Caution: Typekit fonts cannot be packaged with other fonts while creating an InDesign package file. However, they can be printed and used in digital documents, such as PDFs or EPUBs.

More on working with Typekit fonts (article) | Typekit desktop fonts and Font Menu Enhancements (video)

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Hyperlinks enhancements

Enhanced in InDesign CC

The major pain points around creating, editing, and managing hyperlinks have been addressed in this release of InDesign.

Creating hyperlinks simplified

Creating a hyperlink in InDesign is now incredibly simple. You can create a hyperlink with just a right-click gesture. Hyperlinks now have a separate Hyperlink character style – blue and underlined. Also, InDesign now creates an affordance on non-text objects similar to the button affordance – dotted line around the object frame.

To create a hyperlink:

1. Right-click the selected text or object, and then choose Hyperlinks > New Hyperlink. The New Hyperlink dialog box is displayed.

2. Specify an appropriate URL destination.

3. By default, InDesign applies the Hyperlink style to the selected text or object. For text, you can easily select a different style from the Style drop-down. For a non-text object, InDesign applies a design time visual identifier to the links – dotted line around the object with the color inherited from layer color.

Character style applied to text links

The character style is added to the document character style list. The style will print and export.

Visual identifier applied to object links

A dotted outline is applied to the linked objects. It’s a visual identifier only and will not print or export.

Editing hyperlinks made easy

The Edit Hyperlink dialog used to default to the Shared Destination, and it was quite confusing. Now the Edit feature is available on right-click and the dialog automatically points to the type of hyperlink you are editing.

To edit an existing hyperlink, right-click the selected text or object and then choose Hyperlinks > Edit Hyperlink. The Edit Hyperlink dialog box is displayed with an appropriate type of link already selected.

Manage hyperlinks easily

We have revamped the Hyperlinks panel to make it more convenient for you to manage your hyperlinks using the panel.

Added traffic lights to quickly check and provide instant feedback on URL availability: Green indicates a valid URL and red indicates an invalid URL. Clicking the light icon takes you to the destination.

Added page numbers similar to the Links panel: Clicking a page number takes you to the page where the link is and selects the link.

Clicking on other icons, such as email or anchor, takes you to the destination.

Added refresh control to refresh URL availability manually.

Links pointing to the same destination are grouped together.

Also, Hyperlink and Cross- References panel are now separated.

Additional enhancements

The Delete All button is replaced with Delete Unused.

The Delete Unused Destination deletes the destinations that were added earlier but are not in use currently.

EPUB enhancements

Enhanced in InDesign CC

Many significant improvements and enhancements have been made to the EPUB capability of InDesign. (To see the list of all changes, refer to

InDesign_EPUB_Changes_CC_9.0_to_9.2.pdf

Create reflowable interactive books

Create footnotes that popup over the page you’re reading

You now have a new control for iBooks Reader pop-up footnotes – Inside a Pop-up footnote placement option for EPUB3. The Footnote

Placement option on the EPUB export options dialog has been changed to display a drop-down listing the placement options.

This new option changes the markup of the footnote reference and the footnote content wrapper to enable pop-up footnotes in iBooks Reader. The footnote text becomes visible only when a reader touches the footnote reference.

More control over EPUB export

More accurate representation of exported text color, tables, and nested styles

InDesign now successfully maps Color attributes including tint in Paragraph styles to CSS properties. Now the Gradient Colors are also supported when applied using a paragraph style.

InDesign now successfully emits the markup for an applied Cell Style including the class associated with the style. Also, regional cell styles, in addition to an applied Cell Style and Cell Attributes overrides, are now emitted and exported properly.

We have improved support for Nested Styles and Dropcaps by resolving important issues around them:

Nested Styles are now fully supported.

Font embedding for Dropcaps works fine now. Also, the dropcap’s float property now respects paragraph direction.

Improved CSS handling of native InDesign objects, images, and groups

Transforms applied on objects, such as rotation on an object containing a graphic, are now successfully mapped to CSS. InDesign now precisely maps the transforms to the generated CSS for graphic, audio and video object content, and groups.

Example: Transforms applied on a graphic and how it maps to CSS

div._idGenPageitem-2 {

-webkit-transform:translate(0.000px,0.000px) rotate(330.000deg) skew(0.000deg) scale(1.000,1.000);

-webkit-transform-origin:50% 50%; display:inline-block; height:173px; width:230px;

}

Improved handling of bullets and numbering

Custom bullets with GID and Font are now replaced with standard bullet character. Font embedding for custom bullets is also supported now. For

EPUB3 exports, we now support additional CSS list-style-type values.

Support for additional list types and text align last within CSS properties

InDesign now supports additional CSS properties for CJK and ME - list-style-type(s), -epub-text-align-last, and gradients on paragraphs.

Create EPUBs for any market

Japanese

InDesign now supports Pre-Character Ruby and Auto TCY. With the improved support for Ruby, and J Vertical composition including TCY and

Auto TCY, you can now successfully create EPUBs for Japanese market.

Middle East

InDesign now supports Paragraph and Character direction though dir tag attribute. This improves the handling of right to left direction languages, and lets you successfully create EPUBs for Arabic market.

Changes to User Interface

The Object Export Options is now available in the context menu.

The Use Original Image option is added to the Object Export Options dialog box and the EPUB Export Options dialog box. This new control requests that the export must use the placed image rather than the rasterized image.

The Settings Apply to Anchored Objects option is removed from the Image options of the EPUB Export dialog box.

Other enhancements

Enhanced in InDesign CC

Seamless update

The recent document list will not automatically clear out when you apply updates.

Note: This will take effect for updates done after InDesign CC 9.2.0.

The Color Theme setting does not automatically get reset to Medium Dark when you apply updates.

Active preflight profile in the document status bar

InDesign now displays the name of the currently active preflight profile in the document status bar, allowing you to change it from right there.

‘Protect When Applying Fonts’ for Roman fonts

The Protect When Applying Fonts setting now applies to Roman fonts as well.

Cross-references performance improvement

In the previous versions of InDesign, if you had a document with multiple cross-references to other documents, you would notice a lag in typing text in your document. This especially happens when the cross-references are pointing to multiple docs and those docs are not open.

This issue has been fixed now. You won’t notice any lag in typing text in your document even though all the referenced docs are not open.

Text selection or highlight behavior restored

The text selection or highlight behavior has been reverted to how it was in ID CS6. Now the system (OS) highlight color is not used to highlight text. This change has been made to Layout text selection/highlight only. In the Story Editor, behavior is still as it was in CC.

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What's new in InDesign CC version 9.0

June 2013

Sync settings using Adobe Creative Cloud

User interface modernization

Platform enhancements

QR codes

Font menu enhancements

EPUB enhancements

Adobe Exchange panel

Other updates

For information on new features in other InDesign versions, see:

What's New in InDesign CC version 9.2 (January 2014)

What's New in InDesign CS6 (May, 2012)

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Sync settings using Adobe Creative Cloud

New in InDesign CC

The new Sync Settings feature enables individual users to sync their settings using Creative Cloud. If you use two computers, for example, one at home and another at work, the Sync Settings feature makes it easy for you to keep those settings synchronized on these two computers. Also, if you have replaced your old computer with a new one and have reinstalled InDesign, you can get the application set up quickly with all your settings in place by just pressing a button.

For more information, see Sync Settings using Adobe Creative Cloud.

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User interface modernization

Enhanced in InDesign CC

InDesign, by default, is now available with a dark theme, which is in line with recent changes in other products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and

Premiere Pro. This theme enables a more pleasant visual experience, especially while working with rich colors and designs. It also makes crossapplication work simpler than ever.

New vibrant color themes for user interface: Dark, medium light, light, and medium dark

You can easily vary the brightness of the user interface to a tone you prefer from the Interface option in the Preferences dialog. You can enable

Match Pasteboard to Theme Color to set the tone of the pasteboard area to match the brightness of the interface. If you prefer the classic (CS6 or prior) InDesign pasteboard color, you can deselect this option.

For more information, see Tour the new interface (video) .

