Adobe® Flex® Builder™ 3

Create engaging, cross-platform rich Internet applications

Adobe® Flex® Builder™ 3 Standard software is an Eclipse™ based development tool enabling intelligent coding; interactive step-through debugging; and visual design of user interface layout, appearance, and behavior of RIAs. The ability to import assets from Adobe Creative Suite® 3 makes it easy for designers and developers to work together.

Adobe Flex applications can provide a highly interactive experience, seamlessly supporting the use of integrated media.

Flex applications run identically in all major browsers and operating systems and can now run on the desktop with Adobe AIR™.

Flex provides a structured, proven, open-source development framework for the delivery of predictable, long-term RIA solutions, making Flex the preferred choice for web sites as well as intranet and enterprise applications.

Top reasons to buy Adobe® Flex® Builder™ 3

• Powerful coding tools—Take advantage of editors for MXML, ActionScript™, and CSS;
syntax coloring; statement completion; code collapse; interactive step-through debugging;
and more.

• Rich visual layout—Visually design and preview user interface layout, appearance, and
behavior using a rich library of built-in components. Create or extend those components
easily if you need to.

• Interactive data visualization—Create data dashboards and interactive data analysis by
simply dragging and dropping a chart type and linking it to a data source using the Flex®
Charting library.

• Skinning and styling—Customize the appearance of an application using CSS and
graphical property editors to quickly set the most commonly used properties and preview
the results in Design view.

• Integration with Creative Suite® 3—Import ready-to-use creative assets directly into
Flex quickly and easily with new Flex Skin Design extensions for Adobe Flash®, Illustrator®,
Photoshop®, and Fireworks® software.

• Code refactoring—Find references to classes, variables, and methods, and rename them
easily.

• Native support for Adobe AIR—Build desktop applications with the same skills and
codebase as your RIAs with new desktop components and Adobe AIR development tools.

• Powerful testing tools—Use memory and performance profilers to investigate memory use
and analyze where applications are using resources. Automated functional testing support,
now included in Flex Builder Professional, enables regression testing.

• Advanced data services—Invoke web services or request XML data via HTTP using a rich,
built-in library of data access services. Use open-source BlazeDS to easily connect applications
to back-end services, leveraging Remoting and AMF, a binary, high-performance HTTPbased
data transport. You can also add real-time data push and pub/sub messaging.

• Open-source framework—Beginning with Flex 3, the entire Flex framework is now
available as an open-source project. Flex Remoting and Flex Messaging are also available
as open source in BlazeDS.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® Flex® Builder™ 3

• Native support for Adobe AIR—Create desktop applications with Adobe AIR more
quickly. Flex® 3 introduces new desktop components and incorporates Adobe AIR
development tools, enabling you to build desktop applications with the same skills and
codebase as your RIAs.

• Code refactoring—Find references to classes, variables, and methods, and rename them
easily.

• Profilers and automated testing*—Use the memory profiler to investigate and tweak how
applications consume memory. Run the performance profiler to analyze where applications
are using resources, and find inefficiencies that could be improved by rewriting or breaking
up functions. Automated functional testing support is now included in Adobe® Flex®
Builder™ 3 Professional.

• SWF size reduction—Leverage a new persistent framework caching feature in Adobe Flash®
Player to greatly reduce the size of a Flex application SWF. The Flex framework is cached the
first time any Flex application is used and is ready for reuse with all other Flex applications,
regardless of source domain.

• New and improved data visualization components—Enhance data visualization using
the new Advanced DataGrid*, which includes grouping and summarization plus improved
rendering options. Charts* include new interaction support, a drawing API, and multiple
axis support.

• Improved skinning and styling workflow—Use new import wizards to consume assets
from Creative Suite® 3 products. Design view now supports rendering of skins and styles,
enabling designers and developers to update properties and visualize how they affect each
skin without rebuilding.

• Multiple SDK support—Use Flex Builder 3 to create applications for both the Flex 2 and
Flex 3 SDK.

• Improved project workflows—Get started quickly with project wizards for PHP and
ASP.NET. Improved project portability support enables developers to share projects and
settings more easily.

• Integration with Creative Suite 3—Import ready-to-use creative assets directly into Flex
quickly and easily with new Flex Skin Design extensions for Flash, Illustrator®, Photoshop®,
and Fireworks® software.

• Web service introspection—Retrieve a WSDL and generate ActionScript™ proxies to make
calls and serialize or deserialize strongly typed objects. Flex Builder 3 includes new code
hinting for making web service calls and dealing with responses.

