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MARCH 05, 2004 Adobe InDesign CS + PageMaker Plug-in Pack
And it includes automatic bullets and numbering, which are applied either through the PageMaker palette or through the Paragraph palette via a Bullets and Numbering dialog. The dialog provides control over the type of list, as well as font family and style, color, size, position, indentation and tab position. It also allows for the use of glyphs from separate fonts to be used as bullet characters. (The example below show the Bullets and Numbering dialog, as well as the dialog for adding new glyphs for bulleted lists.)  [an error occurred while processing this directive]Within a bulleted list, new entries are automatically given bullets; and within numbered lists, new entries are numbered based on their position in the list, while old entries are renumbered automatically.The Plug-In pack also adds a Template Browser, similar in design to the File Browser in Adobe Photoshop. The Template Browser provides access to templates based on "publication type" or "visual theme." InDesign CS PageMaker Edition ships with more than 80 professionally designed templates (including complementary templates, such as letterhead and business cards, brochures and postcards, etc.), which are categorized by theme and publication type.  Other features in the PageMaker Plug-In Pack include:
 The bottom line InDesign CS is a mature and powerful page layout and design tool. For those of you looking to switch from your current system, I give it a Strong Buy recommendation without qualification. It's just an excellent system. For those of you looking to upgrade from InDesign 2, I give it a Buy recommendation; it doesn't have any new features that you could really refer to as major, but it is an improvement over the already feature-packed 2.0 release for its workflow enhancements and wealth of minor new feature additions. As for the PageMaker Plug-In Pack, I also give that a Buy recommendation. The price is reasonable, it it gives you some decent new workflow and production tools, especially the data merge and imposition capabilities. Adobe InDesign CS is available now for Mac OS X and Windows for $699. The InDesign CS PageMaker Edition sells for $349 for those who have a PageMaker license. The PageMaker Plug-In Pack alone sells for $49. For more information, visit http://www.adobe.com. Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the editor and producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Apple DVD Studio Pro, Mac OS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Corel Painter, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Related sites: • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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