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Platform enhancements

Enhanced in InDesign CC

HiDPI support

To take advantage of advancements in high-resolution display technologies, InDesign now includes native support for high-resolution displays.

This feature is currently available for the Mac OS (for example, the MacBook Pro with Retina display). You can now enjoy working with a sharper and clearer environment on these devices. You can view text and complex artwork in greater clarity, and in colors and hues that appear more vibrant than before.

64-bit support on Mac and Windows

InDesign, InCopy, and InDesign Server are all now 64-bit applications to leverage RAM beyond 3GB on both Mac and Windows. All the features of InDesign have been enabled to work in 64-bit mode. With support for 64-bit architecture, general processing is faster and more RAM can be made available to the application. This speeds up processes, and makes it easier to work with several large files at a time.

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QR codes

New in InDesign CC

You can now generate and edit high quality independent QR code graphics from within InDesign. The generated QR code is a high-fidelity graphic object that behaves exactly like native vector art in InDesign. You can easily scale the object and fill it with colors. You can also apply effects, transparency, and printing attributes such as overprinting, spot inks, and trappings to the object.

The Generate QR Code feature is accessible via Menu > Object, and via the right-click context menu when an empty frame is selected.

Once placed inside a document, the QR code is treated as a traditional EPS object, except that a tooltip appears on hovering over the object, revealing the content details.

For more information, see Generate QR codes (video) or Generate QR codes (article).

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Font menu enhancements

Enhanced in InDesign CC

Several enhancements have been made to the Font menu, including the way fonts are displayed, searched, and selected. You can now also identify Favorite fonts for easy access, and apply fonts on selected text while browsing so that you can see how your fonts will look in the layout.

Major enhancements

Search fonts by any part of the name

Show fonts with families in a sub-menu

Apply font selection by arrow keys to the selected text

Manage your favorite fonts

New Fonts menu widget

The new fonts widget has been added in the Character panel and the Control panel. The widget has four elements.

1. Button control to toggle between the two available search modes

2. Text field to display selected font name or enter the search keyword

3. Clear search icon; appears only when some text is entered in the search field

4. Drop-down arrow button to display the font list – all fonts or search results

Clicking the drop-down arrow button without entering any search string displays a pop-up list of all installed fonts.

Search fonts made easy

You can now easily search for the fonts you are looking for. There are two modes for doing this:

Search Entire Font Name: Looks for a match anywhere in the Font Name. As you type in some text, matched font names are displayed in a popup.

Search First Word Only: The first match begins with the entered text is suggested and the remaining portion of the font name is populated automatically.

Using the new search

As you clear the font name and start typing, the search results start appearing in the popup. A Cross icon appears in the widget to help you clear off the results quickly and start afresh. The search results are displayed as a flat list (without grouping of font and associated family). For example,

Ebrima is a family and has two styles – Regular and Bold. If you search for Ebrima, both Regular and Bold are displayed as separate entries and

are not grouped as Ebrima.

Browse and apply fonts

You can browse the fonts list with the Arrow keys. On selection, the font style is applied to the selected text in your layout or document for preview. Clicking a font name or pressing the Enter key commits the font style and closes the Font List popup.

Manage your favorite fonts

You can add or remove a font from the Favorite list by clicking the Favorite icon (star) in the font list. When you click the drop-down arrow key, you see the Favorite icon highlighted in Black for the fonts which are marked as favorite.

Adding or removing a font belonging to a family adds or removes the entire font family to the Favorite list.

For more information, see Font Menu Enhancements in Adobe InDesign CC (video) .

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EPUB enhancements

Enhanced in InDesign CC

EPUB Export workflows have been simplified: several improvements in the existing features, additional control while authoring, and a few brandnew features.

Support for table of contents (TOC) stories

TOC Story has been redone so that any existing, possibly edited TOC story is now exported like any other story. If portions of these TOC stories are copied and pasted elsewhere, the hyperlinks back to the PDF page and the source paragraphs (in case of an EPUB Export) remain live.

The NCX (navigation) file, required in the EPUB package, cannot use an existing TOC and is generated using the TOC style as in CS6.

If you don’t want page numbers in the TOC, you can remove them manually or generate the TOC without page numbers.

TOC stories generated in CS6 and before must be regenerated in InDesign CC for the links to be live.

Support for Index stories

Index stories are now supported in the exported EPUB file. Live hyperlinks to indexed terms are displayed in the exported file. The terms retain their references to content at paragraph level.

Export without CSS

While exporting an InDesign document or book to EPUB/HTML, if you decide not to generate the CSS, only the classes associated with the styles are marked in the HTML tags; no overriding classes are created. The exported file is now much cleaner and ready for an external CSS.

EMIT CSS

The Emit CSS control has been added under the Export Tagging of the Paragraph, Character, and Object Style edit dialogs. If you want to include this style in the CSS, select the Emit CSS check box. If you don’t select the check box, no CSS class will be generated for this style. If you have two or more styles having the same class assigned, InDesign displays an error or warning message while exporting.

Tidier CSS

To map InDesign attributes with appropriate CSS properties, it is often necessary that we have to generate a sort of “override class” to adjust the behavior of the CSS class generated from the style. Prior to this change, these were given obscure names. These names have now been changed to reflect their purpose and give more clarity to the users regarding the applied overrides.

Object style to export tag mapping

Object Style Options now has the Export Tagging feature. In terms of mapping styles to classes and tags, the object styles now work more like paragraph and character styles.

Object export options for object styles

Object Style Options now includes the Export Options for Alt Text, Tagged PDF, and EPUB & HTML. You can specify rasterization settings and custom layout options. Objects with the applied style are handled based on the export options.

For more information, see:

InDesign_EPUB_Changes_from-CS6-to-CC (PDF 1.3 MB)

EPUB enhancements in InDesign CC (article)

EPUB enhancements (video)

EPUB gets convert-to-text improvements (video)

Map object styles to export tags (video)

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Adobe Exchange panel

New in InDesign CC

The new Adobe Exchange panel is now an in-app experience for you to explore and discover content, plug-ins, and scripts that you can purchase or download for free. If you produce scripts, templates, plug-ins, or anything that can enhance the functionality of Adobe’s Creative applications, you can quickly package and submit and make them available to a larger community.

Adobe Exchange even lets you privately share products. For example, you can package up a series of images, InDesign templates, and other files.

Anyone with who you have privately shared the products can install the content and see any updates you make. The experience is very much like an app store.

You can become a producer for free. Get started here: https://www.adobeexchange.com/producer

To open the Exchange panel, go to Windows > Extensions > Adobe Exchange.

For more information, see Explore the new Exchange panel (video) .

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Other updates

Enhanced in InDesign CC

New document dialog box

The New Document dialog now has the option of showing a preview of the new document. As you select new document options, you see the impact of the selection or changes in the background at the same time.

Note: dialog).

(Chinese, Japanese, and Korean only) The preview option is displayed in the New Layout Grid dialog box (New Document > Layout Grid

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Alternate layouts

Liquid layouts

Linked content

Digital publishing

EPUB and HTML5

Interactivity

Productivity enhancements

Language support

Extension Manager CS6

Use InDesign to create and publish engaging documents for print, online, or tablet devices. This release contains several enhancements and new features that provide you with pixel-perfect control over design and typography for publishing to all media. With Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, you can design and publish for tablet devices using the familiar InDesign workflows.

Alternate layouts and Liquid Layout page rules, give you the flexibility to design for multiple page sizes, orientations, or aspect ratios.

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Alternate layouts

Use Alternate Layouts if you require different page sizes for print or digital publishing within the same document. You can use it to create different sizes of a print advertisement. Or to design the horizontal and vertical layouts for devices such as the Apple iPad or Android tablets.

Alternate layouts and the updated Pages panel

Used in combination with Liquid Layout, you can significantly reduce the amount of manual work required to re-layout content for every new page size and orientation. You can also redefine liquid page rules, create links to original stories, automatically copy text styles to a new style group, and activate Smart Text Reflow to repaginate the story in the new page size.

