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Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Date first available at Amazon.com: April 11, 2011
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Adobe InDesign CS5.5
Design professional page layouts for print and digital publishing
Design engaging documents for print or digital publication with built-in creative tools and precise control over typography. Add interactivity, video, and audio to enhance eBooks and other digital publications.
What is Adobe InDesign CS5.5?
Adobe InDesign CS5.5 software lets you design engaging documents for print or digital publication with built-in creative tools and precise control over typography. Add interactivity, video, and audio to enhance eBooks and other digital publications.
Key Features
Design more engaging digital publications for consumption on any device with Adobe InDesign CS5.5 software. Build engaging publications for tablet devices using Folio Producer tools that can integrate with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.* Create eBooks with embedded audio and video, logical flow, improved typography, and images that resize automatically to fit the viewer's screen. Reduce the time it takes to create PDF documents that are accessible to people with disabilities. Take advantage of built-in tools for design, preflight, and deliver of documents for print or digital distribution.
With Adobe InDesign CS5.5, you can:
Create powerful, innovative digital documents. Engage, inform, and attract readers with documents that integrate interactivity, video, and sound for playback on a tablet, smartphone, or computer. Develop stronger, more compelling messages with rich interactive documents.
Do more in less time. Create and edit documents faster. New productivity features--including linked text, the Articles panel, and the ability to drag and drop anchored objects--help make page layout simpler and smoother.
Create eBooks for screens and tablet devices. Retain greater control of content and typography when exporting documents to EPUB format, while reducing your dependence on developers. Design more engaging eBooks, with images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen.
Top new features of Adobe InDesign CS5.5
Folio Producer tools
Invite viewers to engage more deeply with your digital content using interactive overlays that offer readers panorama views, the ability to rotate objects 360 degrees, the chance to scroll and pan across an image, and access to placed websites. Use the new Folio Producer tools to add interactive overlays to your documents and preview them within the context of your publication in InDesign. Interactive overlays are supported in .folio files used in Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, which lets you create and distribute publications for tablet devices such as Apple's iPad, BlackBerry Playbook, and the Motorola Xoom. In addition to the new interactive overlays, you can also include audio, video, slide shows, and hyperlinks in .folio documents.
EPUB export enhancements
Create more compelling eBooks than ever before while reducing your dependence on developers, thanks to a smoother, more efficient EPUB workflow. Design and publish more engaging eBooks that include images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen, and deliver improved typography in digital books with greater speed and control over type. You can also design eBooks that include video and audio. With these new features, you can offer eBook readers a smooth, predictable reading experience on virtually any device.
Articles panel
Use the Articles panel to provide an improved reading experience in textbooks, highly designed books, or any other books you create that include images, captions, sidebars, or block quotes. Choose and organize your content by dragging images, text frames, and other content into the new Articles panel to define the order in which they'll export. You can control the sequence of text, images, and graphics in the exported document without changing your InDesign layout.
Dynamic image resizing
Design and publish an eBook with images that look sharp and can be accessed on virtually any screen size--from a desktop monitor to a smartphone. The images resize automatically to fit the viewer's screen. When you export to the EPUB format, you can set conversion options for the entire document, or control how each image is converted individually. You can now also rasterize any shapes, text frames, placed graphics, and groups you created in InDesign, so that they'll be exported as images and resize dynamically, too. In addition to GIF and JPEG images, you can export PNG images in EPUB documents from InDesign CS5.5.
Styles mapped to tags
Managing the design of your type through styles saves you time and hassle--while allowing you to create more sophisticated text. Create digital documents that conform to open standards with improved basic typography without needing to make changes directly to the HTML code. In InDesign CS5.5, you can map paragraph and character styles directly to HTML, EPUB, and PDF tags to ensure that styles you define in InDesign are exported appropriately. For more advanced workflows, you can add CSS class names and type in your own custom tags.
Embedded video and audio in eBooks
Add another dimension to eBooks with embedded audio and video. Whether you're adding soundtrack music to a children's book, including tour videos in a travel guide, or including contemporary news footage in a historical volume, audio and video content take eBook readers beyond the traditional reading experience.
InDesign CS5.5 supports video and audio tags for newer standards such as HTML5 and EPUB 3. Embedded audio and video play in eBook reader applications that support those standards, such as Apple iBooks.
Linked text
Save time and reduce errors by linking identical text blocks in a document, so that edits you make to the original story (the parent story) apply to all of them. Take advantage of this feature to ensure text remains consistent across duplicated content, such as when you're updating boilerplate legal text or product descriptions that appear throughout a document. With linked text, you can edit information in the parent story and simply update the link in the Links panel to correct the text everywhere it appears.
Drag-and-drop anchored objects
As text reflows on the page, an anchored object remains in position, moving with the text it's anchored to. Now you can add anchored objects quickly and intuitively. Simply drag the small blue box from the frame of a selected image or text to the position in the text to which you want to anchor it.
PDF accessibility enhancements
Reduce the time it takes to create PDF documents that people with disabilities can use more effectively. Apply accessibility features within your InDesign document, rather than having to make the changes in Acrobat. PDF tags, alt tags, and the content order you assign stay with the document as you revise it.
Now you can more easily add, edit, and view alt text attributes that are associated with an image or object. For example, rather than creating new alt text, you can use description metadata that was added to an image in Adobe Bridge, or include alt text already attached to an object you imported from Microsoft Word. It's also easier to add alt text directly in InDesign using the new Object Export Options dialog box.
The new Articles panel and the ability to map styles to PDF tags let you ensure content flows in the expected order when viewers use screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Top Reasons to Upgrade to Adobe InDesign CS5.5
Folio Producer tools--Create, preview, and bundle engaging digital documents for tablet devices such as Apple iPad, RIM BlackBerry PlayBook, and a wide variety of Android tablets, including the Motorola Xoom. Upload these documents to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite* for further production, distribution, and analysis.
Enhanced eBook authoring--Create more engaging eBooks with less need for developers. Use a smoother workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. You can now even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that support HTML5 video and audio tags.
Articles panel--Control the sequence of text, images, and graphics when you export to EPUB or HTML without changing your InDesign layout. Organize your content by dragging it into the new Articles panel to define the export order.
Styles mapped to tags--More easily create standards-compliant digital documents with improved basic typography--no manual code changes required. Map paragraph and character styles directly to HTML, EPUB, and PDF tags to ensure that styles you define in InDesign are correctly exported to the appropriate specifications.
Linked text--Maintain consistency more easily when working with content that’s duplicated throughout a document. Link identical text blocks within a layout so that changes to the parent block are automatically made in all the others.
Dragging and dropping of anchored objects--Add inline graphics and other anchored objects quickly and intuitively by simply dragging them to the desired anchor location in the text.
PDF accessibility enhancements--Reduce the time it takes to create PDF documents that are more accessible to people with disabilities. More easily add, edit, and view Alt text attributes associated with an image or object.
Enhanced PDF export options--Export Adobe PDF documents that meet the PDF/X-4:2010, PDF/X-5:2010, and PDF/VT-1 standards for tight integration with Adobe Acrobat X and Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.5.
Design more engaging digital publications for consumption on any device with Adobe InDesign CS5.5 software. Build engaging publications for tablet devices using Folio Producer tools that can integrate with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Create eBooks with embedded audio and video, logical flow, improved typography, and images that resize automatically to fit the viewer’s screen. Reduce the time it takes to create PDF documents that are accessible to people with disabilities. Take advantage of built-in tools for design, preflight, and deliver of documents for print or digital distribution.