• Improved browser integration—The Flex-Ajax Bridge (FABridge), used to expose Flex
applications to scripting in the browser, is now included in Flex 3. A new BrowserManager
component allows access to the browser URL, making it easy to add deep linking support,
which is useful for bookmarking. New wizards expose Flex functionality to JavaScript.

Adobe® Creative Suite® 3

Description:

Thinking of buying an edition of Adobe Creative Suite? Why not consider Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection? It combines the best of Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium, Web Premium, and Production Premium editions with advanced productivity features so you can create content for virtually all media with one value-packed offering.

Master Collection is a comprehensive creative environment that features professional, highly integrated, print, web, interactive, video, and mobile design tools from Adobe. It combines Adobe InDesign® CS3, Photoshop® CS3 Extended, Illustrator® CS3, Flash® CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver® CS3, Adobe Contribute® CS3, Fireworks® CS3, After Effects® CS3 Professional, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3, Soundbooth® CS3, and Encore® CS3. In addition, new Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro incorporates Flash technology to enable richer, more compelling PDF files, plus it offers numerous valuable enhancements to print production workflows. A value-packed offering, Master Collection provides everything you need to design for virtually all media.

Features:

An amazing value—Expand your technical skills without breaking your budget. Creative Suite® 3.3 Master Collection combines the best of the Design Premium, Web Premium, and Production Premium editions into one value-packed offering.

Highly efficient integration—Work more productively than ever before thanks to the exceptional integration of tools in Master Collection. Come up to speed quickly using a familiar Adobe interface in Flash—and easily exchange native file formats to streamline content creation across design disciplines. Import layered Photoshop files into Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Flash, After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Encore. Export InDesign files such as XHTML, to jump-start web designs in Dreamweaver. Paint video layers in Photoshop CS3 Extended and export them to a variety of video formats, including FLV, to incorporate into a website or an After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro project.

Easy collaboration between designers and developers—Produce rich, engaging content that can be freely deployed on the web and on a wide variety of mobile and other devices. Quickly copy motion to ActionScript™ 3.0 language to hand off to a developer working with Flash, or use scripts to automate tasks across components of the software. Master Collection offers robust features for producing and deploying cutting-edge content as well as for improving efficiencies between designers and developers.

Complete creative freedom—Whether you need to produce printed brochures, compelling websites, rich interactive experiences, engaging mobile content, or stories told through motion and sound, find the perfect mode of expression for your ideas with Master Collection. You’ll also find learning resources, CSS-based web-page starting points, animation presets, and other support for quickly getting high-quality results in design disciplines you’re just starting to explore.

Tools to grow your business—Venture into new creative territory with Master Collection, which offers everything you need to excel in your core discipline and meet changing customer requirements while expanding your creative business in new directions.

Streamlined cross-media publishing—Easily publish content to multiple media. Preview Photoshop or Illustrator artwork for mobile devices using Adobe Device Central CS3. Prepare audio in Soundbooth, and then layer it over video in Adobe Premiere Pro—export the result as FLV for use on a website. Repurpose InDesign layouts using XML or export them as XHTML that you can open in Dreamweaver. Master Collection makes it easy to leverage your content for multiple media.

Standards-based professional output—From high-quality print to high-definition video, Master Collection meets your most rigorous output criteria. It offers the professional output options you need for every design discipline, from print to web to video. Adobe’s ongoing focus on open standards ensures that your work can easily go wherever you need it to.

Efficient installation and management—Simplify installation and software management using a single installer and serial number. Install all components at once, or install select components now and add the balance later.

System Requirements:

Intel® Pentium® 4 (1.4GHz processor for DV; 3.4GHz processor for HDV), Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon® (dual 2.8GHz processors for HD), or Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor; SSE2-enabled processor required for AMD systems

Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)

1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD; more RAM recommended when running multiple components

22GB of available hard-disk space to install all core components (up to 1GB of additional free space may be required during installation); custom installing select components requires less space

Dedicated 7,200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred

Microsoft DirectX or ASIO compatible sound card

1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback

Some 3D features in Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Extended require a Microsoft DirectX 9 capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM; for OpenGL support, an Adobe After Effects® supported OpenGL 2.0 card (NVIDIA recommended)

For SD/HD workflows, an Adobe certified card for capture and export to tape

DVD-ROM drive

Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray Disc creation

DVD+-R burner required for DVD creation

OHCI compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device

QuickTime 7.1.5 software required to use QuickTime features

Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Web Standard

Description:

Streamline web design, development, and maintenance

Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Web Standard software is the basic toolkit for web designers and developers. It offers all-new versions of fundamental tools for creating and maintaining interactive websites, applications, and mobile device content. Prototype your projects, design assets, and build and maintain professional web experiences. Work on your choice of Macintosh or Windows,® and then deliver consistently across platforms, browsers, and mobile devices with Adobe® Flash® Player.

