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MARCH 05, 2004 Adobe InDesign CS + PageMaker Plug-in Pack
New creative tools In the category of creative enhancements, there are few new features in InDesign CS and no truly major ones. They're little things that, separately, shouldn't impress you too much. But together they amount to an overall more pleasant and creative work experience. One of these little pleasantries is the new support for nested styles. This feature allows you to include within a paragraph style one or more character styles, which will be applied through a specified range of characters. You can, then, have a three-word paragraph leadin with small caps, followed by standard body copy. Or you can use nested styles easily to format lists--with different styles applied, for example, to numbers, entry items and copy. This feature allows you to specify where the character styles are positioned within a paragraph and to specify a wide range of positions for a character style to end. It can extend X number of words or characters, up through a colon or em space, up to a forced line break, to a special non-printing character that ends a character style, etc.[an error occurred while processing this directive]  InDesign CS also adds Pathfinder functionality similar to that found in Illustrator. This includes Add, Subtract, Intersect, Exclude Overlap and Minus Back.  It also adds a Stroke Style Editor, allowing you to go in and create or edit strokes in a visual environment.  And it includes table enhancements, such as running headers and footers.  Both headers and footers can be set to repeat every text column, every frame or every page, and there's an option to skip the first and last header and footer, if desired. Headers and footers can contain multiple rows, but, sadly, you can't adjust the repeat on individual header/footer rows. It's all or nothing ... for now. Improved production tools Finally we come to the enhancements in the area of production. Again, these are not major enhancements but are nevertheless little things that add up to a more productive environment. Chief among them are the new preview enhancements. These include the new Separations Preview palette, which allows you to select individual separations to view their contents on screen. You can view each of the process plates, varnishes, rich black, spot plates, overprint and ink coverage using this new feature.  Somewhat related to this is the new Flattener Preview palette. This new feature allows you to preview areas of the page affected by transparency so that, if there are problems, you can go in and adjust your flattening options.  And it offers new preview modes that include bleeds and slugs. Bleeds and slugs, incidentally, have also been enhanced since version 2. You can now specify bleed and slug areas when you create a new document. These settings, in turn, can be saved in your document presets. And you can specify whether bleeds and slugs appear when printing or saving to PDF.  Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Related sites: • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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