Software Review: Adobe Master Collection – InDesign CS5 from Adobe Systems - Page 2

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• Adobe CS Review - integration now gives you a more accelerated workflow and will allow you to streamline your review process through an online service that integrates with InDesign CS5. With the use of CS Review, you can create and share documents for online review from within InDesign. Colleagues and clients can view your document online and add comments with easy-to-use annotation tools directly in their browsers. All comments are automatically displayed in InDesign CS5, within the context of your page layout.

 InDesign CS5

• Multiple page sizes - will allow you to simplify your file management tasks by creating pages of different sizes all within in a single document. Whether you’re designing marketing collateral, brand identity deliverables, or a magazine layout with complex folds, or keeping all of a project’s assets in the same file this will shorten design and production time.

• Track text changes - can let you get to your final copy faster now that you can track text changes directly in your InDesign document. You can write, edit, and mark up text in InDesign with no need to import separate text files. Through the enabling of Track Changes, InDesign will keep track of additions, revisions, and deletions in your documents. The page layout remains uncluttered and to see the changes you simply open the Story Editor. There, you can accept or reject changes using options similar to those in popular word-processing applications. InDesign automatically assigns a different color for changes made by each user, so you can easily see who’s made the edits.

• Paragraphs that split columns - give you the ability to quickly format headlines, subheads, or any text to span multiple columns in a single text frame. Now you can apply settings to a paragraph, specifying whether the text should span some or all columns, or split columns, so that InDesign automatically reflows what was one column into two or more columns.

• New Layers Panel - has been completely rebuilt so that if you are familiar with the Layers panel in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop, you’ll feel right at home in InDesign. You can now view not only layers but the individual objects they contain. Select, hide, name, lock, and change the stacking order of objects such as text frames, images, and shapes directly within the Layers panel.

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