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Adobe InDesign ® ®
2.0
New Feature Highlights
Setting new Adobe InDesign 2.0 software sets new standards for professional layout and design, delivering the creative
standards for tools you’ve always wanted. How do we know? Because you—and designers and print professionals like
professional you worldwide—helped us to define what a page layout application should really be. With InDesign 2.0,
layout and you can:
design • Capture your inspiration. InDesign 2.0 introduces groundbreaking creative features that transform how you
approach page design. For the first time, you can create editable drop shadows, feathering, and transparent
effects directly in a desktop page layout application. You can even place Adobe Photoshop® files with trans-
parent backgrounds and soft edges. In addition, InDesign 2.0 takes the pain out of creating tables, so you
can focus on their design. Expanded OpenType® font support and new preview controls complete the new
creative features in InDesign 2.0.
• Be the master of deadlines. InDesign is packed with intuitive enhancements that streamline elaborate design
tasks, saving you time and freeing you to be more creative. Now, with InDesign 2.0, you can prepare long
documents as easily as you would short documents, including generating tables of contents and detailed
indexes. The enhanced paragraph composer (formerly called the multi-line composer) automatically sets
optimal line breaks for each paragraph. An efficient new printing interface delivers precise, reliable results.
And performance enhancements ensure that you can work more productively with InDesign.
• Work more efficiently through tight Adobe integration. InDesign 2.0 integrates better with other leading
graphics applications—Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator®, and Acrobat®—than any other page layout applica-
tion. It shares common commands, tools, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts with these applications, as well
as core Adobe technologies such as the new Adobe Color Engine included in InDesign 2.0, Photoshop 6.0,
Illustrator 9.0/10, and Acrobat 5.0. In addition, InDesign 2.0 exports Acrobat 5.0 PDF files. The Japanese
and Roman versions of InDesign 2.0 can exchange version 2.0 files because of their common file format.
InDesign 2.0 also offers native support of the Mac OS X version 10.1 operating system.
• Move beyond print. InDesign 2.0 lays the foundation for Network Publishing with its ability to import and
export XML files, making it more efficient to publish content to multiple channels including print, Web,
handheld/wireless devices, and more. It exports other rich content formats, such as SVG (Scalable Vector
Graphics) and tagged Adobe PDF (eBook) files. It supports Adobe XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform),
a new standard for embedding metadata tags in documents so you can track, manage, and retrieve them
more easily. InDesign 2.0’s robust cross-media publishing framework is based on industry standards. It is
also scriptable and extensible to serve the needs of system integrators and third-party developers.

InDesign even helps you make the switch from other page layout applications: It can open QuarkXPress®
and Adobe PageMaker® files directly, it provides a custom set of QuarkXPress compatible keyboard
shortcuts, and it’s backed by a wide range of service providers, trainers, plug-in developers, and other
professionals who support the worldwide design community.

This document introduces Adobe InDesign 2.0. The first four sections give you a tour of the new creativity,
productivity, integration, and cross-media publishing features in the program. The fifth section provides a
quick reminder of some other InDesign innovations you won’t want to forget. The final section explains
pricing and availability, what comes in the box, and system requirements.
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Top 5 Features in
Adobe InDesign 2.0
• Transparency. Easily apply drop
shadows, feathering, and other
opacity settings to create natural-
looking transparency effects. For
details, see page 2.
• Tables. Create tables from scratch,
import styled Microsoft® Word and
Excel tables directly, or turn tab-
delimited text files into tables in
one quick step. For details, see
page 5.
• New printing controls. Output
files reliably and efficiently with the
streamlined new printing interface.
For details, see page 10.
• Long document support. Group
multiple documents into a book list
to number pages sequentially and
generate tables of contents and
indexes. For details, see page 16.
• Cross-media publishing sup-
port. Publish InDesign content to
multiple channels using robust
cross-media publishing support.
For details, see page 27.
Capture Your Inspiration
When you’re in the flow of a creative idea, you want your software to work intuitively—putting the right
tools at your fingertips without getting in your way. Adobe InDesign is designed to give you the creative
freedom you crave, removing arbitrary software constraints and helping you produce the page designs
you’ve always envisioned. InDesign 1.0 and 1.5 set the stage for this by offering a range of innovations from
multiple undo/redo to advanced typographical support. Now InDesign 2.0 redefines creative freedom with
versatile transparency controls, easy-to-use table features, expanded OpenType support, and new preview
controls that reduce on-screen distractions.
Versatile Transparency Controls
Adobe InDesign 2.0 introduces a first in page layout software—direct support for transparency. Now you
can create drop shadows, apply feathering, or create a wide range of other editable transparency effects as
you lay out your pages. This new functionality transforms how you work. In the past, you had to lay out
pages with transparency in an image-editing program, and insert them into your designs. If you needed
to make late-stage edits, you had to open the original Photoshop files, make the changes, export them as
flattened TIFFs, and import them again.
With InDesign 2.0, you can use the right tool for the right job. When you need to correct, composite, or
create special effects for images, you’ll use your image-editing program. When you want to lay out pages,
you’ll use InDesign. InDesign 2.0 also transforms how you work with transparent Photoshop (PSD) files,
because it can import those files natively while preserving transparent backgrounds and soft edges. You no
longer need to spend hours laboring over clipping paths, nor do you need to track the layered and flattened
versions of an image file to import transparent elements. In addition, InDesign imports native Illustra-
tor files with transparency. You can also use the controls in InDesign to adjust the overall transparency of
imported Photoshop and Illustrator files.

