Develop standards-compliant content with Adobe FrameMaker ® 10 software, publish in various formats with Adobe RoboHelp ® 9 software and Adobe Captivate ® 5 workflows, collaborate with reviewable PDF files, incorporate images using Adobe Photoshop ® CS5, and add demos and simulations using Adobe Captivate 5.

Adobe Captivate is an electronic learning tool for Microsoft Windows, and from v. 5 Mac OS X which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in. swf format.

It can also convert Adobe Captivate generated. swf to. avi which can be uploaded to video hosting websites.

Shortly before Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia, they changed the name of the product to Captivate.

* Adobe Captivate 6. 0 ( June 2012 ) Interactions ( pre-built widgets ), actors ( pre-built images ), themes and Html5 support.

* Adobe Captivate 5. 5 ( May 2011 ) New features include gradients, shadows, and object rotation, enhanced quiz / assessment templates, MP4 output option, YouTube publishing option, pay-as-you go subscription licensing option.

* Adobe Captivate 5 ( May 2010 ) Unlike previous versions that were derivative of Captivate 2 and carried over notable bugs and technological limitations, Captivate 5 was written from scratch.

Adobe Captivate 5 is available separately or as part of Adobe eLearning Suite 2.

This version has features for collaboration, extends Adobe Captivate and interacts with other Adobe products like Bridge, Soundbooth, Photoshop, Adobe Device Central, etc.

Today, Adobe FrameMaker is still a widely-used publication tool for technical writers, although no version has been released for the Mac OS X operating system, limiting use of the product ( FrameMaker up to version 7. 0 ran under Mac OS 9, and is usable under Mac OS X, through version 10. 4. 11 " Tiger ", on PowerPC-based Macs in the Classic emulation environment, but there is no Mac OS X native version of FrameMaker ).

One such example of this is the Adobe Creative Suite 4 trial downloads.

On April 18, 2005, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about $ 3. 4 billion on the last trading day before the announcement.

As Apple began to embrace MPEG-4 and move away from other proprietary codecs, Sorenson Media licensed a new video codec to Macromedia as Sorenson Spark ( Sorenson H. 263 ), released with Macromedia Flash 6 / MX on March 4, 2002 .< ref > Adobe ( 2002-03-04 )

Version 4. 0, introduced in 1997, added a plug-in architecture much like that of Adobe Photoshop, which enabled third-party developers to add features to FileMaker.

Audition 4 was shipped as part of the Adobe Creative Suite 5. 5 Master Collection and Adobe Creative Suite 5. 5 Production Premium, replacing the discontinued Adobe Soundbooth.

Adobe Acrobat 5. 0 was the first to support PDF 1. 4 and, hence, transparent PDF files.

HDMI 1. 4 increases the maximum resolution to 4K × 2K, i. e. 3840 × 2160p ( Quad HD ) at 24 Hz / 25 Hz / 30 Hz or 4096 × 2160p at 24 Hz ( which is a resolution used with digital theaters ); an HDMI Ethernet Channel ( HEC ), which allows for a 100 Mbit / s Ethernet connection between the two HDMI connected devices so they can share an Internet connection ; and introduces an Audio Return Channel ( ARC ), 3D Over HDMI, a new Micro HDMI Connector, expanded support for color spaces, with the addition of sYCC601, Adobe RGB and Adobe YCC601 ; and an Automotive Connection System.

In Australia, the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, in partnership with Lenovo, are providing Year 9 ( high school ) students in government high schools with free Lenovo S10e netbooks in 2009, Lenovo Mini 10 netbooks in 2010, Lenovo Edge 11 netbooks in 2011 and a modified Lenovo X130e netbook in 2012, each preloaded with software including Microsoft Office and Adobe Systems ' Creative Suite 4.

However, Macromedia initiated a countersuit which ended in a $ 4. 9 million ruling against Adobe.

In 2005, Adobe ended further dispute between the two companies when it bought Macromedia for roughly $ 3. 4 billion.

The latest version of the SDK is version 4. 8 and is the first to be released by the Apache Foundation since the initial donation of version 4. 6 from Adobe.

May 3rd, 2011, Adobe shipped Flash Builder 4. 5 copying Flex 4. 5 ( SDK Only ) which delivers full support for building Flex and ActionScript applications for Google Android, as well as support for building ActionScript applications for BlackBerry Tablet OS and Apple iOS.

With the Adobe Flex 4. 5 SDK which is governed by three main goals:

Jul 25, 2012, Apache Flex community releases Flex 4. 8. 0-incubating and it as a parity release with Adobe Flex 4. 6. 0.

This is the first release under the incubator of the Apache Software Foundation and represents the initial donation of Adobe Flex 4. 6 by Adobe System Inc.

* Adobe Flex 4 Help

* Adobe Persuasion 4. 0.

One area Adobe is focusing on ( as of February 2009 ) is the deployment of Rich Internet Applications ( RIAs ).

Announced on January 20, 2009, this version is included in the new version of the Technical Communication Suite ( TCS 2. 0 ), and features the ability to publish a help system as an Adobe AIR application.

However, on 1 January 2009, Adobe Systems discontinued support for Adobe SVG Viewer.

Adobe denied these rumors in 2001 ,< ref > later releasing Framemaker 8 at the end of July 2007, Framemaker 9 in 2009, and Framemaker 10 in 2011.

* 2009: ARToolkit was ported to Adobe Flash ( FLARToolkit ) by Saqoosha, bringing augmented reality to the web browser.

* Exploit, a 2009 Adobe Flash game by Gregory Weir

As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems.

Also benefiting from the investment are Multimedia Design, Games Art and Digital Arts Practice students who now have the use of two computer suites with 40 iMacs and 10 high-end PC graphic workstations, all utilising the latest design and modelling software such as Adobe Master Suite, 3D Studio Max 2009 and Pixologic Zbrush 3. 1.

In May 2009, Adobe elected to cease development of HomeSite, and no longer supports the product, though they still maintain a forum for active users ( see below ).

On June 18, 2009, Adobe announced at the CFUnited conference that it had formed a CFML Advisory Committee that would be responsible for guiding and reviewing changes to the CFML language.

Released in March 2009, this version includes support of Adobe CE character set.

* 2009, September: Minutes of ISO / TC 130 / WG2 — Prepress Data Exchange, 39th Meeting: the revision of TIFF / EP " is comprehensive to support many different use cases, including backward compatibility with current TIFF readers and support of Adobe DNG ....

* Adobe Premiere Elements 8. 0-Released in October 2009 ,.

* Adobe Flash Lite 3. 1 ( February 2009 )

His other books include " Speaking In Styles " ( 2009 ), Final Cut Pro 4 and the Art of Filmmaking ( 2004 ) and Photoshop at Your Fingertips ( 2004 ) for various versions of Adobe Photoshop, starting at Photoshop 7 and including editions for each version that followed.

Visual Sciences was acquired by Omniture in 2008 and as of October 2009 Omniture was acquired by Adobe Systems Incorporated.