Adobe announced the Adobe HTML5 Pack for Adobe Illustrator CS5, this pack provides initial support for HTML5 and CSS3 and extends the scalable vector graphics (SVG) capability in Illustrator, making it easier to design, deliver and optimize compelling content for mobile devices and the web.

By delivering this extension and supporting open standards, Adobe empowers developers, publishers and designers to make their own choices about how to create, distribute and access content. The HTML5 Pack lets web designers and developers take advantage of the latest advancements in HTML5 through enhanced integration between Illustrator CS5 and Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 software. SVG generated by Illustrator can be displayed directly in compatible browsers and Illustrator can be used to generate CSS code for styling of HTML content. The HTML5 Pack for Illustrator CS5 is immediately available on Adobe Labs as a free download, at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/illustrator_html5.html.

The HTML5 Pack for Illustrator provides features that enable users to take advantage of the latest developments in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and Canvas for easy multi-screen authoring. The SVG and Canvas enhancements also simplify interactive web content development. Designed to complement the recently released HTML5 technology release for Dreamweaver, the technology enhances integration between Illustrator and Dreamweaver, making it easier to design and develop with the latest, emerging web standards. Users can also create web widgets with Illustrator by generating dynamic vector art for data-driven web workflows, and map artwork appearance attributes from designer to developer tools by exporting from the Illustrator Appearance Panel to CSS3 for streamlined styling of web pages.

The HTML5 Pack extension for Illustrator CS5 is available for both Mac OS X and Windows and can be downloaded for free from Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/illustrator_html5.html. For more information, please visit: http://www.adobe.com/go/illustrator_html5.

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Apple took its time and rethought how to include third-party developer tools into the iOS development, this may bring Adobe Flash finally and many other tools cut out on the last review of the iOS Development Guidelines, this could help Apple avoid federal investigations and increase the size of the already crowded AppStore with thousand new applications ported from other platforms or simply done with restricted tools. Adobe may be considering Flash on the iPhone, but only if the new guidelines work on its favor.

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Adobe released the latest version of its Photoshop.com mobile now called Photoshop Express 1.3, the new version is available for iPhone and now support the iPad. The Photoshop Express 1.3 is a the mobile version of photohop.com where users can store and share images up to 2 GB of space.

What’s New In Version 1.3
• Initial support for iPad
• New name: Adobe® Photoshop® Express
• Updated UI
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Features specific to iPad:
• Support for portrait and landscape orientations
• Redesigned Online, Edit, and Upload workflows
• Ability to work on multiple photos in sequence from within a single workflow
• Redesigned Organizer view with simplified album sharing
• Updated icons and visuals that make it easier to navigate and use the Editor
• Ability to upload to Photoshop.com and Facebook simultaneously

I am still waiting for Adobe Illustrator Mobile, Adobe.

Get Adobe Photoshop Express 1.3 here.

Hardware acceleration for Adobe Flash is finally a Go, after years of poor performance and a long battle between Apple and Adobe, but hey, the hardware accelaration is only available for Macs running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and using NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M graphics cards. Anyway it’s an already expected/welcome feature for Flash.

Adobe insists that this new Flash Preview will bring real H.264 video hardware decoding with performance up to two-thirds reduction in CPU utilization for 1080p H.264 video playback
on Mac OS X 10.6.3 and that this feature will be added to the final Flash 10.1 to be shipped later this year.

Apple points to Adobe for the poor performance of Flash and Adobe denies it alleging it was Apple’s fault for not supplying the Hardware Acceleration API used by Quicktime, now We have to evaluate Flash to see who the hell is telling the true.

Adobe poor dedication to the mac could really force Apple to add new programming features to Quicktime or to Keynote, if those features rival Flash on the iPhone or make Keynote a more iPhone oriented application then the future of Flash Mobile for the iPhone is in real problems, Apple has been tweaking Keynote with new interativity features that in next upgrades could easily be transform to meet the iPhone needs.

