installation of common fi les requires at least 1GB on primary hard disk)
1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card (24-bit screen display recommended) CD-ROM drive
For Adobe PostScript® printers: PostScript Level 2 or PostScript 3™ Internet or phone connection required for product activation QuickTime 6.5 required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and additional services (The Adobe Stock Photos service may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies and is subject to change. Use of the service is gov-erned by the Adobe Stock Photos Terms of Service. For details, visit:
www.adobe.com/adobestockphotos) Windows
Intel® Pentium® III or 4 processor Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4, or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2
384MB of RAM to run any one cre-ative application with Adobe Bridge and Version Cue Workspace Additional RAM required to run mul-tiple applications simultaneously (512MB to 1GB recommended) 3GB of available hard-disk space to install all applications (installation of common fi les requires at least 1GB on primary hard disk)
1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card (24-bit screen display recommended) CD-ROM drive
For Adobe PostScript® printers: PostScript Level 2 or PostScript 3™ Internet or phone connection required for product activation QuickTime 6.5 required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and additional services (The Adobe Stock Photos service may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies and is subject to change. Use of the service is gov-erned by the Adobe Stock Photos Terms of Service. or details, visit:
www.adobe.com/adobestockphotos)
* System requirements are subject to change until ship.
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