Adobe Master Collection~®

摘要

Over the years, Cinema Technology has been put together with Adobe's ever-developing publishing packages, and the software on my bookshelf shows the historical route - from various versions of Pagemaker through to Indesign in its different versions, through to the complete Creative Suite~®. The image processing programmes needed for creating diagrams and publishing photographs include Photoshop~® and Illustrator~® in their various versions, together with Adobe Acrobat, used for creating the ubiquitous 'pdf files that can be read by anyone with the freely distributed Acrobat reader programme. Although this began as an easy way of making easily transferable files, especially suitable for sending over email, Acrobat has extended its capabilities until it can now act as the highest quality file interchange medium that is used for sending a complete Cinema Technology directly to the printers. It seems incredible that only 12 years ago we were sending typescript and printed photos with crop marks - these days a single Acrobat file contains all the text, photos and layout information for a complete magazine.