Adobe Creative Suite 4 - Design Standard

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard is the essential toolkit for print design and production. Discover new tools and efficiencies for delivering design to print with confidence.

Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing.

Adobe InDesign® CS4 breaks down the barriers between online and offline publishing. Create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents. Enhance designs by using tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control over graphics, typography, colour, transparency, effects and placed images.

Create powerful images with the professional standard.

With Adobe Photoshop® CS4, you'll enjoy greater power through a more intuitive user experience, more editing freedom and significant enhancements in your productivity. Take advantage of everything Adobe Photoshop CS4 offers, with better features that put you in control.

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool.

Adobe Illustrator® CS4 creates a comprehensive vector graphics environment, with new transparency in gradients and multiple artboards that help you to find more efficient ways to design. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely - helping you to push your own creative boundaries.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for design, web and print professionals.

Tightly integrated into four editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro enables you to create richly expressive PDF documents, collaborate more effectively with clients and colleagues and confidently prepare files for high-end print production. Enjoy full support for Adobe Flash technology that enables reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animations and applications in Adobe Acrobat and Reader®. PDF documents have never been so engaging.

Manage media visually.

Adobe Bridge CS4 is a powerful, easy-to-use media manager that allows you to easily organise, browse, locate and view creative assets. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4 and in most of Adobe's professional creative applications, Bridge provides centralised access to project files and global settings, plus XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.

Design, preview and test engaging mobile content.

With Adobe Device Central CS4, you can produce innovative and compelling content for mobile phones and other consumer electronics devices. Save time by automating testing and simulating the network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated library of device profiles. Create mobile projects to manage assets, target device profiles and export options in one central location. Record content as it plays and easily send high-quality movie clips to pitch ideas more easily to clients. Thanks to the intelligent integration with Adobe Creative Suite 4 components, Adobe Device Central CS4 helps creative professionals and mobile developers deliver engaging experiences to millions of mobile subscribers.

Streamline file management for creative projects.

Creative teams can now work more efficiently using Adobe Version Cue CS4, the server-based file management system that is included with Adobe Creative Suite 4. With Version Cue CS4 and the new Adobe Drive, you can manage shared project files centrally, work in parallel with others using an intuitive version control system and track a file's status with comments. You can also use Adobe Bridge to find files visually, search for XMP metadata and host Adobe PDF reviews. Version Cue is tightly integrated with specific Creative Suite 4 components - helping creative work groups to manage shared project files easily, without leaving the design environment.