Now let’s take a closer look at how to apply transparency to an object or group of objects in InDesign 2.0.

Live text with a

blend mode and
drop shadow
applied

Native Photoshop
file with soft edges
preserved

Live object with Opacity settings

feathering applied applied to graphics

Tip
Just as with other dialog boxes, the
Drop Shadow and Feather dialog
boxes provide a Preview control, so
you can view how your settings look
as you apply them.
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Creating drop shadows One of the most commonly used transparent effects is drop shadows. That’s why
InDesign 2.0 makes them so easy to design and apply to text, graphics, and images. You simply select an
object, choose Object > Drop Shadow, and specify the settings you want. You control how far the drop
shadow is offset from the object, what color the drop shadow is, how its edges blur, its opacity, and how it
blends with underlying objects. If you edit an object after applying a drop shadow, InDesign updates the
drop shadow automatically.
Apply drop shadows to text, which
remains live. The drop shadow updates
automatically if you then edit the text or
change its attributes.
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Feathering objects Feathering (or vignetting) softens an object’s edges, creating a more diffuse transition
between foreground and background objects. Just as with drop shadows, applying feather settings to text,
graphics, and images takes only a few steps. Simply select the object, choose Object > Feather, and specify
the settings you want. You can control the width of the feathering and whether it produces Sharp, Rounded,
or Diffused corners. Feather settings update automatically if the object is edited later.
Apply feathering to objects that remain lives,
so you can edit the object later without having
to reapply the feathering.
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Applying transparency settings and blend modes With InDesign 2.0, you can vary the transparency of any
object, including text, images, and graphics, or any group of objects, from 100% opacity (completely solid)
to 0% opacity (completely transparent). Applying opacity settings is easy. Just select the object, and then
adjust the Opacity slider or enter an Opacity value in the new Transparency palette.

Easily apply opacity settings to

images and other graphics or text
with the new Transparency palette.

InDesign 2.0 also provides blending modes, similar to the ones in Photoshop and Illustrator, to help you
control how the colors applied to a selected object or group interact—or blend—with the colors of underly-
ing objects. InDesign provides all of the relevant Photoshop blending modes, including Multiply, Screen,
Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Color Dodge, Color Burn, Darken, Lighten, Difference, Exclusion, Hue,
Saturation, Color, and Luminosity. By combining blending modes with opacity settings, you can create a
wide array of unique visual effects.

InDesign offers
Photoshop blend-
ing modes, which
you can combine
with opacity
settings to create
unusual visual
effects.

Text with a Normal blend

mode applied

Text with an Overlay blend

mode applied

By default, applying blending modes to a group affects the underlying artwork. However, in some instances,
you may want to restrict the blending mode, so that it only affects how objects in a group interact. You can
achieve this result by checking the Isolate Blending option on the Transparency palette.

