artwork. Open your layouts in
Adobe Flash® CS5 Professional.
Export content as for use in
Adobe Dreamweaver®. And set up
beer editorial workows through
Adobe InCopy® integration.
2. Collaboration: InDesign lets you
collaborate with colleagues and
clients, allowing you to share your
screen for real-time discussions.
3. Typography: With its rich
OpenType® support and features
such as Optical Kerning, Margin
Alignment, and the Paragraph
Composer, InDesign is the clear
choice for high-quality typeseing.
4. Customizable workspace:
When you customize your work-
space, you become more ecient.
InDesign oers a wide variety of
customizable options, including
tabbed documents, tasked-based
workspaces, editable keyboard
shortcuts, and even which menu
commands are visible.
5. Production: InDesign stream-
lines your production tasks. e
customizable Preight panel
checks your layout for poten-
tial errors while you work. Plus,
features such as Smart Guides,
High Quality Display mode, and
Separations Preview boost e-
ciency and reduce proong cycles.
6. True support: Built from the
ground up to support international
standards, InDesign can produce
les beer and faster than
QuarkXPress.
7. Creative eects: You can apply
Photoshop eects (such as drop
shadows, embossing, and feather-
ing) to any object on your page,
including text, images, and vector
graphics. Plus, InDesign supports
true Photoshop and Illustrator
transparency, saving you time and
leing you unleash your creativity.
8. Long documents: If you work
with long text documents, you
need powerful InDesign text fea-
tures such as conditional text,
cross-references, styles, and
automatic numbered lists.
9. File management: e Links
panel in InDesign is second to none
in its ability to help you manage
your linked graphics and text les.
10. Cross-media publishing:
Designers today must publish
across several media, including ,
, and . InDesign gives you
tools to repurpose your content
and create engaging interactive
documents, no maer where your
audience wants to view them.
Migration strategies
Of course, to become more e-
cient and productive requires
that you learn new features and
sometimes even new workows.
Remember that it will likely take
a lile time to become as pro-
cient in InDesign as you were in
QuarkXPress. However, the ben-
ets far outweigh this temporary
learning curve.
If you’re in a large workgroup that
is migrating to InDesign, you might
consider rst training a core group
of users who can become informal
trainers over time and then train
everyone else.
is document should help you and
your colleagues get up to speed
quickly in InDesign. Soon, you’ll be
creating documents with the skill
and condence you’ve acquired
as a QuarkXPress user. Even bet-
ter, you’ll quickly learn how to use
all of the InDesign features you’ve
never had before. And your layouts
will never be the same.
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