Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing. 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.
InDesign is part of the InDesign family
InDesign provides a versatile foundation for dynamic publishing workflows, both now and in the future.
Creating digital documents is a snap
See how the strengths of InDesign CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional together deliver an engaging SWF file complete with animation, interactivity, video, and sound.
Publishing long documents has never been easier
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences using logical, condensed steps and advanced features.
Explore creative possibilities
Create stunning designs using tools that enable free-flowing expression, with fine control over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects, and placed images.
Extensive creative tools at your fingertips
Adobe Photoshop effects
Apply visual effects, such as drop shadow, glow, or bevel and emboss, directly within Adobe® InDesign® CS4. Using an interface consistent with that in Adobe Photoshop® CS4 software, specify offset, angle, and other options. Apply effects independently to an object's stroke, fill, and content.
Fine transparency controls
Adjust transparency and blending modes globally on entire objects or independently on strokes, fills, and content.
Support for 3D Photoshop artwork
Place a PSD file with an embedded 3D Smart Object in your InDesign layout. Use Edit Original to update or change the angle of the 3D object in Photoshop, save, and the placed PSD updates automatically.
Gradient feathers
Create beautiful effects by applying masks that contain gradients that fade objects into the background. Customize options such as gradient angles and fade rates, all within InDesign.
Free Transform tool
Resize an object on-the-fly more easily using the Free Transform tool, thanks to larger hit zones around object handles and the ability to resize along object edges.
Sophisticated graphics and layout
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support
Control the visibility of layers in imported Adobe Photoshop and PDF files that includes support for layer comps in Photoshop. Turn layers on and off to experiment with design options, create interactive buttons from layered Photoshop files for use in digital compositions, or use multiple variations of a file in your layout — all while linking to a single file.
Step and Repeat command
Quickly create multiple copies of an object with full control over vertical and horizontal offsets using the Step and Repeat command. Repeated items retain their layer and stacking order.
Built-in design tools
Drawing tools
Use the convenient Pen, Pencil, Shape, Erase, Smooth, and Scissors tools to quickly create and edit simple graphics or paths in your InDesign layouts.
Pathfinder commands
Quickly turn simple, overlapping objects into complex shapes or convert one shape to another, such as turning a rectangle into an ellipse.
Join command
Join two separate paths in one step using the Join command, which you can find in the InDesign menus or as part of the Pathfinder panel.
Convert Point command
Easily convert corner points to smooth or line end points using the Convert Point command, which is now accessible through the InDesign menus.
Stroke style editor
Create and save striped, dotted, and dashed stroke styles. Apply them to lines, paragraph rules, text underlines, and strikethroughs.
Professional typography
Paragraph Composer
Automatically optimize line breaks across a paragraph using the Paragraph Composer.
OpenType font support
Unlock the full potential of OpenType® fonts with support for multilingual and alternate glyphs, including old style numbers, fractions, ligatures, and swashes.
Convenient Glyphs panel
Manage special characters using the Glyphs panel to view recently used glyphs, filter and sort glyphs, and save glyph sets for sharing and reuse.
Optical kerning and margin alignment
Produce elegantly kerned type automatically. Use optical kerning for text that mixes typefaces and font sizes. Use optical margin alignment to hang punctuation, creating a visually pleasing edge for multiple lines of text.
Text on a path
Create graphical elements by aligning text to any path with full typographical control.
Text stroke control
Adjust stroke cap, end join, miter limit, and stroke alignment (center, outside, or inside) on live text.
Color controls
CMYK, RGB, and LAB support
Create spot or process colors in CMYK, RGB, and LAB color modes. Add colors from more than 20 swatch libraries, including industry-standard PANTONE®, Toyo, and TRUMATCH libraries.
Mixed ink support
Combine two or more spot or process inks to quickly define and generate a palette of colors that broadens your color choices for a design job without breaking your print budget.
Consistent color
Synchronize ICC-based color management settings across Adobe design applications to achieve consistent color onscreen. Easily exchange color swatches across the components of Adobe Creative Suite® 4 software.
