Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide
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Chapter 2:
Adobe InDesign CS4
For most designers and service providers, InDesign is the cornerstone of Adobe Creative Suite 4
Design Premium and Standard. The advanced layout and output capabilities in InDesign expand
creative freedom and streamline production workflows.
InDesign CS4 includes many new features to enhance productivity, both for designers and print
service providers. Such new features include:
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Live Preflight:
Preflight while you design. Continuous preflighting alerts you to
potential production problems in real time so you can quickly navigate to a prob-
lem, fix it directly in layout, and keep working. InDesign’s Live Preflight function
is configurable to check for conditions specific to your workflow. Define and share
custom profiles to pinpoint problems early in the life of a job. A Preflight indicator
in the status bar at the lower left of the document window dynamically displays the
current Preflight state of the document. A green light in the status bar indicates that
the document currently meets the preflight profile in effect. A red light indicates
preflight problems; open the Preflight panel for detailed information. The dynamic
preflight behavior enables designers to monitor the content of their documents
throughout the design process, rather than discovering problems by preflighting just
before they send their job for print.
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Customizable Links panel:
Find, sort, and manage all of your document’s placed
files in the customizable Links panel. View attributes that are most critical to your
workflow such as scale, rotation, and resolution. Links Panel options allow you to
choose whether to display columns that display Effective PPI, color space, rotation,
and much more. The new Relink to Folder speeds the updating of links by allowing
you to target a folder.
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Smart Guides:
Quickly align, space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with
the help of dynamic guides. The guides, object dimensions, rotation angles, and x
and y coordinates appear dynamically so you can quickly snap an object’s edge or its
vertical or horizontal center to another nearby object or page edge in the layout.
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Spread rotation:
Temporarily rotate the spread view without physically turning your
monitor. Enjoy full editing capability at 90-, 180- and 270-degree angles so that you
can easily include non-horizontal elements in your designs. Note that the rotation is
just a display effect that makes it easier to work on rotated content; rotated spreads
print in their original, unrotated orientation.
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Place multiple graphics as a contact sheet:
Interactively create grids of multiple
images as they are placed. While placing multiple graphics, hold down Ctrl+Shift
(Mac: Shift) to drag a grid of images. Use keyboard arrows to control the
number of rows (up/down arrows) and columns (left/right arrows).
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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.
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Text Stroke Enhancements:
Miter limit and Join options allow you to control the
appearance of strokes applied to text.
InDesign CS4 also includes new features dedicated to long-document creation. While you may
not be creating such content, it is useful to be familiar with the features if you are required to edit
content. These features include:
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Conditional text:
Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all
from a single InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character
level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automati-
cally reflow in the layout.