To create an alternate layout, do one of the following:

Choose Layout > Create Alternate Layout

Choose Create Alternate Layout from the Pages panel menu

Liquid layouts

Liquid Layout

Liquid layouts make it easier to design content for multiple page sizes, orientations, or devices. Apply liquid page rules to determine how objects on a page are adapted when you create an alternate layout and change the size, orientation, or aspect ratio.

Use Liquid page rules to adapt layouts when using the Alternate Layout feature. Select the Page tool and click a page to select it. Then choose a liquid page rule from the control bar. You can also use the Liquid Layouts panel (Window > Interactive > Liquid Layout).

Using the Page tool, you can drag the corners and center points of the page to preview the Liquid layout.

For more information see Alternate layouts (Article).

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Linked content

Use linked content functionality to duplicate page items, and place them on other pages. Both inter-document and intra-document links are supported. You can place and link stories, text frames, page items, interactive objects as well as groups. You can link content, with or without the frames that they are contained in. You can customize the link options to control the update aspects.

While links are useful for all types of publications, they are almost essential when you're working on multi-device publications. Alternate Layouts also use this functionality to link stories in the generated layouts.

To place and link page items, you can use the following:

Place and Link command (Edit > Place and Link)

Content Collector and Content Placer tools

For more information see Linked content.

For a quick overview, see Linked content video by Lynda.com.

Content collector and placer tools

Content Collector and Placer tools let you duplicate objects and place them on open InDesign documents. As content is collected, it is displayed in the Content Conveyor. Use Content Conveyor to easily and quickly place and link multiple page items within and across any open documents.

Click in the toolbox to open the Content Conveyor.

Use Content Collector tool to select an item and add it to the conveyor

Use Content Placer to place page items on a page

Content Conveyor

Custom style mapping

Text styles (paragraph, character, table, cell) or style groups can be mapped to different styles while linking. In the Link Options dialog box (Links panel > Link Options), enable Define Custom Style Mapping and then click Settings.

Custom style mapping comes in handy, for example, when you want to use sans serif fonts for digital and serif fonts for print publications. Or if you want, vary the text style between the horizontal and vertical layouts.

In the Link Options dialog box, enable Define Custom Style Mapping and then click Settings.

For more information, see Content Placer tools (Article).

Preserve local edits

Use Preserve Local Edits option to modify linked content. Often, you would like the linked item to differ slightly from the original item. For example, if you place an image and then resize the frame or add a stroke to the frame, you can preserve these changes on updating the link.

In the Link Options dialog box (Links panel menu), select the options under preserve local edits.

For more information, see Custom style mapping.

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Digital publishing

New document presets

In addition to the Web and Print intents, you can specify Digital Publishing intent while creating a document (File > New). You can specify sizes

(including custom sizes) and orientations for several common devices. When you choose the Digital Publishing intent, page size is set to that of the chosen device size in pixels. The Primary Text Frame option is also enabled.

If you want more control on device size and orientation, create a Document Preset or specify a custom page size.

Primary text frame

You can now designate a text frame on the master page as the primary text frame. When you apply a new master page to a layout page, the story in the primary text frame flows into the primary text frame. Primary Text Frames are automatically overridden on layout pages, so that you no longer need to override them before adding text.

Primary text frame indicator

To designate a primary text frame, open a master page and do one of the following:

Click the symbol near the left-upper corner of the text frame

Right-click on text frame and choose Primary Text Frame

Note: Only a single text frame can be designated as primary on a master page.

Text frame fitting options

Flexible width columns

You can use the Flexible width option to adjust the number and width of columns as the text frame is resized. Columns are automatically added or deleted when the maximum column width is reached as the text frame is resized.

Choose Flexible Width from the Columns drop down list in the Text Frame Options dialog box (Object > Text Frame Options)

Persistent text frame fitting options

Auto-size text frame options make it possible to set up a text frame so that it is automatically resized when you add, delete, or edit text.

To access the Auto-size options, do the following:

1. Select a text frame and choose Object > Text Frame Options

2. Click Auto-size.

Auto Size options

Packaging and preflight

The Package functionality (File > Package) now includes Digital Publishing Suite assets in Folio Overlays. If you've placed links from other

InDesign documents, they are included as well.

Additional preflight profile for Digital Publishing is also available (Window > Output > Preflight).

Discoverable Folio Builder and Folio Overlay panels

The Folio Builder and Folio Overlay panels are located under the Window menu.

Folio Builder: Choose Window > Folio Builder

Folio Overlay: Choose Window > Folio Overlay

Note: menu.

In InDesign CS5.5, Folio Overlay panel was called Overlay Creator, and these panels were available under the Windows > Extensions

Digital publishing workspace

Use the Digital Publishing workspace to display all the tools and panels required for working on digital publications. Select Digital Publishing workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

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EPUB and HTML5

EPUB Export workflows have been simplified, and you can now choose an EPUB version to export to. The Export to EPUB dialog box has been reorganized and simplified.

Watch this video by Lynda.com for a quick overview of how to Export to EPUB.

EPUB2 enhancements

Several enhancements were made in the EPUB2 export in InDesign CS6, to provide better control and efficiencies while export. EPUB2 remains the most dominant EPUB standard with a majority of devices and readers supporting it.

Specify options to float a frame either left or right. These options can be specified using the Object Export Options.

Additional inline and anchored text frame attributes are translated to the CSS: Size, border style and width, fill color, padding (inset on text frame), and margin (on text wrap)

Specify different values for each margins in an EPUB

Link to multiple custom CSS files

Split an EPUB into smaller files based on export tags specified in paragraph styles.

New XHTML document is created when you link to an external eBook cover file

Support for converting InDesign table cell styles to CSS in the exported EPUB

EPUB table dimension includes attributes for column width and row minimum height

InDesign custom bullet and numbering marker strings now exported in EPUB

Added support for Japanese Ruby: font, size, and color

EPUB3

IDPF approved the EPUB3 standard in October, 2011. This format supports, among others, audio, video, JavaScript, and japanese vertical text.

EPUB3 export for InDesign supports the following:

EPUB3 package format

Linking to multiple external JavaScripts

Vertical Japanese text

Audio and video tags

Placed HTML and Adobe Edge HTML animations during export

For more information see, Export content for EPUB.

NOTE: EPUB3 validators may report errors if placed HTML or HTML animations are not fully XHTML-compliant. However, EPUB3 viewers may still function correctly. Adobe Systems cannot guarantee how placed HTML or Adobe Edge animations will perform in third-party EPUB3 viewers.

EPUB3 with layout

EPUB3 with Layout is an experimental format that builds on the EPUB 3.0 specification. Support for alternate and adaptive layouts including: multiple columns, text wrap, and liquid layouts has been added. Using this technology it is possible to create true adaptive layouts that look good on all devices and screen sizes and minimizes autoflow issues.

Adobe has submitted this technology to the IDPF for consideration as an extension of the EPUB3 specification. At the time of CS6 launch, there are no publicly available EPUB viewers that support this feature.

HTML

Enhanced Export to HTML supports the following:

External CSS files for style information

Fallback support using Adobe Flash Player for placed video

Placed HTML and Adobe Edge animations

Linking to multiple custom CSS files

Linking to multiple custom external javascripts

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Interactivity

Create PDF forms

You can design forms in InDesign and export them directly to PDF. InDesign now supports form fields and additional form actions. The Buttons and Forms library (Window > Interactive > Buttons and Forms) contains items that you can use to design interactive forms. You can also specify tab orders and tool tips without post-processing in Adobe Acrobat. Accessibility tags are also added to the exported PDF form.

Watch Create PDF forms video by Lynda.com for a quick overview.

Buttons and Forms panel with PDF form components

1. Choose Window > Interactive > Buttons and Forms to display the form components, and place them on the page. You can then modify them as desired, with custom labels, different colors, or different sizes.

2. From the Buttons and Forms panel, choose Actions to apply a form action to the form fields.

For more information on adding form fields and specifying tab order, see Forms.

Export interactive PDF as pages

You can now export interactive PDFs as either spreads or pages. In the Export to Interactive PDF dialog box (File > Export), choose either Pages or Spreads. The default selection is spreads.

