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Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week.

Adobe updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs.

Google has been dragged into adopting rival Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, fallout from an Adobe move last month.

Adobe is shipping Acrobat XI, a new version of its cross-platform PDF authoring and viewing software, featuring augmented tools for cloud services such as online forms and digital signatures.

The Adobe Edge set of design and animation tools embraces HTML5 to address the modern Web

As Adobe's Creative Cloud lineup of art and design applications gains prominence on the company's landscape, the quantity and pace of updates to Creative Suite 6 and related subscription-based products is gathering momentum. New features for subscription products and services, in the pipeline throughout the summer, are being prepped for public release over the next few weeks.

Adobe Fireworks—a curious combination of Photoshop and Illustrator that is specifically dedicated to Web design—is one of the more specialized apps in Adobe's Creative Suite. As a companion product to Dreamweaver, Fireworks allows designers to create Web mockups, slice files for export, and pass along assets to developers. To that end, Fireworks CS6 rolls in enhancements that help ease the exchange between designers and developers.

Whether the tech replacing Flash Player will pose a greater risk is not yet known, security expert notes

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 builds upon the significant performance improvements that the company made in previous iterations of its flagship video editing application. In CS6, Adobe has found several ways to take better advantage of those past astounding leaps in performance. In addition, Premiere Pro CS6 ($799 as of June 1, 2012) gets even more performance enhancements.

In Web page design, the popularity of Adobe's Flash multimedia platform is nose-diving, while HTML5 is skyrocketing. That transition is causing websites and website designers to find better ways of incorporating motion and interactivity, and Adobe's new Dreamweaver CS6 ($399 as a stand-alone program, as of 6/1/2012; also part of Adobe's Creative Suite 6) provides an array of tools to serve up HTML5-based designs on smartphones, tablets, and desktops.

Adobe Dreamweaver is a solid Web development tool that includes a code editor, a visual design mode, sophisticated Cascading Style Sheet tools for creating, editing, and managing CSS, and site management features such as a built-in FTP client for transferring files from your computer to your Web server. In Dreamweaver CS6, Adobe adds tools to work with new CSS properties, to build mobile-ready Websites, and to take advantage of Adobe's related services—Business Catalyst, a commerical web hosting platform and PhoneGap Build, a cloud-based service for compiling apps for mobile platforms.