Adobe
®
Creative Suite
2
Premium
The complete design environment for print, Web, and mobile publishing
Product overview
Adobe Creative Suite 2 software is a unified design environment that combines full new versions of Adobe’s professional tools with Version Cue® CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe
Stock Photos to deliver the next level of integration in creative software.
FEATURES
Get your ideas down
Greater control over images in Adobe Photoshop® CS2
Revolutionary Vanishing Point
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Achieve amazing results in a fraction of the time with the groundbreaking Vanishing
Point, which lets you clone, paint, and paste elements that automatically match the perspective of the surrounding area.
Multiple layer control
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Select and move, group, transform, and warp objects more intuitively by clicking and dragging directly on the canvas. Easily align objects with Smart Guides.
Smart Objects
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Perform nondestructive scaling, rotating, and warping of raster and vector graphics with Smart Objects. Even preserve the editability of high-resolution vector data from
Adobe Illustrator® software.
Multi-image digital camera raw file processing
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Accelerate your raw file workflow with simultaneous processing of multiple images while you continue working. Import images into your choice of formats, including
Digital Negative (DNG); enjoy automatic adjustments to exposure, shadows, and brightness and contrast; and much more.
Image Warp
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Easily create packaging mock-ups or other dimensional effects by wrapping an image around any shape or stretching, curling, and bending an image using the Image
Warp tool.
New power for vectors in Adobe Illustrator CS2
Live Trace
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Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.
Live Paint
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Apply color to any area of your artwork in Illustrator CS2 and use overlapping paths to create new shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.
Control palette
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Discover new features and find existing ones faster in the context-sensitive Control palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.
Custom workspaces
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Work more efficiently and optimize your screen area using custom workspaces that display only the palettes you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time or use workspace templates.
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New or enhanced feature
Photoshop layer comp support
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Control the visibility of layer comps in linked, embedded, or opened Photoshop files from within Illustrator CS2.
Rich, versatile layouts with Adobe InDesign® CS2
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support
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Selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, and layers in Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layout—all while linking to a single file.
Comprehensive styles
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Create more consistent designs and speed up production by using object, paragraph, and character styles in InDesign. Save graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles, and define paragraph and character styles using rich formatting options. Then apply and globally update these styles efficiently.
InDesign snippets
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Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a layout, InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page.
Transparency
• Apply editable drop shadows, feathering, and other transparency effects in InDesign
CS2. Maintain soft edges when placing transparent Photoshop files.
Tables
• Import styled Microsoft Word and Excel tables, create tables by importing from tabdelimited text files, or build them from scratch in InDesign. Further refine your tables with formatting options such as color fills in alternating rows and automatic running headers and footers.
Beautiful text composition
• Access advanced typographical controls including the Paragraph Composer, OpenType® fonts, drop caps, optical kerning and margin alignment, and more.
Standards-based Web and mobile authoring with Adobe GoLive® CS2
Visual CSS layout
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Use a visual CSS layout window to create standards-compliant code that renders faithfully on the latest mobile devices and Web browsers. Or, code by hand and verify syntax easily.
Smart Objects
• Save time by placing native Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files into GoLive as Smart Objects, which re-render on-the-fly when you crop or resize them.
Mobile site design
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Start designing mobile sites with visual authoring and advanced hand coding tools.
Then verify standards compliance and preview with mobile browser emulation for leading devices.
Complete development environment for OMA, W3C, and 3GPP standards
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Develop for mobile using global industry standards, including CSS, XHTML, SVG Tiny,
SMIL, MPEG-4, and more.
Multiple source code views
• Work with source code in five views: Layout/Source mode split view, Source mode,
Outline mode, Outline/Source mode split view, and the Source palette.
Effective collaboration and printing with Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional
Reliable Adobe PDF file output
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Check Adobe PDF files using built-in print profiles in the improved Preflight feature— which now supports droplets for automation—and share preflight reports as comments.
Powerful print production tools
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Identify and correct common problems in Adobe PDF files—convert colors, preview separations, remap spot colors, flatten transparency, and fix hairline rules—all in
Acrobat 7.0 Professional, without having to re-create the file.
Support for print industry standards
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Create, preflight, and print PDF/X files with the click of a button, and generate job intent information in JDF to automate the processing of PDF print jobs by workflow systems.
Easy design of Adobe PDF forms
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Use Adobe LiveCycle™ Designer software (now included with Acrobat 7.0 Professional—
Windows® only) to create Adobe PDF forms that look like the paper forms they replace.
