Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard software is the indispensable toolkit for professional design and print production, offering all-new versions of essential tools for page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard combines Adobe Bridge CS3, Adobe Version Cue® CS3, Adobe Device Central CS3, Adobe
Stock Photos,* and Acrobat® Connect™* with:
• Adobe InDesign® CS3
• Adobe Photoshop® CS3
• Adobe Illustrator® CS3
• Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Design with essential tools
Take your designs from concept to completion with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard, which helps you create and print your best work. From sketching concepts to finessing production details, you can create beautiful, sophisticated designs with Creative Suite Design Standard. Take advantage of new creative effects and finer transparency controls in Adobe InDesign software; explore, apply, and control color variations using the new Live Color environment in Adobe Illustrator software; and apply new nondestructive SmartFilters in Adobe Photoshop software. Design Standard helps you express your best ideas more easily and efficiently than ever before.

Keep your ideas flowing
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard lets you slip into the creative zone and stay there by offering tight integration and shared productivity features that enable you to move fluidly between tasks. Easily share assets among components—double-click an asset in an InDesign layout to quickly open it in Photoshop or Illustrator, for example, or use Smart Objects to nondestructively edit Illustrator artwork in Photoshop. Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge, manage workgroup files with Adobe Version Cue, and shop for royalty-free images using Adobe Stock Photos—all from within Design Standard.

Print with confidence
Enjoy rock-solid, streamlined print production using Creative Suite 3 Design Standard. Generate predictable printed output with features such as synchronized color settings and shared PDF presets. Help minimize errors by using output previews before you print, and exert fine control over output using consistent, comprehensive, professional printing options. Streamline prepress using Adobe Acrobat software to preflight and correct Adobe PDF
files and to automate workflows with JDF. With Design Standard, you can reliably print beautiful content with the utmost efficiency.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard

All-new versions of essential creative tools
Experience a highly productive creative toolkit with InDesign CS3 for professional page layout, Photoshop CS3 for unrivaled image editing, Illustrator CS3 for inspired vector graphics creation, and Acrobat 8 Professional

Unprecedented integration for exceptional productivity
Enjoy a consistent design experience across InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop with shared interface elements such as self-adjusting panels that dock out of your way when not in use. And use native file formats smoothly across software components to streamline design and production.

Support for the latest Macintosh and Windows systems
Get the most out of Design Standard on Intel based Macintosh systems and Microsoft Windows Vista computers. Work smoothly on legacy PowerPC based Macintosh and Windows XP systems as well.

Efficient, powerful page design with Adobe InDesign CS3
Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using InDesign CS3, which offers powerful features for creating graphically rich, complex documents; professional typographic controls; and robust, reliable printing.

Powerful color and printing capabilities
Print Photoshop composites, Illustrator artwork, and InDesign layouts with confidence thanks to robust color options, consistent color settings, and professional output controls for high-quality printing.

Exceptional native file format support
Open Photoshop images in Illustrator and Illustrator artwork in Photoshop, and place both types of native files, as well as Adobe PDF files, in InDesign layouts. Streamline your design and production processes in myriad ways using native file format support.

Reliable Adobe PDF workflows
Use Adobe PDF to create reliable and consistent final output, streamline print production— including automatically fixing mistakes found during preflight—and automate processes using JDF.

Cross-media publishing
Contribute your assets to cross-media workflows. Hand off Photoshop image comps for use in web prototyping, preview Illustrator artwork as it might appear on a mobile device, and export InDesign layouts as XHTML for use by colleagues in web page layouts.

Visual media management in Adobe Bridge CS3
Efficiently organize, browse, locate, and preview assets with Adobe Bridge CS3, which offers faster performance; customizable workspaces; nondestructive batch-editing of TIFF, JPEG, and camera raw files; direct playback of SWF and FLV files; and direct access to useful services such as Adobe Stock Photos.

System requirements
Windows®
• Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino,® Intel Xeon,® or Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor
• Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)
• 1GB of RAM
• 4GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
• 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
• Internet or phone connection required for product activation
• Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

Macintosh
• PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v.10.4.8, Java™ Runtime Environment 1.5 required for Adobe Version Cue CS3 Server
• 1GB of RAM
• 5.3GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
• 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
• Internet or phone connection required for product activation
• Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services
* Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe Stock Photos and Acrobat Connect, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies.