InDesign CS delivers powerful production capabilities, creative freedom
and cross-media support ´ enabling customers to design,
lay out and print pages, as well as
export content to the Web, more rapidly and
reliably. Distancing itself from the competition, InDesign CS
takes layout and design to a new level
for creative professionals with a wealth of innovative
new features. Instead of traditional version numbers, Adobe
is now using "CS" to identify new versions
of its market-leading creative professional applications, in order
to better reflect the deep level of integration
across the products. Assemble Pages Quickly, Output Confidently
Increased productivity, usability and overall faster performance are
evident in every aspect of InDesign CS. Story
Editor provides integrated word-processing functionality, making it faster
to edit and copy fit text in a
design layout. New features, such as the Separations
Preview and Flattener Preview palettes enable users to
check output on-screen, avoiding costly errors before they
appear on film or press. Nested styles simplifies
the tedious, error prone task of text formatting,
while built-in Document Type Definition (DTD) support for
XML validation helps publishers automate layout tasks and
repurpose content more easily. Overall performance also takes
a leap forward: zooming, navigating, importing Adobe Photoshop
files, and outputting print and Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF) files are now significantly faster. Enhance
Creative Vision InDesign CS is built with flexible
tools to enable a more fluid design and
creative process for designers. Improved workspace management allows
designers to customize work areas to fit their
own creative workflows through collapsible palettes, named workspaces
and the new Control Palette. The new context-sensitive
Control Palette efficiently formats text, edits objects and
fine-tunes tables in one location on a workspace.
A new Stroke Style Editor enables designers to
design custom lines and apply them to any
stroke. InDesign improves efficiency further with its ability
to set up running headers and footers within
tables. Increase Productivity With Adobe Integration InDesign turbo-charges
design productivity through its tight integration with other
components in the Adobe Creative Suite. With a
common user interface, font handling, color management and
keyboard shortcuts, InDesign CS has a familiar look
and similar feel to Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS
and Acrobat. InDesign also enables designers to easily
import and export Adobe PDF files, including support
for Acrobat 6.0. InDesign CS features enhanced support
for Photoshop with the ability to place and
print Photoshop files containing duotones or spot colors.
Radically cutting down the time required to create
integrated print and Web campaigns, the new Package
for GoLive command helps efficiently repurpose InDesign print
assets for use on Web sites. InDesign CS
makes it easy to convert from other layout
applications, with its ability to open QuarkXPress 3.3-4.1
documents and PageMaker files. Adobe Creative Suite In
addition to being a stand-alone product, InDesign CS
is a component of the all-new CreativeSuites. The
Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition combines full, new
versions of Adobe Photoshop CS with ImageReady CS,
Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, Adobe GoLive CS,
and Acrobat Professional and introduces the innovative new
Version Cue file version manager, to easily track
iterations and quickly locate files. The Adobe Creative
Suite is a complete design solution that gives
today's creative professionals everything they need to create
and publish content to print and the Web
faster, more easily, and more efficiently than ever.
PageMaker Adobe has phased PageMaker - they regards
InDesign as the natural upgrade path. For upgrades
especially for PageMaker users, please see PageMaker.
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