Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard (EN) Win32 Doc Set English software manual

Creative Suite 3 Design Standard (EN) Win32 Doc Set <I><B>Design with essential tools</B></I>
Take your designs from concept to completion with creative tools that help you easily express and output your ideas.

<B>Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3</B>
- Finer transparency controls. Adjust the transparency and blending modes globally on entire objects, or independently on strokes, fills, and content.
- Creative effects. Apply new visual effects, such as inner glow or bevel and emboss, using an interface that's consistent with Adobe® Photoshop® software to specify offset, angle, and other options. Apply effects independently on an object's stroke, fill, and content.
- Gradient feathers. Create beautiful effects by applying masks that contain gradients so the objects fade into the background. Customize options such as gradient angles and fade rates, all within Adobe InDesign® CS3.
- Multi-file Place. Speed up document creation by importing multiple files at once from within InDesign or by dragging them in from the desktop or Adobe Bridge CS3. Preview selected files as you place them in any order or location in your layout.
- Productivity enhancements. Perform a variety of tasks more efficiently using new and enhanced productivity features, including Placed InDesign Files, Quick Apply, and faster frame fitting.
- Professional typographic controls. Compose beautiful typography using professional controls including the Paragraph Composer, OpenType® fonts, drop caps, glyphs, and optical kerning and margin alignment.
- Comprehensive styles. Create consistent designs and speed up production by saving text, graphic, and frame-level attributes as styles for text, objects, and tables. Efficiently apply and globally update object, paragraph, character, table, and cell styles; organize styles in groups; and share styles with others.
- Full-featured tables. Create richly formatted tables. Import tab-delimited text files and styled Microsoft Word or Excel tables, or build tables in InDesign. Apply a wide variety of formatting options manually or using table and cell styles.
- Smart text handling. Control your text with intelligent text-handling features, including the ability to import styled text from Microsoft Word files, apply complex wraps around objects, and comprehensively replace fonts.
- Robust long-document support. Maintain consistency and streamline the production of long documents using advanced bullets and numbering, running headers and footers, and synchronized master pages.

<B>Powerful digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop CS3</B>
- Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools. Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.
- Smart Filters. Add, adjust, and remove filters from an image without having to resave the image or start over to preserve quality. Nondestructive Smart Filters allow you to visualize changes without altering original pixel data.
- Advanced compositing. Automatically align multiple Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly, and the Auto-blend Layers command blends the color and shading to create a smooth, editable result.
- Enhanced Vanishing Point. Take perspective-based editing to a new level with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which lets you create multiple planes in an image; connect them at any angle; and then wrap graphics, text, and images around them to create packaging mock-ups and more.
- Better raw-image processing. Process raw images with increased speed and superior conversion quality using the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, which now adds support for JPEG and TIFF formats, new tools including Fill Light and Dust Busting, compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom™ software, and support for over 150 camera models.
- Flexible layers. Composite images, text, and effects on hundreds of layers for extraordinarily sophisticated results. Organize layers with up to five levels of nesting, and save them in different combinations as layer comps.
- Color-correction enhancements. Take advantage of precision color correction made faster and easier. Brightness/Contrast now provides better results from the same intuitive interface, and enhanced Curves controls let you make automatic adjustments with included presets or those you create; convert to black-and-white with point sliders; and use a histogram, color channel lines, and a clipping preview.
- Rich painting and drawing toolset. Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.
- Enhanced 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support. Create and edit 32-bit images, and combine multiple exposures into a single, 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene — from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. New image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results.
Inspired vector graphics creation in Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Live Color. Explore, apply, and control color variations using the Live Color feature in Adobe Illustrator® CS3 software. Live Color lets you select any artwork and interactively edit the colors to see results immediately. Use the Color Guide panel to quickly choose tints, shades, or harmonious color combinations.
- Crop Area tool. Define crop areas interactively for print or export. Choose preset web ratios or video formats with safe areas, and set crop marks intuitively. Define multiple crop areas and easily move between them as needed.
- Improved operating performance. Enjoy more responsive drawing and editing with improved performance in key operations, including faster screen redraws, object moving, panning, scaling, and transformations.
- Eraser tool. Quickly remove areas of artwork with the Eraser tool as easily as you erase pixels in Photoshop, and enjoy complete control over the width, shape, and smoothness of the erasure.
- Control panel. Discover more options faster and free up screen space by accessing anchor point controls, clipping masks, envelope distortions, and more from the context-sensitive Control panel.
- Live Trace. Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths.
- Live Paint. Easily paint any closed or partially closed area of your artwork with the Live Paint Bucket, which automatically detects and corrects gaps and lets you interactively select colors from a Swatch palette for faster work.
- New Document Profiles. Create artwork easily by selecting prebuilt profiles for all types of media, and save custom profiles that specify such setup parameters as artboard dimensions, styles, and color spaces.
- Advanced typography. Easily create and control type with over 100 included OpenType fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underline and strikethrough, transparent effects, and more.
- Isolation mode. Edit objects in a group without disturbing other parts of your artwork. Easily select hard-to-find objects without having to restack, lock, or hide layers.

