![]() Thanks to Apple's last-minute prohibition, CS5 doesn't provide the hoped-for route to iPad, and wider rumblings about Flash in the industry mean it's probably not the right basis for a long-term digital publishing strategy. To an extent, this is playing catchup with QuarkXPress 8, which already offers basic Flash authoring. You can create hyperlinks so clicking a button or icon on a page loads another page, and buttons can have intelligent Normal, Rollover and Click states. Through a new set of panels, Keynote-style transitions can be applied so that text or pictures fade or fly in and out, and page turn effects can be added. Together, these features aren't just handy, they enable completely new approaches to text flow, especially when preparing templates for non-designers. ![]() There's the option to automatically balance columns. This is well done, though with a few catches: you need to have Bridge running for it to work, and there's still no integration with iPhoto or Aperture libraries.Īs well as setting a number of columns within a text frame, you can now split it horizontally and vary the column layout in each section. You can trawl through resizable thumbnails, filter results by rating or label, or search by keyword, then drag one or more pictures into your layout to place them, maintaining the link to the image file. And so it has.Ī new feature shared with Photoshop is Mini Bridge, a panel that brings the browsing capabilities of Bridge – the media manager included since CS2 – right into the app. It's a battle Adobe seems to be winning, but with QuarkXPress 8 set to be followed by another upgrade, InDesign CS5 needed to come out fighting. 25, 2011 - PRLog - While Photoshop has no direct competition, InDesign is locked in rivalry with QuarkXPress. We regularly run Adobe InDesign Training Courses from our state of the art studio in Derby.Jan. If you need help learning any software from the Adobe Creative Suite, then contact us. Mark Williams is the Director of Creative Studios Derby LTD, the East Midlands largest and most experienced Adobe training centre. You can download a full working 30 day trial of InDesign CC HERE You can activate scaling using this option.įor a full list of comparable features between InDesign CS6 and InDesign CC you can look on the Adobe website HERE With the new Scalable Effects feature, an option to scale the transparency effects while scaling an object has been added in the Control panel and Transform panel flyout menus. Effects such as drop shadows properly scale as you change the scale of an object or text. You can choose to include or not include any of these files when you choose the ‘Package’ command in InDesign Scalable EffectsĮarlier, transparency effects applied on an object in InDesign did not scale with the object. The PDF generated is a print ready version. With the new release of InDesign CC 2014 you get the ability to include a PDF and IDML file in any package created from InDesign for individual documents.An IDML file enables the InDesign document to be opened in any earlier versions of InDesign. So get designing and put your work for sale on iTunes quickly and easily! The fixed layout ePub also supports audio, visual and all the interactive elements that InDesign CC 2014 has to offer. With a fixed layout ePub you export your design and it stays exactly how you wanted it, much like generating a PDF. Traditionally with an eBook the text content would reflow for different devices, this is useful for long text documents but not very good for a designer or someone who has spent a lot of time incorporating images to a design. You can even recoulour entire spreads with the click of a button to incorporate a new colour theme from a group in your swatches panel.Ĭolour Groups are our favourite new feature! ePub Fixed LayoutĪre you new to eBooks? Well they are a bit of a minefield and can be a bit specialist but InDesign CC2014 has introduced ‘Fixed Layouts’. InDesign CC 2014 has finally caught up with its sister programme Illustrator adding colour groups to your swatches panel, now rather than all your swatches being in a long list you can organise your swatches in to small folders within your swatches panel, you can even import colour groups that you have previously created in Illustrator! Do you use Kuler colour themes? Well you will be very pleased to know that you can easily automatically create a colour group from a Kuler theme.
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