Adobe Introduces Creative Suite 2

Adobe Accelerates Print, Web and Mobile Publishing Workflows With Introduction of Adobe Creative Suite 2 Adobe's Complete Design and Publishing Environment Integrates New Adobe Stock Photos Service, Introduces Adobe Bridge and Enhanced Version Cue CS2

Press Release

Adobe announces Creative Suite 2

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(QUARKvsINDESIGN.com)–April 4, 2005–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced a new release of Adobe® Creative Suite, the pow­er­house design envi­ron­ment that rev­o­lu­tion­ized print and Web work­flows for cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als world­wide. Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition inte­grates new full-versions of indis­pens­able design soft­ware — Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Adobe InDesign® CS2, Adobe Illustrator® CS2, and Adobe GoLive® CS2 (see sep­a­rate press releas­es) — with the all-new Version Cue® CS2. The recent­ly released Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional also is includ­ed, as a key appli­ca­tion in this mile­stone soft­ware release.

A rad­i­cal new Adobe Creative Suite com­po­nent, Adobe Bridge, acts as a hub for pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, imagery and cre­ativ­i­ty, pro­vid­ing multi-view file brows­ing and smooth cross-product inte­gra­tion across Adobe Creative Suite 2 soft­ware. It also pro­vides access to Adobe Stock Photos, a new stock pho­tog­ra­phy ser­vice that offers one-stop shop­ping for high-quality, royalty-free images for lay­out and design (see sep­a­rate press release). With advanced mobile author­ing, for stan­dards such as SVG‑t, Adobe Creative Suite 2 accel­er­ates design and pub­lish­ing work­flows — for print, the Web and the lat­est gen­er­a­tion of hand­held devices.

“Through their work in design, adver­tis­ing and pub­lish­ing our cus­tomers change the way the world looks every­day,” said Shantanu Narayen, pres­i­dent and chief oper­at­ing offi­cer at Adobe. “Our goal is to devel­op a tech­nol­o­gy plat­form that the cre­ative com­mu­ni­ty can rely on and build upon. With Creative Suite 2 we’ve deliv­ered the essen­tial tools design­ers need to effi­cient­ly real­ize and cre­ate their best work: online, in print or for the lat­est hand­held device.”

Introducing Adobe Bridge and Adobe Stock Photos

Adobe Bridge is a visu­al file brows­er that lets design­ers eas­i­ly browse, orga­nize, and process design assets with­in Adobe Creative Suite 2 soft­ware com­po­nents. Designers can pre­view multi-page Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, drag and drop from float­ing Compact Mode win­dows, process images with built-in Camera Raw 3.0, edit and search for Adobe XMP meta­da­ta, and track assets man­aged in Version Cue CS2. Simplifying the pur­chase and man­age­ment of stock imagery, Adobe Stock Photos is a sin­gle resource that brings togeth­er, at one con­ve­nient loca­tion, more than 230,000 images from some of the world’s lead­ing stock pho­tog­ra­phy providers, includ­ing: Photodisc® by Getty Images; Comstock Images® by Jupitermedia®; Digital Vision®; imageshopâ„¢ roy­al­ty free by zefaim­agesâ„¢; and amana.

“The first ver­sion of Adobe Creative Suite enabled sub­stan­tial pro­duc­tiv­i­ty gains and more refined cre­ative results at JWT,” said Tim McCaffrey, part­ner and senior design pro­duc­er for JWT, the largest adver­tis­ing agency brand in the United States and the fourth largest full-service net­work in the world. “With inno­va­tions such as Adobe Bridge and the new stock pho­tog­ra­phy ser­vice, Adobe Creative Suite 2 is an even more inte­grat­ed, com­pre­hen­sive design envi­ron­ment that is elim­i­nat­ing steps from our work­flow and pro­mot­ing enhanced pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and quality.”

Enhanced Collaboration, Color Consistency and Reliable PDF Creation

Version Cue CS2, a pow­er­ful file-version man­ag­er and col­lab­o­ra­tion tool, helps users visu­al­ly pre­view, track and access his­tor­i­cal and alter­nate ver­sions of files in Adobe Creative Suite 2 projects. Workgroup users can eas­i­ly share their work, and can now ini­ti­ate a Web-based col­lab­o­ra­tive review of PDF project files. Using a sin­gle dia­log box in Adobe Bridge, design­ers can syn­chro­nize col­or set­tings for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2 and GoLive CS2, avoid­ing painful after-the-fact col­or adjust­ments. New glob­al export pre­sets allow for con­sis­tent cre­ation of Adobe PDF doc­u­ments across com­po­nents of Adobe Creative Suite to save time and avoid cost­ly errors when projects go to print. Presets are stored in a sin­gle loca­tion and can be cus­tomized for spe­cif­ic workflows.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Creative Suite for Mac OS X ver­sion 10.2.8 through 10.3.8, Java Runtime Environment 1.4.1, Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or 2, will begin ship­ping in May to cus­tomers in the United States and Canada, and will be avail­able through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at www​.adobe​.com/store . International ver­sions are expect­ed to begin ship­ping in late May and ear­ly June. Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition is US$1,199 and US$899 for Creative Suite 2 Standard Edition. Upgrade pric­ing is avail­able for cus­tomers of Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe Photoshop. For more detailed infor­ma­tion about fea­tures, upgrade poli­cies and pric­ing, please vis­it: www​.adobe​.com/​c​r​e​a​t​i​v​esuite . Adobe Stock Photos may not be avail­able in all coun­tries, lan­guages, and cur­ren­cies and is sub­ject to change. For details on avail­abil­i­ty vis­it: www​.adobe​.com/​a​d​o​b​e​s​t​o​c​k​photos .

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe is the world’s lead­ing provider of soft­ware solu­tions to cre­ate, man­age and deliv­er high-impact, reli­able dig­i­tal con­tent. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www​.adobe​.com .