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"Adobe has today announced a number of noteworthy updates only for Creative Cloud subscribers, including new\u00A0Edge Web\u00A0Fonts support in Dreamweaver, added CSS functionality in Edge Animate and code hinting in Edge Code. In addition, Adobe is making its previously teased\u00A0responsive design app, Edge Reflow, available for the first time in a free public preview.\r\n\r\nThese updates are tied closely with Creative Cloud,\u00A0a subscription service for all things Adobe launched in April 2012. As we've detailed,\u00A0Creative Cloud represents a change of direction for the company, which hopes to stabilize its income with monthly subscribers instead of expensive, annual product launches.\r\n\r\nAdobe aside, the aforementioned updates also show how\u00A0Creative Cloud can benefit users, bringing them new features as they're developed. Considering the growing importance Adobe is placing on the Web with its Edge products, it's clear that a number of its apps would simply go stale without these updates.\r\nThe Updates\r\nDreamweaver, Adobe's\u00A0older Web design and coding app, is now able to tap into Edge Web Fonts,\u00A0a free, Typekit-like\u00A0web font utility that lets designers take advantage a growing library of open source typefaces. In addition, Dreamweaver is also receiving an update to its fluid grid layout with added flexibility and a new editing interface.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEdge Animate,\u00A0Adobe's motion design tool which offers Flash-like functionality using modern (and open) Web standards, is adding new CSS capabilities. The app now supports the ability to style and animate\u00A0radial and linear gradients, and can utilize CSS filters, like blur and image manipulation.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLastly, Edge Code, a modern but simplistic code editor for HTML, CSS and Javascript, has updated its live preview feature, and also added code hinting functionality.\r\n\r\n\r\nEdge Reflow, A Brand New App\r\nWe've known about Reflow, Adobe's new responsive Web design tool, since it was first teased during the launch of the Adobe Edge family in September.\u00A0Now, we're finally able to get our hands on the free app in the form of a public preview (aka public beta).\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn our own tests, the app certainly feels like a beta release, but it also shows surprisingly strong potential as a visual editor. As Web designers will already know, visual/WYSIWYG editors and the Web simply don't mix. In other words, creating a site by dragging around elements has yet to equal the power of coding a site by hand.\u00A0Reflow, however, isn't actually setting out as a site builder. Thankfully.\r\n\r\nAdobe product manager Jacob Surber\u00A0tells us his goal with Reflow &amp;quot;is to help designers design within the constraints of the web to communicate their intent, but not to tell developers how to build the site.&amp;quot;\u00A0Surber went on, detailing that what Reflow generates &amp;quot;is not production code.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nReflow is a design tool, and it bridges the gap between raster image editors like Photoshop and bare code. It lets you design your site on a flexible grid, utilizing break points with CSS media queries. The results, however, are intended to be handed off to a developer (not to replace developers).\r\n\r\nToday's updates reiterate Adobe's new mission to embrace modern Web standards in all its products.\u00A0Adobe is investing heavily in technologies which it has\u00A0little\u00A0control over: HTML, CSS and JS, while\u00A0bringing in early feedback as an integral part of its development process.\r\n\r\nTo try the new app and updates for yourself, you'll have to become a Creative Cloud subscriber. Luckily, Adobe is letting anyone use Edge Reflow, Animate and Code for free, but accessing the Dreamweaver update requires a paid Creative Cloud subscription.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Creative Cloud"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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