Express and print your ideas with Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Design Standard software, the indispensable toolkit for professional design and print production. Get all-new versions of Adobe’s essential tools for page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows — and integrated productivity features — in a unified creative environment.

Combines Adobe InDesign® CS3, Photoshop® CS3, Illustrator® CS3, Acrobat® 8 Professional, Bridge CS3, Version Cue® CS3, and Device Central CS3.

InDesign CS3

Design and produce professional page layouts.

Get started today with Adobe® InDesign® CS3 page layout software to explore more creative possibilities and be more productive. Enjoy new creative effects, productivity enhancements, and tight integration with other Adobe tools: Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, InCopy®, and Dreamweaver® software. Streamline long-document publishing and XML workflows.

Adobe® InDesign® CS3 software delivers powerful new features that allow you to explore more creative possibilities, experience greater productivity, and streamline repetitive tasks.

New Features

• Creative effects and controls
• Productivity enhancements
• Table and cell styles
• Robust long-document support
• Advanced Find/Change command
• XHTML export
• Intuitive and customizable workspace
• Placed InDesign files
• Rule-based layouts from XML
• Automation through scripting

Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using Adobe® InDesign® CS3 page layout software. Built for demanding workflows, InDesign integrates smoothly with Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, InCopy®, and Dreamweaver® software; offers powerful features for creating richer, more complex documents; and reliably outputs pages to multiple media. With its sophisticated design features and enhanced productivity tools for streamlining repetitive tasks, InDesign CS3 lets you work faster and better than ever.

Extensive integration
Work smoothly with Adobe® Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, InCopy®, and Dreamweaver® software; enjoy consistency by using shared presets and color settings; work more efficiently with native file format support; and easily publish to multiple media.

Creative effects and controls
Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and gradient feathers. Since effects are live and nondestructive, you can experiment with ease. Apply effects independently to an object's stroke, fill, or content.

Reliable prepress and printing
Have confidence in your output. Get accurate, consistent results every time you print using sophisticated preview capabilities, exporting reliable Adobe PDF files, and sharing custom presets.

Productivity enhancements
Perform a variety of tasks more efficiently using new and enhanced productivity features, including Multi-file Place, Quick Apply, faster frame fitting, and the visual Pages panel.

XHTML export
Enable multiformat publishing, including print-to-web workflows, by exporting InDesign® content as XHTML. Edit the exported content in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software (available separately) and automatically format it using cascading style sheets.

Professional typographical controls
Compose beautiful typography using professional controls including the Paragraph Composer, OpenType® fonts, drop caps, glyphs, and optical kerning and margin alignment.

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.

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.

Smart text handling
Control your text with intelligent text-handling features including the ability to import styled text from Microsoft Word files, apply complex text wraps around objects, and comprehensively replace fonts.

Scripting and extensibility
Accelerate and simplify workflows by automating processes using scripts and extending the capabilities of InDesign using the ExtendScript toolkit.

System Requirements

• Windows
  • Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel CoreTM Duo (or compatible) processor
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows VistaTM Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified support for 32-bit editions)
  • 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended) for Windows XP; 512MB (1GB recommended) for Windows Vista
  • 1.8GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
  • 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
  • Internet or phone connection required for product activation
  • Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe® Stock Photosand other services
• Macintosh
  • PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
  • Mac OS X v.10.4.8
  • 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended) for PowerPC based system; 512MB (1GB recommended) for Intel based system
  • 1.6GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
  • 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
  • Internet or phone connection required for product activation
  • Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services

Photoshop CS3

Create powerful images with the professional standard.

Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software includes automated tools that slash the time needed for selecting and compositing; live filters that boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset; and a streamlined interface and new, timesaving tools that make your work flow faster.

The essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 now offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.

Key New Features

• Smart Filters
• Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools
• Advanced compositing
• Streamlined interface
• Better raw image processing
• Improved Adobe Bridge
• Enhanced Vanishing Point
• Enhanced 32-bit HDR support
• Peak performance
• Black-and-white conversion

Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster.

Industry-standard editing toolset
Perfect your images with industry-leading image-editing capabilities, which include enhanced color-correction and cloning and healing tools.

