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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:25am
New Dreamweaver, Fireworks,...
Adobe has posted betas of three applications from the next version of Creative Suite, including Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth. Dreamweaver is the company's signature web design tool, and now includes a Related Files Toolbar as well as Code Navigator, which lets users explore pages with complex elements such as XML data and JavaScript links. Particularly important in the software is the new Live View Mode, which incorporates a live preview browser based on the WebKit engine. This eliminates the need to keep a separate browser running, and also lets users freeze JavaScript for debugging purposes.

Fireworks is a web prototyping app, and now includes an interface standardized with other Suite apps, and the ability to export design comps to PDF documents. The software has also been made compatible with AIR, HTML, Flash and Flex Builder. Soundbooth is the company's audio production software, and has been improved with support for editing multiple clips on multiple tracks, and volume harmonization between audio files. MP3 compression can be previewed before saving, and speech recognition can be used to generate searchable dialogue transcripts. All three betas are free to download, but will only work for 48 hours unless a user has a CS3 serial number. Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later is required, along with an Intel processor in the case of Soundbooth.