Adobe Labs

Community Help Now Available on Labs

2009-09-30T03:07:41Z

The Adobe Community Help AIR application is a preview of Adobe's next-generation help experience. This beta release is configured to work with Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst content. The Community Help AIR application lets you access up-to-date definitive reference content online and offline, find the most relevant content contributed by experts from the Adobe community, comment on, rate, and contribute to content in the Adobe community, and more.

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Adobe Labs Ideas for Flash Catalyst Launched

2009-09-25T00:06:38Z

Adobe Labs Ideas is a place for the community to suggest and discuss new and exciting functionality for Adobe technologies. Post your own ideas or review and vote on ideas submitted by the community. The Adobe development teams will review all submissions and use your collective input to prioritize feature requests and help shape future versions of products.

This initial launch of Adobe Labs Ideas allows Adobe Flash Catalyst users to vote on feature requests and share new ideas with the development team and user community. If you have an idea for how the Flash Catalyst beta can be better, let us know!

Squiggly Now Available on Labs

2009-09-22T02:59:32Z

Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control. The distribution package consists of a utility for building your own spelling dictionaries, a sample English dictionary, an Action Script package that checks individual words for spelling accuracy, and sample code that demonstrates "check as you type" functionality -- see the online demo. While the included UI class requires the Flex SDK, the core spell checking engine can be used in pure Flash applications without any dependency on Flex packages.

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CinemaDNG Now Available on Labs

2009-09-10T07:06:51Z

When film is used as the capture medium, cinematographers take great care when handling source film footage. Developed in response to the move to digital capture by many cinematographers, CinemaDNG is a digital replacement for film negatives that helps cinematographers ensure that their digitally captured scenes retain their pristine quality so they can be used to deliver the film's artistic vision. CinemaDNG is similar to the popular DNG format used for digital still photography but adds elements to specifically support digital cinema workflows.

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Adobe Story Now Available on Labs

2009-09-10T07:03:44Z

Adobe Story is a collaborative script development tool designed for creative professionals, producers, and writers working on or with scripts and screenplays. This preview version will let you try out a few of the scriptwriting tools that will be part of the overall features in the final version of Story.

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Adobe Pixel Bender Prerelease 7 Now Available on Labs

2009-09-04T22:41:59Z

The Adobe Pixel Bender technology delivers a common image and video processing infrastructure which provides automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware. You can use the Pixel Bender kernel language to implement image processing algorithms (filters or effects) in a hardware-independent manner. The Pixel Bender graph language is an XML-based language for combining individual pixel-processing operations (kernels) into more complex Pixel Bender filters.

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Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5.5 Release Candidate Now Available on Labs

2009-08-18T00:36:03Z

The Camera Raw plug-in provides easy access within Photoshop to the raw image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. The 'release candidate' label indicates that the plug-in is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers. The Camera Raw team would like the community to help verify the quality of the plug-in through normal usage as this will ensure that the plug-in is tested on a diversity of hardware and software configurations not available internally at Adobe.

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Fireworks CS4 Export to FXG Script Updated to Support Flash Catalyst

2009-07-31T00:37:29Z

An update to the Fireworks CS4 Export to FXG script is now available on Adobe Labs in support of the Flash Catalyst beta.

Flash Catalyst can import FXG graphics created in Fireworks CS4 using the new FXG file format. FXG is an XML-based graphics file format that represents graphics in a way that follows the Flash Player 10 rendering model. This new Export to FXG JavaScript file replaces the one that shipped with Fireworks CS4 to improve the design fidelity of graphics imported into Flash Catalyst.

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Adobe Wave Now Available on Labs

2009-07-22T01:22:48Z

Adobe Wave is an Adobe AIR application and Adobe hosted service that work together to enable desktop notifications for web publishers, large and small. It helps you stay connected to your community and lets users avoid the email clutter of dozens of newsletters and social network update messages.

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ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Now Available on Labs

2009-07-13T08:28:14Z

The ColdFusion 9 public beta release unveils three main themes: unrivaled developer productivity, deep enterprise integration and simple work flow with Adobe Flash Builder, Adobe AIR and AJAX to create expressive applications.

Adobe ColdFusion Builder is the highly-anticipated first ColdFusion IDE offered by Adobe. ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse based IDE for ColdFusion development that is deeply integrated with ColdFusion 9. Now you can manage your entire ColdFusion development cycle from concept to production all in one easy to use tool.

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Acrobat.com Tables Now Available on Labs

2009-06-15T07:00:01Z

Acrobat.com Tables provides a better way to work with others on data and information — such as task lists, schedules, contacts, sales numbers, etc. — that are typically created and shared in spreadsheets or simple databases. Built on the Adobe Flash Platform, Acrobat.com Tables looks and behaves like a desktop application but operates inside a web browser.

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BrowserLab Preview Now Available on Labs

2009-06-03T04:00:00Z

BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web. Also, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software users have access to additional functionality such as testing local and active content.

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Adobe Flash Catalyst Now Available on Labs

2009-06-01T04:00:00Z

Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding. This initial public beta release works with Flash Builder 4 for an integrated designer-developer workflow.

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Adobe Flex 4 SDK Now Available on Labs

2009-06-01T04:00:00Z

You can build great Flex applications using only the Flex 4 SDK and an editor of your choice, or you can use the beta version of Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 (previously named Flex Builder) which includes everything in the Flex 4 SDK within it. This beta release aligns with the public beta releases of both Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst.

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Adobe Flash Builder 4 Now Available on Labs

2009-06-01T04:00:00Z

Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new features, plus improvements to many existing features.There are three main themes to this release: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric application development.

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