Adobe to launch of Director 11 by March 2008
February 19, 2008 - 07:58 EST   Adobe Systems today announced Adobe Director 11, a major upgrade to the company’s powerful multimedia authoring tool for building interactive applications and rich content. The latest release contains a flexible and easy-to-use authoring environment enabling multimedia authors, animators and developers to create powerful interactive applications, games, e-learning and simulation products. With Director 11 or a combination of Director 11 and the Adobe Shockwave Player, users can author once and publish content for the Web, CDs/DVDs and the desktop simultaneously.

Providing broad support for industry standard audio, video and image files, Director 11 boasts powerful new features, including support for Adobe Flash 9 technology and bitmap filters to simplify adding characteristics, such as shadowing or glow, to text or images. The product offers language support with both JavaScript and Lingo — the native scripting language of Director — for programming in more than one language, as well as an enhanced script browser to save programming time by breaking out the code and code snippets with drag and drop capability.

Adobe Director 11 is expected to be available by the end of March 2008. International versions in French, German and Japanese are expected to ship by June 2008. Director 11 is priced at US$999 for the full product and $299 for an upgrade from the prior three versions. Educators can purchase Director 11 for $299 and students in select regions including the United States may purchase Director 11 for $99.  [ Email this story ]

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