Color Picker
Use the Color Picker, similar to the one in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator® software, to visually select RGB, CMYK, or LAB colors and add swatches to your Swatches panel.
Gradients
Create gradients with as many colors as you wish and apply them to strokes and fills of graphics and text. The objects remain fully editable.
Experience productivity that flows
Move between tasks naturally and efficiently for fast, productive page layout in a flexible design environment.
Layout productivity tools
Spread rotation
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.
Smart Guides
Quickly align, space, rotate, and resize multiple objects in one step. Align to the horizontal, vertical, or center of page edges. The guides, object dimensions, rotation, and x+y coordinates appear dynamically so you can quickly snap an object's edge to other objects in the layout.
Smart Dimensions
Resize, rotate, and align items to match. When you move one object in relation to other objects you wish to match, Smart Dimensions shows the width, height, or rotation of your object, highlighting when the dimensions or rotation match the others.
Smart Spacing
Evenly space multiple items on your page by snapping objects into position without having to use the Align panel.
Smart Cursors
Take advantage of Smart Cursors, which display x and y position, width/height, or rotation information when transforming objects.
Keyboard shortcuts for scaling
Use new options in the keyboard shortcut editor to easily create shortcuts for resizing a frame independently from scaling the image within the frame.
Undo command
Go back quickly with undo steps that include actions taken with content and objects on the page, and intelligently exclude viewing actions such as Set Preview, Show Guides, and Lock Guides.
Edit With command
Choose which application to use to edit a placed item instead of relying on the operating system to default to the appropriate program.
Edit Original
Use the Edit Original command to open placed Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and PDF files, as well as other linked assets, in the application in which they were created. Once updated and saved, the assets are automatically updated in your InDesign layout.
Image ghosting in anchored objects
Pan across images placed inline as anchored objects using the Direct Selection tool and see a ghosted view.
Pasted layers
Find your layer stacking order preserved when you duplicate and paste objects.
Multiple file placement
Speed up document creation by importing multiple files at once or by dragging them in from the desktop or Adobe Bridge CS4. Preview and place files in any order within your layout.
Proportional placement
Draw a frame with the place cursor loaded and files are automatically fit to a proportionally sized frame or according to the frame-fitting options you have chosen.
Contact sheet creation
Quickly create a contact sheet layout by placing multiple images in a grid arrangement. As you drag the loaded place cursor, you can use your arrow keys to control the number of rows and columns in the resulting grid.
Visual Pages panel
See thumbnails of your pages in the Pages panel for easy navigation and page arrangement. Move pages easily within and between documents. If transparency, page transitions, or spread rotation have been applied to pages, optionally turn off their associated icons for a cleaner Pages panel.
Advanced Find/Change command
Apply changes to text and object attributes across one or more documents. Include master pages, footnotes, and locked or hidden layers in a search; save search settings for easy reuse; and perform pattern-based searches on strings of text.
Section Prefix field
Flexibly create your own section prefix for easier page navigation and better control over page export and printing.
Section marker preservation
Find that your section markers, such as chapter names, are preserved when moving or copying pages from one document to another.
Quick Apply panel
Gain immediate access to frequently used features while keeping your fingers on the keyboard. Use key commands to open the Quick Apply panel and simply type the first few letters of the name to apply styles, menu commands, scripts, and conditional text tags.
Versatile master pages
Set up multiple master pages and base one master page on another to help keep designs consistent when updating documents. Easily distinguish master page objects from document page objects, override master page items on a document page, and choose to hide master page items on selected spreads.
Apple Multi-Touch gesture support
Use Multi-Touch trackpad gestures to navigate layouts and transform objects when you work on Apple MacBook Pro or MacBook Air laptops. Pinch to zoom in on objects and pages, swipe to turn pages, and rotate to change the orientation of objects and spreads.
Layers
Organize text and graphics on document-wide layers and then hide, lock, or reorder the layers to efficiently manage your page elements.
