Adobe has posted the InDesign 4.0.5 update today for InDesign CS2. This includes a variety of bug fixes which are listed in the InDesign CS2 4.0.5 ReadMe file located in the InDesign folder after you install the updater.
This update also brings compatibility with InDesign CS3. This will be the version you’ll need to open INX […]
Among many exciting new and improved features in InDesign CS3, the totally re-imagined Find/Change function is among my favorite top five. The first time I opened the Find/Change dialog I was literally stunned into silence (shutting me up is not an easy task). What about it could possibly silence, even for a moment, this opinionated […]
read moreIn the world of page layout features there are the bread-and-butter features such as numbered lists, running headers and footers, multi-placing of images. They’re nice, but the features that get people excited are the bells and whistles of any new version.
InDesign CS3 is ringing church bells, jingle bells, and fire alarm bells, as well as […]
With CS1 or CS2, an InDesign/InCopy workflow works best when everyone (design and editorial) has read/write access to the same local file server. If an editor working from home wants to use InCopy to edit stories in the layout, the best you can do is to e-mail him a mess of files (assuming you can figure out which files to send them), hope that he doesn’t rename or rearrange any files at their end, keep your fingers crossed that he sends you back the right ones and hope you remember where to put them.
That’s all over with in CS3. Both InDesign and InCopy now offer a spiffy “Package” command in their Assignments panels that take care of automating all of the above, and more. In fact, with CS3 it’s possible to run a completely virtual workflow if you want: One designer, umpteen remote InCopy users, all keeping each other up to date with e-mailed Packages. Let me show you how the new remote workflow works in four simple steps!
One of the most useful features in InDesign CS3 is also one of the most unexpected: You can now place an InDesign (INDD) file inside another InDesign file!
Being able to place an INDD file into another can enable some new collaboration workflows. If you wanted to hand off a portion of a layout to another […]
Icons and panels and docks…oh my!
At long last, the wait is over and the veil of secrecy is lifted. In this first look at InDesign CS3, I give a glimpse of what the new version looks like, because Adobe has given it — and all of the Creative Suite applications — a new user interface. […]
Finally! After months of speculation from users worldwide — “Will it fix this annoyance? Add that feature? Not break my piggybank?” — Adobe publicly announced today feature and pricing details about the newest version of their flagship product, Creative Suite 3 (CS3), due to ship in the very near future (perhaps even within the next few weeks).
Here at InDesignSecrets, of course we’re mostly interested what’s new with InDesign CS3, which in our minds is the central application in the Creative Suite. It’s the Sun around which all the other Suite programs revolve. Or, as David likes to say (tongue only partially in cheek), “Photoshop and Illustrator? They’re wonderful InDesign plug-ins.”
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Greetings InDesign users! My name is Rufus Deuchler and I am a graphic designer, trainer and consultant currently living in beautiful Florence, Italy. I am very excited about this opportunity that has been given to me to contribute to InDesign Secrets, and this is my first post.
I was reading Sandee’s post about the Free Transform […]
Oh, it’s hard to keep all those retailers in line! After months of successfully keeping news of CS3 out of the public’s eye and within 48 hours of Adobe’s official release announcement date, Amazon.com appears to have let the cat out of the bag a wee bit early with their posting of several different Creative […]
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