InDesign

Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing

Key features

• Adaptive Design Tools—One design. Unlimited layouts. Adaptive Design Tools, including linked content, Alternate Layouts, liquid page rules, and Content Collector tools, let you efficiently repurpose your work for various page sizes, screen sizes, and orientations without sacrificing control.
• Fixed Layout EPUB—Make richly designed, highly interactive EPUB eBooks (such as children’s books, cookbooks, or travel books) with live text whose layout and design remains fixed, no matter what size screen the book is being viewed on.
• Typekit desktop fonts—Quickly access the rich library of Typekit desktop fonts directly from the InDesign Font menu. To reduce the headache of documents with missing fonts, InDesign finds missing Typekit fonts for you when the file is opened and prompts you to sync them with a single click.
• Preflight and production tools—Speed up production and reduce errors with live preflighting of print and digital documents, document-installed fonts, background PDF export, JDF technology, and PDF/X export.
• Productivity tools—Work faster, smarter, and better with productivity tools for every workflow. Produce complex page layouts efficiently with Adaptive Design Tools, Smart Guides, rapid table creation, on-object controls, and more.
• Robust text composition—Create sophisticated text with precise typography. Efficiently design type with styles, text wrap, the Paragraph Compose, OpenType support, drop caps, style mapping for EPUB export, and more.
• Automation—Create powerful automated workflows using standards-based XML features to lay out pages with text and images. Incorporate database-driven content to publish across channels.
• EPUB enhancements—New features make it easier to produce high-quality EPUB files from InDesign. You have greater control over the table of contents and CSS export, and CSS editing is simpler. You can also map object styles to tags so they export appropriately.
• Adobe Exchange panel—Adobe Exchange is a great source for extensions, plug-ins, templates, and more. Some resources are free; others are available to buy. And all have been created to bring extra functionality to InDesign.
• Simplified hyperlinks—Creating and managing hyperlinks is simple, fast, and intuitive. Use right-click commands to create and test hyperlinks. Efficiently manage hyperlinks and edit their names in an improved panel. Automatic styling helps you quickly spot every hyperlink in your layout.