Custom page sizes
Specify page sizes for both print and digital publications during document setup. Create small- and large-format output from 1 pica square (1/6 inch, 0.421 centimeters) to 1,296 picas square (18 feet, 5.48 meters). Design a digital document for common monitor sizes such as 800x600 or 1,024x768.
Nudge buttons
Use the up and down arrows to nudge values for paragraph and character styles, find/change formats, object styles, transparency, color, global light, object corner options, and more.
Grids and guides
Guide deletion
Instantly clear all selectable guides on your current spread or master page using a new context menu located on the ruler.
Ruler origin on the spine
Correctly place the ruler's zero position at the spine of your document so that the x values are positive for right-sided pages and negative for left-sided pages when Facing Pages is enabled.
Leading-based baseline grid increments
Enter values for your baseline grid in points to match text size and leading so that you can flexibly use a different measurement system through the document.
Smart text handling
WYSIWYG font menus
See samples of font faces in any InDesign font menu, so you can always choose the exact font you need.
Comprehensive font replacement
Change the fonts in style definitions when replacing missing or unused fonts to make sure all instances are updated.
Microsoft Word and RTF support
Automatically style Microsoft Word files on import by mapping Word styles to InDesign styles. Resolve style name conflicts at import, preserve local overrides while removing other formatting, and save Word import settings as presets for future use.
Drag-and-drop text
Drag and drop text within and between text frames, tables, views, InDesign documents, and even other applications, such as Word. You can choose to strip formatting from text as you drop or paste it; the pasted text inherits the formatting applied to its new destination.
Flowing text wrap
Easily flow text around objects using custom specifications, including a clipping path or an alpha channel. Wrap to specific sides of an object or around a master page object.
Story Editor
Edit and style text in the Story Editor. This built-in word processor lets you quickly read, edit, and format text in text frames and tables without having to work directly in the layout view.
Built-in support for multilingual text
Check spelling and correctly hyphenate documents in 31 languages and related dialects using the Proximity® dictionaries.
Flexible dictionary management
Link to one or more user dictionaries on your hard drive or network simultaneously. Import and export word lists for convenient dictionary updating.
All-language user dictionaries
Add a custom word, name, or phrase to a user dictionary and all languages will treat the term as correctly spelled.
Dynamic spell-check and automatic correction
Activate dynamic spell-checking to flag misspellings, and add new words to user dictionaries with one click. Opt to automatically correct commonly misspelled words as you type using your specified word list.
Full-featured tables
Advanced table options
Format tables with options such as color fills in alternating rows and automatic running headers and footers. Spread long tables across columns, frames, or pages, and use headers and footers to repeat information at the top or bottom of divided portions of the table.
Table and cell styles
Quickly and consistently format tables using table and cell styles. Use regional cell styles to apply unique formatting to specific areas of a table, such as its header, footer, and body.
Styled table import
Import tab-delimited text files or styled Microsoft Word and Excel tables.
Recall of last used state for table stroke proxy
Quickly apply changes to cell and table borders without reselecting the borders.
Inline notes supported in tables
Add inline notes in tables to collaborate more effectively. Store alternate text, designer communications, and other annotations in notes linked to specific text in a table.
Tables in the Story Editor
Work with tables in the Story Editor, the word processor built into InDesign. Tables in the Story Editor display text in sequential columns and rows for easy editing.
Comprehensive styles
Rich paragraph and character styles
Define character and paragraph settings using a rich set of text-formatting attributes. Easily set up a default style, change the base style, clear overrides, and apply multiple styles to text.
Object styles
Apply and globally update object-level formatting using object styles. Save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as an object style to maintain consistent design and speed up production tasks. Create a unique object style for a graphic or text frame and use it as a default for subsequent styles.
Style group management
Keep related styles together by organizing them into groups in the styles panels. Selectively load styles from other InDesign documents and control how InDesign handles duplicate style names. Easily move styles in or out of style groups when synchronizing a book without creating duplicate styles.
GREP support for character styles
Apply character styles to text using a GREP expression to find instances of a character or string of characters that occur in a specific context. Quickly apply your style to just those characters.
