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What’s New in Dreamweaver CS4

The third feature, Code Navigator, brings immediacy to your coding never available in Dreamweaver

before. Use the Code Navigator to jump directly to any CSS rule affecting the current selection, no

matter whether you’re working in Design, Code, or Live view.

Expanded Integration

In many ways, Dreamweaver is a true destination product. Whether you develop your Web content

in Photoshop, Fireworks, or Flash, you have to go through Dreamweaver to reach the Web. Dream-

weaver CS4 reflects this centerpiece status thoroughly with its shiny new user interface and height-

ened cross-product integration. It’s obvious that Adobe’s vision for all of its Creative Suite products

is one of harmony and fluidity. All user interfaces across the Creative Suite product line, including

Dreamweaver, have been overhauled to achieve a cohesiveness and consistent workflow.

All panels in Dreamweaver, like those in Photoshop and Flash, now iconify or expand with a single

click. Like the others, Dreamweaver includes a Workspace Switcher for customizing your design

environments (see Figure 1-2). All user interface elements across Creative Suite 4 are a uniform neu-

tral gray, which light up with a splash of color when selected.

FIGURE 1-2

With the new Workspace Switcher you can quickly apply

one of eight interface layouts or create your own.

The integration enhancements in Dreamweaver CS4 are far more than skin deep. The bond between

Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver is now much tighter than ever. Dreamweaver CS4 builds on the

connectivity established in the previous version, where cross-product copy/paste functionality and

conversion of PSD format files to Web-ready files was added. Now, any graphic from a Photoshop

source file becomes a Smart Object when placed in a Dreamweaver page. Smart Objects are “source-

aware” and, when first inserted, identified with an in-sync indicator in the upper-left corner of the

graphic, as shown in Figure 1-3. Should the source file be modified, the in-sync symbol becomes an

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