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Adobe Takes the Wraps Off CS4

As expected over 13 major apps updated to ship in October (Design and Web collections).

Here’s a set of links to the latest posts on the announced apps:

Adobe unveils CS4 suite. (Via Macworld.)

Adobe Unveils Creative Suite CS4, GPU Accelerated Photoshop (Via MacRumors.)

Adobe brings multiple artboards to Illustator

InDesign CS4 boosts Flash integration, adds live preflighting (Via Macworld.)

Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks join CS4 update parade (Via Macworld.)

And direct links to the updated suite edition’s pages on Adobe’s site:

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/web/

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/

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Eliminate shadows in Leopard screenshots | The Graphic Mac: OSX and design-related community

Eliminate shadows in Leopard screenshot. For those who need to work with Mac screenshots. (Via The Graphic Mac.)

Command shape in Illustrator

Command shape in Illustrator. Remember when it was also called the Apple key? (Via Veerle’s blog.)

Photoshop Lightroom 2 released as Adobe’s first 64-bit Mac app

Photoshop Lightroom 2 released as Adobe’s first 64-bit Mac app. (Via AppleInsider.)

This is notable since Photoshop CS4 will not be since it’s a legacy application. Lightroom is a fairly new application so it was developed on a more modern codebase.

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Mac 10.5.4 update improves CS3 support

Mac 10.5.4 update improves CS3 support. (Via John Nack on Adobe.)

Mac OS X 10.5.3 users grapple with bugs in Adobe CS3, graphics

Mac OS X 10.5.3 users grapple with bugs in Adobe CS3, graphics. Looks like there are still glitches involved with opening from a server in CS3. (Via AppleInsider.)

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Leopard 10.5.2 improves Photoshop, LR compatibility

Leopard 10.5.2 improves Photoshop, LR compatibility. So the update helps out more than just general OS X apps but Photoshop as well. (Via John Nack on Adobe.)

Adobe apps and Leopard are A-OK (mostly)

Adobe has posted a FAQ of what apps work fine on Leopard. John Nack has a link to it in his post ehre: Adobe apps on Leopard: What you need to know. Bottomline is that almost all of the apps in CS3 (Design Premium and Web Premium) work fine except for Acrobat. If you have the Production Suite, a lot of apps are incompatible with Leopard. You’ll have to wait for the late November update to remedy the issues. This is a bit strange since most of these apps were developed later and most of them only work on Intel-based Macs, but oh well what do I know. Continue reading ‘Adobe apps and Leopard are A-OK (mostly)’

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