This Academic edition has the same features and capabilities of the retail version, and is shipped to you in a factory sealed retail box. However, this version is able to be sold below the retail price because of an educational discount.

Produce high-impact print designs and digital publications

Deliver high-impact print designs, freely expressing your wildest ideas at lightning speed—without ever compromising quality or precision. Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard software is packed with dozens of productivity features that let you edit images, create vector graphics, and lay out pages faster than ever before. Plus, now you can extend beyond print with dynamic resentations, beautifully designed eBooks, and immersive digital documents* that marry the appeal of interactivity with the quality of traditional print.

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard combines:

• Adobe Photoshop® CS5
• Adobe Illustrator® CS5
• Adobe InDesign® CS5.5
• Adobe Acrobat® X Pro
• Adobe Bridge CS5
• Adobe Device Central CS5.5
• Integrates with Adobe CS Live online services

Adobe Student and Teacher Editions

Get up to 80% off with Adobe Student and Teacher Editions

New Adobe Student and Teacher Editions give students—and now educators—access to low prices on full versions of the latest Adobe design software.

Please Note: Adobe Student and Teacher Editions are for students, teachers, school staff, and other educators who meet Adobe eligibility guidelines. After you receive your purchase, you will send your eligibility to the third-party verification organization, Identit-e, in order to activate the software. Individuals will be authorized for only one license of each Adobe Student and Teacher Edition title. See eligibility guidelines below.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard

• Folio Producer tools in Adobe InDesign: Create engaging digital magazines, newspapers,annual reports, manuals, and other documents that incorporate eye-catching elements such as 360° rotation and panoramas, all for playback on tablet devices, such as Apple iPad, RIM BlackBerry PlayBook, and a wide variety of Android™ tablets, including the Motorola Xoom.Upload them to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite* for further production and distribution.
• Enhanced eBook authoring in InDesign: Create more engaging eBooks with less need for developers. Enjoy a smoother workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. You can even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that support HTML5 video and audio tags.
• More efficient delivery of accessible documents: Use enhanced features in InDesign CS5.5 and Acrobat X Pro that help you to deliver publications that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 standards. Apply accessibility features more easily in InDesign CS5.5, and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Acrobat X Pro.
• Action Wizard in Acrobat Pro: Automate routine, multistep PDF tasks more easily in Adobe Acrobat X Pro. The Action Wizard guides you through creating an Action, which is an automated sequence of steps that can be applied to a single PDF or batches of files.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard

• Breakthrough image editing in Adobe Photoshop: Create compelling digital images with Adobe Photoshop CS5 software, the industry standard in digital imaging. Use versatile brush tools to paint with realistic strokes, precise selection tools to make exacting refinements, and a wide range of workflow and performance features to accelerate everyday tasks.
• Vector graphics for virtually any medium: Create distinctive vector artwork for a wide variety of projects, from logos and branding to illustrations for advertising, packaging, signage, and more. Adobe Illustrator CS5 software provides precise drawing tools and expressive natural brushes for creating eye-catching content.
• Professional page layout and production for print: Lay out stunning pages quickly and efficiently in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 software with an intuitive design environment, precise typographic controls, built-in creative tools and effects, and robust preflight capabilities.
• Elegant eBook authoring in InDesign: Create engaging eBooks with refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. A smooth EPUB workflow lets you create compelling eBooks and helps minimize dependence on developers. Design eBooks with video and audio for eBook reader applications and browsers that support HTML5 video and audio tags.
• Robust preflighting: Prepare files for hassle-free production by detecting errors in InDesign layouts with Live Preflight and in PDF files with robust preflight checks in Adobe Acrobat X Pro software.
• Author accessible documents: Use features in InDesign CS5.5 and Acrobat X Pro that help you to deliver publications that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 standards. Apply accessibility features in InDesign CS5.5, and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Acrobat X Pro.
• Adobe PDF creation, editing, and delivery: Distribute layouts reliably using Acrobat X Pro to create simple PDF documents, or package layouts, drawings, images, animation, video, audio, and other files in a single, protected PDF Portfolio.
• Visual media browsing: Find files fast by browsing thumbnails instead of filenames with Adobe Bridge. Or browse thumbnails and place files from the Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop CS5 and InDesign CS5.5.
• Help when you need it: Find the best answers for your Adobe product questions with Adobe Community Help, an online service for instruction, inspiration, and support.
• Consistent Adobe user interface: Work quickly and intuitively thanks to a consistent approach to the user interface across all Design Standard components.
• Performance on newer operating systems: Take advantage of the power and performance of newer Apple and Microsoft operating systems so you can work more quickly. And Photoshop CS5 is 64-bit native, which means even faster image-editing no matter which computer platform you use.
• Creative reviews within your design workflow: Maximize design time by streamlining reviews through integration with Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service.Initiate shared reviews from within Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, and InDesign CS5.5. Invite others to comment with easy-touse browser-based tools, and view their comments in the context of your design.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Student and Teacher Editions Eligibility Guidelines