Nested styles
Use nested styles to dynamically apply complex character formatting to ranges of text within a paragraph. Now apply nested styles through the end of a line for even greater flexibility. Formatting remains unchanged when text is edited.
Nested style looping
Set up two or more nested styles to work together, one taking over where the previous one ends. For paragraphs with repetitive and predictable formatting, loop back to the first style in the sequence.
New styles dialog box
Save time by creating new styles directly in the dialog box. Set up nested styles that are based on an entirely new character style, all in the same window.
Preflighting and print controls
Live Preflight
Preflight while you design. Continuous preflighting alerts you to potential production problems in real time so you can immediately identify and correct errors instead of waiting until the document is ready for print. When an error is detected, quickly fix the problem and keep working on your document.
Professional printing interface
Reliably print files to Adobe PostScript® Level 2, PostScript 3™, and non PostScript language devices using a comprehensive set of printing options designed to meet the needs of print professionals worldwide.
Built-in PDF Print Engine
Take advantage of the PDF Print Engine for eliminating unwanted surprises and last-minute prepress fixes in print workflows. Delay flattening transparency until the end of the production process for higher quality and greater fidelity to the design.
Output previews
Prevent mistakes from occurring on press by checking plates, overprinting, and ink limits, and help ensure the best results when printing transparency effects using output preview panels. Use Overprint Preview mode to proof spot-color effects and overprint settings.
Package command for print or web document handoff
Gather files, fonts, linked images, and the original InDesign source file into a single folder for easy handoff to a print service provider or web designer. Use the Package command to provide a customized report that includes printing or posting instructions or any other relevant information.
JDF integration between InDesign and Adobe Acrobat
Pass JDF job information to Adobe Acrobat® software with Adobe PDF files that you export from InDesign. Print service providers can then streamline prepress and print processes using JDF automation.
Custom print presets
Define and share custom print presets among service providers and customers for a fast, reliable way to print jobs that require consistent settings for many print options.
Adobe PDF file export
Use built-in Adobe PDF export presets — or create custom presets — to consistently and reliably prepare Adobe PDF files for electronic review or final output. Create ISO-standard PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files for high-resolution CMYK printing, as well as PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 files. Images placed on master pages are exported as Reference XObjects to create smaller PDF files.
Print Booklet
Use the Print Booklet feature to impose pages for printing booklet spreads, taking advantage of the intuitive and customizable workspace in InDesign.
Moving slug objects
Move pages and see that your objects in the slug and bleed area also move.
Slug area page numbers
See that page numbers in the slug area display a number rather than your pasteboard index entry.
Intuitive workspace
Adobe-standard user interface
Get up to speed quickly with familiar commands, tools, panels, and keyboard shortcuts.
Application frame
For Mac users, work with documents and panels in a single window for maximum flexibility. Easily move or resize the window without losing access to panels or other opened documents.
Application Bar
Use new control buttons in the menu bar to quickly switch to a new workspace, modify the view of a document, perform a search, or quickly access elements such as Adobe Bridge CS4.
Tabbed documents
Manage and work across multiple documents with ease by quickly tabbing through open documents to find the one you need without having to maximize each document individually.
N-up view
Flexibly arrange viewing multiple documents in a single window so that you can compare content and easily drag objects across documents for copying. Use a button in the Application Bar to quickly switch the configuration of your views — side by side, top and bottom, or however you wish.
Task-based workspaces
Work quickly with established task-based workspaces that unclutter your screen and present only the keyboard shortcuts, menu commands, and panel arrangements best for the job at hand. You can also easily customize your own menus and workspaces that can be shared and saved.
Dialog box positioning
Find tools more easily with dialog boxes that open in the same screen location in which they were closed.
Control panel
Set numerous options in the context-sensitive Control panel, including transparency, text wrap, and rotation. Customize the Control panel to show just the options you most frequently use.
Right-click tool access
Switch tools quickly by right-clicking a tool in the Tools panel, which opens the flyout menu and instantly exposes tool alternatives.
