Adobe gets flashy with Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 3.3
Micro, macro media
ADOBE HAS updated its Creative Suite to version 3.3 with the usual flavours of Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium and Master Collection editions all rolling out.
The most significant addition to the suites is that of version 9 of Acrobat Pro, which has also just launched and now couples Adobe Flash and PDF formats together.
Acrobat 9 Pro users can combine diverse documents such as video, audio, and other file types into easy-to-distribute PDFs all with its new native support for the Adobe Flash format. See, there was a good reason for the firm to buy Macromedia after all.
Adobe Design Premium comes bundled the Adobe Fireworks CS3 software as an offering for designers needing to rapidly trial web sites and their applications.
Design Premium is now offered at a 10 per cent discount as compared to CS3 Design Premium. This applies to the full product and upgrades from point to full Design Premium.
The estimated street prices are £1249 for Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium (previously £1409), £1051 for Creative Suite 3.3 Design Standard, £895 for Creative Suite 3.3 Web Premium and £2313 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).
So, why not get flash with your PDFs now? µ
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Bog hole
So, why not get flash with your PDFs now? µMaybe because we are sick and tired of proprietary PC software that is riddled with security holes and privacy problems? Think before you install this liquid manure.
Thanks anyway
What a nightmarish scenario, all that nonsense in PDF's, fortunately they had the option to put video in PDF's for years now and nobody on the whole planet ever did I think :)Incidentally, did they add flash-in-pdf and such to the open-sourced PDF specifications too?
So how long until...
Acrobat 9 Pro users can combine diverse documents such as video, audio, trojans and worms.Adobe
So this was Adobe's vision for the Macromedia suite. Nominal updates with few new features that anyone is going to use, plus arbitrary hobbling of features on non-Windows systems (the Mac only gets Acrobat Pro, the other versions are missing), and charging through the nose for the few new features they do add.Come back Macromedia, all is forgiven.
PDF as Flash?
Cool!Now Apple may allow Flash player on iPhones :)
Or are they going to kill PDF documents at all?
More DRM.... no thanks...
Yeah no thanks Adobe.I have no desire to upset the already existing DRM on my PC with your over the top DRM crap. I like MS Office exactly the way it is right now without you guys screwing it up.
And you guys wonder why we bittorrent your software.
If I had the opportunity to buy your software without all the DRM.... I'd hand you full price today.