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Step up to powerful web tools, complete withq
integrated workflows and enhanced utilities;
design, develop, and maintain sophisticated
websites, full-featured applications, and
compelling interactive experiences for the web,
mobile devices, and the desktop
Follow your workflow wherever it leads with Adobeq
Dreamweaver CS4, Flash CS4 Professional,
Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator CS4, and
Fireworks CS4; Manage your assets with Adobe
Bridge CS4, and add professional-quality audio
with Adobe Soundbooth CS4
Enjoy a more efficient and powerful animationq
model in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional thanks to
new object-based animation--tweens are now
applied directly to objects ultimately allowing you
to do more in far fewer steps
Effortlessly transition fixed graphics to interactiveq
movies; build on wireframes and prototypes
developed by information architects and turn them
into standards-compliant HTML and CSS; create
rich application interfaces with the core design
intact
Work with the latest technologies to outputq
standards-based websites and applications
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Product Description
Create the full range of digital experiences, including interactive websites, applications, user interfaces,
presentations, and mobile device content, with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium software. Technology
advances empower you to work across disciplines--from graphic to web to interactive design--and give you
more creative freedom than ever before to deliver exceptional online content.

2. Design your comp in Fireworks CS4, and then export it to web-standards compliant HTML and CSS to open in
Dreamweaver CS4. The shared user interface makes it easy to move between Web Premium components. Click to
enlarge.
The green symbol in the upper left corner of a PSD file inserted into Dreamweaver tells you that the source file and
web-ready instance are in sync. Click to enlarge.
Use the Workplace Switcher in Dreamweaver (shown here), Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop Extended, and Illustrator
to quickly switch among design environments. Click to enlarge.
Combine Live View with Live Code to reveal code as rendered in an interactive state, like hovering over and
selecting a Spry data image. Armed with these details, you can quickly modify relevant CSS rules. Click to enlarge.

3. Left: A group of symbols with bones already defined between them in Flash CS4. Right: When one of the symbols is
moved, all of the connected symbols move and react in a defined relationship to each other. Click to enlarge.
Redefine the extraordinary in web design and development
Power tools for high-powered work
Step up to powerful web tools, complete with integrated workflows and enhanced utilities. Design, develop, and
maintain sophisticated websites, full-featured applications, and compelling interactive experiences for the web,
mobile devices, and the desktop.
Total workflow integration
Follow your workflow wherever it leads with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4
Extended, Illustrator CS4, and Fireworks CS4. Manage your assets with Adobe Bridge CS4, and add
professional-quality audio with Adobe Soundbooth CS4.
Powerful animation tools
Give your content a greater sense of depth with the new 3D transformation tools in Flash CS4 Professional,
complete with multireference rotation options. Bring your animations to life with the advanced inverse
kinematics of the Bones tool.
Cross-discipline workflow
Effortlessly transition fixed graphics to interactive movies. Build on wireframes and prototypes developed by
information architects and turn them into standards-compliant HTML and CSS. Create rich application interfaces
with the core design intact.
Cutting-edge technologies coupled with industry standards
Work with the latest technologies to output standards-based websites and applications, whether you're working
with client-side HTML/XHTML, CSS, and XML; server-side application languages like Adobe ColdFusion, ASP, and
PHP; or advanced JavaScript and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax).
Adobe ActionScript 3.0 development
Code more efficiently with ActionScript 3.0, the Adobe Flash Player runtime programming language. Leverage
the extensive ActionScript 3.0 API, libraries, and community support to extend the reach and improve the
performance of your applications.
Best practices
Make best practices in web design and development your practice with standards-based tools from
Adobe--whether you're building CSS-based layouts or data-rich pages with the accessible HTML Data Set
feature.
Mobile content authoring
Extend your websites to mobile devices with sleek workflows and high-fidelity results. Adobe Device Central
CS4 offers tighter integration with Flash Professional and other Creative Suite 4 components and enables
full-featured content testing.
Advanced application development
Design and create your Adobe AIR interactive prototype in Fireworks for deployment in Adobe Dreamweaver,
Flash Professional, or Flex software. Enhance your Adobe AIR application with HTML and JavaScript in

4. Dreamweaver--and then preview or deploy it immediately.
Cross-platform support
Creative Suite 4 Web Premium is available for Mac OS, Microsoft Windows XP, and Windows Vista systems.
Design with your chosen system, and then deliver across platforms with reliable, consistent, and
high-performance results. Combines:
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
Adobe Illustrator CS4
Adobe Fireworks CS4
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Adobe Soundbooth CS4
Adobe Contribute CS4
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4--Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites
and applications
Create next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver.
Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.
Learn best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create
Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.
Take control of your content
Design your pages in Dreamweaver so your clients can make updates to their web pages directly from the
browser using the Adobe InContext Editing online service. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or
complex coding.
Flash CS4 Professional--Create and deliver rich interactive content
Design with ease and efficiency
Quickly create and modify animations while retaining a great degree of control. Powerful new object-based
animation, Bezier controls, and motion presets make working in Flash easier and more intuitive.
Explore new creative possibilities
Express your creative vision in innovative ways with exciting new design tools. Animate 2D objects through 3D
space with 3D translation and rotation. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like effects or distort shapes.
Add the expressive power of patterns to your designs with the Deco tool.

