New Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Enhances
Creative Suite 3.3
Showcases Benefits of Bringing PDF
and Adobe Flash Technology Together
SAN JOSE,
Calif. — June 2, 2008 — Adobe
Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE)
today announced that the new Adobe®
Acrobat® 9 Pro software (see
separate release issued today) will
be integrated into Adobe Creative
Suite®
3.3 Design Premium and Standard
editions, Creative Suite 3.3 Web
Premium and Creative Suite 3.3
Master Collection editions. Adobe
Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium
also includes Adobe Fireworks® CS3
as a special offering for designers
who need to rapidly prototype and
generate Web sites. This powerful
update to Adobe's industry-standard
design and development software
gives designers, Web professionals
and print service providers new ways
to create and deliver engaging
content.
“Adobe
continues to expand its leadership
and innovation in PDF to serve
designers, developers and content
providers,” said John Loiacono,
senior vice president of Creative
Solutions at Adobe. “With Acrobat 9
we’ve combined the power, reach and
richness of two ubiquitous
technologies, Adobe Flash and PDF,
to empower customers to create
engaging experiences, prepare
high-quality PDF files and
collaborate more efficiently.”
Innovative
Features for Every Creative Workflow
With Acrobat 9
Pro, designers can combine PDF
files, video, audio, and other
documents into easy-to-distribute
PDF Portfolios, which are simple to
browse using customizable
interactive navigation designed in
Adobe Flash®. Designers also can
include Adobe Flash Player
compatible video and application
files in their PDF files and then
play back this content in Acrobat 9
Pro and Adobe Reader® 9 software.
Acrobat 9 Pro
enables designers to collaborate on
documents more effectively and
efficiently. Now, users can create
and manage forms and collect forms
data more easily using Acrobat 9 Pro
and Acrobat.com. Available as public
beta for free signup, Acrobat.com is
a new suite of hosted services Adobe
also introduced today. Designers
using Acrobat 9 also have the
flexibility to access Acrobat.com to
literally get on the same page with
their clients by co-navigating PDF
documents in real-time. Clients only
need Adobe Reader1 to participate.
With the
intelligent Overprint Preview
feature, print professionals now can
accurately view interactions between
overlapping objects because
Overprint Preview automatically
toggles on and off in Acrobat 9 Pro
and Adobe Reader 9. Print
professionals also can reliably
convert colors from one color space
to another, switch RGB and CMYK
blacks to solid black, and map one
color to another color, including
mapping colors to Pantone spot
colors using built-in,
industry-standard Pantone libraries.
The Compare Documents feature
identifies differences including
changes to text, text formatting,
images, line weights and backgrounds
between versions of documents.
Dynamic Web
Prototyping
Adobe
Fireworks CS3, now bundled with
Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium
edition, provides designers with a
flexible tool to prototype Web pages
for interactive design projects.
Fireworks CS3 includes a common
library of pre-built assets,
provides the ability to quickly edit
vector artwork and bitmap images,
and allows seamless integration with
Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe
Illustrator®, Adobe Dreamweaver® and
Adobe Flash.
Pricing and
Availability
Adobe Creative
Suite 3.3 will begin shipping
worldwide by July 2008. All editions
will run on Mac OS X 10.4.11 or 10.5
on Intel-based systems and
Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows
Vista® platforms and will be
available through Adobe Authorized
Resellers and the Adobe Store at:
www.adobe.com/go/buy_creativesuite.
Estimated street price is US$1799
for Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design
Premium, US$1199 for Adobe Creative
Suite 3.3 Design Standard, US$1599
for Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Web
Premium, US$2499 for Adobe Creative
Suite 3.3 Master Collection and
US$159 for an upgrade from CS3.
There are numerous upgrade paths
available for Adobe customers. For
more detailed information about
Acrobat 9 Pro in CS3.3, visit
www.adobe.com/go/acrobatpro_creative.
For upgrade policies, pricing, and
language versions, please visit:
www.adobe.com/go/creativesuite.
About Adobe
Systems Incorporated
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revolutionizes how the world engages
with ideas and information –
anytime, anywhere and through any
medium. For more information, visit
www.adobe.com.
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1 Adobe Reader 9 required for full
capabilities. Functionality will
vary on earlier versions of Adobe
Reader.
