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Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 delivers tightly integrated software and services that measurably improve productivity and enable you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile.
Creative Suite 5 is available in a number of different editions, which are compared here.
Creative Suite 5 is available in a number of different editions, which are compared here.
What's New
Version CS5.5:
Changes since CS5:
- Enhanced Multiscreen Preview panel:
View website designs as they would appear across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions within the enhanced panel in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 that now better handles custom media queries and multiple CSS files. - Robust jQuery support:
Build rich content for a variety of devices with support for the jQuery Mobile framework in Dreamweaver CS5.5. Take advantage of mobile templates, contextual code hinting, and the ability to quickly insert objects into a design. - Support for more mobile platforms and devices:
Create content in Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 optimized for delivery across more devices thanks to support for Flash Player 10.2 and Adobe AIR 2.6; and new platforms including Android™, RIM, iOS, webOS, and Adobe Digital Home. - A more efficient video workflow:
Trim and edit with more efficiency and precision in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Use widely accepted NLE shortcuts and easily sync separately recorded field audio with your video, thanks to new dual-system sound support. - Mercury Playback Engine:
Work faster thanks to enhancements in the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Edit using newly certified laptop GPUs, get real-time playback of mixed-format timelines, and use more GPU-accelerated filters and effects. - Action Wizard in Acrobat Pro:
Automate routine, multistep PDF tasks more easily in Adobe Acrobat® X Pro. The Action Wizard guides you through creating an Action, which is an automated sequence of steps that can be applied to a single PDF or batches of files. - Advanced audio-for-video editing:
Record, edit, mix, master, and sweeten audio with Adobe Audition CS5.5
Version CS5.5:
Changes since CS5:
- Enhanced Multiscreen Preview panel:
View website designs as they would appear across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions within the enhanced panel in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 that now better handles custom media queries and multiple CSS files. - Robust jQuery support:
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Requirements
- Intel
- Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
- Mac OS X v10.5.7 or Mac OS X 10.6.3; Mac OS X 10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro
- 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
- 26.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1280×900 display (1280×1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
- Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit this updated page for the latest list of supported cards
- Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
- DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
- 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
- Core Audio-compatible sound card
- Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6
- QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
- Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services
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| Downloads:288,981 |
| Version Downloads:771 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Author Tools |
| License:Demo |
| Date:12 Apr 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $1,899.00 |
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Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 delivers tightly integrated software and services that measurably improve productivity and enable you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile.
Creative Suite 5 is available in a number of different editions, which are compared here.
Creative Suite 5 is available in a number of different editions, which are compared here.
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Osos10 reviewed on 23 Nov 2011
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D9 reviewed on 26 Jan 2011
As we found out the hard way, Adobe will not allow you to upgrade your previous (in this case) Illustrator software if it was part of the Creative Suite bundle; no upgrading individual CS components from a previous suite. So regardless of the fact that you have a folder on your computer that is named Adobe Illustrator CSx with a program inside named Adobe Illustrator CSx that when opened presents a splash screen stating Adobe Illustrator CSx, you cannot upgrade to Illustrator CS5. In addition, other than a small link at the bottom of the product page leading you to an upgrade eligibility "tool" page (which in turn gives a rather ambiguous answer), nothing on the page or in the store page informs you of what is or is not required to upgrade other than a copy of "Adobe Illustrator CS4, CS3 or CS2"...of which I indeed have.
This is a ludicrous money-grabbing policy that has pretty much cemented our department and company (on my strong advice) to stay away from upgrades for Adobe software. Remember when Quark did this crap...and remember what happened to Quark?!
(FYI...I'd rather read a Russian newspaper than watch a Flash ad!)
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I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Illustrator and Photoshop with the same result afterwards. This is installed on a MacPro3,1 running Snow Leopard 10.6.3. No problems to date running CS4. Acrobat Pro was also damaged by the installation so I had to uninstall and reinstall it from the CS4 installer disk.
So the only program that I have been able to spend some time with was InDesign. There are several nifty features, e.g., the span/split columns feature, a much improved control palette, and better transformation and control of placed images. From the standpoint of a designer/printer, would the $600 upgrade cost from CS4 be worth it? Probably not. I had no choice because the majority of my work is from designers who work with different versions of the Creative Suite products.
By the way, InDesign CS5 no longer exports to INX format (CS3-compatible). It only does IDML which can be read in CS4 or better.
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See: http://blogs.adobe.com/OOBE/2010/01/removing_deactivation_limit.html
This includes previous versions CS3/4. This is great news as it brings - in my opinion - an end to an unfair and secretive policy against those clients which actually want to buy their licences.
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Digiscapers reviewed on 01 May 2010
Let's be honest here, We all thought CS4 would bring some nice improvements to the mac versions because of how bad CS3 was... but we are burned again. I believe adobe sees the issue we all have here with their price cuts for CS5 but it's still $2K. I am still feeling shady about all the time I lost with the DW freeze-ups (on a top of the line mac pro) from this version, at my hourly rate I could have bought a subscription all the way through CS9.
Hear me and consider this, YOU are only as good as your tools, to be the best you will want to find alternatives to Adobe wherever you can, this is not (or should not be) the standard any longer, at least until Adobe actually starts using the software themselves to see what we are going through with the quality they slew out to us.
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Decades of pleading cujoling, imploring etc have done nothing for me.
Good luck in trying to get them to listen.
PS. Less bugs would be nice as well, but marketing doesn't seem to think that amounts to a feature.
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Noboruwatanabe reviewed on 30 Apr 2010
I sold my cs4 months ago... and I wouldn't pay more than 200 pound to get this suite... it's the exact amount of money that would repay the effort adobe put into this product...
"keep up the great work guys", I'll stick with pixelmator, drawit and sketch...
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Nice one Adobe... This costs us one productive day again!
So wait a little when you update adobe CS4 automatically. It corrupts the whole install of CS4 ending up reinstalling or fixing things manually.
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Gizmovision rated on 25 Sep 2011
Hathi rated on 12 Apr 2011
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Jeff Lerch rated on 31 Jan 2011