Adobe InDesign CS4

InDesign CS4 is Adobe's third generation of their desktop publishing software, and it's part of their integrated Creative Suite (CS4) family of products. Some of its new and improved features are:

• New 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.
• New Customizable Links panel where you can find, sort, and manage all of your document's placed files and view attributes that are most critical to your workflow such as scale, rotation, and resolution.
• New conditional text that allows you to 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.
• New 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.
• New cross-references that simplify the writing, production, and management of long documents and dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document.
• Interactive document design that transforms 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.
• Improved page transitions in SWF and PDF files 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.
• New ability to export documents to the XFL format and open them in Flash CS4 Professional with the visual fidelity of your original InDesign layout maintained.
• New Smart Guides that allow you to 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 center to another object or page edge in the layout.
• New spread rotation which allows you to 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 nonhorizontal elements in your designs.

Adobe InDesign CS4 Upgrade requires a current licensed version of Adobe InDesign CS3, CS2, or CS.

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