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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe(R) InDesign(R) CS4 software, a major upgrade to its leading professional page layout program. InDesign CS4 delivers powerful new features and enhancements that help increase productivity and efficiency, streamline and automate long document creation and expand output to new media, such as interactive PDFs or Adobe Flash(R) files. With innovative and integrated collaboration services, InDesign CS4 enables users to design more in less time, avoid costly production errors, efficiently create unique content for multiple media, and work effectively with clients and peers. InDesign CS4 will be available as a stand-alone application or as a component of Adobe Creative Suite(R) 4 Design Premium and Standard editions (see separate release) and Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection.

"The advances and features central to InDesign CS4 enable customers to produce inventive and high-impact layouts for online and offline publishing," said David Burkett, vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. "As a result, InDesign CS4 allows publishers, design agencies and other organizations to remain competitive through design, enable business growth and attract new audiences through multi-channel publishing, all while streamlining costs as a result of productivity gains."

Increase Productivity with Fluid Workflows

Adobe InDesign CS4 introduces new features that enable smoother workflows, productive collaboration, and reliable delivery of interactive documents for online or offline publishing. The new Live Preflight feature highlights potential production problems in real- time from within the layout and directs users to the problem area to resolve the issue, saving time and lowering production costs. A customizable Links panel enables users to find, sort, and manage placed files in a document, view attributes such as scale, resolution and rotation -- and identify files faster using thumbnails.

Create Rich Interactive Documents

With this release, designers can combine the page layout strength of InDesign with the interactive authoring power of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional to create rich, dynamic documents. Designers can export an InDesign document as an XFL file and then open it in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional to add sophisticated interactivity, animation, and navigation for a more engaging online reading experience.