Use the Knockout Group option to
control how the topmost object in
a transparent group interacts with
the other objects in the group.
In addition, the Knockout Group option on the Transparency palette affects how transparent objects in a group
interact. When the option is checked, the topmost object in a transparent group knocks out the other objects in
the group, revealing the objects below the group. When the option is unchecked, all of the objects in a transpar-
ent group show through the topmost object—as well as any other objects positioned below the group.
Displaying transparency on-screen When a page contains transparent objects, the correlating icon in the
Pages palette displays a checkered transparency grid as a visual cue. That way, you can quickly locate which
pages have transparency in a multi-page document. InDesign 2.0 also helps you make tradeoffs between
speed and quality in the display of transparent objects. You can set a global Display Performance preference
to optimize for faster screen redraw and lower on-screen quality, or vice-versa.

The transparency controls in InDesign 2.0 open an entirely new way to design pages. For more information
about printing transparency, see “Flattener styles” later in this document.

Look for the checkerboard pattern on

the pages icons in the Pages palette
to see which pages have transparent
effects and which do not.
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Tables
Tables are a staple of page design. Just pick up any number of magazines, financial publications, annual
reports, brochures, product comparison sheets, catalogs, textbooks, and a wide range of other documents
and you will find vast amounts of information presented in tables. Yet, almost two decades into the desktop
publishing revolution, table design features remain inflexible and hard to use. We believe you’ve waited long
enough for the streamlined table support you need. Now InDesign 2.0 invites you to set yourself free with
fast, flexible table-building tools that introduce a new era in information design. This overview introduces
the new table creation features in InDesign 2.0, and gives you a taste of what you can do using the com-
mands on the new Table menu and Table palette.

Creating tables How easy is it to create a table in InDesign 2.0? Try this: Select the type tool and drag out a
text frame. Choose Table > Insert Table. Specify the number of rows and columns. Then click OK and start
typing. It’s that simple. In addition, InDesign can turn tab-delimited text files from a variety of sources,
including Microsoft Word, Excel, and many databases, into tables in a single step. When you select the
imported text and choose Table > Convert Text to Table, InDesign automatically begins new columns at tab
characters and new rows at paragraph markers.
A B

Create a table by drawing a

F E text frame, choosing Table >
Insert Table, and specifying the
A Specify the number of rows in number of rows and columns.
a table.
B Specify the number of columns
in a table.
C Set row height and column
width. Then adjust column
D Enter separate values for how widths by dragging
content is inset from the left, column edges.
right, top, and bottom edges of a
table cell. And, finally, InDesign 2.0 can import styled Word and Excel tables directly, so you don’t have to start from
E Rotate selected text in 90-degree
increments. scratch. InDesign also imports XML and RTF tables easily.
F Specify how the content is posi-
tioned within table cells.

Import styled Word tables directly. Then

apply formatting, such as alternating color
fills, easily in InDesign.

Designing tables Once you have your table set up, the next step is to refine how it looks. InDesign 2.0 gives
Tip: Converting Tables to Text you control over every aspect of your table’s design. An InDesign table consists of rows and columns of cells
It is as easy to “un-create” tables as
it is to create them with InDesign into which you can insert text, inline graphics, inline text frames, and other tables. Tables can appear on
2.0. Just select the type tool, click
an insertion point in a table, and their own in a text frame, or they can act as inline objects in the flow of text.
choose Table > Convert Table to
Text. InDesign removes the table
structure and inserts tab characters
between columns and paragraph
returns at the end of each row.