5. When exported with the new CSS and Images option, the car image will be linked from a CSS rule, rather than
as an "img" tag in the HTML, because the slice type is set to Background Image. Click to enlarge.
Simply drag with the new Rotate View tool in Photoshop CS4 to spin your canvas to the orientation that works
best for you. Click to enlarge.
Amplify the impact of your site or application with the added dimension of audio by using Soundbooth CS4.
Click to enlarge.

6. Re-use page elements from your Fireworks CS4 site design to prototype an Adobe AIR application. Click to
enlarge.
Once you've exported your Fireworks CS4 comp to PDF, your client can easily add their comments through
Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat software. Click to enlarge.
Preview your content in Device Central CS4 to reveal how it will look on a range of different devices. Click to
enlarge.

7. Collaborate across workflows
Collaborate smoothly across designer and developer workflows. Easily import content into Flash from Adobe
InDesign and After Effects software using the XFL format. Enjoy common user interface elements and tools
across the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family.
Deliver for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices. The latest technologies,
such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR runtime, are right at your fingertips.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended--Discover new dimensions in digital imaging
Easily access full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended software offers with a more intuitive user
interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.
Work more efficiently
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements
that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.
Edit 3D and motion-based content
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power
of Photoshop software on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and
precision.
Perform advanced image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and
volume-render DICOM files.
Adobe Illustrator CS4--Explore new paths with the essential vector tool
Explore new features
Powerful additions such as the Blob Brush tool and transparency in gradients inspire new creativity. The highly
anticipated multiple artboards feature prompts new ways of working.
Discover hidden gems
Existing features have been polished, and hidden functions have been uncovered to reveal usefulness and
depth, enabling you to learn more quickly and take better advantage of the power of Illustrator.
Work efficiently
Illustrator CS4 offers improved interaction with options and tools, plus you can do more directly on the artboard.
Innovations with Smart Guides and Isolation Mode plus new panel behaviors enable a smoother, more efficient
workflow.
Deliver almost anywhere
Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity and shared
formats among Adobe Creative Suite tools, work across applications is virtually seamless.
Adobe Fireworks CS4--Rapidly prototype and design for the web
Take prototyping to the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Fireworks CS4 software.
Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset.
Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live
Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.
Collaborate more smoothly
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user
interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Adobe Creative
Suite 4 components, including Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4.

8. Design once, deploy to many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, Flash, or Flex software. Craft custom skins for Flex
components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready,
export web standards-compliant CSS to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software. Create HTML-based Adobe AIR
prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before
developing your application.
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro--Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with
PDF
Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web
pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed
templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation,
and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader
software.
Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel
documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle
Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further
customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone
can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed
and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.
Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage
electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being
made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work.
Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker
to monitor progress and participation.
Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set
document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict
document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify
documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to
precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.
Adobe Soundbooth CS4--Create and edit audio with ease
Rapidly enhance and edit audio
Take command of the audio in creative projects with task-based tools that help you create, clean up, and polish
sound. Multitrack support and automatic volume matching give you more flexibility and control. Visually
remove unwanted noises with the editing tools available in Spectral view.
Work with ready-to-use audio assets
Personalize your soundtracks with the enhanced Soundbooth Score editing workflow. Download Soundbooth
Scores from Resource Central, and use new multitrack support to customize, combine, or layer multiple scores.
Add effects to adjust the mood, or stretch or shorten the file to alter duration.
Use intuitive, task-based tools
Tackle everyday audio editing and cleanup with the power of nondestructive editing in the new Adobe Sound
Document (ASND) format. Quickly and easily heal sound, match volume levels, create sound effects, and
choose from a library of high-quality audio filters and streamlined mastering tools.
Enjoy tighter integration
Eliminate the need for intermediate rendering and streamline the process of editing audio in Soundbooth while
working in various Adobe Creative Suite components with features such as new nondestructive roundtrip

9. editing and Adobe Dynamic Link.
Adobe Contribute CS4--Simplify web content management
Delegate work while retaining control
Delegate content publishing to content owners without compromising the integrity of your websites. Define and
enforce custom publishing workflows to meet your organization's review and approval requirements for
published content.
Engage users
Empower end users to quickly and easily publish content to static and dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG
authoring. Give users the choice of editing websites directly from their favorite browsers or composing and
publishing web content from within Microsoft Office applications. Enable easy collaboration between users in
the content publishing process.
Work with a compatible, affordable tool
Publish to the web in almost any computing environment thanks to compatibility with existing web and IT
infrastructures and cross-platform interoperability. Contribute CS4 is affordable and works on Intel and PowerPC
based Macs and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.
Choose Your Edition
With the tightly integrated tools and services in Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, you can create visually rich
content for virtually any media--print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile. Find the one that's right for
you:

10. Adobe Creative Suite 4 also allows you to access features and services that are hosted online, such as Adobe
Community Help, Adobe Kuler, Adobe ConnectNow (a service on Acrobat.com), Adobe InContext Editing, and
Bridge Home.*
* This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed
Internet connection. The online services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages and/or currencies
and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the online services is governed by separate terms of use and by the
Adobe privacy policy, and access to these services may require user registration. Some online services, including services initially
offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees. For additional details and to review the terms of use and privacy policy, please
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