Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Dreamweaver® Read Me

Welcome to Dreamweaver. This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips not covered in the Dreamweaver documentation. 

• Minimum system requirements
• Install your software
• Uninstall your software
• Trial software
• Electronic licensing
• Registration information
• Adobe AIR Integration for Dreamweaver
• Adobe BrowserLab Integration with Dreamweaver
• Business Catalyst Extension for Dreamweaver
• jQuery Mobile Support Update
• Mobile Applications Updates
• Known issues
• Customer care
• Other resources

Windows®

• Win Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4 or AMD Athlon(r) 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista); or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,280x800 display with 16-bit video card 
• DVD-ROM drive 
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services and Creative Suite Subscription Edition software*

Mac OS 

• Multicore Intel® processor
• Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 1.8GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices.)
• 1,280x800 display with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services and Creative Suite Subscription Edition software*

For updates to system requirements and more detailed information about video hardware compatibility, visit www.adobe.com/go/mastercollection_systemreqs

For CS Live system requirements, visit www.adobe.com/go/cslive_requirements

* This product may allow you to extend its functionality by accessing certain features that are hosted online, including the Adobe CS Live online services ("Online Services").  The Online Services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages, and/or currencies and may be discontinued or modified in whole or in part without notice.  Use of the Online Services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Online Privacy Policy, and access to some services may require user registration. Some Online Services may be subject to fees and require a subscription.  Fees subject to change.  For more details and to review the applicable terms of use and Online Privacy Policy, visit www.adobe.com.  

Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5.5 is located on one DVD:

• Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5.5 Application DVD set 

The product box also contains serial number for the following:

• Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5.5 

Locate all installation media and serial numbers before you begin the installation process.

Before you begin, close all applications, including your web browser. Make sure you have administrative privileges or can validate as an administrator.

If you are installing as an upgrade, the installer will check your system to find the valid upgrade product.  If it cannot find it, it will ask you to input the serial number of the product being upgraded.  You can also install the software in trial mode, then input your new and previous serial numbers in the serialization screen shown during launch.

1.     Insert the Adobe Dreamweaver CS 5.5 DVD into your DVD drive.

2.     Double-click Set-up.exe (Windows) or Install.app (Mac OS) to begin the installation.

Note: Depending on your Autoplay settings in Windows, the Set-up.exe file may launch automatically.

3.     Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.

4.     When prompted to enter a serial number, enter your Adobe Dreamweaver CS 5.5 serial number and complete the installation.

5.     If you are installing CS 5.5 Subscription Edition software, you will need to be connected to the Internet. The installer will prompt you if it detects that you are offline. An Adobe ID is required to purchase a subscription . If for some reason, you cannot connect to the Internet, you can install the trial version of the software and input your subscription serial number and Adobe ID during installation. For more information about your subscription software, go to www.adobe.com/go/subscription_learnmore

Note: You may be asked to close conflicting processes in order to complete the installation.

The components of Adobe Dreamweaver CS 5.5  are contained in one downloadable package:

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS 5.5 Application package

Each Windows package contains two files: a .7z file and an .exe file. Ensure both files have downloaded prior to opening the .exe. 

Each Mac OS package contains one DMG file.

Your purchase also includes serial numbers for the following product:

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS 5.5 

Download all installation files and locate your serial numbers before you begin the installation process.

Before you begin, close all applications, including your web browser.  Make sure you have administrative privileges or can validate as an administrator.

If you are installing as an upgrade, the installer will check your system to find the valid upgrade product.  If it cannot find it, it will ask you to input the serial number of the product being upgraded.  You can also install the software in trial mode, then input your new and previous serial numbers in the serialization screen shown during launch.

Note: You may be asked to close conflicting process in order to complete the installation process.

