Foul Writer’s World

Adobe are gearing up to announce officially Creative Suite 4 on the 23rd of September. CS4 will include new versions of the much loved favourites, including PhotoShop, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator and Indesign. CS is essentially the web designers tool box. It will be interesting to see what features have been updated and how this will fit in to the Adobe online toolset that is slowly but steadily being set up. Are we likely to see tighter integration between desktop applications and their web counterparts?

The main reason I’m interested in the launch of CS4 when it happens, is to see what changes are likely to occur in the Adobe Technical Communications Suite 2. The TCS is hopefully due for launch before the end of this year, but we will have to wait and see. Unfortunately in the past the TCS has tended to be the poor cousin of the CS, because it only included a handful of useful tools for technical writers. However, if you are like me and tend to try and include unique illustrations for your documentation a decent graphics application is sorely missing from the TCS. Will one make it into TCS 2. I doubt it, but here is hoping.

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