Place Adobe Edge designs

Use the new Adobe® Edge web motion and interaction design tool to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5,

JavaScript, and CSS3. You can place an Adobe Edge package on your layout to add interactivity and animation to your Folio or HTML export.

Choose File > Place and navigate to the file (.OAM) to place it. The design is placed and InDesign fetches a poster image.

When you preview the folio or export to HTML, the placed Edge design plays.

Older versions of Adobe Edge do not support exporting to OAM. Zip the output folder and rename the extension to OAM.

Embed HTML snippets

You can embed common HTML elements, such as embed codes for YouTube videos or Google Maps. You can copy the HTML embed code and paste in into InDesign

Choose Object > Insert HTML, and paste the HTML code

Copy the code to the clipboard and paste it on your layout

InDesign automatically fetches a poster image. The embedded object is not interactive in the InDesign layout. Export the layout to HTML or preview the folio (File > Folio Preview) to interact with the object.

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Productivity enhancements

Split window

To compare two different layouts in the same document, you can split the active window. Use the two panes to view alternative layouts side by side.

Split layout view

Click the button in the lower-right corner of the document window

Choose Window > Arrange > Split Window

From the Layout menu in the Pages panel, choose Split Window to Compare Layouts

Recently used fonts

To find fonts easily and reduce scrolling, view the recently used fonts at the top of the Font pop-up and Type > Fonts menus.

Specify the number of recent fonts to display under Edit > Preferences > Type > Number of recent fonts to display.

By default the recently used fonts are displayed in chronological order. To display them in alphabetical order, choose Edit > Preferences >

Type > Sort Recent Fonts List Alphabetically.

Align to key object

An additional option is available for distributing objects in the Align panel.

1. Select the objects to distribute, and in the Align panel (Windows > Align) choose Align To Key Object from the Align To list.

2. The key object appears with a thick border. Click another object to select it as the key object.

Save backward to earlier versions

To open an InDesign document in a previous version, or to send it to someone who has not upgraded yet, save the document in the InDesign

Markup Language (IDML) format. IDML files are supported by InDesign CS4 or later. Features not supported by the earlier version will not work.

The option to save documents to earlier versions is now available from the Save and Save As dialog boxes.

1. Choose File > Save As

2. From the Save As Type list, select InDesign CS4 or later (IDML)

Export and proof grayscale PDFs

You can now proof and export designs as grayscale PDFs. For example, use this feature to quickly export your layout for grayscale printing. The digital publication remains full color, and you can avoid maintaining separate layouts for grayscale and color outputs.

Use Proof Setup (View > Proof Setup) to specify grayscale proof options, and choose a Dot Gain or Gamma destination. After you've setup the proof, choose View > Proof Colors to toggle between grayscale and color output.

You can also export a grayscale PDF from within InDesign. All page items, irrespective of their original color space, are converted to grayscale while exporting to PDF.

1. Choose File > Export and select Adobe PDF (Print).

2. In the export options dialog box, click the Output tab.

3. Under Color Conversion, choose Convert To Destination.

4. Under Destination, choose a Dot Gain or Gray Gamma destination.

Note: Grayscale destinations are not available under the PDF/X-1a standard. The standard supports only CMYK intents. Similarly, PDF/X-2 or

PDF/X-3 standards do not support Gamma Gray destinations.

Complex calculations in panels and dialog boxes

You can now perform complex calculations within the text fields in panels and dialog boxes. Enter a mathematical expression using mathematical operators, for example, 120p0/2 + 10.

Export to PNG

To export a selection or a range of pages as an image, choose File > Export and then select PNG from the Save As Type list. Use the Export

Options dialog box to specify what to export and the export settings.

Export enhancements

SWF Export: The Export Options dialog box displays Font license information.

Export For: The File > Export For menu has been removed. All supported options are consolidated in the Save As Type list in the Export dialog box.

Options for exporting to Buzzword, SVG and SVG compressed are no longer available.

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Language support

Adobe World-Ready composers and support for open-source HunSpell dictionaries enable you to use several additional languages using

InDesign.

Placeholder text with specified alphabet

You can enter placeholder text Roman, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese among others.

To specify the language of placeholder text, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) when you choose Type > Fill With Placeholder Text. In the Fill Options dialog box, choose an alphabet and click OK.

HunSpell enhancements

For most languages, InDesign ships with open-source HunSpell dictionaries and HunSpell is the default dictionary provider. You can download and install additional spelling and hyphenation dictionaries for other languages from the OpenOffice website .

To use InDesign with additional languages, choose Edit > Preferences > Dictionary and then click HunSpell Info.

Indic support

Adobe World-Ready Composer (WRC) provides correct word shaping for many of the non-Western scripts, such as Devanagari. Adobe World-

Ready composers in the International English version of InDesign, support several indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil,

Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Oriya, Malayalam, and Kannada.

Hunspell spelling and hyphenation dictionaries are inluded, and so is the Adobe Devanagari font family.

Enable the Adobe World-Ready Composer through a paragraph style (Paragraph Style > Justification > Composer) or using the Paragraph panel menu.

Set indic preferences to work on indic scripts, and correctly import content into InDesign.

1. Choose Window > Utilities > Scripts

2. Double-click indicPreferences.js

3. Open a new document or restart InDesign

Middle Eastern support

InDesign CS6 is also available in middle eastern and north african editions. It adds support for Arabic and Hebrew, and provides several features for working with right-to-left, bi-directional scripts, and other language-specific features. Enhanced functionality includes support for tables in the

Story Editor, improved Kashida justification, enhanced diacritic positioning, and other text-handling improvements.

See Working with Arabic and Hebrew for more details.

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Extension Manager CS6

With Extension Manager CS6, you can create, edit, activate, import, and export extension sets. Extension Manager CS6 supports the following:

User-level extension installation

Search and filter extensions

MXP to ZXP conversion

Extension dependency support

Installing extensions when multiple languages of a product are installed

Display additional extension information

For more information on using Extension Manager CS6, see Extension Manager CS6

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Sync Settings using Adobe Creative Cloud | CC

What's covered?

Introduction

Sync settings at first launch

Using the sync settings feature

Sync settings on successive launches

Managing sync

What’s not supported

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Introduction

When you work on multiple computers, managing and syncing glyph sets, menu customizations, keyboard shortcuts, custom workspaces, and

PDF presets among the computers could be a chore.

Note: At any given time, you can activate InDesign on two computers only.

The syncing happens via your Adobe Creative Cloud account. All the settings are uploaded to Creative Cloud and then are downloaded and applied on the other computer.

All sync operations are initiated by users. They cannot be scheduled or performed automatically (such as at launch or during shutdown).

Prerequisites for this feature to work:

Computers should be connected to the Internet.

You have signed into your Adobe Creative Cloud account on both computers.

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Sync settings at first launch

After installation, when you launch the application and create a document or open an existing document for the first time, you will see a prompt asking whether you want to start the sync.

Click Sync Settings Now to initiate the sync.

Click Disable Sync Settings to disable the feature.

Click Advanced to open the Preferences dialog, where you can choose and customize what items are synchronize.

Using the sync settings feature

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Do any one of the following:

[Recommended] Click the Sync Settings icon ( ) at the lower-left corner of the InDesign active document window, and then click Sync

Settings Now.

Click Edit (Mac: InDesign) > {AdobeID logged in} > Sync Settings Now.

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Sync settings on successive launches

When you launch InDesign with prior sync information available, and create a document or open an existing document for the first time, you will see a prompt asking whether you would like to sync the setting from the cloud. To initiate the sync, click Sync Settings Now.

The settings are downloaded to your local computers and are updated in the application. If you change glyph sets, keyboard shortcuts, custom workspaces, or PDF presets, you should initiate sync before you close the application. You can see the sync status in the left-bottom corner of the document status bar. Click the Sync Settings icon ( ) in the status bar and then click Sync Settings Now.

Managing sync

What gets synced

Workspaces

Menu sets

PDF presets

Keyboard shortcuts

Glyphs sets

Choose what you want to sync

Navigate to the Preferences > Sync Settings tab:

Click Edit (Mac: InDesign) > {AdobeID logged in} > Manage Sync Settings.

