Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 ME version now available

Press release

Published May 16th, 2011 - 07:46 GMT

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 enables designers and developers to create compelling content and applications

Adobe MENA today announced the immediate availability of the Middle East version of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium, Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard, and Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium bundle packages.

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 delivers important advances in HTML5 and Flash authoring, enabling designers and developers to create compelling content and applications. Creative Suite 5.5 products also feature significant innovation in the areas of video production and editing. Finally, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 delivers exciting new capabilities in the exploding area of digital publishing. With Creative Suite 5.5 content authors worldwide can deliver high-impact work to multiple platforms, operating systems, web browsers, smartphones and tablets -- including Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and Apple iOS devices.

Mobile App Development and New HTML5 Capabilities Anchor CS5.5 For Web Designers and Developers

Focused on the latest wave of mobile devices, this release of Creative Suite gives web designers and developers a complete software solution that allows them to produce stunning HTML5 content in the browser and deliver high-impact mobile applications through sweeping advances in Flash tooling.

Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium Suite is packed with innovations in HTML5 and Flash authoring tools, empowering customers to create, deliver and monetize rich content and applications for virtually any screen. Designers and developers can create rich browser-based content across screens using HTML5. Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5, Flash Builder 4.5 Premium and the Flex 4.5 framework allow users to quickly and easily develop, test and deploy high-performance mobile applications for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and Apple iOS.

Creative Suite 5.5 Kick-starts New Era in Digital Publishing

Over the last year Adobe and leading publishers, including Condé Nast and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, have worked to develop new digital publishing workflows based on Creative Suite and Adobe InDesign. Creative Suite 5.5 will enable print publishers to create beautiful interactive publications on the latest tablet platforms.

Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium Suite builds upon Adobe’s product innovations in publishing already deployed by some of the world’s leading newspaper, magazine and business publishers to create print and stunning digital versions of their properties for the latest tablet devices. Using Adobe InDesign CS5.5, in combination with the integrated Folio Producer toolset, designers can add new levels of interactivity to their page layouts targeted at tablet devices. Adobe today also announced the immediate availability of the Professional Edition of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, a turnkey solution that includes hosted services and viewer technology that allow publishers to cost-efficiently publish content to Android tablets, BlackBerry PlayBook and Apple iPad.

Pricing and Availability

The ME versions of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium, Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard, and Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium are immediately available through Adobe Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of US$ 2,699, US$ 1,899, and US$ 2,529 respectively.

Background Information

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