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ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) software that converts paper documents, PDFs and digital photos of text into editable files. Documents can be scanned, saved or exported out to Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe Acrobat formats. The software can also convert text into editable formats from smartphone or digital camera photos of a document.
Microsoft Access is a database management system with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the Professional and higher editions or sold separately. Access is produced for the Windows platform only.
Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).
Acrobat Pro can create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files. Acrobat.com complements the family with a variety of enterprise content management and file hosting services.
Acrobat Pro is available to UNCC by request as part of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium package or separately.
The Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free PDF reader that allows for reading, copying, printing, and basic annotation of PDF files. It also allows the user to open encrypted for write-protected PDF files. One popular use is to fill out pre-made forms that are generated using Acrobat Pro. Acrobat Pro or a comparable PDF authoring program is necessary to create or change structure within a PDF.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is available on MacOS and Windows.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe Animate CC is an animation tool within Adobe Creative Cloud that replaces Adobe Flash Professional. Users can create advertisements, multimedia content, vector animations, and games in a timeline-based authoring environment. Animate incorporates native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. Projects published in HTML5 canvas support HiDPI and Retina displays.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe Bridge helps organize files and assets for creative projects. Files can be renamed, color coded or assigned star ratings through batch processing. Users can also locate assets by file type, ratings, or camera type.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of software for graphic design, photography, web development, video editing, and cloud services. Software is downloaded and installed on the local machine and can be used as long as the subscription remains valid. Software upgrades are available immediately and includes saving to the cloud.
A list of software included in the university license of Creative Cloud can be viewed here. Mobile apps are available from the App Store. The university has an agreement with Adobe that allows Adobe Creative Cloud to be installed on university owned computers and on faculty and staff personal computers.
Adobe Creative Suite (CS6) is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications. All of these features create attractive websites, documents, and printed content available for all users, from people learning in school to graphic artists and professionals.
Adobe Creative Suite is being replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud.
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design software that helps users create, edit, and support their own websites and web applications. It has applications that provides a visual editor and a code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for Windows and Mac devices.
Dreamweaver is part of Adobe Creative Cloud which is available for all UNCC faculty and staff computers.
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design software that helps users create, edit, and support their own websites and web applications. It has applications that provides a visual editor and a code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for Windows and Mac devices.
Dreamweaver CS6 is being replaced with Dreamweaver CC.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe Fuse CC (Preview) is a 3D modeling app that allows users to create human characters for use in Adobe Photoshop CC images, designs and prototypes. 3D characters can be built using a library of customizable faces, bodies, clothing, and textures. The character’s size and proportions can be changed via slider and other attributes will adjust accordingly.
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Adobe Gaming SDK is a collection of code samples, frameworks, and learning resources to assist developers create ActionScript games across multiple devices.
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Vector graphics is a technology that allows objects to be infinitely scalable to either very large or very tiny sizes without degradation in quality. Often when an image is expanded to a large size the image distorts with rough squares and sharp edges, known as pixels. This is a raster image which is based with a particular size in mind. Vector images are based on geometry and relative location and angles, so its proportions can be scaled in any direction without pixelation or distortion. Illustrator also includes 3-dimensional capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create simple 3D objects.
Availability: Labs | Faculty/Staff
Adobe InCopy is a word processor that is primarily used in conjunction with Adobe InDesign. Copy editors can work independently from designers on the same InDesign file without overwriting each other’s contributions.
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe Media Encoder CC is a media processor that integrates with Adobe Premier Pro CC, After Effects CC, and other applications. The application ingests, transcodes, creates proxies, and outputs media in multiple formats.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe Muse is a website builder that allows user to create websites without writing any code. Websites created in Muse dynamically scale to any screen size, browser, or device. Designers can choose breakpoints that control how the website appears on different size browsers. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files from Illustrator can be placed directly into Adobe Muse layouts.
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.
Photoshop has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, such that the terms “photoshopping” and “photoshop contest” were born. It can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, Lab color space (with capital L), spot color and duotone. Photoshop has vast support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to edit or render text, vector graphics (especially through clipping path), 3D graphics and video. Photoshop’s featureset can be expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.
Availability: Labs | Faculty/Staff
Adobe Prelude works in conjunction with Adobe Premier Pro and allows users to add metadata to their video files. Prelude can be used to add markers and comments to video clips, as well as ingesting tapeless video footage.
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Adobe Scout is a SWF profiling tool designed for Adobe Flash game developers. SWF files on either mobile devices or in the browser can be profiled with no change to the code, and performance problems can be detected.