Product highlights

Work with full new versions of Adobe’s professional web design tools.

Experience tight integration for maximum productivity.

Enjoy support for the latest web technologies and best practices.

Top new features
• Latest versions of the best tools—Get the newest releases of the industry’s favorite tools for web design and development. Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Web Standard software offers innovative new features and advanced integration across Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3, Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks® CS3, and Adobe Contribute® CS3 software.

• High-productivity tools—Turbo-charge the web design and development process. Roundtrip editing between Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver enables speedy prototyping, graphics creation, and optimization. Move CSS layouts from Fireworks to Dreamweaver. Use Contribute with Dreamweaver for controlled user-based web maintenance.

• Emerging technologies—Prepare for the next generation of web technology while applying best practices. Create dynamic user interfaces with CSS and Ajax, add Flash Video, incorporate new standards-based user elements, and support user-generated content for dynamic experiences.

• Creative flexibility—Flow through the design process quickly with new Flash creative tools such as the Pen tool for better control, shape primitives for easily creating unique shapes, and new filter effects. Use advanced video exporting and encoding to create high-quality video experiences.

• ActionScript™ 3.0 development—Go farther with ActionScript 3.0, the high-performance, object-oriented programming language for Adobe Flash Player. Convert animations to ActionScript, and explore a whole new world of customization using the rich language, API, libraries, and expansive community support services.

• Rapid prototyping—Mock up CSS designs in Fireworks with speed and ease. A common library contains prebuilt, easily accessible objects such as forms, browser, and OS elements. Apply reskinnable color, weight, and font elements. Move designs into Flash and Dreamweaver, or leverage an extensible API.

• Easy web maintenance—Free yourself from simple web edits. With Contribute CS3, enable individuals or workgroups to easily edit and publish content to websites and blogs from a controlled, permissions-based application or from within Microsoft applications.

• Mobile content authoring—Use Adobe Device Central CS3 to design, develop, preview, and test content for a wide range of mobile and consumer devices. Easily showcase your work in numerous mobile device skins through built-in and regularly updated device profiles.

• Browser and platform compatibility—Ensure your experience is consistent across any operating system, browser, or platform using the new Browser Compatibility Check in Dreamweaver and the Adobe CSS Advisor website, an invaluable source of user-contributed insight on CSS issues.

• Macintosh or Windows®—Pick your platform. Creative Suite 3 Web Standard is available for Mac OS—including Intel® based Macintosh computers—Windows XP, and Windows Vista.™ Design in your preferred platform, and then deliver across platforms with consistent results.

Top features

• Best of the best—Get all the fundamental tools to prototype, design, develop, and maintain web sites, applications, interactive experiences, and mobile content. Enjoy new features and integration across Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3, Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks® CS3, and Adobe Contribute® CS3 software.

• Powerful integration—Leverage integrated workflows that enable fast, efficient exchange of assets so you move from design to delivery efficiently. Roundtrip editing between Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver enables speedy prototyping, graphics creation, and optimization. Import files from other Adobe creative tools.

• Professional interactive design—Discover the powerful, expressive Flash authoring environment. Add life to graphics with acclaimed animation tools, high-quality text rendering, filters and other effects, and the popular Flash Video tools, complete with alpha channel support and batch rendering.

• Latest technologies and standards—Keep pace with evolving technology and standards. Design with CSS and XML; integrate with development environments like HTML, XHTML, XML, Adobe ColdFusion,® ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, or PHP; test content across myriad browsers and operating systems; and prepare for the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

• Easy web maintenance—Free yourself from simple web edits. With Contribute CS3, enable individuals or workgroups to easily edit and publish content to websites and blogs from a controlled, permissions-based application or from within Microsoft applications.

• ActionScript™ 3.0 development—Go farther with ActionScript 3.0, the high-performance, object-oriented programming language for Adobe Flash Player. Explore a whole new world of customization using the rich language, API, libraries, and expansive community support services.

