Are you an Acrobat user and needs a complete tool for
your print or web design projects? Read on.
A few months ago, Acrobat launched its main creative
design packages including Photoshop/ImageReady, GoLive,
InDesign and Illustrator. After a long period of silence,
it came up with a much better package.
Adobe’s Creative Suite now comes in two new
packages, the Standard Edition and the Professional
Edition. The Standard Edition is composed of Adobe
Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. This package
contains most of the print-oriented flagships. On
the other hand, Adobe GoLive and Acrobat Professional
comprise the Professional Edition, which focuses on
web design.
Basically, these packages are combinations of the
strengths each application offers. They are integrations
of tools for handling colour management, screen display,
type handling and more. They allow cross-application,
meaning any file done in one program can be opened
to the other programs as long as the file was created
on one of the programs that comprises the packages.
When a file is transferred, all other options can
be applied. For example, when you open an Illustrator
file to Photoshop, that file will be opened as a Photoshop
file.
Every creative application on the package uses PDF
file format. Not just a PDF format, they use the latest
PDF 1.5 format. PDF format allows you to import and
export directly. You can embed vector PDFs from Illustrator
and bitmap PDFs from Photoshop in a multi-page InDesign
PDF. This can also be exported for PDF web display
or repurposed via GoLive.
Adobe Creative Suites has a new integrated file management
system, which is essential in the software’s
workflow and tight integration. Different components
and versions of a project are hard to manage, especially
when you are going to use a lot of programs, as in
workgroups. But Adobe has a solution to this, the
Version Cue. Version Cue, through the application
of Save dialog, enables you to store all job elements
and important version of your project. The Open dialog
accesses visual thumbnails of the project file. You
will also be warned if other users are using the same
file. In other words, it provides file versioning
and management.
The packages also contain XMP or eXtensible Metadata
Platform standards. This allows you to search for
files according to related information like keywords
or authors.
Creative Suite applications are guaranteed excellent
tools to provide you with your desired result. Think
of these packages as the total of all these applications.
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