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MacDirectory 153 FIRST LOOK unheard of in a vector art program. The new brush greatly extends the potential for working in isolation mode, introduced in the previous version. InDesign InDesign CS4 is primed to go electronic with rich interactivity, animated page transitions and the ability to export and edit a document in SWF format. Live Pre- flight helps spot potential production glitches before the printer does. "Condi- tional text" makes it far easier to repurpose the same project for different audiences. Dreamweaver One of the most important changes in Dreamweaver CS4 is Live View and Live Code. The former is the ability to check the rendering of behaviors, SWF files and CSS elements without having to switch to a browser preview. It will even populate your dynamic elements with real data. You tweak a setting and immediately see the results. Live Code lets you examine the code generated by dynamic pages, an invaluable debugging tool. Dreamweaver also now accepts Photoshop files directly as Smart Objects. Once placed on a page, the image can reflect all further editing done in Photoshop. Several wizards included in CS4 make it easier than ever to incorporate the Spry framework for Ajax into your pages via HTML or XML/RSS feeds, making it far easier to use highly dynamic content. Less dramatic but more widely useful (especially for users with a wide display) is the option for a vertically split view of page and code. Fireworks Fireworks CS4 has received a long- awaited facelift, and along with it, some dramatic performance improvements thanks, in part, to the integration of the Adobe text engine. The toolbar is now organized logical groups (bitmap, vector, select, etc.) with right-side pop-out panels and flotillas. Fireworks is built for working with multiple files concurrently (as is often the case in the development of a graphically rich site) and offers multiple workspaces that can share styling and graphic elements. Smart Guides alignment option aids in the precise positioning of page elements. Documents can be exported with HTML, CSS or packaged for AIR (Adobe Interactive Runtime) applications. Video: Mac Parity at Last! Adobe has suddenly become a real contender in the video arena. Premiere Pro is living up to its name as a desktop editing tools that now has the feature set and performance to compete with (and in some areas, surpass) the likes of Final Cut and Avid. In the Creative Suite, metadata reigns supreme and that holds some startling benefits for media producers. Thanks to the Autonomy transcription engine, voice tracks can be transcribed and stored as metadata. Audio, video and Flash files can now be cataloged and searched by spoken word. On the audio side, CS4 introduces a new sound document format, ASND, basically the audio equivalent of a Smart Object in the Suite's graphic programs. Sound files in this format retain their ability to be edited even after they're placed in the other applications. Premiere Pro, OnLocation & Encore OnLocation CS4, Adobe's unique tool for direct-to-disk video acquisition is now Mac-native. It essentially eliminates the task of after-the-fact tape logging and incorporates advanced monitoring tools (video, audio, waveform monitor and vectorscope) in software. The program lets you pre-build a shot list and fill it in and add to it as you're shooting or catalog your takes on the fly. As you would expect, Premiere Pro CS4 offers exemplary integration with the rest of the suite, including live editing of Photoshop, After Effects and Soundbooth ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 4 > A TOOLKIT FOR WEB 3.0 ILLUSTRATOR'S MULTIPLE PAGE WORKSPACE. FIREWORKS