Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard, Upgrade version from any CS 2/3 suite Studio 8, Production Studio (Mac)

Produce high-impact print designs and digital publications

Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Design Standard software combines industry-standard tools for editing digital images, creating vector graphics, and laying out top-quality print documents with elegant typography. Plus, you can extend your ideas beyond print with dynamic presentations, eBooks and digital magazines* that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print. Deliver exceptional print designs, freely expressing your wildest ideas at lightning speed--without ever sacrificing quality or precision.

Deliver high-impact print designs and digital publications using industry-standard software for editing digital images, creating eye-catching vector graphics, and laying out stunning pages that incorporate elegant typography. Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Design Standard software combines the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop,® Illustrator,® InDesign,® Acrobat® Pro and more. This comprehensive toolkit offers many features that let you freely express your wildest ideas without sacrificing quality, precision or speed. Plus, now you can extend beyond print with dynamic presentations, beautifully designed eBooks and immersive digital documents* created through integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print.

• Folio Producer tools in Adobe InDesign Create engaging digital magazines, newspapers, annual reports, manuals, and other documents that incorporate eye-catching elements such as 360° rotation and panoramas, all for playback on tablet devices, such as Apple iPad, RIM BlackBerry PlayBook, and a wide variety of Android tablets, including the Motorola Xoom. Upload them to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite* for further production and distribution.


• Enhanced eBook authoring** Create more engaging eBooks with less need for developers. Use a smoother workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. You can now even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that support HTML5 video and audio tags.


• More efficient delivery of accessible documents Use enhanced features in InDesign CS5.5 and Acrobat® X Pro that help you deliver publications that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 standards. Apply accessibility features more easily in InDesign CS5.5, and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Acrobat X Pro.


• Action Wizard in Acrobat Pro Automate routine, multistep PDF tasks more easily in 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 file or batches of files.

*The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite requires a separate license and payment of associated fee(s).

**InDesign uses EPUB3 and HTML5 code to create eBooks with audio, video, and other advanced features. EPUB3 and HTML5 presentation, media playback, and double-byte character support (such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) might not be supported by all devices, browsers, or EPUB readers.