Tip: Manually Applying Strokes and
Fills to Tables
InDesign 2.0 provides a number of
automated options for assigning
stroke and fill colors and styles to
tables. However, you can also exercise
manual control by using the Stroke
and Swatches palettes to apply stroke
and fill colors.
Easily create this kind of title by
setting some of cells in this row
to have no fill or line style and
merging the final three cells
into one cell.
Rotate text with the click of a
button in the Table palette.
Apply alternating line and
fill styles; specify how text is
aligned in cells; and incorpo-
rate graphics into cells with
complete ease.
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In designing tables, you can do the following:
• Specify row height and column width numerically or do it interactively by clicking down on a border and
dragging it to a new location. (Press Option+Shift or Alt+Shift as you drag a border if you want to change
the width of a column or height of a row without changing the overall dimension of the table.) To set
the row height numerically, you can either enter a minimum and maximum height, or set a fixed height.
Column widths are always a fixed size.
• Design how the border around the table looks, including its line weight, type, color, tint, and overprint setting.
• Control how the strokes between rows and columns appear. For example, you can set up alternating strokes
that appear every other row, every second or third row, or in a custom pattern. You can specify whether
InDesign skips the first or last row in its count. And you can set the line weight, line type, color, tint, and over-
print settings for these alternating strokes. (All of these options apply to the strokes between columns too.)
• Apply color fills to alternating rows or columns with precise control over the pattern you set up. For exam-
ple, you can apply color fills to every other column, every second or third column, or in a custom pattern.
Just as with strokes, you determine whether InDesign skips the first or last row. Plus, you can specify the
color, tint, and overprint setting for the fill.
In addition, you can easily:
• Merge and split cells in a table.
• Add or delete rows and columns.
• Rotate text in cells in 90-degree increments.
• Specify how far text is inset from the edges of the cells in a table.
• Set whether text aligns to the top, center, or bottom of table cells, or whether it’s vertically justified.
• Insert tabs in cells, so that text aligns the way you want.
• Determine the spacing between paragraphs in table cells.
• Set keep options so that InDesign knows which rows should stay together when you lay out tables across
linked text frames.
• Control how the content of cells is clipped.
• Format text in a table using the high-end typographical controls in the Character or Paragraph palettes (or
apply text styles with the Character Styles and Paragraph Styles palettes).
• Set how much space appears before and after a table.
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Inserting information in tables Adding content to tables is a simple process. To add text, you click an inser-
Tip: Navigating Tables
When you’re fine-tuning a table, you tion point with the type tool and start typing, or you can cut or copy text and paste it into a cell. With
need to be able to navigate it quickly
and select the content you want easily. graphics, you can cut or copy and paste a graphic into a cell, where it works as an inline graphic.
InDesign offers a variety of keyboard
shortcuts to help: Laying out lengthy tables With older page layout programs, one of the most difficult design tasks is laying
To move from Press the Tab and out a single table across multiple pages, or even across multiple locations on a single spread. Instead, design-
cell to cell andShift+Tab
keys, or press the ers are forced to set up each part of the table separately. If a late-breaking change causes one part of the
arrow keys. table to grow too big, you are faced with manually adjusting the position of table rows across each location.
To locate a Choose Table > InDesign 2.0 transforms this process by letting you flow a table across multiple linked text frames. Any time
specific row Go to Row, enter
the row number, you update one part of the table, the other parts adjust automatically to handle the new information.
and click OK.
To select Select the type
a column tool, position it
at the top of a
column, and click.
To select Select the type
a row tool, position it at
the left edge of a
row, and click.
To select Select the type
a table tool, position it
in the upper-left
corner of the
table, and click.

Lay out tables in linked frames

within a page or across mul-
tiple pages. Then, if you need to
insert additional rows, the table
updates automatically across all
of the frames.

New Preview Mode

Want to get a quick sense of how your page will look in its final published form while you work on it on-
screen? With InDesign 2.0, you simply click the Preview Mode icon in the toolbox. InDesign then hides all
nonprinting items, such as grids or guides, and displays a trimmed version of the page without bleeds or
printer’s marks. What’s more, you can continue to edit your layout in this mode.

Normal Preview
Mode Mode

Tip: Creating Non-printing Objects

With InDesign 2.0, you can turn any
object, including images, text, and
drawn objects, into nonprinting
items. Simply select the object, and
click the Nonprinting option in the
Attributes palette (Window > Attri-
butes). InDesign even makes it easy
to print nonprinting objects later, if
a project requires it: Just select the
Print Nonprinting Objects option in
the Print dialog box.

Normal mode with guides

and trim areas displayed
Preview mode where you can
see how pages will print with-
out guides, trims, and more
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Expanded Support for OpenType Fonts

Developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft, OpenType fonts deliver a wide range of benefits for designers,
production artists, and print professionals. For example:

• OpenType fonts offer complete cross-platform compatibility—the same font file works on both Macintosh
and Windows computers, solving a long-time problem with font substitution and other font issues when
sharing design files across platforms.
• In addition, OpenType fonts can contain more than 65,000 glyphs, while Type 1 or TrueType fonts are lim-
ited to 256 glyphs. This expanded glyph support simplifies font management because you no longer need
multiple “expert sets” to have access to old-style figures, true small capitals, fractions, swashes, discretionary
ligatures, and other non-standard glyphs that are easily included in OpenType fonts.
• Finally, OpenType fonts provide better language support because it is based on Unicode, an international
two-byte character encoding that covers most of the world’s languages. OpenType fonts can, for example,
streamline multilingual typography by giving you access to multiple language character sets in one font.

