great preview of InDesign 3 with screenshots
Posted on September 30, 2003
Filed Under Design
Photoshop CS is getting all the attention, but here’s a site that previews the new features in InDesign CS. I’ve already decided that this (along with DW MX 2004) was the upgrade I was going to do. The preview just makes me look forward to it.
I’m looking forward to:
* Dockable palettes! (although that’s not as important now that I have an extra 21″ of screen real estate)
* Bleeds in document setup! I screwed up recently by forgetting to set the bleed before making the PDF.
* Separation preview is nice…saves the step of making an intermediate PDF in Acrobat 6 Pro which also has this feature. If anyone running InDesign CS selects “Registration” instead of “Black” and doesn’t catch it before the service bureau or printer then they’re just lazy.
* Flattener preview. I’m using transparency more and more in my InDesign files and it’s not so scary. But you have to know what you’re doing and this will take out some of the guesswork. One of the nasty rumors about InDesign 2 is that transparency doesn’t print right. It does.
* Other little fixes:This isn’t mentioned in the article but I read it elsewhere yesterday. Like in Illustrator 10, if you double click on a text box you automatically get the type editing cursor. Woo hoo!
* I still have to find out, maybe someone knows and can answer in the comments, whether it’s now possible to copy text from a website or email message and have it apply unformatted. This is something that Quark has always done and the only feature I miss, although there is a workaround. I have BBEdit Lite open and I paste text there first, then recopy it. That way, I can have a paragraph of formatted text in InDesign and paste copy in the middle and it will take on the formatting of the text that surrounds it. Yes, it’s easy enough to use the eyedropper to format text but saving the extra step(s) will be nice and it’s been often requested on the InDesign list.
