October 15th 2008 | Jens C Brynildsen

Flash Player 10 and all CS4 software now available

Hot on the heels of yesterdays launch of Microsoft Silverlight 2, Adobe releases Flash Player 10 together with the entire CS4 Suite of software. At the moment, only the full versions are available. Want to buy CS4 today? We've got free shipping for you! If you want the trials, you can sign up to be notified when they are available.

Click here to download the release version of Flash Player 10 and the Debug version here. To read more about the new features in Flash Player 10, browse to the end of this article. To be notified when the CS4 trial versions are available, click here. Read our review of Flash CS4 here.

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Name	Contents	Price
Adobe CS4 Design Standard	InDesign, Photoshop (not Extended version), Illustrator, Acrobat 9 Pro	$1399 ($499)
Adobe CS4 Design Premium	InDesign, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Acrobat 9 Pro	$1799 ($599)
Adobe CS4 Web Standard	Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute	$999 ($399)
Adobe CS4 Web Premium	Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Fireworks, Acrobat 9 Pro, Soundbooth, Contribute	$1699 ($599)
Adobe CS4 Production Premium	After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop Extended, Flash Professional, Illustrator, Soundbooth, OnLocation, Encore	$1699 ($599)
Adobe CS4 Master Collection	InDesign, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Acrobat 9 Pro, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth, OnLocation, Encore	$2499 ($899)

Upgrade pricing is in parenthesis. All the suites also come with Bridge and Device Central.

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Flash Player 10 feature: New text engine

Flash Player 10 feature: Pixel Bender

Pixel Bender was formerly called Hydra and it has been shown publicly on several occasions. You can think of Hydra as a filter factory, a way to create cool effects in realtime. The trick here is to use the graphics card to do the calculations and not the processor.

Flash Player 10 feature: New text engine

Few things in Flash have caused me more grief than the poor text support in former versions of the Flash Player. Flash Player 10 promise to change this forever. This is another fruit of the merger - the Flash team have gotten access to the typography knowledge inside Adobe.

Flash Player 10 feature: Dynamic streaming

This functionality will work with a future release of Flash Media Server to automatically adjust the playback quality as the bandwidth fluctuates. This should put an end to rebuffering and video that stops - if this works as well as advertised.

Flash Player 10 feature: New text engine

Flash Player 10 feature: Dynamic audio generation

Adobe have been talking to a number of members of the community about their requirements for sound and bugs related to this. Andre Michelle and Joa Ebert went as far as to create their own campaign to get bugs fixed and it sure have worked. Not only does Flash Player 10 fix the bugs, but it also brings new features to the table.

Flash Player 10 feature: 3D support

Everybody is talking about 3D in Flash but it has had it's limitations. Flash Player 10 will contain several features that will add to Flash's 3D support, including hardware accelerated 3D texture transforms and extensions to the 2D drawing API.