InDesign 1.0 was the first Adobe application to support OpenType fonts. Now InDesign 2.0 expands this
support with built-in options for instantly specifying a wider range of typographical settings with Open-
Type fonts. You can, for example, select an OpenType font and specify that InDesign automatically sub-
stitute alternate glyph types, if they are available in that font (see examples on page 9). Square brackets []
appear around an OpenType option that is not available for a particular font.

OpenType support offers another benefit over working with older “expert sets”: InDesign recognizes alter-
nate glyphs as text characters, so you get the benefit of advanced typographical control, plus the efficiency
of being able to spell-check and hyphenate that text easily.

Adobe now offers more than 200 OpenType fonts, and it is releasing more regularly. InDesign 2.0 ships
with several high-quality OpenType fonts at no additional charge, including Adobe Garamond® Pro,
Adobe Caslon™ Pro, Caflisch Script Pro, Kozuka Mincho, and Kozuka Gothic. (You can locate them in the
Goodies\Adobe OpenType Fonts folder on the product CD.)

OpenType options, which

are applied automatically
to OpenType fonts when
activated
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Contextual Alternatives azaleas bloom les l
All Small Caps UNICEF 
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Dynamic Graphics Preview

InDesign offers hundreds of features that are designed to work the way you do, without interrupting your
creative flow. One elegant new example is the dynamic graphics preview. Now, when you subselect an image
to adjust what’s visible in a graphics frame, a live ghosted preview of the entire image appears so you can see
exactly what you’re doing. No more guesswork—InDesign gives you exactly the visual support you need.

Original cropped image Final cropped image

Click and hold down on the cropped image Then drag to quickly adjust what’s visible
to see a ghosted view of the entire image. in the frame.
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Be the Master of Deadlines

Your creative process is a top concern, but deadlines are a priority too. Adobe InDesign 1.0 and 1.5 provided
a strong foundation for productivity with multiple undo/redo, master pages, layers, paragraph and charac-
ter styles, automated optical kerning, the ability to hang punctuation in one step, and more. Now InDesign
2.0 expands this support, delivering additional speed-enhancing features to help you work with the utmost
efficiency. These features range from revamped printing controls to comprehensive support for long docu-
ments, faster performance, an improved text composer, and other features that enable you to get the job
done quickly and effectively.

Enhanced Printing Controls

One of our top priorities for InDesign 2.0 was to refine the printing experience and make InDesign print
jobs more efficient and reliable to output, whether to a desktop printer or a high-end press. To achieve this
goal, we’ve talked to the experts: Print professionals around the world have contributed extensively to the
enhancements we’ve made. Printing improvements to InDesign 2.0 include:
• Expanded support for printer drivers, so InDesign can fit more flexibly into a wide variety of print
workflows
• A more intuitive printing interface with clearer feedback about what print settings are enabled and how set-
tings interact with each other
• A consistent cross-platform printing experience
• Printing support for advanced design features, such as transparency
• Additional output options, such as the ability to print thumbnails, which improve design efficiency

InDesign 2.0 introduces numerous changes to the printing experience. This section explains these changes
and shows how InDesign 2.0 takes printing to a new level.

Expanded Support for Printer Drivers

InDesign 2.0 no longer requires the AdobePS printer driver. Instead, you can use a range of printer drivers,
such as the Apple LaserWriter 8 driver, so InDesign fits more smoothly into pre-existing output workflows.
What’s more, the printing experience is more consistent—the same core options appear in the InDesign
Print dialog box no matter what printer driver is selected, output device is targeted, or operating system is
being used.

InDesign 2.0 also streamlines the creation of high-quality, driver-independent PostScript® files (formerly
called prepress files), now enabling you to save them directly from the Print dialog box. In addition to
achieving driver independence, you can specify whether these files are device-independent. Excluding driver
and device information from your PostScript files allows you to produce the most flexible PostScript file for
use in imposition, trapping, and other prepress applications.

Save PostScript files directly

from the Print dialog box.