Click Edit (Mac: InDesign) > Preferences > Sync Settings.

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Select the checkboxes for the settings that you want to sync. You can also choose what to do in case of conflict.

Note: To sync your settings successfully, you must change the settings only from within the application. The sync settings feature does not sync any file that is manually placed in a folder location.

Choose an option in case of conflict

There are situations when the system could detect sync conflicts. Sync conflicts occur when the system is unable to determine whether you want a setting from Creative Cloud or from your local computer to be retained since both have been changed after the last sync operation.

Suppose that you change PDF presets on your work computer and sync settings to the Cloud. You then go home and change the same presets on your home computer without syncing with the cloud first. Now since the settings in the cloud and the settings on your home computer are both updated, conflict occurs when your try to sync. If you try to sync in this state, you see a conflict prompt.

Sync Local: Sync local settings on this computer to the cloud; overwrite the cloud version with the local version of settings.

Sync Cloud: Sync from the cloud to this local computer; ignore changes made to the local settings and replace them with the settings in the cloud.

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What’s not supported

Keyboard shortcuts created for Windows will only sync with a Windows computer. Mac keyboard shortcuts will only sync with a Mac computer.

Assets saved to a custom location are not synced.

Any modifications (for example: rearrangement of panel) made after creation of the Workspace will not be synced. For Workspace syncing,

first set up your working environment and then create a workspace and initiate the sync process.

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EPUB enhancements in InDesign CC

Style to class name mapping

Style class ownership - handling of CSS class name collisions

Clean markup for Ordered/Numbered Lists

Improved heuristic for determining bullet and numbering structure

Static ordered list removed from EPUB export

Improved HTML markup and CSS for Convert To Text list Export option

Version string metadata

Improved naming convention of CSS classes to match their purpose

CSS generated for Japanese ruby tag

Scripting support for EPUB book export

New export warning or error message dialog

Improved mapping of bullet character to list-style-type property

Break-before property mapping

Access to iBooks reader device fonts

Font embedding on iBooks reader now supported

‘EPUB 3.0 with Layout’ option removed from EPUB export

Mapping paragraph keeps attributes to CSS paragraph properties

Support for more than one CSS class name in 'Style To Tag/Class' fields of paragraph, character, and object styles

Empty and <li> ranges are removed

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Style to class name mapping

While generating a class name from a style name, InDesign now generates a fully qualified class name: <style group name>_<style name>.

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Style class ownership - handling of CSS class name collisions

If you map two styles to the same class name, it results in a conflict when you decide to generate the CSS for the associated document. InDesign now flags a warning and displays a message about the conflict while exporting.

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Clean markup for Ordered/Numbered Lists

The generated markup for “Map to Unordered List” and “Map to Ordered List” options under the EBook Export > General > Text Options are now free from any extra classes. InDesign no longer inserts any characters or creates any spans, and lets the browser or device be responsible for composing the lists.

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Improved heuristic for determining bullet and numbering structure

The heuristic for determining bullet and numbering structure has been improved significantly to detect the semantic structure of the bullets and numbers, and properly expressing it in the HTML.

For bullets:

InDesign treats two paragraphs which share ALL the same bullet related attributes, including left indent, as being part of the same list.

A paragraph which is not a bullet but follows a bullet paragraph and has the same left indent, is now considered a “nested” paragraph and becomes part of the list.

For numbers:

As designers can set the attribute for the “List” that it is part of, this setting has the highest priority relative to left indent or different number related attributes.

Although InDesign supports setting the value attribute on the tag, it is not possible to express a numbered list, which crosses Table and Story boundaries, in HTML.

For correct numbering, export to EPUB 3.0.

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Static ordered list removed from EPUB export

As InDesign now offers a true (stripped) markup to lists respecting the starting number values, the Static Ordered List option is removed from the

EPUB Export dialog.

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Improved HTML markup and CSS for Convert To Text list Export option

The HTML markup and CSS of the “Convert To Text” export option has been improved. InDesign now inserts necessary bullet or number characters and overrides styling so that the overall look of the list option remains close to how it looks in InDesign.

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Version string metadata

Version number has been added to the generator metadata:

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Improved naming convention of CSS classes to match their purpose

InDesign generates various extra classes for the purposes of improving the visual fidelity and conceptual mapping between InDesign and EPUB.

The classes are now renamed to match and clarify their purpose.

Generated CSS Class Prefix

CharOverride-#

ParaOverride

TableOverride-#

CellOverride-#

ObjectOverride-#

Description

Mapping of user applied Character Attribute override to CSS properties

Mapping of user applied Paragraph Attribute override to CSS properties

Mapping of user applied Table Attribute override to CSS properties

Mapping of user applied Cell Attribute override to CSS properties

Mapping of user applied Object (PageItem) Attribute override to CSS properties

_idGenParaOverride-#

_idGenCharOverride-#

_idGenDropcap-#

_idGenBNMarker-#

_idGenRuby-#

_idGenStoryDirection

_idGenTableRowColumn

_idGenPageitem-#

Deal with CSS property inheritance (such as left indent)

Deal with CSS property inheritance (such as point size)

Make the Dropcap look more like ID

Make the Bullet & Number characters look more like ID

Alter the Ruby CSS

Support story direction

Support alternating table strokes and fills

Carry the width and height of the PageItem/Object

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CSS generated for Japanese ruby tag

InDesign now generates a separate CSS rule containing just the ruby related attributes.

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Scripting support for EPUB book export

The scripting support was not available in CS6, and it is available now.

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New export warning or error message dialog

The new dialog makes it easier to read multiple warning or error messages from the export.

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Improved mapping of bullet character to list-style-type property

If any Unicode value is found other than the listed ones in the table below, the CSS will not specify it and leave it to the device or browser default

(typically “disc”).

ID Unicode value

0x2022 (bullet)

0x25CB (white circle)

0x25A0 (black square)

CSS Property

“disc”

“circle”

“square”

The various InDesign numbered list types are now mapped to the CSS properties as listed in the table below.

ITextAttrNumberingStyle

1,2,3,4

01,02,03,

I, II, III, i, ii, iii,

CSS Property

“decimal”

“decimal--leading--zero”

“upper--roman”

“lower--roman”

A,B,C,D a,b,c,d

001,002,003,

0001,0002,0003,

“upper--alpha”

“lower--alpha”

“decimal--leading--zero”

Break-before property mapping

The Keeps Option “Start Paragraph” attribute is now mapped correctly to a valid CSS property. Any value for this attribute other than

‘kStartAnywhere’ is mapped to 'pagebreak-before:always'.

Break characters remain unsupported at this time.

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Access to iBooks reader device fonts

iBooks Reader supports a wide number of device fonts ( http://iosfonts.com

/), and these fonts are not enabled by default when referenced via

@font-face unless the special XML option file META-INF/com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml is added to the package.

Now the option file is added to both the EPUB2.0 and EPUB3.0 packages.

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Font embedding on iBooks reader now supported

EPUBCheck has been changed to accept the embedded font format as being acceptable for iBooks Reader.

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‘EPUB 3.0 with Layout’ option removed from EPUB export

As the DPS Reader has decided not to support this format, the ‘EPUB 3.0 with Layout’ option is removed from the EPUB Export dialog box.

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Mapping paragraph keeps attributes to CSS paragraph properties

Paragraph Attribute

Keep With Previous

Keep All Lines Together

Keep First N

Keep Last N

Keep With Next N

CSS Property page-break-before:avoid orphans: 99 orphans: # window: # page-break-after:avoid

In a previous change, the Start Paragraph was mapped to the CSS property 'page-break-before:avoid'. Since this attribute and Keep With Previous share the same mapped property, in cases of conflict, the Start Paragraph will win, as it does in InDesign.

Note: Mapping of Keep With Next N ignores any values other than one. Also, break characters (goto Next N) remain unsupported at this time.

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Support for more than one CSS class name in 'Style To Tag/Class' fields of paragraph, character, and object styles

Multiple Class names must be separated by one or more spaces, and the first Class name will be used to generate the CSS for Style, if Emit CSS is enabled for this Style.

