Software giant Adobe revealed on Tuesday that its Creative Suite 5 package would be unveiled on April 12th, ship about a month later and include the debut of Photoshop for the Mac as a 64-bit application.
According to AppleInsider, Adobe will begin accepting preoders on April 12th and has scheduled a launch event for CS5 at 11 a.m. Eastern which will be streamed on AdobeTV, allowing users the ability to see the features of the product. It is then the company will also announce its price and details.
Adobe’s CS5 launch Web site has been outfitted with a clock counting down the days until users can get their first official look at CS5. A handful of “sneak peek videos” are also available.
Adobe Systems Inc. announced the date during its quarterly earnings report Tuesday, in which the company revealed its profits fell 19% in its fiscal first quarter. But Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen said the company expects better results next quarter, which will feature the debut of the latest Creative Suite.
“We will be giving many more details of CS5’s features, functionality and pricing on April 12 with shipping of the English version about four weeks later,” Narayan said with analysts Tuesday.
Flash CS5, codenamed Viper, marks a new strategy for adobe in trying to maintain relevance among mobile developers. The latest version will give developers the ability to output native iPhone apps from existing Flash-related assets for release on Apple’s App Store. Adobe will offer the porting feature in response to Apple’s refusal to support Flash as a Web plugin runtime on the iPhone OS.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available and if there’s something you’d love to see from Creative Suite 5, let us know.