Integrating Adobe Bridge CS3 with Adobe Contribute CS3

As part of the integration with Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe Contribute CS3 can now work with Adobe Bridge. This integration enables interaction between Adobe Contribute and Adobe Bridge applications, and also other suite applications. As a result, you can browse for assets in Adobe Bridge from Adobe Contribute and insert files into Contribute. Also, as a result of the integration of Adobe Contribute with all suite products, the startup script in the various installers will make Adobe Contribute CS3 available to all Creative Suite 3 applications. (See Integrating Adobe Bridge CS3 with Adobe Contribute CS3.)

Inserting MS Office docs as PDF in Adobe Contribute pages

You can insert MS Word and MS Excel documents as PDFs in Adobe Contribute pages (Windows only). Before you insert the documents, you must define conversion and security settings for converting the documents to PDF. The only pre-requisites for this feature are that Acrobat Elements and Acrobat Reader 8 must be installed. (See Inserting MS Office documents as PDFs in Contribute pages (Windows only).)

Support for inserting PDFs in Adobe Contribute pages

You can insert PDF files in an Adobe Contribute page. (See Inserting PDFs in Contribute pages.)

Integrating Adobe Help Viewer 1.1 with Adobe Contribute CS3

Adobe Contribute CS3 has been integrated with Adobe Help Viewer 1.1 and, as a result, the look-and-feel of the online help adheres to the Adobe Help Viewer format. The Adobe Help Viewer is a common application used to open Help windows across all Creative Suite 3 products.

Enhanced blogger support

Adobe Contribute CS3 includes enhanced blogger support. You can access connections to your blogs using gmail authentication or existing blogger account details.

Enhanced blog entry management

The enhanced user interface in Adobe Contribute CS3 lets you browse to a specific blog home page and edit specific blog entries by using the Entries list box next to the Address text box. You can refresh the Entries list by clicking the Refresh icon next to it. (See Refreshing the Entries list.)

Selecting Templates for MS Office documents while publishing to website or opening in Contribute

You can use Adobe Contribute CS3 to place static content from MS Office documents (MS Word and MS Excel) into templates before publishing them in html format (Windows only). As a result, when you perform the Publish to Website or Open in Contribute operations, you can select a template for the page, which will show your document on the target site. (See Setting templates while opening MS Office documents in Contribute (Windows only).)

Working with HTML Snippets in Adobe Contribute pages

Advanced Contribute users can use Adobe Contribute CS3 to add custom HTML code snippets while editing a web or blog site using Contribute. For example, you can use code snippets to display video or audio clips on your website or blog. (See Inserting HTML code snippets into Contribute pages.)

Support for inserting rich media from Internet

Adobe Contribute CS3 lets you insert image, Flash, or video files from the Internet, into a web page or a blog site.

Support for Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 in Contribute CS3

Adobe Contribute CS3 includes IPv6 support. URLs using IPv6 addressing are supported only with the Internet Explorer 7 browser and later on Windows. Although earlier versions of Contribute supported only IPv4, you can install or upgrade Contribute CS3 on computers with IPv6.

Connecting to blog servers using URLs

In Contribute CS3, you can create a connection to a blog server by providing the URL of your blog home page and your username and password details. (See Creating a website connection.)

Support for the Roller blog server in Contribute CS3

Adobe Contribute CS3 includes support for the Roller blog server. While creating a connection to a Roller blog server, you must define the user name, password and Access Point details.

Previewing a blog entry draft in the browser

In Adobe Contribute CS3, you can preview a blog entry draft in a web browser before you publish it.

Selecting multiple categories and trackbacks

You can now select multiple categories to group related blog entries. and multiple trackbacks to insert in a blog entry draft.