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Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Date first available at Amazon.com: April 11, 2011
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Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard
Produce high-impact print designs and digital publications
Deliver exceptional print designs, freely expressing your wildest ideas at lightning speed--without ever sacrificing quality or precision. Extend beyond print by authoring dynamic presentations, eBooks, and digital magazines that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print.
What is Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard?
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard software combines industry-standard tools for editing digital images, creating vector graphics, and laying out top-quality print documents with elegant typography. Plus, you can extend your ideas beyond print with dynamic presentations, eBooks, and digital magazines that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print.
Key Features
Deliver high-impact print designs and digital publications using industry-standard software for editing digital images, creating eye-catching vector graphics, and laying out stunning pages that incorporate elegant typography. Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard software combines the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, and more. This comprehensive toolkit offers many features that let you freely express your wildest ideas without sacrificing quality, precision, or speed. Plus, now you can extend beyond print with dynamic presentations, beautifully designed eBooks, and immersive digital documents created through integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print.
Top Reasons to Upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard
Folio Producer tools in Adobe InDesign--Create engaging digital magazines, newspapers, annual reports, manuals, and other documents that incorporate eye-catching elements such as 360-degree rotation and panoramas, all for playback on tablet devices, such as Apple iPad, RIM BlackBerry PlayBook, and a wide variety of Android tablets, including the Motorola Xoom. Upload them to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for further production and distribution.
Enhanced eBook authoring--Create more engaging eBooks with less need for developers. Use a smoother workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. You can now even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that support HTML5 video and audio tags.
More efficient delivery of accessible documents--Use enhanced features in InDesign CS5.5 and Acrobat X Pro that help you deliver publications that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 standards. Apply accessibility features more easily in InDesign CS5.5, and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Acrobat X Pro.
Action Wizard in Acrobat Pro--Automate routine, multistep PDF tasks more easily in Acrobat X Pro. The Action Wizard guides you through creating an Action, which is an automated sequence of steps that can be applied to a single PDF file or batches of files.
With Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard, you can:
Create innovative onscreen reading experiences. Want to explore new business opportunities and reach new audiences? Extend your ideas beyond print by authoring beautifully designed eBooks, along with dynamic documents and presentations. For tablet devices, craft a new generation of interactive documents such as magazines, newspapers, annual reports, and manuals that marry the allure of interactivity with the quality of traditional print design.
Deliver exceptional designs faster than ever before. Racing to meet another deadline? Save time with enhanced features for delivering more accessible publications in InDesign CS5.5, as well as powerful new and enhanced features in Acrobat X Pro.
CS5.5 Design Standard also includes dozens of timesaving features introduced in previous versions, including Truer Edge selection technology and Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop, beautiful strokes and accurate perspective drawing in Illustrator, and multiple page sizes in a single document and simplified object selection in InDesign. You can also streamline creative reviews with CS Review, one of the CS Live online services that integrate with your design software.
Let your creativity flow. Burning with a hot new idea? Use innovative tools introduced in CS5 Design Standard to make even your wildest visions real without sacrificing quality or control. For example, in Photoshop, paint much as you would with real-world brushes and paints, and in Illustrator, use a vector-based Bristle Brush to produce lifelike brush strokes.
Who uses Design Standard?
Graphic designers use Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard to design content for virtually any kind of print project. Design Standard provides a comprehensive toolset that equips designers to deliver high-impact print designs of all kinds quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
Graphic designers focused primarily on print increasingly confront client demands--and new business opportunities--for designing an ever-expanding variety of digital documents that provide immersive reading experiences on desktops, tablets, and e-readers. Because of graphic designers' grounding in the traditional disciplines of typography and layout, they are well-suited for creating attention-getting yet readable, informative digital documents. Design Standard enables designers to venture beyond print design while leveraging familiar tools, techniques, and skills.
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5
Make an impact through print, video, and digital experiences for virtually any device and platform. With powerful new creative tools, enhanced performance, simple workflows, and support for cutting-edge standards like HTML5 and EPUB 3, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 software helps you create rich content for virtually any media. Whether you need to produce printed pages, create high-end video, or design and distribute engaging interactive content for the latest smartphones and tablets, Creative Suite 5.5 is ready to help you boost productivity and keep pace with your creative vision.
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Deliver high-impact print designs faster than ever and create next-generation reading experiences such as immersive digital newspapers and magazines and elegant eBooks. Develop world-class websites based on the latest standards (HTML5 and CSS3) or build interactive SWF content that displays more consistently across a wide variety of screens. Freely express your wildest ideas at lightning speed—without compromising quality or precision.