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Deliver innovative ideas in print, web and mobile design |
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Latest and greatest design tools: Discover new levels of creative opportunity and efficiency with all-new versions of professional Adobe tools for print, web, interactive and mobile design |
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Common user interface: Come up to speed quickly with the help of the consistent interface across all of the creative tools |
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Exceptional integration: Work more productively than ever thanks to the exceptional integration of tools in Creative Suite 4. Easily exchange native file formats to streamline content creation across design disciplines |
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Support for industry standards and best practices: Get the professional output options you need for every design discipline, from print to web to mobile. Adobe's ongoing focus on open standards means your work can easily go wherever you want |
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Support for the latest Mac OS and Windows systems: Experience the ultimate in performance by running Design Premium natively on Intel based Macs and computers running Microsoft Windows Vista |
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Efficient installation and management: Simplify installation and software management using a single installer and serial number. Install all components at once, or install only those you most need now and add more components later (one user per license) |
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Creative possibilities: Create stunning designs using tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects and placed images |
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Productivity that flows: Move between tasks naturally and efficiently for fast, productive page layout in a flexible design environment |
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Persuasive content: Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences using logical, condensed steps and advanced features such as automatic page addition and deletion |
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Rich interactive documents: Build rich content using Adobe Flash technology and create engaging PDF documents that include professional typography and top-quality page design |
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Adobe Photoshop effects: Apply visual effects, such as drop shadow, glow, or bevel and emboss, directly within Adobe InDesign CS4. Using an interface consistent with that in Adobe Photoshop CS4 software, specify offset, angle and other options |
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Fine transparency controls: Adjust transparency and blending modes globally on entire objects or independently on strokes, fills and content |
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Support for 3D Photoshop artwork: Place a PSD file with an embedded 3D Smart Object in your InDesign layout. Use Edit Original to update or change the angle of the 3D object in Photoshop, save and the placed PSD updates automatically |
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Gradient feathers: Create beautiful effects by applying masks that contain gradients that fade objects into the background. Customize options such as gradient angles and fade rates, all within InDesign |
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Free Transform tool: Resize an object on-the-fly more easily using the Free Transform tool, thanks to larger hit zones around object handles and the ability to resize along object edges |
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Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support: Control the visibility of layers in imported Adobe Photoshop and PDF files that includes support for layer comps in Photoshop |
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Step and Repeat command: Quickly create multiple copies of an object with full control over vertical and horizontal offsets using the Step and Repeat command. Repeated items retain their layer and stacking order |
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Drawing tools: Use the convenient Pen, Pencil, Shape, Erase, Smooth and Scissors tools to quickly create and edit simple graphics or paths in your InDesign layouts |
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Pathfinder commands: Quickly turn simple, overlapping objects into complex shapes or convert one shape to another, such as turning a rectangle into an ellipse |
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Convert Point command: Easily convert corner points to smooth or line end points using the Convert Point command, which is now accessible through the InDesign menus |
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Stroke style editor: Create and save striped, dotted and dashed stroke styles. Apply them to lines, paragraph rules, text underlines and strikethroughs |
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Paragraph Composer: Automatically optimize line breaks across a paragraph using the Paragraph Composer |
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OpenType font support: Unlock the full potential of OpenType fonts with support for multilingual and alternate glyphs, including old style numbers, fractions, ligatures and swashes |
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Access to full editing power: Take advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results |
| Processor requirement Mac | PowerPC G5 or multicore Intel processor |
| Operating system requirement Mac | Mac OS X v10.4.11-10.5.4 Java Runtime Environment 1.5 required for Adobe Version Cue Server |
| Minimum RAM Required | 1GB of RAM or more recommended |
| Hard-disk space Required | 10.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional hard-disk space required during installation |
| Display Required | 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 |
| Drive Required | DVD-ROM drive |
| Software Required | QuickTime 7.4.5 software required for multimedia features |
| Internet connection required | Broadband Internet connection required for online services |
| Software languages available | Brazilian Portuguese Czech Dutch English French German Hungarian Italian Japanese
Polish Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian |
| Warranty | Adobe warranty |
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