<B>PDF file creation and collaboration with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional</B>
- Preflight with automated file correction. Fix problems before they get to press through expanded support for preflighting files, including automatic correction of hairlines, downsampling image resolution, transparency flattening, and more.
- Server-based shared reviews. Collaborate easily with extensive support for review and commenting, including e-mail-, web-, and now server-based reviews and review tracking. Work offline with server-based reviews and then automatically upload and alert other users to your comments. Allow participants to see one another's comments, and enable users of free Adobe Reader® 7.0 and 8 software to participate.
- PDF Package. Easily share and manage documents by assembling multiple related files into a PDF Package. Maintain file integrity while allowing users to view, browse, sort, extract, and print select documents via a simple list window.
- Easy creation of Adobe PDF files. Create Adobe PDF files easily by converting from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (as well as additional Microsoft applications on Windows®) or scanning paper documents. Also, easily embed animations created with Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional software (Windows only).
- Extensive support for editing PDF files. Edit quickly and effectively using new tools such as the enhanced TouchUp Object tool to check and modify the color space, scale, and orientation of selected objects, as well as improved cropping to control page size and reposition content more precisely.
- Streamlined user interface. Enjoy a more streamlined, intuitive Acrobat® interface, including customizable toolbars that show only the buttons you choose. Jump easily from the Getting Started window to online Help.
- Enhanced support for Adobe Reader. Include users of Adobe Reader 7.0 and 8 to participate in PDF file reviews by enabling commenting. In addition, enable form completion and digital signatures for users of Reader 8.
- Support for the latest standards. Create Adobe PDF files that comply with a host of industry standards, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 (draft), PDF/A, JDF, XMP metadata, and XML. Automate PDF file creation and validation while helping to ensure correct print output using JDF and Adobe PDF workflows.

<I><B>Keep your ideas flowing</B></I>
Be highly productive thanks to tight integration and shared features that let you move easily between tasks.

