Adobe CS3.3

Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 now incorporates Acrobat 9 Pro, and is available in Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions. Acrobat 9 Pro allows you to combine documents, video, audio, and other file types into easy-to-distribute PDF Portfolios, complete with customisable interactive navigation. Thanks to new native support for the Adobe Flash format, PDF files can now incorporate and smoothly play back video, audio, and application files created in Adobe Flash for richer and more engaging experiences. Adobe CS3.3 is available at a at 10% discount compared to CS3 Design Premium in the UK. Creative Suite 3 users can upgrade to Creative Suite 3.3 from £135.

Adobe Press Release

Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 with Adobe Acrobat 9 Now Available

London— June 25, 2008 –— Today Adobe announced that Adobe® Creative Suite® 3.3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions are available immediately for creative professionals. Creative Suite 3.3 incorporates Acrobat® 9 Pro, bringing together the power, reach, and richness of the Adobe PDF and Adobe Flash® formats and introducing numerous enhancements to print production workflows. Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium also bundles Adobe Fireworks® CS3 software as a special offering for designers who need to rapidly prototype Web sites and Web applications. 

In the UK, CS3.3 Design Premium is now offered to market at 10 per cent discount compared to CS3 Design Premium. The discount applies to full product and upgrades from point to full Design Premium. Plus customers can claim a bonus of 7-hour Total Training DVD (Adobe CS3 Design Workflow).
By using Acrobat 9 Pro software in Creative Suite 3.3, creative professionals can combine diverse documents, video, audio, and other file types into easy-to-distribute PDF Portfolios, complete with customisable interactive navigation. Thanks to new native support for the Adobe Flash format, PDF files can now incorporate and smoothly play back video, audio, and application files created in Adobe Flash for richer and more engaging experiences.

With the enhanced Overprint Preview feature, print professionals can view accurate interactions between overlapping objects on-screen. Overprint Preview automatically toggles on by default when it detects overprinting in PDF/X files or if the user sets a preference to detect overprinting in any PDF. Print professionals can also reliably convert RGB and CMYK to black or to different colour spaces.

Additionally, Acrobat 9 Pro lets designers collaborate on documents more effectively and efficiently. Design professionals can now, literally, get their clients on the same page easily using Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat.com, Adobe’s new set of hosted services.

Adobe Fireworks CS3 includes a common library of pre-built assets for rapidly prototyping Web sites, enables easy creation of Web graphics, and allows seamless integration with Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe Dreamweaver®, and Adobe Flash.

Pricing and Availability
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5 and for Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista® are now shipping worldwide in English, French, German, and Japanese versions. Information about additional language versions is available separately. All editions of Creative Suite 3.3 are available through Adobe Authorised Resellers and on the Adobe Store. Visit http://www.adobeonlineisabreeze.co.uk/index.html for more information. Estimated street prices: £1249 ex vat for Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium (previously £1409), £1051 for Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard, £895 ex vat for Creative Suite 3.3 Web Premium, and £2313 ex vat for Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection. Creative Suite 3 users can upgrade to Creative Suite 3.3 from £135. For those customers upgrading from a point product to full CS3,3 Design Premium it is £1089 (previously £1229).

For additional upgrade policies and pricing, visit http://www.adobe.gom/go/creativesuite. For more information about Acrobat 9 Pro for creative professionals, visit http://www.adobe.com/go/acrobatpro_creative.

Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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