For example, a Paragraph Style that says:

Class: InDesign is the best

Results in:

foo p.InDesign {…}

The intention of this feature is to allow designers to override or extend CSS properties via the “Additional CSS File” mechanism in the Advanced tab of the EPUB Export dialog.

No additional checking is done for the values specified and during export InDesign simply carries them along for the purposes of markup and otherwise ignores them.

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Empty and <li> ranges are removed

Empty Paragraphs in InDesign are not empty – they contain a carriage return and are composed with vertical height.

In HTML, InDesign maps Paragraphs to and <li> tags as appropriate and the carriage return is not part of the mapping that can lead to empty tags.

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InDesign getting started tutorials

What is InDesign CC

Adobe TV (Jun. 17, 2013) video-tutorial

Learn about Adobe InDesign, the industry-standard publishing application for print publications, interactive PDF documents, digital magazines, and EPUBs.

Learn InDesign CC video tutorials

Adobe TV (Jun. 17, 2013) video-tutorial

Learn the basics of InDesign CC with Getting Started and New Features tutorials by product experts.

10 Things Beginners Want To Know How To Do in InDesign CC

Terry White (Nov. 26, 2012) video-tutorial

Terry will demonstrate 10 things beginners want to know how to do in Adobe InDesign CC.

Linking Content

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Watch this video tutorial to learn how to create and update links between objects in the same document and others.

Printing booklets using your desktop printer

Jeff Witchel (Oct. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Learn how to create a booklet and print it using your desktop printer

Creating and saving your own workspace

Jeff Witchel (Oct. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Learn how to personalize the workspace

Layers magazine video tutorials video-tutorial (Aug. 1, 2012)

Visit Layers Magazine, to see the latest InDesign tutorials.

Applying guide-based Liquid Layout rules

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Learn how guide-based Liquid Layout rules work, and how to create liquid guides and ruler guides.

Applying object-based Liquid Layout rules

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Discover how the object-based Liquid Layout rules work, both on-object and via the Liquid Layout panel.

Building a Newsletter

Kelly McCathran (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

This tutorial shows how to create a newsletter, which is one of the easiest, most inexpensive ways to reach customers and colleagues or connect with family.

Creating a Letterhead

Kelly McCathran (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Letterhead is fundamental for branding, in this InDesign tutorial we will build one from scratch, complete with guides, logo, and contact

text.

Creating and previewing a basic form

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

A tutorial to show how to create a simple form using most of the different types of fields available in InDesign.

Exporting to EPUB 3 and fixed layout

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

This video demonstration helps you learn about the new EPUB3 option in the Export EPUB dialog box.

Reviewing the Forms tools

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

An overview of the form field-related buttons, dialog boxes and menu commands in InDesign. Compare the old and new ways of creating interactive forms.

Testing a form in Acrobat

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

This tutorial shows you how InDesign form fields look in Acrobat or Reader. Then, learn how to continue modifying the interactive fields in

Acrobat for additional functionality, and how the form performs in Acrobat.

Understanding Liquid Layout rules

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

This tutorial defines and demonstrates Liquid Layout, and tours the location of Liquid Layout-related commands and dialog boxes.

Using Content Collector and Content Placer toos

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Learn about the Content Collector and Content Placer tools. See how to use the Conveyor and most of its options, such as navigating and drilling down into groups.

Using advanced EPUB 2 export controls

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

This tutorial discusses the new paragraph style option for splitting a document for EPUB export.

Using basic Liquid Layout rules: Scale, Recenter, and Based on Master

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Discover how to apply None, Scale, and Recenter rules when resizing a layout. Also learn the meaning behind "Based on Master."

What is InDesign CS6?

Adobe TV (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Learn about Adobe InDesign, the industry-standard publishing application for print publications, interactive PDF documents, digital magazines, and EPUBs.

Working with Alternate Layouts

Anne-Marie Concepcion (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Learn how to use Alternate Layouts for both print and digital publishing.

Working with Frames

Kelly McCathran (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

Everything that is placed into InDesign ends up in a frame. You can create frames from scratch, or if you "place" (import) text or images into a document, InDesign automatically creates the frame for you.

Working with Graphics

Kelly McCathran (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

In this video you'll learn about placing, which is how you import photos or text into your InDesign page. We'll go over the popular image formats: PSD, AI, PSD, TIFF, and JPEG. You will also see how to scale, center, and crop photos.

Working with Tools

Kelly McCathran (May. 15, 2012) video-tutorial

The InDesign toolbar contains a lot of tools, many of which are hidden or "nested" underneath the tools you see initially. In this video you will see the primary tools used to select, rotate and size objects. You'll also learn how to use the Type tool to edit text and create frames with or without borders, switch tools using your keyboard, and navigate with the Hand and Zoom tools.

Build digital magazines with InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (video 09:06)

Terry White (May. 7, 2012) video-tutorial

In this video, see you how to create immersive digital magazines for tablet devices using InDesign.

Create more compelling eBooks with InDesign CS5.5 (video 16:11)

Terry White (May. 7, 2012) video-tutorial

In this video, see the new features in InDesign CS5.5 - including linked text, articles panel, and the ability to embed audio and video – that will help you design more engaging eBooks than ever before.

Learn InDesign CS6 video tutorials

Adobe TV (May. 7, 2012) video-tutorial

Learn the basics of InDesign CS6 with Getting Started and New Features tutorials by product experts.

Using the Links panel (video 5:23), CS4-CS6

Michael Ninness (Jan. 2, 2011) video-tutorial

Watch and learn how to customize the Links panel to suit your needs.

Adding audio and video content to EPUB (video 02:46)

Colin Fleming (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

In this video tutorial, see how simple it is to embed audio and video content in InDesign CS5.5 and later, for export to EPUB.

Adobe Creative Suite 5/5.5 Printing Guide (PDF, 21 MB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

Download this guide to learn how to set up Adobe documents for print. All the information you need for professional printing in one place.

Applying GREP styles (video 4:46)

Michael Ninness (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

This video tutorial shows you how to apply a character style to any text that matches the GREP expression you specify. Make the GREP style part of a paragraph style.

Building a grid of objects quickly (PDF, 100 KB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

Tutorial to build a grid of objects in InDesign CS5 and later.

Classroom in a Book

Adobe Press (Jan. 1, 2011) article

This completely revised CS6 edition covers the new tools for adding PDF form fields, linking content, and creating alternative layouts for digital publishing. The companion CD includes all the lesson files that readers need to work along with the book.

Controlling order of content export from InDesign to EPUB without changing your layout (video 04:54)

Colin Fleming (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Learn how to create and organize articles in the Articles panel for export to EPUB, without changing layout or writing code.

Creating accessible PDF documents (PDF, 2.6 MB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

Creating and editing motion presets (video 5:23)

Anne-Marie Concepcion (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

See how to edit and customize motion path presets, which allow you to animate images or text in InDesign.

Creating conditional text (video 6:48), CS4-CS6

David Blatner (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Learn how to use conditional text in InDesign.

Creating covers and title pages for EPUB (video 05:50)

Colin Fleming (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Learn how to create covers and title pages for your EPUB titles.

Creating cross-references (video 5:45), CS4-CS6

David Blatner (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Walk through the procedure of adding cross-references. Create cross-references that can be updated quickly when the target text or pagination changes. Create a custom cross-reference format.

Creating documents with Interactive features (video 8:06)

Anne-Marie Concepcion (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Learn how to use the Media panel, the Preview panel, and the Timing panel to determine what happens when.

Creating interactive documents in a snap (PDF, 201 KB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

A handy tutorial on how to add interactivity to your documents.

Creating multistate objects (PDF, 203 KB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

This short tutorial shows you how to create multi-state objects to add interactivity.

Creating rich interactive documents (PDF, 6.7 MB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

Learn how to create rich interactive documents using InDesign.

Document installed fonts (video 2:29)

Michael Ninness (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Learn how to use document installed fonts in your designs, in InDesign CS5 and later.