<B>Exceptional native file format support</B>
- Photoshop files in Illustrator. Open native Photoshop (PSD) files in Illustrator, preserving layers, layer comps, transparency, editable text, and paths.
- Photoshop layer comps in Illustrator and InDesign. Create multiple variations of a composition on different layers in Photoshop, and import or place the layer comps in Illustrator or InDesign, where you can control the visibility of the layers in the Photoshop file.
- Photoshop and Illustrator files in InDesign. Place native Photoshop or Illustrator (AI) files in InDesign layouts. Transparency is preserved and interacts with elements in your InDesign layout. Double-click a PSD or AI file in InDesign to edit it in its native application.
- Smart Objects. Import vector artwork from Illustrator into Photoshop using Smart Objects, which you can scale, rotate, warp, or otherwise transform without a loss of quality. Edit the original object in Illustrator, and the changes will be reflected in the Smart Object in your Photoshop file.
- Enhanced PDF support in Photoshop. Work more easily with Adobe PDF-based content. Precisely control the size of PDF pages opened in Photoshop, add security controls and metadata such as copyright and exposure details to images in PDF presentations, and create a richer image display in PDF presentations and documents.
- Adobe PDF support in Illustrator and InDesign. Open and edit Adobe PDF files in Illustrator, and place multipage Adobe PDF files in InDesign layouts. Export multipage Adobe PDF files from InDesign and Illustrator with layers intact, and share them with clients to present multiple design variations.
Shared features and services
- Unified design environment. Work efficiently in an interface that’s common across many components of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Design Standard. New self-adjusting panels dock conveniently out of your way when not in use and pop out when you need them. Maximize Screen mode keeps panels from overlapping the document window.
- Customizable workspaces. Customize menu commands, tools, panels, and keyboard shortcuts in Design Standard components so the features you use most are always at your fingertips. Even save and share workspaces.
- Easily accessible libraries. Share prebuilt and custom color swatches among Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Tighter integration with Acrobat 8 Professional. Enjoy enhanced integration between Acrobat and other components of Design Standard, including synchronized color settings, transparency flattener presets, and more robust support for XMP metadata.
- Advanced workgroup file management with Adobe Version Cue CS3. Use Adobe Version Cue® CS3 to manage the use of files within creative teams. Track multiple versions, prevent overwriting, find the files you need quickly, conduct browser-based Adobe PDF file reviews, and control access to files on a project-by-project basis.
- Adobe Stock Photos service. Browse and purchase royalty-free stock photos from a wide range of leading image libraries from within Design Standard. Search more than one million images from more than 25 agencies, and narrow results quickly with easy-to-use advanced search features.
- Real-time, interactive web conferences with Acrobat Connect. Use Bridge or Acrobat to launch Adobe Acrobat Connect™, the web-based conferencing system for real-time, interactive meetings such as design reviews. For a low monthly fee, host online conferences in a meeting room that you set up once and is readily available.
- Adobe Help Center. Access product help for any component of Design Standard in one convenient floating window. Search and bookmark topics, and access expert support and Adobe online resources.

<B>Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3</B>
- Centralized access to shared features and services. Use Bridge as your productivity hub. Bridge provides access to Version Cue, Adobe Stock Photos, Acrobat Connect, and other shared features.
- Faster browsing. Open Bridge and display thumbnails, perform searches, and filter results faster thanks to improved performance.
- Broader file format support. Preview and play back FLV and SWF files as well as image sequences.
- Nondestructive image adjustments. Apply nondestructive adjustments to JPEG and TIFF images just like camera raw images. Apply those adjustments to groups of images, and convert them to different formats as desired.
- Customizable workspace. View and manage images more efficiently in a redesigned interface that you can customize to your liking and save for reuse.
- Image comparison features. Compare multiple images in the Preview panel, and use the new Loupe tool to zoom in on images for a better view.
- Image stacking. Group related images in collapsible stacks, and apply a Reject rating that hides undesirable images from view but doesn’t delete them.
- Enhanced slide shows. Pan and zoom in on images while viewing them in slide show mode, and apply transitions such as dissolves and fades between images.
- Improved support for XMP metadata. View swatch names and groups in Illustrator and InDesign files, and enjoy better support for metadata scripting.
- Bridge Home. Visit Bridge Home, a destination area in Bridge that offers up-to-date tips and resources for making the most of Creative Suite 3 Design Standard. Watch video tutorials, learn efficient workflow techniques, get inspired by leading designers'; podcasts, and more.

<I><B>Print with confidence</B></I>
Reliably output your designs with high-end print controls and efficient Adobe PDF workflows that streamline print production.

