Comments on: InDesign CS4 News Coming September 23

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:13:58 +0000

Does anyone know how long that webcast thing on the Adobe site will take? I got invited to an InDesign user group thing on the same day that’d take up my entire day, so I can’t partake in it, but if the webcast doesn’t take too long I might be able to get the time off for it (stupid customers always needing attention during the work week!)

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:49:59 +0000

Why oh why didn’t they just add pages to Illustrator?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNLFXKyCy0A

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:34:35 +0000

@Elizabeth Lass: I work solo, so I know the cost of upgrades can be daunting, but with the introduction of CS1, I decided to upgrade right on the day of release. Being late to the party might be good in terms of bugs having been squished, but being early takes away the feeling of ‘dang but I just upgraded’.

By: Elizabeth Lass

Elizabeth Lass — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:45:10 +0000

I saw “CS4″ in a layout yesterday and highlighted it as a typo. A trip to Adobe’s website schooled me otherwise. I couldn’t believe it: CS4 already?? I guess I was forgetting that CS3 shipped April ‘07, putting CS4’s (assumed) release at a timely 18 months. But still, we just upgraded to CS3 not 3 months ago and I’m still getting used to some things. For a small design studio a CS upgrade is a costly event. I’m really curious to see if the new features make CS4 even worth considering.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:09:12 +0000

I heard that CS4 makes its own gravy.

By: nathan

nathan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:39:19 +0000

Psst…!

There’s a transitions panel (that was demoed)

The Links panel has been reworked and now shows more info

There’s a new Preflight Panel

And TA DAH…! A Conditional Text Panel!

I only saw pics of this and I don’t know if they will actually make it to the final release, but they were there.

Cheers

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:12 +0000

I was looking for information on how to add/create your own InDesign dictionary, in trying to help someone out, but I couldn’t find any info, they want to add in a Welsh dictionary, but there’s no info on the web. However, I did find this in a LiveDoc on the web, going back as far as May… they are working on this/ideas for a while now.

Bob – Adobe Writer said on May 30, 2008 at 12:48 PM :

As I mentioned, the operating system determines which program is used to open that file type. On a Mac, Ctrl-click a file (such as a JPEG), and then choose Get Info. From the “Open With” menu, choose the application that will open that file type. By the way, InDesign CS4 will have an Open With menu option that lets you specify the program.

By: Nik

Nik — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:07:03 +0000

I’m hoping there is no CS5, just one big app that does the lot! It could be named “Creative Sweet”!!!

I hear that CS4 may have “tabs” for artwork documents instead of document windows, much like tabs on a web browsers?? I like the sound of that!

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:23:02 +0000

Correction to above

Thanks Klaus (you said exactly what I meant and so much more succinctly)

Klaus should be Greg

SORRY GREG

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:17:30 +0000

Thanks Klaus (you said exactly what I meant and so much more succinctly) and Eugene for understanding the point I was trying to make. I am really not trying to start an argument.

It may not have sounded like it but I do love my CS3.3 creative suite. I spend 10-12 hours a day at work and then come home and spend more hours researching, learning new things and trying to keep up with this ever rapidly changing industry.