Enhanced eBook Authoring (video 1:10) video-tutorial (Jan. 1, 2011)

Watch a quick a over view on the EPUB capabilities in InDesign CS5.5.

Exploring new FLA export options (video 6:26)

Anne-Marie Concepcion (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

See how to publish your InDesign project in a variety of Flash formats by using the enhanced Export dialog box in InDesign CS5 and later.

Exporting documents to EPUB (PDF, 265 KB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

A short and quick overview on how to export your layouts to EPUB in InDesign CS5.

Exporting to EPUB for the Apple iBookstore (PDF, 2.5 MB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

Learn how to create an EPUB for the Apple iBook store

Folio Producer Tools (video 1:04) video-tutorial (Jan. 1, 2011)

An very short overview of Folio Producer tools for Digital Publishing.

Generating image captions with metadata (PDF, 148 KB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

A short tutorial on how to work with medata and auto-generate captions for images in your layout.

Grid Mode and Live Distribute (video 2:48)

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Watch how you can quickly create grids on the fly using design tools that are "gridified".

Layers panel (video 2:59)

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See how the all new Layers panel lets you manage objects in complex documents with more control in InDesign CS5.

Linking text stories (PDF, 217 KB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

A short tutorial on the Place and Link Story feature in InDesign CS5.5.

Live captions (video 3:04)

Michael Ninness (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

See how InDesign CS5 and later allow you to take advantage of metadata embedded in an image to create live captions and then automatically and flexibly place them in your layout.

Making shiny graphics (PDF, 203 KB)

Mike Rankin (Jan. 1, 2011) article

This tutorial shows you how to apply a shiny, glossy effect on objects in your layout.

Managing documents with multiple page sizes (PDF, 136 KB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

A short tutorial on how to manage documents with multiple page sizes, in InDesign CS5 and later.

Mini Bridge: Getting access to your assets (PDF, 180 KB) article (Jan. 1, 2011)

Use Bridge as a floating panel inside InDesign. yes Mini Bridge.

Mixing page sizes with the new Page tool (video 8:03)

Anne-Marie Concepcion (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Create complete brochures and book covers along with text with the new ability to mix page sizes within a single file

New export options for EPUB (video 05:56), CS5.5

Colin Fleming (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

See an overview of all the new Export Options for EPUB in InDesign CS5.5, including the ordering panel and cover improvements.

Paragraphs that span and split columns (video 2:01)

Michael Ninness (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

See how to build complex layouts in less clicks with paragraphs that span or split columns in InDesign CS5 and later.

Rotating Spread view (video 3:31), CS4-CS6

David Blatner (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

When one or more objects on a page is rotated, learn how to rotate the spread view to make easy edits. Discover a number of navigation tips to save time.

Saving production time (PDF, 148 KB), CS5 article (Jan. 1, 2011)

Some small features that save you tons of time in CS5.

Selection tool, Gap tool & Live Corner effects (video 5:13)

Michael Ninness (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Watch how you can make short work of everyday layout tasks using these intuitive productivity tools.

Setting object export options (PDF, 160 KB), CS5.5 and later article (Jan. 1, 2011)

How to use the Object Export options to streamline your export workflow.

Spanning and Splitting columns (video 6:15)

Anne-Marie Concepcion (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Set up spanning heads over any number of columns or split a group of columns into additional columns to save vertical space.

Styles mapped to tags in InDesign for improved EPUB export (video 05:13)

Colin Fleming (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

In InDesign CS5.5 and later, you can map paragraph and character styles directly to EPUB, HTML and PDF tags to ensure that styles you define in InDesign are exported appropriately. You can also add CSS class names and type n your own custom tags.

Track text changes (video 2:01)

Michael Ninness (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Learn how to collaborate with even greater efficiency using new Track Text Changes in InDesign CS5 and later.

Using Object Export options to customize how objects and images export to EPUB ( video 05:18)

Colin Fleming (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Use Object Export Options to customize how objects and images are exported to EPUB to ensure best viewing results on any screen no matter what size.

Working with Smart Guides (video 4:04), CS4-CS6

Michael Ninness (Jan. 1, 2011) video-tutorial

Take advantage of Smart Guides when creating, moving, rotating, and aligning objects. Learn how to avoid clutter in your layout.

Create new documents

Creating new documents

Create a new document

New Document options

Document window overview

Create custom page sizes

Define document presets

Create a document using a preset

Page design begins with the basics: starting a new document, setting up pages, and positioning margins and columns or changing grid settings.

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Create a new document

1. Choose File > New > Document.

The New Document dialog box combines the Document Setup and the Margins And Columns dialog boxes, so that you can set up the page size, margins, and page columns all in one place. You can change these settings at any time.

2. Specify document setup options. (See

New Document options .)

To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click the Arrow button before the Bleed and Slug label. The bleed and slug areas extend out from the edges of the defined Page Size. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings

The Same icon .

3. (Only in InDesign CC) Select the Preview checkbox to see how your new document will look like. Make necessary changes if required.

4. Click OK to open the new document with the settings you specified.

To set default layout settings for all new documents, choose File > Document Setup or Layout > Margins And Columns, and set options when no documents are open.

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New Document options

Document Preset Choose a preset that you have saved earlier.

Intent If you are creating a document to be output to PDF or SWF for the web, choosing the Web option changes several options in the dialog box, such as turning off Facing Pages, changing the orientation from portrait to landscape, and using a page size based on monitor resolution. You can edit any of these settings after the document is created.

CS6 and later: Digital publishing intent has been added for publications aimed for the Digital Publishing Suite. You can also change the intent of the document after it is created.

Number of pages Specify the number of pages to create in the new document.

Start Page # Specify which number the document starts on. If you specify an even number (such as 2) with Facing Pages selected, the first spread in the document begins with a two-page spread. See Start a document with a two-page spread .

Facing Pages Select this option to make left and right pages face each other in a double-page spread, such as for books and magazines.

Deselect this option to let each page stand alone, such as when you’re printing flyers or posters or when you want objects to bleed in the binding.

After you’ve created a document, you can use the Pages panel to create spreads with more than two pages or force the first two pages to open as a spread. (See Control spread pagination .)

Master Text Frame CS5.5 and earlier: Select this option to create a text frame the size of the area within the margin guides, matching the column settings you specified. The master text frame is added to the A Master. (See Using text frames on master pages .)

The Master Text Frame option is available only when you’ve chosen File > New > Document.

Primary Text Frame CS6 and later: select this option to add a primary text frame on the master page. When you apply a new master page, the story in the primary text frame automatically flows into the primary text frame of the new master page.

Page Size Choose a page size from the menu, or type values for Width and Height. Page size represents the final size you want after bleeds or other marks outside the page are trimmed.

Orientation

Click Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide). These icons interact dynamically with the dimensions you enter in Page Size. When

Height is the larger value, the portrait icon is selected. When Width is the larger value, the landscape icon is selected. Clicking the deselected icon switches the Height and Width values.

Tip: To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click the Arrow button before the Bleed and Slug label in the New Document dialog box. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings The Same icon .

Bleed The Bleed area allows you to print objects that are arranged at the outer edge of the defined page size. For a page of the required dimensions, if an object is positioned at its edge, some white may appear at the edge of the printed area due to slight misalignment during printing or trimming. For this reason, you should position an object that is at the edge of the page of the required dimensions a little beyond the edge, and trim after printing. Bleed area is shown by a red line on the document. You can set bleed area settings from Bleed in the Print dialog box.

Slug The slug area is discarded when the document is trimmed to its final page size. The slug area holds printing information, customized color bar information, or displays other instructions and descriptions for other information in the document. Objects (including text frames) positioned in the slug area are printed but will disappear when the document is trimmed to its final page size.

Objects outside the bleed or slug area (whichever extends farther) do not print.

Preview (Only in InDesign CC) Select this checkbox to see how your new document will look like. Make necessary changes to the options if the preview is not as desired.

Note: You can also click the Save Document Preset icon to save document settings for future use.

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Document window overview

Each page or spread in your document has its own pasteboard and guides, which are visible in Normal View mode. (To switch to Normal View, choose View > Screen Mode > Normal.) The pasteboard is replaced with a gray background when the document is viewed using one of the

Preview modes. (See Preview documents .) You can change the color of this preview background and guides in Guides & Pasteboard preferences.

