Adobe Indesign

 

Adobe® InDesign® CS5

Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing

Product highlights

 

Streamline review processes—Build powerful documents as a team. New integrated tools and the availability of efficient online services make review processes more efficient, whether your clients and colleagues are across the hall or around the world.

Do more in less time—Create, edit, and publish documents faster. A wealth of new productivity features help make page layout simpler, easier, and speedier.

Create powerful, innovative digital documents—Engage, inform, and attract readers with documents that include interactivity, animation, video, and sound. Develop stronger, more compelling communications with rich interactive documents.

 

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® InDesign® CS5

• Interactive documents and presentations—Engage and inform readers with documents and presentations that integrate interactivity, animation, sound, and video. Export documents directly from InDesign to SWF files for playback in Adobe Flash® Player.
• Simplified object selection and editing—Perform repetitive layout tasks efficiently. Manipulate frames and frame content without switching tools. Dynamically adjust white space between objects while maintaining the relationship between frames. Use on-object controls to modify frame corners directly in the layout.
• Integration with Adobe CS Review*—Create and share document reviews online from within InDesign through integration with CS Review, a new CS Live online service.* Invite colleagues and clients to comment using just a browser. Using the CS Review integration in InDesign, you can view comments in the context of your InDesign layout, making it easier to address feedback to meet project deadlines
• more efficiently. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time—visit www.adobe.com/go/cslive for details.
• Multiple page sizes—Create pages with different sizes in a single document to streamline file management. Share the same master page across different-sized layouts for greater efficiency.
• Tracked text changes—Mark up text directly in InDesign and easily track copy revisions. Get to inal copy faster by accepting or rejecting text changes within the document.
• Paragraphs that span and split columns—Quickly format headlines, subheads, or any text to span multiple columns in a single text frame without having to create separate text frames.
• All-new Layers panel—Easily manage layers in simple and complex documents. Quickly find, select,lock, hide, name, and change the stacking order of individual page items directly in the Layers panel.
• Drag objects from one group to another. The new Layers panel behavior is similar to the Layers panel in Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop.®
• Production enhancements—Speed up delivery of print and digital documents. Preview InDesign pages and placed images in Adobe Bridge. Find linked assets used in one layout and drag them into another InDesign document using the integrated Mini Bridge panel.
• Eliminate missing fonts—InDesign automatically installs the required fonts when you open a document and uninstalls them when you close it. Appropriate font licensing is still required.
• Digital export—Export your page design and text layouts with greater fidelity to Flash Professional CS5,retaining animation, video, and sound from your InDesign document. Export InDesign content as XHTML with greater control over page order for editing in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5. Export eBooks authored in InDesign CS5 to industry-standard EPUB files for reading on laptops or mobile devices, including the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, and Barnes & Noble nook. Include rich media to bring eBooks to life when read on a personal computer using Adobe Digital Editions, a desktop reading application.
• Live captions—Generate static or live captions automatically from image metadata, and add text before or after the selected metadata tag in InDesign. Specify the position and style of the caption, optionally including the caption on its own layer.

  
  

Top reasons to buy Adobe® InDesign® CS5

• Cross-media publishing—Publish documents in print, online, or on mobile devices. Create engaging interactive documents (SWF files) for playback in Adobe Flash® Player, complete with animation, sound, and video, interactive PDF documents with video or sound, or sophisticated layouts for print publishing using a versatile, intuitive toolset.
• Integration with Adobe CS Live online services—Improve the efficiency of critical design processes with new CS Live online services* that work with InDesign. Conduct online reviews of page layouts using CS Review, one of the new CS Live online services. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time—visit www.adobe.com/go/cslive for details.
• Integration with Adobe design, web, and digital-reading applications—Move projects smoothly from design to print or digital output thanks to tight integration with industry-leading Adobe solutions such as Adobe Photoshop,® Illustrator,® Acrobat,® and Flash Professional, as well as Adobe Digital Editions.
• Productivity tools—Produce sophisticated page layouts using customer-inspired productivity features such as the ability to include mixed page sizes in a single file, streamlined object selection and editing, an all-new Layers panel, smart guides, rapid table creation, and multiple-file placement with fewer clicks.
• Robust text composition—Create beautiful, sophisticated text for any medium with professional typography features, including styles, text wrap, the Paragraph Composer, OpenType® support, and drop caps. Include headlines that span or split columns without a separate text frame.
• Built-in creative tools—Explore creative possibilities directly within InDesign using integrated drawing tools, nondestructive effects, built-in Adobe Photoshop effects, finer transparency controls, and support for 3D Photoshop artwork.
• Preflighting and production—Speed up production, increase reliability, and deliver error-free documents with document-installed fonts, PDF export in the background, live preflighting, JDF technology, andon-screen controls.
• Automation—Create powerful automated workflows to reduce the time you spend on repetitive tasks. Standards-based XML features can automatically lay out pages with text and images. Incorporate database-driven content for greater efficiency when publishing across channels.
• Extensibility—Rapidly build unique workflows and software solutions for custom publishing using InDesign Markup Language (IDML), an XML-based file format that enables developers to create or modify files using standard XML tools.
• Collaboration in editorial workflows—Improve collaboration between design and editorial teams with tight integration between InDesign CS5 and Adobe InCopy® CS5 and the ability to track text changes in InDesign.

 

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