You can port your Keynote presentations to the iPod in a Quicktime movie, but there isn’t a scripting language that helps you control any aspect of it, Keynote only needs to evolve to this point and could really be a rival to Flash.

Other candidate to replace Flash supremacy on Mac OS X is Quicktime, Apple only needs to adds more Applescript commands that help to create interactivity in Quicktime and because Quicktime nature, the final product could be multiplatform, Windows, Mac and the Net.

Remember that when Adobe literally abandoned the Mac video market Apple created Final Cut and when innovation in the photography space was slow, Apple launched Aperture, so Apple is watching Adobe’s moves and believe me, Apple is just waiting for Adobe’s mac abandonment to hit it harder than with Final Cut.

Apple has the chance of Steve Jobs’ entire life to take on Adobe and Microsoft in just one shot, how? Easy, if Apple merges itself with Corel, which market value is US$231,552,240, polishes Corel applications to meet the Mac guidelines, drop those applications that don’t represent a good chance to dominate any market segment, puts some resources in Corel Wordperfect, which the last time I used it in the ancient Mac OS 9 was an excellent application that took advantage of all the Apple technologies by that time, Office looked dull when compared with Wordperfect.

1) In the recent transformation of Adobe into a Microsoft-like model delaying mac applications and acting as if the mac platform were a second-class citizen, slow in fixing bugs that plague their mac versions of their suites , slow in adapting to new features of the new Mac OS X, slow in providing Flash version to the iPhone, high prices for softwares with few new features and too many products that overlap each others and only help to create confusion to people, promising Windows only versions of their applications and letting the mac community in the dust.

With a possible Apple-Corel merger, Apple can force Adobe to rethink its mac strategy and invest more time refining their mac applications and at the same time reduce the dependency on Adobe on the Graphic Design market, that has been an important part of Apple’s history.

2) Kill Corel applications for Windows
Merging with Corel gives Apple another victim with the same shot, Apple could terminate further development of Corel applications for Windows based PCs and provide to customers an affordable migration offer to the mac. This could hurt the Windows already damaged reputation because Corel is well known among Windows users, those that won’t jump to any Adobe offering.

This is a real possibility for Apple if Steve Jobs want to go on the offensive, Apple users have been forced to use and pay for half baked applications that don’t use all the features provided by the latest version of Mac OS X, something that has made them slow when compare with the Windows version.

Giveng that Apple’s bank account is full of green bills doing nothing, paying US$231,552,240 for Corel in cash or in Apple’s shares is a wise investment move and gaining powerful applications like Coreldraw, Wordperfect, Paintshop Pro, Painter and others could only helps Apple becomes one of the major application developer in the world, putting Microsoft and Adobe under control.

Adobe Systems today introduced Acrobat.com , a suite of hosted services available as public beta for free signup, that put communication, productivity, and collaboration tools right within a Web browser. Much like Adobe® Acrobat® software enabled the publishing of high-quality electronic documents that anyone can read, Acrobat.com enables individuals to truly work collaboratively on electronic documents. Acrobat.com is a set of online services — file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and Web conferencing — that take advantage of PDF, Adobe Flash® and Adobe AIR™ technologies to deliver engaging online experiences that go well beyond traditional office productivity tools. Also accessible through Adobe Acrobat 9 software (see separate release issued today), Acrobat.com delivers a new way for people to work together online.

The hosted services in Acrobat.com include:

- Adobe Buzzword®, a Web-based word processor that can be used to easily co-author and share documents for comment and review, creating high-quality print results;

- Adobe ConnectNow, a personal Web conferencing service that includes desktop sharing, video and voice conferencing and integrated chat;

- Centralized online file sharing with access controls, online PDF conversion for up to five documents, and support for high quality, Web-embeddable documents;

- Developer APIs for real-time collaboration, file sharing and conversion.

In addition, Acrobat.com gives Acrobat 9 users access to a “personal workspace in the clouds” that is available from virtually anywhere for working with others online. Acrobat 9 users can work with Acrobat.com as a central location for sharing forms and collecting forms data, conducting shared reviews, and co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues.

