Adobe Design Collection-What Is This Stuff?

In My Humble Opinion
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      • My order arrived today. In addition to Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10 and Acrobat 5 (the concepts of which I understand fairly well) it also has InDesign 2, LiveMotion 2 and GoLive 6. What are these latter three for?
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InDesign is a desktop publishing (page layout) program. I don’t know if it replaces PageMaker in Adobe’s line-up or not, but it’s a competitor to Quark.

Am not too familiar with LiveMotion, though it looks like some sort of a video (or animation) generator that supports various web formats, such as Flash and QuickTime.

GoLive is a web page editor/designer. I usually pound out HTML by hand, but if you wanted a WYSIWYG-type program, Macromedia’s DreamWeaver is pretty much the industry standard (yes, I know DW also has a code-editing interface).

If you go to Adobe’s web site, you’ll see that they’ve made several “bundles” of their products, each with a specific target market.