All-New Adobe Creative Suite Announced
September 29, 2003
San Jose, CA - Adobe Systems has unveiled the Adobe Creative Suite, a new software product that combines new full-version upgrades of Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, and Adobe GoLive CS, incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and introduces Version Cue file version manager.
Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition combines four new full-version upgrades of essential Adobe applications: Photoshop CS with Adobe ImageReady CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS and GoLive CS, all brought together with Version Cue.
Acrobat 6.0 Professional, released earlier this year, is also a component of the Creative Suite - allowing customers to review and comment on documents, as well as pre-flight and output complex print jobs.
Adobe Creative Suite is anchored by Version Cue, an innovative file management system that allows designers to increase productivity and meet tight deadlines. Version Cue enables users to visually scan image thumbnails in Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, and GoLive CS, or search XMP metadata across version comments, keywords, author, date, and more.
A Standard Edition of Adobe Creative Suite is available, combining these same components, except for GoLive CS and Acrobat 6.0 Professional, to provide an advanced solution for print design and layout.
Adobe Creative Suite also includes two Adobe typeface families. Warnock Pro, a new Adobe Originals OpenType family, is included with every copy of Adobe Creative Suite, providing a classic yet contemporary composition family that performs a wide variety of typographic tasks with elegance. Brioso Pro, an OpenType family designed in the calligraphic tradition of the Latin alphabet, is available free of charge to customers who register their copy of Adobe Creative Suite via the Web.
Both versions of Adobe Creative Suite include Video CDs, developed by Total Training, and a new Design Guide that offers insights and advice for users of all experience levels. CS customers will also have access to the new, redesigned Adobe Studio (www.studio.adobe.com) a Web resource for tips, tricks, and guidance.
Any customer that currently has a copy of Photoshop (purchased as a standalone product or part of an Adobe Collection) on their system, can upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition for an estimated street price of $749, or the Standard Edition for $549.
Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition is US$1229 and $999 for the Standard Edition.
Adobe Creative Suite for Mac OS X 10.2.4, Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, and Windows XP Professional and Home Edition, will be available in the fourth (calendar) quarter of 2003.
For more information, visit
www.adobe.com/creativesuite
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