Acrobat.com also works with Adobe Reader® 9 software, giving Adobe Reader 9 users easy access to Acrobat.com so they can share files, convert up to five documents to PDF online and participate in electronic forms and shared reviews initiated by Acrobat 9 us

Adobe Systems is committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone, according to CEO Shantanu Narayen, even though Steve Jobs said last week that Flash isn’t suitable for the iPhone

But Narayen isn’t wavering. “Flash is synonymous with the Internet and, frankly, anybody who wants to browse the Web and experience the Web’s glory really needs Flash support,” he said during a conference call Tuesday with investors, according to a transcript at seekingalpha.com.

He is sure adding Flash support to the iPhone isn’t a problem. “We’ve evaluated the SDK , we can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves and we think it benefits our joint customers,” Narayen said.

But he was also diplomatic, saying twice that Adobe wants to work with Apple.
“We think it benefits our joint customers. So we want to work with Apple to bring that capability to the device,” he said.

Via Yahoo News

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Adobe announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software, Adobe’s Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content within the Internet Explorer Mobile browser in future versions of Microsoft Windows Mobile phones. Microsoft has also licensed Adobe Reader® LE software for viewing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents including email attachments and web content. Both Adobe products will be made available to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, who license Windows Mobile software.

The Flash Lite 3.x browser plug-in for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile will provide users with access to rich and interactive web content created using Adobe Flash® technology. As the most popular and ubiquitous format on the Internet today, Adobe Flash powers many rich and engaging web sites, applications and animations. Adobe Reader LE will allow Windows Mobile users to easily and reliably view and navigate rich PDF content using innovative features developed to improve document readability on smaller screens.

“People want vibrant web experiences and access to entertainment and information anywhere, anytime,” said John O’Rourke, general manager, Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft Corp. “Bringing Flash Lite and Reader LE to the Windows Mobile experience will give consumers more of their favorite websites on the go.”

With more than 150 percent year-over-year growth and half a billion mobile devices shipped with Flash Lite to date, Flash Lite is delivered on mobile phones and devices of all major handset manufacturers worldwide. Flash Lite runs on multiple platforms, including Windows Mobile, Symbian™ S60, and Qualcomm® BREW®, in addition to embedded operating systems on a variety of OEM platforms. For more information please visit www.adobe.com/mobile .

“We are thrilled to work with Microsoft to add playback of rich, web-based Flash Player compatible content and PDF document viewing to Windows Mobile,” said Al Ramadan, senior vice president, Mobile and Devices at Adobe. “Flash has revolutionized the way we experience content on the web and we are excited that Microsoft has decided to extend the experience of Flash technology to Windows Mobile users.”

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Adobe announced that more than 500 million mobile devices shipped with Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software to date. Flash Lite, Adobe’s award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, has seen over 150 percent growth over the last year and is now delivered on mobile phones and devices from all major handset manufacturers worldwide. Adobe also announced that Microsoft today became the latest company to license Flash Lite, for use in Microsoft Windows Mobile phones.

“With over half a billion devices now running Flash Lite we’re extending the reach of high impact web experiences to our connected mobile world,” said Al Ramadan, senior vice president, Mobile and Devices at Adobe. “With Microsoft, the latest addition to our list of mobile partners, Flash technology’s footprint continues to expand, promising more opportunities for Flash developers and more great content for mobile consumers around the world.”

All major handset manufacturers worldwide license and ship mobile devices with Flash Lite today including LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and many others. New devices like the Nokia N95, the Nokia N96, the Sony Ericsson C-Series, the NTT DoCoMo’s 905i series, and the Sony Mylo support Flash Lite 3, the latest version of the software. Flash Lite runs on multiple platforms, including Windows Mobile, Symbian™ S60, and Qualcomm® BREW®, in addition to embedded operating systems on a variety of OEM platforms. For more information please visit www.adobe.com/mobile .

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