Selection and Direct Selection tool switch
Switch between the Selection and Direct Selection tools by double-clicking on an object. You can also use this switch to quickly select a single object within a group.
Power zoom
Use the Hand tool in patient user mode to zoom out by holding down your mouse button. Continue to hold, and you can move the zoom area indicator across pages. Release, and the view returns to your original zoom level in your new location. Increase or decrease the zoom percentage using the up and down arrows.
Centered zoom on linked frames
Maintain focus just where you want it. Even with multiple threaded frames, you can quickly zoom in while keeping your selected frame centered in the window.
Dynamic text and graphics preview
View text size, wrap, and line ending changes interactively with dynamic text preview. Modify crops using a ghosted preview of the entire image as you adjust what's visible in a frame.
High-resolution graphics preview
Display graphics in high resolution for precision work or to preview the graphics within your layout. Easily switch back to lower resolution view for faster onscreen display.
Multiple preview modes
Instantly hide all nonprinting items and show a trimmed version of a page as it will print. Also preview bleeds and slugs, and continue editing in any of the preview modes.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Customize keyboard shortcuts to suit your style, or select the predefined sets of QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker® keyboard shortcuts included with InDesign.
Extensive integration
Native Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe PDF format support
Speed up design by placing native Photoshop, Illustrator, and even multipage PDF files into your layouts. Build dynamic documents with placed Photoshop layers for easy creation of interactive buttons and rollovers. Paste Illustrator artwork into InDesign as editable objects.
Support for Illustrator CS4 artboards
Quickly cycle through multiple artboards created in Adobe Illustrator CS4 and place any selected artboard as a native Illustrator file into your InDesign document.
Integration with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Enable print-to-web workflows by exporting InDesign content as XHTML. Edit the exported content in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4 software and automatically format it using cascading style sheets (CSS).
Integration with Adobe Digital Editions
Export InDesign content as XHTML for use with Adobe Digital Editions, a rich Internet application (RIA) used to manage and view dynamically reflowable content delivered as eBooks and digital magazines.
Backward compatibility
Open QuarkXPress 3.3 — 4.1x files, Pagemaker 6.0-7.x and files created in earlier versions of InDesign in InDesign CS4. Export InDesign CS4 files to the InDesign Interchange (INX) file format to open them in previous versions of InDesign.
Multiple export formats
Deliver rich content using support for multiple export formats, including Adobe PDF, XML, XHTML, EPS, JPEG, RTF, Text Only, Tagged Text, PostScript, SWF, XFL, and IDML.
Multiple import formats
Import content from a wide variety of sources through support for numerous text and graphics formats, including PSD, AI, Adobe PDF, XML, BMP, DCS, EPS, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, RTF, TXT, and Microsoft Word and Excel files.
Shared Adobe technologies
Rely on consistent color management settings, font handling, onscreen graphics display, and Adobe PDF support across Adobe applications.
Adobe InCopy CS4 workflow
Drive stronger collaboration between designers, writers, and editors using Adobe InCopy® CS4 software, the professional writing and editing program that is tightly integrated with InDesign CS4. Enhanced editorial productivity features combined with accurate page visualization for better write-to-fit capability helps you meet editorial deadlines on time.
Adobe InDesign Server support
Process documents faster by moving time-consuming work off the desktop, using tools such as client-specific templates. Streamline workflows and automate processes using InDesign Server as a back-end component of a partner publishing system.
Online services
Adobe Community Help
Access the power of an online search engine from within Creative Suite 4, but with more targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth, product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities.
Adobe Bridge Home
Collaborate with clients, colleagues, and vendors by sharing your desktop so that you can quickly complete group reviews and show your work with ease.
Adobe ConnectNow from Acrobat.com
Acrobat.com is a set of online services you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the ability to access one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, from within InDesign and other Creative Suite 4 components, you can meet live over the web and share your screen with up to two online guests for no charge.
