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adobe indesign cs4
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Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing
Adobe InDesign CS4 software breaks down the barriers between online and offline publishing. Create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents. With customer-inspired enhancements, powerful new features, and streamlined workflows, you can now easily deliver sophisticated and engaging layouts across media.
ideal for …
- Graphic Designers
- Productions Staff
- Printers
Top reasons to invest in Adobe® InDesign CS4
| Multichannel publishing | Deliver an engaging reading experience for print or screen. Export immersive SWF files for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, interactive PDF documents complete with video and sound, or sophisticated layouts for publishing to print. |
| Integration with other Adobe design applications | Take advantage of tight integration with other Adobe Creative Suite® 4 components to quickly design and deliver engaging page layouts for multiple media. Use common presets, colour settings, and a standard user interface for a more efficient workflow. |
| Layout productivity tools | Quickly and precisely produce sophisticated page layouts with gorgeous designs using productivity tools that were created or enhanced based on the input of InDesign users worldwide. |
| Professional typography | Create beautiful, sophisticated typography for any media with the power of text and table styles, text wrap control, the Paragraph Composer, OpenType® support, drop caps, and more. |
| Extensive creative tools at your fingertips | Explore creative possibilities directly in InDesign, resulting in more nuanced page layouts in less time. Powerful tools include built-in Adobe Photoshop® effects, support for Photoshop artwork in 3D, integrated drawing tools, non-destructive effects, and finer transparency controls. |
| Preflighting and print controls | Use a range of tools, presets, onscreen controls, JDF technology, and live preflighting to fix errors while you work, so you can speed production, increase reliability, and deliver your document correctly for print - the first time. |
| Automation for long-document creation | Rapidly create complex long documents with cross-references, conditional text, automated bullets and numbering, dynamic page addition and deletion, and more, which minimize manual production, help ensure content accuracy, and enable consistent formatting. |
| Workflow automation | Create powerful automated workflows using standards-based XML features to automatically populate and lay out pages with text and images. Incorporate database-driven content for utmost efficiency while publishing across channels. |
| Extensibility | Rapidly build unique workflows and software solutions for custom publishing using InDesign Mark-up Language (IDML), an XML-based file format that enables developers to create or modify files using standard XML tools. |
| Adobe services | Tap into the creative community quickly, and collaborate smoothly with your customers, colleagues, and vendors. Share your screen, search for expert help, and get colour inspiration through online services—accessed from within InDesign. |
Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® InDesign CS4
| Live Preflight | Preflight while you design. Continuous preflighting alerts you to potential production problems in real time so you can quickly navigate to a problem, fix it directly in layout, and keep working. |
| Customizable Links panel | Find, sort, and manage all of your document's placed iles in the customizable Links panel. View attributes that are most critical to your workflow such as scale, rotation, and resolution. |
| Conditional text | Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout. |
| Cross-references | Simplify the writing, production, and management of long documents with flexible and powerful cross-references that dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document. |
| Interactive document design with SWF file export | Transform page layouts into dynamic SWF files without working in the Adobe Flash® authoring environment. Create digital documents with interactive buttons, hyperlinks, and unique page transitions for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime. |
| Page transitions in SWF and PDF files | Apply page transitions such as curl, wipe, dissolve, fade, and more to individual pages or all spreads, and output to SWF or PDF. Preview a page transition before it is applied, and experiment with speed and direction for greater design control. |
| Export to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional (XFL) | Export documents to the XFL format and open them in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional with the visual fidelity of your original InDesign layout maintained. Use Flash to add sophisticated interactivity, animation, and navigation to complex layouts for an engaging reading experience. |
| Smart Guides | Quickly align, space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides. The guides, object dimensions, rotation angles, and x and y coordinates appear dynamically so you can quickly snap an object's edge or its vertical or horizontal centre to another object or page edge in the layout. |
| Spread rotation | Temporarily rotate the spread view without physically turning your monitor. Enjoy full editing capability at 90 and 180 degree angles so that you can easily include non-horizontal elements in your designs. |
| Smart Text Reflow | Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference. Smart Text Reflow works hand-in-hand with conditional text as pages are automatically deleted or added when conditional text is hidden or shown in the document. |
frequently asked questions
- Why should I invest in InDesign as part of Design Premium?
- Adobe InDesign provides the foundation for publishing compelling content for print, PDF, or playback in the Adobe Flash Player. InDesign, combined with the strengths of other Design Premium components, enables delivery of sophisticated layouts, complete with beautiful typography, stunning vector graphics, and powerful digital imagery. Add interactivity, animation, embedded video, and sound to your layouts using the web and Flash authoring components of Design Premium to deliver immersive digital publications.
- I am aware of all the new features in InDesign CS4 but am not sure if it's a worthwhile expenditure. What is the most compelling reason for upgrading to InDesign CS4?
- For printers, InDesign CS4 includes a series of new and enhanced tools as well as continued support for the PDF print engine, which together can eliminate costly production errors and speed up your print workflow.
For designers, InDesign CS4 breaks down the barriers between online and offline publishing, allowing you to design and publish for print, interactive PDF, and playback in the Adobe Flash Player.
For production professionals, InDesign CS4 gives you tools to manage and update linked content, preflight using custom profiles, and deliver content for multiple audiences within a single source file.
For IT managers, InDesign CS4 allows you to quickly create custom solutions, make programmatic updates using new IDML (InDesign Markup Language), and automate tasks using transactional scripts.
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