PLEASE NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure that you are eligible to buy and use this software before purchasing this product. Once opened, it is non-returnable, non-refundable in accordance with our returns policy.

Program Purchasing Restrictions: You may purchase only one license per platform of any Adobe Student and Teacher Edition product per year. Purchases of suite editions (such as Design Premium or Master Collection) are limited to one title per platform per year. Adobe Student and Teacher Edition products may be used only on your privately owned computer and may not be resold.

Eligible persons include:

• University and college students — students enrolled at a higher education institution defined as an accredited public or private university or college (including community, junior, or vocational college) that grants degrees requiring not less than the equivalent of two years of full-time study
• Primary and secondary school students — students enrolled at an accredited public or private primary or secondary school providing full-time instruction
• Faculty and staff — teachers and staff employed by an accredited primary or secondary school, public or private university or college, school district, or board of education (including emeritus status professors)*
• Homeschooled students and their teachers — students and teachers as defined by state homeschooling regulations.

Proof of eligibility

Students:

Proof of current enrollment, stating your name, the institution name, and the current date or term*

Types of proof of enrollment include:

• School ID card
• Report card
• Transcript
• Tuition bill or statement
• Any other document issued by the educational institution that includes your name, the institution name, and the current date or term

Teachers, faculty, and staff:

• Current ID that includes your name, the date, and the name of the educational entity or an official document such as the following:
• Institutional paycheck stub
• Letter on official letterhead from the registrar of the educational entity indicating current employment

Note: Any sensitive information such as pay amounts, grades, or social security numbers can be covered or crossed out.

Homeschooled students and their teachers:

• Dated copy of a letter of intent to homeschool2
• Current membership ID to a home school association (for example, the Home School Legal Defense Association)
• Dated proof of purchase of curriculum for the current academic school year

Unqualified institutions include:

• Nonaccredited schools and religious organizations
• Museums
• Prekindergarten or child care facilities
• Churches
• Libraries
• Hospitals in Canada
• Training centers or schools granting certificates for courses such as computer software training, including, without limitation: Ziff Davis University, Learning Tree University, New Horizon Computer Learning Center, Teacher Training Centers
• Military schools that do not grant academic degrees
• Research laboratories not recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or the Canadian/Provincial Ministries of Education, for example, institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Defense or Energy or the National Research Council Canada. In addition, laboratories in the U.S. defined as Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) and University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) are not eligible. Examples include: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• Other unqualified examples as listed by Adobe from time to time on its website

Footnotes:

• Accredited schools are those that are approved by an association recognized by the U.S. Department of Education/State Board of Education or the Canadian/Provincial Ministries of Education and that teach students as their primary focus. In the U.S., such associations include: Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Northwest Association of Accredited Schools.
• Documents dated within the last six months are considered current.

System Requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 7.7GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardwareaccelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9–capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files