A More Intuitive Printing Interface

InDesign 2.0 introduces a more streamlined printing interface in direct response to customer requests and
suggestions. These changes touch virtually every aspect of the printing interface. Print professionals who’ve
tested the pre-release version report that the new interface is more intuitive to use and makes it easier to
grasp how settings relate to each other. Here are some of the highlights:

A unified print interface You can now specify all print settings through the Print dialog box, including page
sizes and custom page sizes, as well as font downloading, PostScript level, and image data format. Eliminating
redundancy and providing a more unified interface makes it easier to specify printing options accurately.
New panel list in Print
dialog box: Click an option
to view associated settings.
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Quickly set custom page sizes

in the revised Print dialog box.

Visual feedback InDesign provides more feedback to help you make the best possible choices for your
output. For example, printing options that don’t apply to the current driver or output type are dimmed,
so you can’t accidentally select them. InDesign also includes an updated Thumbnail Preview that provides
strong visual feedback about how your current print settings will interact with your selected media. The
Thumbnail Preview is always visible, no matter what list panel option is selected in the Print dialog box. It
even offers three different views to provide more detailed feedback. Its Standard View, for example, shows
how a page or spread relates to paper size, given your settings for bleeds, tiling, scaling, and more.

Displays how a Shows the paper Presents

page or spread size in relation the preview
relates to the to the print- information
media size. able area of the in text.
selected output
device.

Wide-ranging enhancements In addition, InDesign 2.0 provides other enhancements that make printing
documents more intuitive and less subject to error. You can specify print settings and then save them as a
printer style directly from the Print dialog box. Printer styles are fast and
useful when you need to reliably specify the same printing options multiple
times. A new Simulate Overprint option lets you preview overprint settings
when printing design proofs to desktop PostScript printers. And, finally,
InDesign 2.0 reports all of your print settings in a Summary panel in the
Print dialog box. You can review your print settings on-screen or save them
to a separate text file for handoff to print production or for archiving with
the files. Then information about how a job was printed will be available
for future reference.

Save print settngs as named print styles

that you can apply any time.

View a summary of print settings. Also save

this information in a separate text file.
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A More Consistent Cross-platform Experience
Another benefit of the new printing interface is that it works as consistently as possible across Windows and
Mac OS platforms. The new InDesign printing interface is designed to handle most printing tasks directly,
imposing a uniform approach across different printer drivers. This means that InDesign presents printing
options the same way on Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X v. 10.1, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and so
on, which reduces the training required to print effectively from both platforms.

Microsoft Windows XP Mac OS X

Direct Printing Support for Advanced Features

InDesign 2.0 introduces a number of new features and innovations that directly support more advanced
design features, or that give print professionals additional tools for managing files. Here is a quick overview
of these new additions:

• Transparency flattener styles To produce reliable, high-quality output of transparent objects, you need
additional printing control. For example, you need to be able to flatten transparent objects for output.
InDesign 2.0 offers flexible transparency flattener settings, which can be saved as styles. For more informa-
tion, see “Transparency Flattener Styles” later in this document.

Output transparent documents reliably by applying

transparency flattener styles, such as the three preset
styles included with InDesign.

• Trap Styles palette InDesign supports built-in and Adobe In-RIP Trapping, two automated trapping meth-
Apply trap styles to page ranges
with the new Trap Styles palette.
ods that create precise traps based on the neutral densities of inks. (The built-in trapping engine is a version
of the high-speed, high-quality engine that is included in Adobe In-RIP trapping implementations from
leading RIP manufacturers.) InDesign also supports trap styles that streamline the application of trap set-
tings. While neither trapping support nor trap styles
are new, InDesign 2.0 offers a new level of control
with the Trap Styles palette. Now you can assign trap
styles to page ranges without opening the Print dialog
box, simplifying the decision at print time to choos-
ing between the built-in trapping engine and Adobe
In-RIP trapping.
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• Output controls InDesign expands your control over color output with new options in the Output panel of
the Print dialog box. You can, for example, choose to print files in Composite Grayscale to non-color or color
printers or in Composite RGB to inkjet printers, film recorders, and other RGB devices. The Screening option
controls the combination of screen ruling (lines per inch) and resolution (dots per inch) used to output color
separations. An expanded Inks list provides more information about the inks you’re outputting.

