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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
    •    Quickly convert bitmaps to vectors with new Live Trace, and colorize intuitively with Live Paint.
    •    Find tools faster with an interface that's customizable to the way you work.
    •    Display your work using industry-standard formats such as SVG, PDF/X, PDF, PSD, and more.
    •    Work more efficiently with other Adobe applications, Macromedia Flash (SWF), QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Office.


TOP TEN FEATURES OF ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2
    •    Live Trace - Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths with the Live Trace feature.
    •    Live Paint - Apply color to any area of your artwork and use overlapping paths to create new shapes with the Live Paint tool, which intuitively colors artwork and automatically detects and corrects gaps.
    •    Control palette - Discover new features and find existing features faster in the context-sensitive Control palette. Accessing selection-based tools from a single location eliminates the need for multiple palettes.
    •    Advanced typography - Easily create and control type with over 100 OpenType fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underline and strikethrough, transparent effects, and more.
    •    Adobe Bridge - Use Adobe Bridge to efficiently browse and preview your creative assets, run automation scripts, access Adobe Stock Photos, and more.
    •    Industry-standard drawing tools - Draw and edit artwork using the industry-standard Pen, Pencil, and other tools that professionals rely on to create logos, illustrations, packaging, maps, posters, Web graphics, and more.
    •    Creative effects - Enhance your artwork with live effects, transparency, envelopes, warping, 3D effects, and Adobe Photoshop CS2 filters, plus go even further with symbolism tools and Gradient Mesh.
    •    Integration with your favorite applications - Keep your work flowing with easy integration of your designs into other Adobe applications, as well as into Macromedia Flash (SWF), QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Office products.
    •    Superior Web graphics - Easily create for the Web using vector-based slicing tools, expanded SVG import and export, Pixel Preview mode, expanded Photoshop export options, simplified SWF file export options, and more.
    •    Enhanced Adobe PDF file creation - Create native Adobe PDF files, including multipage PDF files, so clients and others can easily review your artwork using Adobe Acrobat or free Adobe Reader software.
System Requirements:
    •    PowerPC G4 or G5 processor
    •    Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through v.10.3.8 (10.3.4 through 10.3.8 recommended)
    •    256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
    •    960MB of available hard-disk space
    •    Color monitor with 16-bit video card
    •    1,024x768 monitor resolution
    •    CD-ROM drive
    •    For Adobe PostScript printers: PostScript Level 2 or PostScript 3
    •    Internet or phone connection required for product activation
    •    Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos
 
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
    •    Design professional page layouts using unparalleled support for native Adobe file formats, sophisticated typographical controls, and rich creative options, including transparency effects, flexible table creation, object and text styles, and more.
    •    Achieve greater efficiency through tight integration with the Adobe applications you use every day, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, GoLive, and InCopy software.
    •    Preview and adjust separations, overprinting, and transparency flattener settings. Then reliably output pages to print or as Adobe PDF files using professional controls, including comprehensive printing options, trapping support, color management controls, and print and Adobe PDF export presets.


TOP TEN FEATURES OF ADOBE INDESIGN CS2
    •    Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support - Selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, and layers in Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layout - all while linking to a single file.
    •    Comprehensive styles - Create more consistent designs and speed up production by using object, paragraph, and character styles in InDesign. Save graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles, and define paragraph and character styles using rich formatting options. Then apply and globally update these styles efficiently.
    •    InDesign snippets - Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a layout, InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page.
    •    Transparency - Apply editable drop shadows, feathering, and other transparency effects. Maintain soft edges when placing transparent Photoshop files.
    •    Tables - Import styled Microsoft Word and Excel tables, create tables by importing from tab-delimited text files, or build from scratch in InDesign. Further refine your tables with formatting options such as color fills in alternating rows and automatic running headers and footers.
    •    Beautiful text composition - Access advanced typographical controls including the Paragraph Composer, OpenType fonts, drop caps, optical kerning and margin alignment, and more.
    •    Direct export to Adobe PDF - Export Adobe Acrobat 4.0-7.0 files directly from InDesign for electronic reviews and high-end printing, using a streamlined interface that's more consistent across Adobe graphics applications. Maintain layers in exported Acrobat 6.0-7.0 files.
    •    Flexible XML support - Import XML files with greater control, including linking to XML content for easier updating. Also apply XML tags to tables, and then import XML content into and export it from those tables.
    •    Reliable printing - Have confidence in your output. Get accurate, consistent results every time you print using sophisticated preview capabilities and sharing custom presets.
    •    Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments - Assign only the elements of a document that an editor needs to work on in InCopy CS2 while you're designing the rest - whether that's specific frames on a page, frames on one or more spreads, or all the frames in a document.
System Requirements:
    •    PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
    •    Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through 10.3.8
    •    256MB of RAM (320MB recommended)
    •    870MB of available hard-disk space
    •    1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card (24-bit screen display recommended)
    •    CD-ROM drive
    •    QuickTime 6 required for multimedia features (included in Mac OS X)
    •    For Adobe PostScript printers: PostScript Level 2 or PostScript 3
    •    Internet or phone connection required for product activation
    •    Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos
 
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
    •    Create extraordinary images with groundbreaking technology.
    •    Be more productive with an intuitive workspace that you can adapt to your needs.
    •    Save time with smoother file handling and multi-image digital camera raw file processing.


