More Adobe News
Things are rolling forth from Adobe these days — pulling us ever closer to the CS3 experience. Can’t wait! (Looking forward to that $500+ upgrade, too — not.)
First up is a new version of Camera Raw, 3.5. This Photoshop plug-in now supports new digital camera (Sony Alpha, Nikon D2Xs, etc.). RAW can be a valuable tool when shooting photos — try it. The big news here is that it’s now Universal, for those of you using MacIntel.
Second, speaking of MacIntel, Adobe demonstrated Photoshop CS3 on a MacIntel machine at the recent Photoshop World.
“During the Photoshop World keynote, Adobe’s Sr. Vice President of Creative Solutions provided a quick look at Photoshop CS3, apparently running on an Intel-based Mac,” PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote in a note to clients on Monday.
“While the presentation did not reveal any of the CS3 features, it provided evidence that the company has already successfully moved this core application to the Intel-Mac platform.”
AppleInsider also notes:
Next year’s Photoshop World is scheduled for April 4-6 at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass., suggesting a release of Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 may precede the conference.
Third, that same article notes that the existing Creative Suite 2 has been updated:
Version 2.3 will include its Acrobat 8 Professional software, the newly released version of its PDF workflow software. In addition to supporting industry-standard PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files, Acrobat 8 Professional now outputs PDF/X-4 for native transparency support, as well as PDF/A for long-term archiving.
Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium also bundles Dreamweaver 8, the Web design and development tool acquired from Macromedia.
Interesting. GoLive, once the king of the hill, is now pretty lacking — glad they’ve selected Dreamweaver instead. (Or perhaps both? Either way.…) Acrobat 8 adds to the PDF letter soup. (Joy.)
Yup, exciting times…;)
