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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium What’s New
• To optimize a print layout for onscreen delivery, simply open the layout in InDesign and use new
panels to add interactivity, animation, video, and/or sound.
Now you can take your designs in exciting new directions and maintain design control—without
writing code.
Interactive content with Flash Catalyst CS5
New from Adobe and built specifically for designers, Flash Catalyst enables you to create
interactive content without writing code. With Flash Catalyst, you can take advantage of the
expressiveness of Flash technology and the ubiquity of Flash Player to deliver compelling
interactivity, video, and audio to computers around the world.
Transform artwork created in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks into high-quality interactive
content that can liven up your web pages or make complex information engaging and easier to
understand. Design simple projects, such as an interactive portfolio site or product brochure, that
you can complete yourself in SWF format. Or tackle more complex projects such as a user interface
for a web application built in collaboration with a developer. While you design visually in the
foreground, Flash Catalyst generates Adobe Flex® code in the background.
Begin by importing a design comp created in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks into your Flash
Catalyst project. Use easy-to-understand menu commands to convert individual elements into
functional interactive components such as buttons, sliders, and scrollbars. When you’re finished
polishing your interactive content, you can add it to web pages, embed it in a PDF file, or run it as a
self-contained Adobe AIR application directly on the desktop.
Venture into the exciting realm of interactive design without ever writing or editing a line of code.
Roundtrip editing of graphics
between Flash Catalyst CS5 and
Illustrator CS5
Use Illustrator CS5 to develop
interaction design ideas, cra screen
layouts, and create graphics for use
as user interface components. en
open your Illustrator artwork in Flash
Catalyst and add actions and interac-
tivity. Aer you’ve added interactivity,
you can still make edits and design
changes directly within Illustrator
(see example below).
Roundtrip editing of graphics between Flash Catalyst CS5 and Illustrator CS5 makes it easier to ne-tune elements of your
interactive design. In Flash Catalyst CS5, select an element, and then choose Modify > Edit In Adobe Illustrator CS5 (above
le). Flash copies the selected element (here, the orange arrow on the black background) and captures a screenshot of the
entire page. Illustrator then opens a new document and places the screenshot, at 20% opacity, on a locked layer—along with
all four buon states (shown below). When you save the Illustrator le, the Flash Catalyst le is automatically updated.
Note that the graphic from Flash
Catalyst is being edited in Illustrator.