Wiley Adobe Creative Suite 4 Bible 978-0-470-34518-4 User Manual

he Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium package is composed of 
several programs designed to work together to accomplish all your 
publishing needs for output to print, screen viewing, and Web host-

ing. Instead of marketing the individual program components of the Creative 
Suite, Adobe Systems has spent much of its marketing effort targeting the 
entire Creative Suite to design professionals.

This chapter offers a description of the Creative Suite programs and gives you 
an idea of how they work together. In this chapter, you learn about the pur-
pose of each program and the relationship each program has with other mem-
bers of the Creative Suite team. In addition, you receive a brief summary of 
new features contained in the latest releases of the individual programs.

Each program in the Creative Suite version 4 is an upgrade from the CS3 
applications, and each is available for upgrades individually. So why is 
Adobe Systems spending so much marketing effort informing users about 
the benefits of the Creative Suite? And why talk about the Creative Suite as a 
single entity when users are likely to upgrade the individual software pro-
grams in their design studios? These may be the first questions on your mind 
as you see the advertising for Adobe imaging product upgrades.

The answer is that Creative Suite is a single design solution where the whole 
is greater than its parts. For years, Adobe Systems built several different 
applications like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign with similar core 
technologies like PDF. These programs evolved with common elements so 
that you, the creative professional, could easily exchange files among Adobe 
programs.

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