Adobe Kuler
Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler™. Kick-start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community, accessible from the new Kuler panel within InDesign, the Kuler website, and the Kuler Adobe AIR™ application. Browse and search for thousands of themes, download directly into your Swatches panel, and even upload your own themes to share.
See more online services for creative professionals
Asset and file management
Customizable Links panel
Find, sort, and manage all of your document's placed files in the new, customizable Links panel. View attributes that are most critical to your workflow such as scale, rotation, and resolution. Each object in the Links panel is represented with a thumbnail, so there's no more guessing by file name. Click any thumbnail to view more detailed information, or select the page number to go directly to that file.
Relink to Folder
Quickly replace low-resolution images used as placeholders with high-resolution images based on file name — file extensions are ignored. Simply relink to a new folder.
Integration with Adobe Bridge CS4
Browse, organize, label, and preview graphics and InDesign documents, templates, and snippets in Adobe Bridge CS4. Drag and drop assets from Bridge into layouts easily and efficiently. Search for files using metadata that specifies keywords, fonts, colors, and more.
XMP metadata support
Easily embed XMP metadata in files, including copyright, author, description, and keywords. InDesign automatically embeds metadata about the fonts and swatches used in files. View, edit, and search metadata using Adobe Bridge.
Info panel
View valuable text and image data in the Info panel, including word and line counts, the original and current resolution of resized images, and the metadata embedded in placed elements, such as Photoshop files.
InDesign snippets
Easily export InDesign objects as snippets to share with others or reuse in different documents. Place or drag a snippet into a layout or text frame, creating an inline graphic. InDesign re-creates the original objects with the same formatting and relative positioning on the page.
Library panel
Drag and drop frequently used InDesign objects into a library for convenient retrieval. Add all items on a page as separate library objects in one step, update an edited library object directly, and maintain XML structure in library objects.
Recent item display preference
Set a preference for the number of recent files to show in the Open Recent menu list or on the Welcome screen.
INDB file filter
For Windows® users, when opening a file, you can now choose the InDesign Book (INDB) file format from the format filter to quickly locate book files.
Workflow automation
Rule-based layouts from XML
Use scripts that apply rules to automatically build page layouts and format text and graphics from XML content.
XSLT support
Apply XSLT style sheets when importing or exporting XML content to help ensure that the content matches the structure of an InDesign page template, a database, or a website.
XML import
Automatically flow imported XML into tagged templates, or specify options to control the results. Create links on import to easily update the XML content when the source content is updated. Help ensure accuracy by validating XML content against a specified DTD.
XML tagging and editing
Edit XML content in InDesign using the Structure view and Tags panel. Easily apply XML tags to InDesign tables, and then import XML content into the tables or export from the tables.
XML mapping
Automatically format XML by mapping XML tags to text styles in your document, or more easily create structured content by mapping styles to XML tags and then exporting the XML content.
CALS table import
Import CALS tables and convert them to InDesign tables, preserving structured data from XML workflows.
Extensibility
InDesign Markup Language
InDesign Markup Language (IDML), an XML- based file format, enables developers to programmatically assemble and disassemble InDesign documents using standard XML tools and without having to open INDD files. Realize increases in performance, convenience, and flexibility when building applications based on InDesign CS4.
Highly extensible editorial platform
Use the software development kit (SDK) to customize InDesign to your workgroup's needs.
JavaScript, AppleScript, and VBScript support
Automate tasks by writing scripts in JavaScript, AppleScript, and VBScript. Attach a JavaScript to a menu command so it runs automatically when the command is chosen, use scripts to rearrange the stacking order of a particular item, and undo the results of an applied script in a single click.
ExtendScript utility
Use the ExtendScript toolkit to create, edit, and debug JavaScript in InDesign.
Script protection
Protect your investment in script development with support for running compiled JavaScript.
Publish persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences using logical, condensed steps and advanced features such as automatic page addition and deletion.
Robust long documents
Conditional text
Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users and channels — print or screen. Build unique variants of technical manuals, student/teacher textbook editions, or multilanguage publications within 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.
Smart Text Reflow
Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference. 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.
