However, the software industry has been moving away from free customized assistance for years. We almost hate to rate Adobe's tech support as excellent due to the extreme expense of live, personalized help from the company. And it can export SWF files for the Flash Player as well as content in the new XLF format for Flash. InDesign offers many enhancements for interactive designs, such as for managing Web-ready links and JavaScript rollovers without coding by hand. At least Illustrator finally manages multipage documents.
Integration among the applications includes the capability to export Fireworks designs as CSS, then bringing them into Dreamweaver.Īt the same time, there's not much to wow users of Photoshop who don't work with 3D content. Dreamweaver beefs up tools for CSS sites and feels more stable than its predecessors. On the other hand, if you need to make round trips among software for print and interactive designs, CS4 is worthwhile, especially for the new animation model in Flash.
If you rely on Adobe software for print layout work alone, we'd recommend the less expensive Design Standard package, or not upgrading from CS3 or earlier at all. Enhanced integration speeds up the workflow if you're using several applications for the same or related projects. Work space adjustments throughout CS4 include panels that are more nimble than its predecessors, and handy pull-down menus with preset styles that enable you to shift among work space layouts quickly. With Creative Suite 4, Adobe has unified the interfaces of all the applications for a more seamless experience. These system requirements are less stringent than for those suites involving video, such as Production Premium and the Master Collection.
Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 compatibility may also be necessary. The display must be 1,280x900, with 32-bit video card and 16MB of VRAM. For both Windows and Macs, installation comes via a DVD. Mac users will need a PowerPC G5 or Intel-based machine with at least OS X v10.4.11, as well as 1GB of RAM and 11.2GB of available disk space. The necessary available disk space is 9.1GB (and will be perhaps more during installation). To install Creative Suite 4 Web Premium, Windows users need at least Windows XP SP2 or Vista, with a 2GHz-or-faster processor. Adobe's custom installation still lets you pick and choose which components to embrace or reject, but there's no mechanism for migrating your settings and all your custom tools from CS3 and earlier. That's still less time than with CS3, and installing the smaller Design Premium will likely take less time. Unfortunately, it took us nearly two hours to install the Adobe Master Collection CS4 on Windows Vista and XP machines (We didn't test CS4 thoroughly on a Mac).
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