Adobe released details today about Creative Suite 4, its first update to more than a dozen design and editing tools since Adobe CS3 some 17 months ago.
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The applications are set to reach the public in October, although Australian pricing has not yet been announced.
With CS4, Adobe aimed to unify the interfaces of more than a dozen applications, including Flash and other former properties of Macromedia. Similar pull down menus allow toggling among workspaces that you can customise, as well as Flash-based panels that snap open and shut.
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Corporate design departments will find plenty of enhancements for their teams to share work more quickly. Adobe continues to improve integration among the applications. After Effects, as only one example, can import Photoshop 3D layers and export content directly into Flash.
Options for working with high-definition video and mobile content have also been expanded, with support for the latest formats as well as for making Adobe AIR applications.
Other highlights include the fact that Photoshop CS4 will use graphics hardware acceleration for the first time, while offering support for 64-bit Windows. Users can handle more than one project at a time in Illustrator, thanks to the new multiple Artboards feature.
Flash CS4 has a rebuilt animation model, so you can make objects move on the stage in two quick steps. And Flash introduces a new, XML-based file format. Dreamweaver provides plenty of shortcuts to CSS coding, including within the Properties panel.
