DIGITAL digest

There are lots of bonuses in this upgrade, as well. One is called Adobe Stock Photos service, which provides a direct interface to hundreds of thousands of stock photos from the leading online agencies. Another is expanded support for JDF, a feature of increasing importance to printers.

The feature upgrades in Adobe CS2 are deep and powerful, and afford enormous potential for developers, integrators and publishers with strong IT resources to create dynamic, semi-automated publishing workflows. Unfortunately, the degree of difficulty this entails is such that few will be up to the challenge.