InDesign CS4

Description

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.

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 and color 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 Adobe 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, nondestructive 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 up 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 Markup Language (IDML), an XML-based file format that enables developers to create or modify files using standard XML tools.

Online 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 color inspiration through online services — accessed from within InDesign.

New Features in InDesign CS4

• Live Preflight - 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 lets you find, sort, and manage all of your document's placed files


• Conditional Text - deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single 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 dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document


• Interactive document design with SWF file export - Create digital documents with interactive buttons, hyperlinks, and unique page transitions for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime.


• Smart Text Reflow automatically adds pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference


• Apply Page transitions in SWF and PDF files such as curl, wipe, dissolve, and fade, and preview it before applied


• Export to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional in XFL format


• Smart Guides let you quickly align, space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects


• Spread Rotation lets you temporarily rotate your view without turning your monitor so you can edit at 90- and 180-degree angles