For additional CS 5.5 installation help, go to www.adobe.com/go/cs5install/

• On Mac, you cannot install to the root drive,a warning appears saying that "Installation to a root drive location is not supported"(BG044824)
• The "Total Size" displayed in the installer Options screen includes space required for components required for the installation but not shown in the componet list, so the number may not equal the listed componets size

For more detailed information about troubleshooting your installation, go to www.adobe.com/go/support_loganalyzer.

Note: In order to install additional components or reinstall your software after your original installation, you will need access to the original installer (DVD or the download from the web).  Repair is not an available option.  

Before you uninstall, close all applications currently running on your system—including other Adobe applications, Microsoft Office applications, and browser windows. 

Do one of the following: 

• In Windows XP, open the Windows Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs. Select the product that you want to uninstall, click Change/Remove, and then follow the on-screen instructions. 
• In Windows Vista and Windows 7, open the Windows Control Panel and double-click Programs and Features. Select the product that you want to uninstall, click Uninstall, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
• IMPORTANT: Mac OS has new uninstall functionality. DO NOT drag applications to the trash to uninstall them. To safely uninstall on Mac OS X, double-click the product installer in Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers or double-click on the Uninstall alias located in the Application folder.  Select Remove Preferences, then Authenticate as an Administrator and follow the on-screen instructions.
• If you are uninstalling subscription software, please note that uninstalling does not cancel or stop your subscription. To cancel your subscription, please go to Your Subscriptions at www.adobe.com/go/subscriptionedition

Known issues

• Products will not appear in the Deactivation screen until they have been launched. (#BG091275)
• On Windows, uninstalling a CS 4 product after installing a CS 5.5 product may affect registry entries for CS 5.5. (#BG081801)

Note: If you want to install the product on a different computer, you must first deactivate the software on your computer. To deactivate, choose Help > Deactivate.

Creative Suite 5.5 trials are "try and buy," meaning you can evaluate individual products or editions of Creative Suite 5.5 and then convert the installed trial to a full version by purchasing the product and entering the serial number at any time during or after the trial period.

To convert your trial, enter the serial number from your purchase into the product screen that counts down the remaining days in the trial. You can enter a serial number to convert the trial at any time during the 30-day trial period or after the trial ends. If you purchased CS 5.5 Subscription Edition, you will need to be connected to the Internet and will be required to enter an Adobe ID when prompted.

You must accept the license agreement and warranty terms to use this product.  See www.adobe.com/go/eulas for details.  This product may automatically attempt to activate over the Internet. See www.adobe.com/go/activation for details.

Creating or entering an Adobe ID registers your software and sets up access to Adobe CS Live online services. In order to take advantage of your complimentary access to CS Live online services, and get up-to-date product information, training, newsletters, and invitations to Adobe events and seminars, you must register your product.

To learn more about CS Live online services, visit www.adobe.com/go/cslive_ps. 

The Adobe® AIR™ Extension for Dreamweaver® lets you transform a web-based application into a desktop application. Users can then run the application on their desktops and, in some cases, without an Internet connection.

Learn more and download the Adobe AIR Extension for Dreamweaver at http://www.adobe.com/go/dw_air_en

Adobe® BrowserLab is an online hosted service that lets you test the pages of your web site across a variety of web browsers and operating systems. The service works by taking screen shots of your web pages in different browsers, and then displaying them in the BrowserLab application window.

You can use BrowserLab as a standalone service, or integrated with Dreamweaver CS5.5. The standalone service is available at http://browserlab.adobe.com and lets you test pages that you've posted to a server within the context of a web browser. If you use BrowserLab as an integrated service with Dreamweaver, you can test your pages from within Dreamweaver without publishing your pages to a server. 

The Business Catalyst Platform is a hosted solution that allows you to build dynamic, data-driven sites with a wide variety of advanced features (including search, forums, blogs, password protected areas, web forms and online stores). This is a free extension that compliments the  Business Catalyst Platform. This extension populates the Business Catalyst panel and makes it easy for Dreamweaver users to access many of the Business Catalyst features in a familiar development environment. If you are an existing Business Catalyst developer, you may have installed the previous version of this extension, named Triangle. You can continue to use Triangle while using the Business Catalyst extension--both extensions can be installed simultaneously.

