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especially useful if the client of the images does not have a CJKV-capable OS, or if the fonts
are protected in such a way that prevents access to outlines. A bitmap image of a glyph,
rendered at the nal output device’s resolution, can be easily printed from any computer
running Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop version 5.0 and later provides much better
text services than earlier versions, and from version 6.0, includes a very sophisticated text
engine, which is the same one used by Adobe Illustrator.
Adobe Photoshop has eased the way in which text is handled by automatically maintain-
ing two layers. One layer is the editable text, which is not rendered into bitmaps. e other
layer contains the rendered bitmaps. is feature makes the editing of text in Photoshop
documents a much more pleasant experience. Before this functionality was available, us-
ers either had to completely re-enter the text or manually maintain these separate layers.
Adobe Photoshop is actually a family of applications. What has been described in this
section is the agship application, the most current version of which is Adobe Photoshop
CS3. ere are also Extended, Elements, and Lightroom variations of Photoshop avail-
able, all of which are described on the Adobe website. All have fully functional 30-day
trial versions available.
FreeHand MX
FreeHand MX, now owned by Adobe System