Cross-references
Simplify the writing, production, and management of long documents. Cross-references improve technical accuracy and streamline production because they dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document.
Hidden text indicator
Easily identify items that are not displayed in your layout without losing critical attribute information. When text or links are off your page or in a special state, you'll find that a new HT symbol appears in the Links panel to indicate that special state.
Text variables
Link text to a variable so that when you modify the variable, all instances of the text are updated throughout the document. Use text variables to create running headers and footers that are based on page content and are updated dynamically as text reflows.
Advanced bullets and numbering
Make quick work of lists by applying styles that add bullets or sequence numbers to text. Import bullets or numbering from Microsoft Word documents, and create figure or hierarchical numbering.
Placed InDesign files
Edit placed InDesign files more quickly than ever. When you place one InDesign file into another, the source file remains an editable link. Now, when you initiate an edit, the linked source file opens to the exact point where you wish to make your edits, even if that source file is a multipage long document.
Synchronized master pages
Maintain consistent page designs and styles across multiple documents or in a book file by synchronizing shared master pages.
Footnote support
Use dynamic footnotes, complete with your preferred numbering style and layout. Footnotes travel appropriately across columns and pages as text flow changes, and you can import footnotes from Microsoft Word and RTF text files.
Multilingual book publishing
Prepare long documents for multilingual publishing, including generating tables of contents and indexes in multiple languages.
Anchored objects
Precisely position and anchor callouts, pull-quotes, margin notes, and graphics to text. Adjust graphic masks and crops within an anchored object, apply text wrap settings, and quickly navigate using the Select Next and Select Previous buttons in the control panel.
Text autoflow
Flow text into long documents automatically — in a single click — with support for paragraph Keep Options.
Autocorrect editing
Edit entries on your Autocorrect misspelling list without having to delete and add entries, thanks to a new Edit button in Autocorrect preferences.
Personalized publishing
Data Merge panel
Run a data merge operation and output directly to PDF in a single pass, thanks to the Export to PDF command now included in the Data Merge panel. An intermediate InDesign document is no longer created and the PDF file takes advantage of PDF XObjects for static parts of the page, resulting in a reduced-size PDF file.
Create rich interactive documents
Build rich content using Adobe Flash® technology and create engaging PDF documents that include professional typography and top-quality page design.
Interactive SWF files and PDF documents
SWF file export
Create dynamic content without having to work in the authoring environment of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software. Export SWF files for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime, complete with page transitions, interactive buttons, rollovers, and hyperlinks.
Interactive Adobe PDF files
Author interactive PDF documents by adding SWF, QuickTime, and sound files to your page layouts. Create interactive buttons, apply page transitions, and embed hyperlinks and bookmarks to create an immersive reading experience.
Page transitions in SWF and PDF files
Apply page transitions 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.
Interactive buttons
Easily build interactive buttons using the updated Button panel. Design custom buttons or select a button from the integrated button library. Quickly create buttons that let you navigate within a dynamic document, launch a movie, or play a sound.
Hyperlinks panel
Use the redesigned Hyperlinks panel to easily create hyperlinks that navigate to external URLs, link to files with supplemental information, launch an e-mail client, or jump to a page or section of a page within the same or even a different document. Verify your hyperlinks directly in InDesign with no need to export the document to a PDF or SWF file for testing.
Export to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
XFL export for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Export your InDesign document in the new XFL file format for opening in Flash CS4 Professional. Use the Flash authoring environment to add video, audio, animation, and complex interactivity.
Live text export
Work with live, editable text in Flash CS4 Professional. InDesign text exported as XFL remains editable when the XFL file is opened in Flash.
Automatic object conversion and compression
Save time and trouble when InDesign automatically converts high-resolution print assets (CMYK) to low-resolution web assets (RGB) upon export as an XFL file.
Duplicate image detection
Take advantage of the efficiencies of XFL export with duplicate image detection. An image placed multiple times in your InDesign document will be saved as a single image asset with shared locations when exported as an XFL file.
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