• Best practices—Easily apply best practices of web design and development. Create consistent CSS-based designs with the CSS layout and visualization tools in Dreamweaver. Drag and drop an XML feed onto a web page. Use the industry’s first integrated tool for Section 508 and WCAG Priority 2 checkpoints.

• Mobile content authoring—Use Adobe Device Central CS3 to design, develop, preview, and test content for a wide range of mobile and consumer devices. Easily showcase your work in numerous mobile device skins through built-in and regularly updated device profiles.

• Macintosh or Windows®—Pick your platform. Adoobe Creative Suite® 3 Web Standard software is available for Mac OS—including Intel® based Macintosh computers—
Windows XP, and Windows Vista.™ Design in your preferred platform, and then deliver across platforms with consistent results.

• Produce for today and tomorrow—Whether you’re updating a website to support the latest standards and technologies, integrating interactive video, migrating to CSS-based designs, conforming to accessibility governances, or experimenting with mobile content development, Creative Suite 3 Web Standard lets you get it done today yet scales to support new web or device projects in the future.

Top feature list for web and interactive designers and developers

• Best of the best—Get all the fundamental tools to prototype, design, develop, and maintain web sites, applications, interactive experiences, and mobile content. Enjoy new features and integration across Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3, Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks® CS3, and Adobe Contribute® CS3 software.

• Powerful integration—Leverage integrated workflows that enable fast, efficient exchange of assets so you move from design to delivery efficiently. Roundtrip editing between Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver enables speedy prototyping, graphics creation, and optimization. Import files from other Adobe creative tools.

• Professional interactive design—Discover the powerful, expressive Flash authoring environment. Add life to graphics with acclaimed animation tools, high-quality text rendering, filters and other effects, and the popular Flash Video tools, complete with alpha channel support and batch rendering.

• Best practices—Easily apply best practices of web design and development. Create consistent CSS-based designs with the CSS layout and visualization tools in Dreamweaver. Drag and drop an XML feed onto a web page. Use the industry’s first integrated tool for Section 508 and WCAG Priority 2 checkpoints.

• Macintosh or Windows®—Pick your platform. Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Web Standard software is available for Mac OS—including Intel® based Macintosh computers—Windows XP, and Windows Vista.™ Design in your preferred platform, and then deliver across platforms with consistent results.

Top feature list for students

• Best of the best—Get all the fundamental tools to prototype, design, develop, and maintain web sites, applications, interactive experiences, and mobile content. Enjoy new features and integration across Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3, Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks® CS3, and Adobe Contribute® CS3 software.
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• Powerful integration—Leverage integrated workflows that enable fast, efficient exchange of assets so you move from design to delivery efficiently. Roundtrip editing between Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver enables speedy prototyping, graphics creation, and optimization. Import files from other Adobe creative tools.

• Professional interactive design—Discover the powerful, expressive Flash authoring environment. Add life to graphics with acclaimed animation tools, high-quality text rendering, filters and other effects, and the popular Flash Video tools, complete with alpha channel support and batch rendering.

• Best practices—Easily apply best practices of web design and development. Create consistent CSS-based designs with the CSS layout and visualization tools in Dreamweaver. Drag and drop an XML feed onto a web page. Use the industry’s first integrated tool for Section 508 and WCAG Priority 2 checkpoints.

• Latest technologies and standards—Keep pace with evolving technologies and standards. Design with CSS and XML; integrate with development environments like HTML, XHTML, XML, Adobe ColdFusion,® ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, or PHP; test content across myriad browsers and operating systems; and prepare for the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
Top feature list for educators and government employees

• Best of the best—Get all the fundamental tools to prototype, design, develop, and maintain web sites, applications, interactive experiences, and mobile content. Enjoy new features and integration across Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3, Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks® CS3, and Adobe Contribute® CS3 software.

• Powerful integration—Leverage integrated workflows that enable fast, efficient exchange of assets so you move from design to delivery efficiently. Roundtrip editing between Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver enables speedy prototyping, graphics creation, and optimization. Import files from other Adobe creative tools.

• Best practices—Easily apply best practices of web design and development. Create consistent CSS-based designs with the CSS layout and visualization tools in Dreamweaver. Drag and drop an XML feed onto a web page. Use the industry’s first integrated tool for Section 508 and WCAG Priority 2 checkpoints.

• Latest technologies and standards—Keep pace with evolving technologies and standards. Design with CSS and XML; integrate with development environments like HTML, XHTML, XML, Adobe ColdFusion,® ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, or PHP; test content across myriad browsers and operating systems; and prepare for the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).