Adobe CS3 Design Standard v3.3, Full Edition (Mac) (CD-ROM)

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ADOBE CS3 DESIGN STANDARD V3.3

Product Description

indispensable toolkit for professional design and print production. Design Standard provides essential tools for page layout, image editing, and illustration and features new Adobe PDF workflow enhancements with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software. Print reliably with more powerful pre-flight, improved black handling, a new object inspector, and intelligent overprint preview. Make your PDF documents come alive with embedded content created in Adobe Flash software, and customize dynamic PDF portfolios using templates and navigation based on Flash technology in Acrobat 9 Pro.

Design and print graphically rich materials such as magazine spreads with the tightly integrated, productive tools in Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard.

Design with essential tools
Take your designs from concept to completion with Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard, which helps you create and print your best work. From sketching concepts to finessing production details, you can create beautiful, sophisticated designs with Creative Suite Design Standard. Take advantage of new creative effects and finer transparency controls in Adobe InDesign software; explore, apply, and control colour variations using the new Live Colour environment in Adobe Illustrator software; and apply new non-destructive Smart Filters in Adobe Photoshop software. Design Standard helps you express your best ideas more easily and efficiently than ever before.

Keep your ideas flowing
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard lets you slip into the creative zone and stay there by offering tight integration and shared productivity features that enable you to move fluidly between tasks. Easily share assets among components--double-click an asset in an InDesign layout to quickly open it in Photoshop or Illustrator, for example, or use Smart Objects to non-destructively edit Illustrator artwork in Photoshop. Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge, manage workgroup files with Adobe Version Cue, and shop for royalty-free images using Adobe Stock Photos--all from within Design Standard.

Print with confidence
Enjoy rock-solid, streamlined print production using Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard. Generate predictable printed output with features such as synchronized colour settings and shared PDF presets. Help minimize errors by using output previews before you print, and exert fine control over output using consistent, comprehensive, professional printing options. Streamline prepress using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software to pre-flight and correct Adobe PDF files and to automate workflows with JDF. With Design Standard, you can reliably print beautiful content with the utmost efficiency.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 for unrivaled image editing

Adobe Illustrator CS3 for inspired vector graphics creation

Adobe InDesign CS3 for professional page layout

Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF in Acrobat 9 Pro.

Master Deadlines in Design and Print Production

Design Professionals
Express your ideas in print using Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard software, the graphic designer's indispensable toolkit for professional design and print production. Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard offers a tightly integrated, unified creative environment that combines essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with visual asset management, workgroup file management, and other shared productivity features. With Design Standard, you can remove technical distractions and find your creative flow, producing and printing beautiful content faster and more easily than ever before.

Print Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard software is Adobe's high-quality creation and production environment for reliable print layout and output. It combines full new versions of Adobe's leading design and print production tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Acrobat 9 Pro--with integrated productivity features, all in a unified creative environment. Design Standard gives you and your customers streamlined controls for more consistent colour and press-ready Adobe PDF files, including support for new PDF/X-4 (draft) and PDF/A industry standards in Acrobat 9 Pro, as well as pre-flight with automated file correction and support for JDF automation. Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard helps you realize smooth production processes and reliable final output.

IT Professionals
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard software enables creative teams to realize their ideas more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Built on industry standards to provide long-term compatibility, Design Standard can be deployed easily across networks, is extensible and scriptable, and can be tailored to meet a variety of specialized publishing needs. Design Standard combines full new versions of Adobe's essential design and print production tools--Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Acrobat 9 Pro--with integrated productivity features for creative workgroups. Offering a single installer and serial number for easy installation and backed by the quality and reliability Adobe is known for, Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard meets the design and print production needs of your creative team.

Edition comparison: Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium software delivers a complete, unified design environment for print, web, and mobile publishing by combining full versions of Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and new Acrobat 9 Pro software, plus a special offer of Adobe Fireworks CS3 software. Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard software combines InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and new Acrobat 9 Pro software for design and print production. Both editions feature Adobe Bridge CS3 for visual asset management, Adobe Version Cue CS3 for workgroup file management, and Adobe Device Central CS3 for mobile content previewing.