<B>Powerful color and printing capabilities</B>
- Consistent color. Synchronize ICC-based color management settings to view the color in your designs more consistently and to preserve CMYK values across Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat.
- Professional printing from InDesign. Reliably print files to Adobe PostScript® Level 2, PostScript 3™, and non PostScript language devices using a comprehensive set of printing options designed to meet the needs of print professionals worldwide.
- CMYK, RGB, and LAB support in InDesign. Create spot or process colors in CMYK, RGB, or LAB color mode. Add colors from more than 20 swatch libraries, including the latest PANTONE, Toyo, and TRUMATCH libraries.
- Mixed ink support in InDesign. Combine two or more spot or process inks to quickly define and generate a palette of colors that broadens your color choices for a job without breaking your print budget.
- Output previews in InDesign. Prevent mistakes from occurring on press by checking plates, overprinting, and ink limits, and help ensure the best results when printing transparency effects by using the Separations Preview and Flattener Preview panels. Use Overprint Preview mode to proof spot-color effects and overprint settings.
- Preflight and packaging in InDesign. Avoid delays and costly production errors by preflighting documents to check for problems and then packaging them for print handoff, or by exporting them as Adobe PDF files.
- Intuitive, flexible printing from Illustrator. Enjoy consistent results with an intuitive, comprehensive printing interface that provides optimized presets for a wide variety of devices. Control the overlap between tiled pages, and print large designs on standard paper sizes using the Fit to Page command or custom scale options.
- Separations from Illustrator. Print color separations using either host-based or in-RIP options and optimize output directly in Illustrator, controlling screen angle, ruling, and dot size for each plate.
- Transparency Flattener in Illustrator. Help ensure the best results when printing or creating Adobe PDF files with artwork that contains transparent elements using Transparency Flattener presets.
- DeviceN colorspace in Illustrator. Place duotone or separated Photoshop images in Illustrator and preserve the file's native colorspace with DeviceN support. Use multicomponent and HiFi color, raster effects, transparency, and gradient meshes with confidence that your artwork will separate correctly.
- Improved printing experience in Photoshop. Experience better control over print quality with color management, a larger print preview window, and more controls in one place so you can print in fewer steps. Improved printing controls, co-developed by Adobe and HP, make printing easier and more predictable.

<B>Reliable Adobe PDF workflows</B>
- Shared PDF presets. Use built-in Adobe PDF export presets — or create custom presets — in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to generate consistent Adobe PDF files for electronic review or final output.
- Streamlined print production. Preflight Adobe PDF files in Acrobat and fix problems before they get to press. Automatically correct hairlines, downsample image resolution, flatten transparency, and more.
- Powerful JDF workflows. Automatically convert Adobe InDesign files to Adobe PDF and preflight and validate them against the targeted output intent (including number of pages, page size, and more) using enhanced JDF-based workflows.
- Support for PDF/X standard. Create reliable, press-ready layouts using ISO- and ANSI-standard PDF/X, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 (draft), and PDF/A.

<B>Cross-media publishing</B>
- Authoring of rich Adobe PDF files in InDesign. Produce rich Adobe PDF documents by embedding movie and sound files; interactive buttons to play movies or turn pages; as well as hyperlinks, bookmarks, and more.
- Flexible XML workflows in InDesign. Publish content in multiple print formats with robust XML support. Use XML rules to dynamically generate documents with formatting and graphics based on imported XML, and apply XSLT style sheets when importing or exporting XML content.
- XHTML export from InDesign. Contribute to web design workflows by exporting styled InDesign content as XHTML with links to GIF graphics and JPEG images. XHTML content can be imported into Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3 software (sold separately) and formatted with cascading style sheets.
- Mobile content previewing in Adobe Device Central CS3. Contribute to mobile design workflows by previewing images, artwork, and other content created in Photoshop and Illustrator using Device Central, which lets you preview, test, and optimize content for a wide variety of mobile devices.

<B>Workflow automation</B>
- Industry-standard scripting. Automate tasks across Design Standard by writing scripts in JavaScript, AppleScript, Microsoft Visual Basic, and ExtendScript.
- Batch processing in Bridge. Automate labor-intensive tasks across components of Design Standard by running batch commands in Bridge or writing your own JavaScripts. Rename files, convert files to PDF, and create InDesign contact sheets.
- Photoshop and Illustrator actions. Automate frequently performed image or vector editing tasks by recording a series of editing steps as an action in Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Dynamic, data-driven graphics. Quickly create custom artwork variations in Illustrator and Photoshop using scripts to connect graphic variables to unique data.