Incorporate business logic, such as calculations and data validations.
Easy Adobe PDF file creation
• Create Adobe PDF documents with the click of a button in Microsoft Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint. Windows users can also create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, and AutoCAD.®
Keep your ideas moving
Tighter integration, greater productivity
Unified design environment
• Work efficiently in the common Adobe interface, enjoy flexible file exchange across
Adobe Creative Suite 2, and take advantage of visual file management and tracking of all your assets.
Adobe Stock Photos
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Browse royalty-free images from multiple stock photo agencies using Adobe Stock
Photos. Purchase and manage your imagery without ever leaving Adobe Creative
Suite 2.*
Consistent color across the suite
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Synchronize color settings in Adobe Bridge to view the color in your designs more consistently and preserve CMYK values across Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Native Adobe file support
• Take advantage of native Adobe file support across all suite components and eliminate duplicate EPS and TIFF image files.
Freely flowing ideas
Adobe Bridge visual file browser
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Efficiently organize, browse, locate, and preview the assets you need every day from within the new Adobe Bridge visual file browser.
Bridge Center
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View and access recent files and folders, plus RSS feeds and software tips and tricks, from Bridge Center, the starting point for your Adobe Creative Suite 2 projects.
Consistent Adobe PDF file creation
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Enjoy a common interface when creating Adobe PDF files, and choose from shared
Adobe PDF presets for consistent output from any Adobe Creative Suite 2 component.
Scripting support
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Automate labor-intensive tasks across components of the suite by writing your own
JavaScripts or using included workflow script examples, and then store your scripts in a central location for easy access or to share with colleagues.
Publishing for today and tomorrow
Workflow integration
• Leverage robust support for scripting and industry standards to integrate Adobe
Creative Suite into common print and Web workflows or customized publishing systems.
Comprehensive print production support
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Prevent costly press mistakes and streamline prepress processes using enhanced output preview features, Adobe PDF file-correction tools, and preflight tools in Acrobat 7.0
Professional.
Accelerated Web site creation
• Get your Web sites out of the gate quickly using the Package for Web feature in
InDesign CS2 to create Web-ready assets for GoLive CS2.
Support for industry standards
• Get reliable output and extend the reach of your communications to the widest possible audience thanks to support for industry standards: PDF/X and JDF for prepress and print production, and CSS Mobile Profile, SVG-t, and SMIL for Web and mobile publishing.
Single installer and serial number
• Get the functionality most suited to your needs by installing components individually or all at once, with a single serial number.
Enhanced XMP support
• Capture metadata more intuitively and access detailed file information across all suite components.
Convenient training resources
Quick learning curve
• Get up and running on projects quickly with familiar commands, tools, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts that cut across all Adobe Creative Suite 2 components.
Help at your fingertips
• Enjoy one-click access to the Adobe Help Center, a centralized repository for quick, consistent, and in-depth how-to information about Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Design guide
• Learn advanced design and layout techniques in the full-featured, printed design guide included with Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Share your ideas with others
Flexible and inclusive electronic design reviews
Efficient Adobe PDF reviews
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Run efficient design reviews by conducting them online in Adobe PDF through Acrobat
7.0 Professional or from within Version Cue CS2.
Commenting in Adobe Reader® 7.0
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Use Acrobat 7.0 Professional to enable commenting in free Adobe Reader 7.0 software so that clients and colleagues using Reader can fully participate in reviews.
Powerful version control with Version Cue CS2
Simplified file versioning
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Access both historical versions and parallel “alternates” of shared project files, including both Adobe and common non-Adobe file formats, in Version Cue CS2.
Collaboration and file sharing
• Share project files confidently while working on a team, knowing that you will be guided by Version Cue CS2 through possible edit conflicts.
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Photoshop, Reader, Version Cue, and XMP are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. AutoCAD is either a registered trademark or a trademark of
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Efficient file searching
• Search for project files and versions from Adobe Bridge, where you and your team can preview search results without having to open individual files.
Advanced file administration
• Manage security options, back up projects on a recurring schedule, or delete old versions in a batch with advanced file management options in Version Cue CS2.
Shared project information
• Actively track the status of project files and enable this information to be shared easily across workgroups.
* 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 governed by the Adobe Stock Photos Terms of Service. For details, visit www.adobe.com/adobestockphotos.