Note: To start working with the Business Catalyst Platform, you must register for a 30-day trial site.

Visit  http://businesscatalyst.com/ or click the Learn More button in the Business Catalyst panel to register your domain.  

The jQuery Mobile widget in Dreamweaver (Insert panel – jQuery Mobile) helps you quickly design a web application that works for mobile devices. When you run an application using jQuery Mobile on mobile devices, the design adapts itself to the dimensions of the device.

jQuery Mobile is a framework that helps provide a unified user experience for your website across most of the popular mobile devices, please refer to: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a2/

We’re expecting frequent updates of the existing jQuery Mobile libraries. To get detailed information about the usage of upgraded versions in Adobe Dreamweaver, please visit our jQuery Mobile update page at http://www.adobe.com/go/dw_jqm_update.

Dreamweaver’s integration with PhoneGap (DW Menu: Site/Mobile Applications) helps you deploy your web applications as native applications for Android and iOS based devices. PhoneGap is an open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile applications. The PhoneGap framework acts as an API bridge between web applications and mobile devices.

Dreamweaver helps you wrap web applications inside a native application, even if you aren’t familiar with Objective-C, Cocoa or Java.

We’re expecting frequent updates of the existing PhoneGap libraries. To get detailed information about the usage of upgraded versions in Adobe Dreamweaver, please visit our Adobe Dreamweaver Mobile Center at http://www.adobe.com/go/dw_mobileapp_docs_en.

Please refer to Adobe Support for late-breaking information and known issues for all Creative Suite 5.5 applications.

GB18030 support for Windows XP

In order to support the display of all characters of the Chinese standard GB18030 on Windows XP systems, Adobe recommends the installation of the Microsoft GB18030 Support Package. This support package will update an XP system with, among other things, fonts and input-method-editors (IMEs) to correctly support GB18030. The support package is available as a download from the Microsoft website. (#BG061690)

Subversion Compatibility

Dreamweaver CS 5.5 uses the Subversion 1.6.9 client library. Later major versions (e.g. 1.7.x) of the Subversion client library are not backward-compatible after a working copy upgrade. Be aware, if you update a third-party client application (for example, TortoiseSVN) to work with a later version of Subversion, and you upgrade the working copy or try to use a Dreamweaver site with a working copy created by this third-party client, Dreamweaver will no longer be able to communicate with Subversion. This issue is not affected by updates to the Subversion server as those updates are backward-compatible.

If you do upgrade to a third-party client application that is using a Subversion 1.7 working copy or later, you’ll need to check with Adobe for updates before you can use Subversion with Dreamweaver again. For more information on this issue, see http://www.adobe.com/go/dw_svn_en

Customer Service

Adobe Customer Service provides assistance with product information, sales, registration, and other non-technical issues. To find out how to contact Adobe Customer Service, please visit Adobe.com for your region or country and click on Contact.

If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on complimentary and fee-based support plans and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/support/.  Outside of North America, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/, click on the drop down menu under the question “Need a different country or region?”, choose a different country or region, then click GO.  Alternatively, you can click on Change beside the country name at the top of the screen to select a different country or region.

Free troubleshooting resources include Adobe’s support knowledgebase, Adobe user-to-user forums, Adobe Support Advisor and more.  We are continually making additional tools and information available online in order to provide you with flexible options for resolving issues as fast as possible.

If you are having any issues with installing or uninstalling any of your Creative Suite 5.5 applications, please try rebooting your system prior to contacting Support.  For additional CS 5.5 installation help, go to www.adobe.com/go/cs5install/.  

For complete Help plus community-based instruction, inspiration and support, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_Dreamweaver_support_en

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