Document and guides in Normal View Mode

A. Spread (black lines) B. Page (black lines) C. Margin guides (magenta lines) D. Column guides (violet lines) E. Bleed area (red lines) F. Slug area (blue lines)

Document window notes:

Lines of other colors are ruler guides which, when present, appear in the layer color when selected. See Layers .

Column guides appear in front of margin guides. When a column guide is exactly in front of a margin guide, it hides the margin guide.

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Create custom page sizes

You can create custom page sizes that appear in the Page Size menu in the New Document dialog box.

1. Choose File > New > Document.

2. Choose Custom Page Size from the Page Size menu.

3. Type a name for the page size, specify page size settings, and then click Add.

The New Doc Sizes.txt file that lets you create custom page sizes in previous version of InDesign is not available in InDesign CS5 or later.

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Define document presets

You can save document settings for page size, columns, margins, and bleed and slug areas in a preset to save time and ensure consistency when creating similar documents.

1. Choose File > Document Presets > Define.

2. Click New in the dialog box that appears.

3. Specify a name for the preset and select basic layout options in the New Document Preset dialog box. (See

New Document options for a

description of each option.)

4. Click OK twice.

You can save a document preset to a separate file and distribute it to other users. To save and load document preset files, use the Save and

Load buttons in the Document Presets dialog box.

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Create a document using a preset

1. Do one of the following:.

Choose File > Document Preset > [name of preset]. (Hold down Shift while choosing the preset to create a new document based on the preset without opening the New Document dialog box.)

Choose File > New > Document, and then choose a preset from the Document Preset menu in the New Document dialog box.

The New Document dialog box displays the preset layout options.

2. Make changes to the options (if desired) and click OK.

To skip the New Document dialog box, press the Shift key as you select a preset from the Document Preset menu.

Recommended workflow for InDesign documents

Use document templates

Add documents to a book file

Change document setup, margins, and columns

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New Document options

Document window overview

Create custom page sizes

Define document presets

Create a document using a preset

Page design begins with the basics: starting a new document, setting up pages, and positioning margins and columns or changing grid settings.

When creating a document you can select from two workflows, either Layout Grid or Margins and Columns.

note: Whichever workflow you select, the file type of the document will be exactly the same. You can view a layout grid created in the document using Margins and Columns, or hide a document layout grid created using the Layout Grid option by switching between views.

The workflow based on typesetting composition using Layout Grid is only available in Asian language versions. When you select Layout Grid, a grid of squares will be displayed in the document. You can set the number of individual squares (number of rows or characters) from the page size settings. Page margins will also be determined by this. By using a layout grid you can position an object accurately on a page using grid cell units.

The Margins and Columns workflow option is the same as in Western workflows. Western workflows are configured from Margins and Columns, and objects are arranged on pages without layout grids. You can set the writing direction to horizontal or vertical using either the Margins and

Columns or Layout Grid workflow.

A document showing a layout grid (left) A document showing margins and columns (right)

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Create a new document

1. Choose File > New > Document.

2. Specify document setup options. (See New Document options.)

To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options. The bleed and slug areas extend out from the edges of the defined Page Size. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings The Same icon .

3. Click OK to open a new document with the settings you specified.

Note: To set default layout settings for all new documents, choose File > Document Setup or Layout > Margins And Columns, and set options when no documents are open.

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Create a new document with a layout grid

1. Choose File > New > Document.

2. Change the number of pages, page size, and other options. To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options.

3. Click Layout Grid Dialog, and then specify the layout grid settings. (See Layout Grid options .)

4. Click OK to open a new document with the settings you specified.

The layout grid is for layout purposes only. To add text to your document, add frame grids or text frames.

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Create a new document with margins and columns

When creating a document with Western style workflow, use Margins and Columns. If the general layout settings such as margins and number of columns in a document are already known, use the Margins and Columns dialog box as the simplest method.

1. Choose File > New > Document.

2. Specify options using the New Document dialog box. Each option is the same as when creating a document using a layout grid.

3. Click Margins and Columns and select your options using the New Margins and Columns dialog box. The options are the same as in the

Margins and Columns dialog box. (See Change document setup, margins, and columns .)

4. Click OK.

Even when a document has been created using Margins and Columns, you can view its layout grid by choosing View > Grids & Guides > Show

Layout Grid, and you can modify the layout grid settings by choosing Layout > Layout Grid.

To set the default settings for all new documents, choose File > Document Setup, Layout > Margins and Columns, or Layout > Layout Grid

Settings, and set options when no documents are open.

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New Document options

Document Preset Choose a preset that you have saver earlier.

CS6: Digital publishing intent has been added for publications aimed for the Digital Publishing Suite.

Number of pages Specify the number of pages to create in the new document.

Facing Pages Select this option to make left and right pages face each other in a double-page spread, such as for books and magazines.

Deselect this option to let each page stand alone, such as when you’re printing flyers or posters or when you want objects to bleed in the binding.

After you’ve created a document, you can use the Pages panel to create spreads with more than two pages or force the first two pages to open as a spread. (See Control spread pagination .)

The Master Text Frame option is available only when you’ve chosen File > New > Document.

Primary Text Frame CS6 only: select this option to add a primary text frame on the master page. When you apply a new master page, the story in the primary text frame automatically flows into the primary text frame of the new master page.

Page Size Choose a page size from the menu, or type values for Width and Height. Page size represents the final size you want after bleeds or other marks outside the page are trimmed.

Orientation Click Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide). These icons interact dynamically with the dimensions you enter in Page Size. When

Height is the larger value, the portrait icon is selected. When Width is the larger value, the landscape icon is selected. Clicking the deselected icon switches the Height and Width values.

Tip: To specify the dimensions of the bleed and slug areas, click More Options in the New Document dialog box. To make the bleed or slug areas extend evenly on all sides, click the Make All Settings The Same icon .

Objects outside the bleed or slug area (whichever extends farther) do not print.

Note: You can also click the Save Document Preset icon to save document settings for future use.

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Document window overview

Preview modes. (See Preview documents .) You can change the color of this preview background and guides in Guides & Pasteboard preferences.

Document and guides in Normal View Mode

A. Spread (black lines) B. Page (black lines) C. Margin guides (magenta lines) D. Column guides (violet lines) E. Bleed area (red lines) F. Slug area (blue lines)

Document window notes:

Lines of other colors are ruler guides which, when present, appear in the layer color when selected. See Layers .

Column guides appear in front of margin guides. When a column guide is exactly in front of a margin guide, it hides the margin guide.

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Create custom page sizes

You can create custom page sizes that appear in the Page Size menu in the New Document dialog box.

1. Choose File > New > Document.

2. Choose Custom Page Size from the Page Size menu.

3. Type a name for the page size, specify page size settings, and then click Add.

The New Doc Sizes.txt file that lets you create custom page sizes in previous version of InDesign is not available in InDesign CS5 or later.

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Define document presets

You can save document settings for page size, columns, margins, and bleed and slug areas in a preset to save time and ensure consistency when creating similar documents.

1. Choose File > Document Presets > Define.

2. Click New in the dialog box that appears.

3. Specify a name for the preset and select basic layout options in the New Document Preset dialog box. (See New Document options for a description of each option.)

4. Click OK twice.

You can save a document preset to a separate file and distribute it to other users. To save and load document preset files, use the Save and

Load buttons in the Document Presets dialog box.

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Create a document using a preset

1. Do one of the following:.

Choose File > Document Preset > [name of preset]. (Hold down Shift while choosing the preset to create a new document based on the preset without opening the New Document dialog box.)

Choose File > New > Document, and then choose a preset from the Document Preset menu in the New Document dialog box.

The New Document dialog box displays the preset layout options.

2. Make changes to the options (if desired) and click OK.

To skip the New Document dialog box, press the Shift key as you select a preset from the Document Preset menu.

Recommended workflow for InDesign documents

Use document templates

Add documents to a book file

Change document setup, margins, and columns

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