Nondestructive editing
Take advantage of nondestructive editing capabilities, including new Smart Filters, which let you visualize different image effects, and Smart Objects, which let you scale, rotate, and warp raster and vector graphics - all without altering pixel data.

Rich painting and drawing toolset
Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.

Advanced compositing
Create more accurate composites by automatically aligning multiple Adobe® 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.

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.

Built-in efficiency
Take advantage of customized workflows and a streamlined work environment with enhanced palette management so you can focus on your images, not your software.

Improved printing experience
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 and streamline setup options via integration with select printers from HP, Epson, and Canon.

Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3
Organize and manage images more efficiently with Adobe Bridge CS3, which now delivers improved performance, a Filter panel for easier searching, the ability to group multiple images under a single thumbnail, the Loupe tool, offline image browsing, and more.

Wide range of supported formats
Import and export a wide range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.

Third-party solutions and resources
Take advantage of a wealth of additional resources - including software plug-ins, books, and training - from the longstanding community of expert Photoshop developers, authors, and trainers.

System requirements

• Windows
  • Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel CoreTM Duo (or compatible) processor
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows VistaTM Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)
  • 512MB of RAM
  • 64MB of video RAM
  • 1GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
  • 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
  • Internet or phone connection required for product activation
  • Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services
• Macintosh
  • PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
  • Mac OS X v.10.4.8
  • 512MB of RAM
  • 64MB of video RAM
  • 2GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
  • 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
  • Internet or phone connection required for product activation
  • Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool.

Create sophisticated vector artwork for virtually any medium with Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software. Capture your ideas easily with industry-standard drawing tools, and experiment freely with flexible new color controls. Experience tight integration with other Adobe applications, and let improved performance help speed you through creating extraordinary graphics.

Discover new ways to experiment with color; work faster with new drawing tools and controls; and produce artwork for print, web, mobile, and motion designs with Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software.

New Features

• Live Color
• Integration with Adobe Flash®
• Drawing tools and controls
• Improved operating performance
• Control panel
• Eraser tool
• New Document Profiles
• Crop Area tool
• Isolation mode
• Symbols for Flash

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, while timesaving features such as easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. Improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications also help you produce extraordinary graphics for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs.

Live Color
Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color, which 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.

Live Trace
Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths using Live Trace.

Drawing tools and controls
Draw in Adobe® Illustrator® more quickly and fluidly than ever. Easier and more flexible anchor point selection, improved operating performance, and a new Eraser tool help you create artwork efficiently and intuitively.

Integration with Adobe design applications
Speed your way through graphic designs and print production thanks to tight integration with Adobe Photoshop®, InDesign®, and Acrobat® software.

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.

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.

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.

Custom workspaces
Work more efficiently using custom workspaces that display only the panels you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time, or use workspace presets.

Adobe PDF file creation tools
Create native Adobe PDF files, including multipage PDF files, so clients and others can easily review your artwork using Acrobat or free Adobe Reader® software.

Web and interactive tools
Easily create for the web and mobile devices using vector-based slicing tools, robust integration with Adobe Flash® software, New Document Profiles for web and mobile designs, the capability to preview mobile content in Adobe Device Central, and more.

System requirements

• Windows
  • Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel CoreTM Duo (or compatible) processor
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows VistaTM Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)
  • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
  • 2GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
  • 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
  • Internet or phone connection required for product activation
  • Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe® Stock Photos and other services
• Macintosh
  • PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
  • Mac OS X v.10.4.8
  • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
  • 2.5GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
  • 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
  • Internet or phone connection required for product activation
  • Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services

Adobe® Acrobat® 8 Professional software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection.

Easily create Adobe PDF documents from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD®, Lotus Notes, or any application that prints.

• Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Optimize file size, and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.
• Enable users of Adobe Reader® software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in shared reviews.Use the Start Meeting button to collaborate in real-time with the new Adobe Acrobat Connect line of products.
• Easily collect and distribute forms, combine collected forms into a searchable, sortable PDF package, and export collected data into a spreadsheet. (Windows® only)
• Control access to and use of Adobe PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity.

