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In case you missed it, last week, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 which integrates the newly announced Acrobat 9 Pro into the Premium and Standard editions of the Design and Web Suites, as well as the Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection are now shipping. In addition, Adobe has added Fireworks CS3 into Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium for designers who need to rapidly prototype and generate Web sites.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro enables designers to collaborate on documents more effectively and efficiently with the ability to create and manage forms and collect forms data more easily using Acrobat 9 Pro and the Acrobat.com . Acrobat.com is a new suite of hosted services that allows designers to co-navigate PDF documents with clients or colleagues in real time. The service is currently available if you sign up for the public beta.

Acrobat 9 Pro also includes an Overprint Preview feature which allows print professionals to accurately view interactions between overlapping objects.

To read the full press release, please visit the Adobe Press Room.

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Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Media Player 1.0. The new Adobe AIR application is a free customizable, cross-platform media player that provides exciting new ways for viewers to discover and interact with their favorite content, while offering revenue and brand-building opportunities for content publishers. Major television broadcasters and leading content publishers, including CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondeNét, and Scripps Networks have worked with Adobe to provide a broad range of television programming and entertaining video content to viewers.

Adobe Media Player is available for immediate download in the US at http://www.adobe.com/go/mp. To learn more about Adobe Media Player, please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/mediaplayer.

Additionally, Adobe announced Adobe TV, a network in Adobe Media Player with a series of shows that provides expert instruction and original series programming about Adobe products to the worldwide creative).

Adobe TV is immediately available online from the Adobe Web site at http://tv.adobe.com, or as a network with multiple shows in the new Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software.

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This week, Adobe unveiled a new kuler desktop version of the popular online color application, kuler. In addition to the ability to browse color themes for inspiration while online and offline, users can now drag and drop themes to their own desktops as transparent, scalable "tear offs." As an Adobe AIR application, kuler now allows users to access the Web-based color tool directly from their desktop for easy access and navigation. To learn more visit a feature overview or go to Adobe Labs at http://kuler.adobe.com.

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Students participating in Adobe Youth Voices, the company’s global philanthropy program, today had a chance to show their work at a screening hosted by Adobe in conjunction with activities related to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Traveling from East Palo Alto, Calif., Seattle, New York and Salt Lake City, six teens debuted films, sharing views on issues ranging from homelessness to friendships that dissolve racial boundaries.

A sampling of the student films include:

“Disorder,” created by Sami Kubo from Reel Grrls in Seattle, takes audiences inside the mind of a girl who struggles to communicate in a world where her way of thinking is deemed a "learning disability."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ5uysGj0FE

Members of Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula (San Francisco Bay Area) screened two works. “Just Say It,” by Maria Centeno, focuses on the visual representation of a spoken word poem telling the story of a young woman growing up in East Palo Alto. “The Pace Maker,” by Francisco Espinoza, follows a troubled 17-year old with a new lease on life, a new relationship with his father and a view of a brighter future for himself.

Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved communities with the skills and access to multimedia and digital tools that empower them to share their ideas, demonstrate their potential and take action in their communities. To view additional Adobe Youth Voices projects from around the world, visit: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/youthvoices/gallery/

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Adobe Systems today announced it was honored this evening with the Corporate Achievement Award from Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Presented as part of the 2007 National Design Awards, the Corporate Achievement Award recognizes corporations that help advance the relationship between design and quality of life.

The 2007 National Design Awards nominations were solicited from a committee of more than 800 leading designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures and corporate leaders from every state in the nation. A jury of experts, chosen by Cooper-Hewitt, selected finalists and winners in each category. First launched in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards were established to promote excellence and innovation in design

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