Top Features of Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard

The latest versions of essential creative tools
Experience a highly productive creative toolkit with Adobe InDesign CS3 for professional page layout, Adobe Photoshop CS3 for unrivaled image editing, Adobe Illustrator CS3 for inspired vector graphics creation, and Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for efficient Adobe PDF workflows.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

Coordinate with team members using Adobe Version Cue

Host real-time, web-based meetings with Adobe Acrobat Connect

Unified design environment
Work efficiently in an interface that's common across many components of Design Standard. New self-adjusting panels dock conveniently out of your way when not in use, and pop out when you need them. Maximize Screen mode keeps panels from overlapping the document window.

Support for the latest Mac and Windows systems
Get the most out of Design Standard on Intel based Mac systems and Microsoft Windows Vista computers. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC based Mac and Windows XP systems as well.

Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3
Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing.

Inspired vector graphics creation in Adobe Illustrator CS3
Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Colour in Illustrator CS3. Select and align points and edit paths more easily than ever, define crop areas interactively for print or export, and enjoy improved operating performance.

Powerful digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS3
Select image regions more intuitively, apply filters non-destructively, and align and blend similar images to quickly produce the best composite using Photoshop CS3.

PDF file creation and collaboration with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Create reliable final print documents using Acrobat 9 Pro. Conduct server-based shared reviews, pre-flight and automatically correct Adobe PDF files, and work in a more streamlined, intuitive interface.

Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Efficiently organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; non-destructive batch-editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files; direct playback of Flash files; and direct access to useful services such as Adobe Stock Photos.

Real-time, interactive web conferences with Acrobat Connect
Use Bridge or Acrobat to launch Acrobat Connect, the web-based conferencing system for real-time, interactive meetings such as design reviews. For a low monthly fee, host online conferences in a meeting room that you set up once and is readily available.

Advanced workgroup file management with Adobe Version Cue CS3
Use Version Cue to manage the use of files within creative teams. Track multiple versions, prevent overwriting, find the files you need quickly, conduct browser-based Adobe PDF reviews, and control access to files on a project-by-project basis.

What's New in Acrobat 9 Pro

Creation & Collaboration
PDF Portfolios and native support for Flash transform communications
Summarize and share a wide range of documents, images and videos in a cohesive manner using PDF Portfolios, which are easy to customize with your brand. Embed video, audio, and applications created with Adobe Flash into PDF files with smooth playback. Works with Acrobat.com hosted services (beta)
Collaborate and co-navigate document views in real-time from anywhere Improved forms authoring and workflow
Easily create forms and distribute, collect, and analyze form data without IT involvement 2 to 3 times faster to launch

Unparalleled PDF-Based Print Production
Quality and leadership in Adobe PDF workflows Full support for PDF/A, PDF/X (including PDF/X-4p and PDF/X-5), and PDF/E in both Acrobat 9 Pro & Adobe Reader 9 Support for end-to-end native PDF workflows from creation to output: for example, integrates with new Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.0

Highlights of Acrobat 9 Pro:
Enhanced pre-flight and automatic correction features Accurate RGB & CMYK to K conversion, plus spot colour remapping with built-in Pantone libraries Intelligent Overprint Preview in Acrobat 9 Pro and Adobe Reader 9 New Object Inspector for reviewing metadata on any selected object Robust compare to easily identify differences in text, images, line weights and more between documents

Adobe Creative Suite 3.3: What's in Each Edition?

	ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3.3 EDITIONS
	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	WEB STANDARD	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
Adobe InDesign CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Fireworks CS3
Adobe Contribute CS3
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Adobe Soundbooth CS3
Adobe Encore CS3
	SHARED APPLICATIONS, FEATURES AND SERVICES
Adobe Bridge CS3
Adobe Version Cue CS3
Adobe Device Central CS3
Adobe Acrobat Connect
Adobe Dynamic Link
Adobe OnLocation CS3*
Adobe Ultra CS3*

*Windows only