TOP FEATURES OF ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2
    •    Timesaving file handling with Adobe Bridge (formerly the File Browser) - Simplify file handling with Adobe Bridge, the next-generation File Browser, where you can process multiple camera raw images at once; resize, rate, and label thumbnails; quickly review images in Slideshow mode; search metadata; and more.
    •    Professional color and tone control - Improve the color, contrast, and dynamic range of any image with a comprehensive set of professional color- and tone-correction tools.
    •    Intelligent image editing - Edit faster with intelligent tools, including the revolutionary Vanishing Point, which lets you add elements to an image and see them automatically match the perspective of the surrounding image area; the Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush for expert retouching; and the one-click red-eye correction tool.
    •    Multi-image digital camera raw file processing - Accelerate your raw file workflow with simultaneous processing of multiple images while you continue working. Quickly import images into your choice of popular formats, including Digital Negative (DNG), and enjoy automatic adjustments to exposure, shadows, brightness and contrast, and precise curve and color settings.
    •    Flexible layers - Composite images, text, and effects on hundreds of layers that you can organize with up to five levels of nesting and save in different combinations as Layer Comps.
    •    Painting and drawing tools - Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.
    •    Special effects filters - Achieve amazing results with more than 95 special effects filters. Easily preview and apply more than one filter at a time from the Filter Gallery.
    •    Advanced type control - Add vector-based text that you can edit at any time, format, warp, place on a path, convert to outlines, and use for masks or other special effects.
    •    Customizable workspaces and menus - Get easier access to the tools you need with task-based presets, highlight new or commonly used menu items, and even set up and save custom menus and workspaces.
    •    Automated image processing - Automate tasks by setting up event-based scripts, record a series of steps as an Action for efficient batch processing, and link templates and databases with Variables.
System Requirements:
    •    PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
    •    Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through v.10.3.8 (10.3.4 through 10.3.8 recommended)
    •    320MB of RAM (384MB recommended)
    •    750MB of available hard-disk space
    •    Color monitor with 16-bit video card
    •    1,024x768 monitor resolution
    •    CD-ROM drive
    •    Internet or phone connection required for product activation
 
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
    •    Build sophisticated CSS-based Web content in an intuitive visual environment and enjoy comprehensive site maintenance.
    •    Efficiently create or leverage assets for your Web and mobile sites through tight integration with Adobe Creative Suite 2 software.
    •    Design mobile sites and applications based on open standards, using visual authoring tools and native device emulation.



TOP FEATURES OF ADOBE GOLIVE CS2
    •    Visual CSS layout - Use a visual CSS layout window to create standards-compliant code that renders faithfully on the latest mobile devices and Web browsers. Or, code by hand and verify syntax easily.
    •    Smart Objects - Save time by placing native Adobe Photoshop Illustrator, and Adobe PDF files into GoLive as Smart Objects, which re-render on-the-fly when you crop or resize them.
    •    Complete development environment for OMA, W3C, and 3GPP standards - Develop for mobile using global industry standards, including CSS, XHTML, SVG Tiny, SMIL, MPEG-4, and more.
    •    Multiple source code views - Work with source code in five views: Layout/Source mode split view, Source mode, Outline mode, Outline/Source mode split view, and the Source palette.
    •    Visual collections and query editing - Visually put together sophisticated search query parameters to find and change files, code, and linked objects. Generate site reports based on new collection and query features.
    •    Information architecture diagramming - Plan your site beforehand with a full toolkit for creating information design diagrams, including the ability to specify your own groups and sets.
    •    Visual MMS authoring - Use a complete and intuitive interface to create Multimedia Messaging Service templates for slide shows and text messages.
    •    Enhanced InDesign Package for GoLive - Transfer Adobe InDesign assets to GoLive with drag-and drop ease, open an InDesign package in GoLive and export to XHTML to jump-start your site, or flow tagged InDesign content into CSS templates.
    •    Collaborative asset management - Track your team-based projects using popular content versioning systems like Perforce, CVS, or Version Cue, or use Local/Network File System Directory Versioning.
System Requirements:
    •    PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor (G4 or G5 recommended)
    •    Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through v.10.3.8 (10.3.4 through 10.3.8 recommended) with Java(TM) Runtime Environment 1.4.1
    •    192MB of RAM (256MB recommended)
    •    700MB of available hard-disk space
    •    1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
    •    CD-ROM drive
    •    For Adobe PostScript(R) printers: PostScript Level 2 or PostScript 3(TM)
    •    QuickTime 6.5 required for multimedia features; QuickTime 3GPP component required for mobile authoring
    •    Internet or phone connection required for activation
    •    Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos
Adobe InDesign $699.95
Adobe Illustrator $499.95
Adobe Photoshop $699.95
Adobe GoLive $399.95