Adobe Device Central
Developer:	Adobe Systems
Latest release:	CS3 / March 2007
OS:	Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Use:	Mobile device authoring
License:	Proprietary
Website:	Adobe Device Central

Adobe Device Central is a software program created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) in March 2007. Its primary purpose is to integrate parts of the Creative Suite together to offer both professional and individual web designers an easier way to create WAP sites for mobile devices. It is accessible from all other components of the Creative Suite. Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... March 2007 is the third month of the year. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Handheld devices (also known as handhelds) are pocket-sized computing devices that are rapidly gaining popularity as the access to information in every walk of life becomes more and more mission critical. ... DVD authoring, the process of creating a DVD from multimedia source materials. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 3D color wheel of all the icons of applications in Adobe Creative Suite. ... March 2007 is the third month of the year. ...

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Device Central provides designers and coders a comprehensive testing facility that approximates how pages and graphics will look on different cell phones which have different screen resolutions, color depths, memory constraints, and other performance characteristics. It simplifies the mobile authoring workflow and allows developers to preview designs and test content on the desktop before loading it on the mobile devices for final testing. A library of mobile device profiles on Device Central are updated quarterly, with an initial support for over 200 devices at launch.

Device Central has many other functions such as rescaling graphics, simulating a mobile phone's backlight dimming, adding artificial screen reflections and changing the color balance, allowing artists to tune their graphics in different conditions without extraneous footwork.

See also

• Adobe Creative Suite

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External links

• Adobe Device Central CS3