Purchase advice for ARCHITECTURE OFFICE

i recently ported to macintosh and need to get set up for some poster-workflow needs. i also do a lot of 3D work and have noticed that Acrobat 3D is not available for the mac?
i am also organizing my images in Aperture and have both boot camp installs of windows xp and a parallels install on the laptop.
i have a blog on wordpress and need to update another very old website soon.
can anyone advise as to whether I should be looking at the AI, Photoshop, Indesign package for the mac in conjuntion with Acrobat 3D for windows?
i'm new to adobe and the mac and put in some tangential details in case anyone can offer tangential advice.
TIA.

Check out:
www.pubperfect.com
I have a catalog ) Publishing Pefection ) that shows "Strata 3D CX" amongst other options for the Mac.  Strata will import PDF's, as well as Ai and PS files.  Get the Creative Suite Deluxe edition with web tools like Dreamweaver along with the others like Ai, PS, InDesign, and Acrobat.  I would also look at a professional font manager like FontAgent Pro.
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