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SEPTEMBER 29, 2003 Up Close with the Adobe Creative Suite
InDesign CS  The last of the new applications in the creative suite is InDesign CS. InDesign had already received several major enhancements in its version 2.0 release, including the typography tools and text features introduced today in Illustrator CS. It was, in short, a relatively complete page layout application, and the new CS release is focused primarily on improving and building upon features that were already present. However, it also gains a few major new features and some adaptations from other Adobe applications.[an error occurred while processing this directive]Workflow is the primary area of new development in InDesign CS. New features range from the relatively minor new ability to override all master items to a brand new Story Editor. The Story Editor is designed as a time-saving device, allowing you to call up text in a separate window for editing. It works in conjunction with the standard layout view, updating changes in both workspaces as you type. Aside from word processing functions, it also provides access to the Character and Paragraph palettes for formatting text, as well as applying other text formatting options and XML tags. (Mapping XML tags to character styles and vice versa is also a new feature in InDesign CS.) It also includes its own set of preferences for customizing its appearance (including antialiasing), as well as built-in themes for simulating various inks and surfaces.  For workflow, it also includes new and refined palettes. The new palettes include a new context-sensitive Control palette, akin to the Tool Options palette in Photoshop.  It also includes a new Info palette, which contains element statistics, such as word count, lines, etc.; text overset; image info, such as actual and original resolution; and color space. The two other new palettes are the Flattener Preview and the Separations Preview. The Flattener Preview palette hooks into InDesign's new transparency flattening features, providing access to flattening presets and the ability to apply settings to a document's output.  And the Separations Preview palette allows you to check individual plates or composites of multiple plates, including the ability to preview overprints and ink limit warnings prior to printing.  Other new features in the area of workflow include:
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