Create and optimize Adobe PDF documents

• Easily create Adobe PDF documents: Create Adobe® PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Windows® users can also create PDF documents with one-button ease from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD®, and Lotus Notes files.
• Scan to PDF with OCR: Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents.
• Convert e-mail to Adobe PDF files: Convert e-mail in Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes to Adobe PDF documents to facilitate searching, archiving, and retrieval.
• Create in PDF/A or PDF/X: Create documents in PDF/A, the ISO standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents, or PDF/X, the ideal format for high-quality, professional printing.

Combine files from multiple applications

• Combine and optimize documents: Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Optimize file size, and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.
• Maintain individual file security settings: Maintain individual digital signatures and security settings in PDF files and forms when combining them into a single PDF package.
• Include only the pages you need: Specify which pages, layouts, or sheets should be included from source files in your final, combined Adobe PDF document.
• Optimize Adobe PDF output: Select from multiple file size and quality settings to optimize PDF output for your intended purpose.
• Quickly regenerate a combined PDF file: Re-create a combined Adobe PDF document after revising source files, without having to locate and gather the native files again.
• Unify with headers, footers, and watermarks: Automatically remove headers and footers from source files and add unifying headers, footers, or watermarks to your combined Adobe PDF document.
• Attach native files: Share source files by attaching them to your Adobe PDF document in their original, native formats.

Enhance and extend document collaboration

• Conduct e-mail-based reviews: Initiate a document review in Adobe PDF via e-mail. Merge inbound comments and markups from all reviewers into one PDF document with a single click.
• Manage shared reviews: Easily conduct shared reviews - without IT assistance - that allow review participants to see one another's comments and track the status of the review.
• Enable collaboration tools in Adobe Reader: Enable users of free Adobe Reader® softwareto participate in e-mail- or server-based reviews using all of the commenting and markup tools in Acrobat 8 Professional, including notes, stamps, highlighter, pencil, lines, shapes, and more.
• Track reviews and manage comments: Track which reviewers have contributed feedback, send reminders, and add new participants. Easily compile all comments into a single Adobe PDF document.
• View and print comments: View and print feedback for easy reconciliation. Sort comments by author, date, or page. Search comments for words or phrases.
• Export comments to Word or AutoCAD: Select and export comments back to your original Word or AutoCAD file. Comments appear in Word as tracked changes and in AutoCAD as a separate layer.

Streamline data collection with Adobe PDF forms

• Get started with form templates: Take advantage of an existing library of common form templates, such as human resources forms, invoices, and expense reports. (Windows only)
• Easily create forms: Create fillable forms for distribution by e-mail or on the web from scanned paper, PDF documents, Microsoft Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets.
• Auto-recognize form fields: Automatically locate form fields in static PDF documents and convert them to interactive fields that can be filled electronically by anyone using free Adobe Reader software*.
• Optimize form workflow: Easily distribute forms; combine collected forms into a searchable, sortable PDF package; and export collected data into a spreadsheet.
• Enable form features in Adobe Reader: Enable users of Adobe Reader softwareto type information directly into Adobe PDF forms and save them locally for offline use.†

Apply advanced document security and controls

• Apply passwords and assign permissions: Restrict access to Adobe PDF documents using 128-bit encryption. Set document permissions to help restrict who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.
• Sign documents digitally: Apply digital signatures to authenticate documents, manage their status, and help protect against unauthorized modification.
• Enable digital signatures in Adobe Reader: Enable Adobe Reader usersto digitally sign PDF documents.
• Remove hidden data: Inspect Adobe PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove as needed.
• Permanently remove sensitive information: Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive text, illustrations, or other information from the Adobe PDF document.
• Protect attached files: Protect files attached to your Adobe PDF documents with 128-bit encryption.

*Requires Adobe Reader 7.0 or 8
**For ad hoc forms distribution and data collection for up to 500 people

System Requirements

• PowerPC® G3, G4, G5, or Intel processors
• Mac OS X v.10.4.3
• 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
• 1,060MB of available hard-disk space
• 1,024x768 screen resolution
• DVD-ROM drive