A quick look: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard includes software for print and mobile publishing.

Adobe Creative Suite^® 4 Design Standard is the essential toolkit for print design and production, offered at a substantial discount to more comprehensive bundles. CS4 Design Standard includes the powerful tools that you rely on for page layout, image editing, illustration, and PDF creation. Take productivity to the next level with exciting new tools that enable the creation of eye-catching digital images and vector graphics, sophisticated page layout, and efficient prepress and production. Work confidently within this tightly integrated creative environment to deliver exceptional print results.

Includes full versions of:

• InDesign^® CS4 - Page layout

• Photoshop^® CS4 - Image editing

• Illustrator^® CS4 - Vector graphics creation

• Acrobat^® 9 Pro - PDF creation

• Bridge^® CS4 - Visual media management

• Device Central^® CS4 - Preview and test mobile content

• Version Cue^® CS4 - Collaborate in workgroups

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• Get a great bundle of programs
  Now in its ninth iteration, Adobe Acrobat is the preferred tool for creating PDF files for print and web delivery. The indispensable Photoshop and Illustrator are included as well, offering industry-leading image editing and vector graphics creation. The final major program in the Design Standard bundle is the popular InDesign page layout program.
   

• Produce professional-looking content
  Photoshop CS4 offers image editing and compositing tools, as well as image analysis. Illustrator, which now offers the artboard feature, lets you produce vector graphics. InDesign offers features for creating rich, complex documents, and many of these assets can be previewed and batch-edited in Adobe Bridge.
   

• Integrate with other Adobe Products
  Adobe suites offer tight integration between programs. That means you can import and export files between Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and a host of others. Adobe's well-known PDF technology can be used to share print media with others, and the integrated software can be used to generate mobile content, aided by Adobe Device Central.

Windows System

• Hard Drive Space: 7.7 GB
• Operating System: Windows^® Vista w/SP1, or XP w/SP2
• Processor Speed: 2 GHz
• RAM: 1 GB
• Graphics: 1024x768 screen resolution with 16-bit video card, DirectX 9-capable graphics card with 64 MB of VRAM, Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• Other: DVD-ROM drive, QuickTime^® 7.4.5, broadband internet connection