InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books.
The latest version, InDesign CS4 Server (codenamed Thyme), is the tenth generation in the product line.
Features:
• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Dynamic cross-reference support that updates content when moved within a document
• Spread rotation
• Smart guides (Quickly align space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides.)
• Conditional text (Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.)
• Smart Text Reflow (Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference.)
• Live Preflight
A&H use case 1 description:
Interpreting The Bible and its Visual Expression Within the Cultural Landscape of Wales used Adobe InDesign to process Welsh artwork created in the 19th and 20th century that depicts biblical scenes and characters.
After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software. After Effects allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2d and 3d space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation.
The latest version, CS4 (9.0.2), is the eighteenth generation in the product line.
Features:
• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Searchable timelines and projects
• Independent keyframing of x, y, z values
• 3D compositing
• Cartoon effect
• layer-oriented
A&H use case 1 description:
The Virtual Reconstruction of Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico project used After Effects for video production during the life of the project.
Creator:
Company of Science and Art (v1-2), Adobe Systems Incorporated (v3+)
A suite of products developed for web designers that may be used to convert large images into a form that can be zoomed and panned. Zoomify enables large images to be viewed and manipulated, without an increase in server load or download time. It convert large images stored in raster formats (e.g. TIFF, JPEG) into a set of pieces or 'tiles' The individual pieces contain sub-sections of the image at different resolutions or levels of zoom, which are combined to create a type of mosaic.
Features:
Enables access to high quality still images without an increase in server load
A&H use case 1 description:
The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) project use Zoomify to deliver high-quality images of medieval stained glass.
A&H use case 2 description:
The 'In Transition' project use Zoomify to deliver scanned images of the poetry of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