• Ink Manager The new Ink Manager is designed specifically for service providers and other print profes-
sionals who want to control the number of separations produced by a designer’s file without altering the
file. In particular, the Ink Manager enables print professionals to map—or alias—one spot color to another
without touching the Swatches palette. In addition, print professionals can use the Ink Manager to convert
individual spot colors to process colors, rather than using the Swatches palette. These controls help printers
manage a longstanding problem with designers who use more spot colors than they intended in a file. In
addition, the Ink Manager makes it easy and efficient for print professionals to specify the trapping charac-
teristics of inks, including their type (Normal, Transparent, Opaque, and Opaque Ignore), neutral density,
and trapping sequence.

Sometimes designers accidentally use more spot

colors than they intended—a mistake that can
cost money and time at print time. Now service
providers can quickly correct the problem by
using the Ink Manager to map one spot color to
another without touching the original design file.
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Other Efficient Printing Controls
InDesign 2.0 introduces a number of new options that give designers and production artists more printing
control. For example, you can now print:
• master pages, making it easier to review, proof, and track master page designs independently of individual
page layouts.
• visible guides and baseline grids, which is especially useful in template-based workflows, such as newspaper
production, where editors and designers need to sketch out how an issue flows.
• other non-printing items, because you need this flexibility in template-based workflows.
• thumbnails for design review with specific control over how many thumbnails—from 1x2 to 7x7—appear
on each printed page.

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InDesign automatically sets an appropriate print orientation for thumbnails to save media. In this
example, InDesign outputs 1x2 thumbnails , which have been laid out as Tall pages (A), using a wide
orientation (B) because it’s more efficient than a tall orientation (C).

In addition, you can:

• Specify bleeds independently of each other on all four sides of a page.

Set bleed areas independently

on all four sides.

• Control how a page prints in relation to the media using the new Page Position option. Choices include
Upper Left, Centered, Center Horizontally, and Center Vertically.
• Better conserve continuous roll media using the new Auto Height and Auto Width options. When these
are activated, InDesign automatically calculates the minimum paper size required to output a page with all
marks and bleeds.
• Control the orientation of the output page in 90-degree increments, which is useful for print services such
as automatic hole punching, crimping, and so on.
• Use the new Auto Justified option for tiling, which adjusts the tile overlap to eliminate extra white space on
the bottom and right hand side of printed tile sheets. This makes it much easier to put together oversized
documents, saving time for designers and print professionals.
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InDesign tiling options: The Auto option sets tiles from the upper left corner using an Overlap value.
The new Auto Justified option fits the tiles to the outer printable edges of the media by increasing
the overlap between tiles. The Manual option lets you set the position of each tile individually.

Tip: Outputting Transparency
Natively
You can output transparency
natively (without flattening the file
first) if the PostScript device uses
PostScript version 3015 or later and
the RIP manufacturer has enabled
native transparency support for
Adobe PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5.0) files.
You will need to check with your
printer or service provider to see if
their RIP is capable of processing
PDF files with live transparency.
Overprint preview off
Overprint preview on
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Transparency Flattener Styles
The transparency support in InDesign 2.0 opens a new world of design options. Now you can apply drop
shadows to text, ghost back images, create unique special effects with blending modes, and much more. In
addition, you can incorporate Illustrator and Photoshop assets with transparency intact. InDesign 2.0 also
enables you to output transparent effects reliably by giving you and your print provider the printing control
they need to achieve high-quality results.
Most printing devices in use today cannot process transparency natively. Instead, files with transparency
applied must be flattened before you print them—a process you’re accustomed to doing with Photoshop
files. With InDesign 2.0, you use transparency flattener styles to apply appropriate flattener settings when
printing or exporting files, while keeping transparency effects live in InDesign documents. You can apply
transparency flattener styles to documents from the Print and Export dialog boxes, or to spreads from the
Pages palette menu.
When you create a customized transparency flattener style, you control the balance between raster and
vector output, what resolution is applied to artwork and gradients, whether text and strokes are converted
to outlines, and how complex regions are treated to avoid jagged areas where rasterized and vector artwork
meet. InDesign 2.0 is also designed to produce predictable quality. For example, it only flattens transparent
areas for output. Other elements, such as text that overprints transparent objects, remains untouched. Spot
colors don’t get converted to process colors when transparency is applied to them. And duotones can inter-
act with transparency without losing their spot channel information.
InDesign also comes with three preset transparency flattener styles for low-, medium-, and high-resolution
output. Each of these presets is optimized for a particular workflow—for example, the High Resolution
flattener style favors quality over output speed and is best suited for high-end production, while the Low
Resolution style outputs faster and supports desktop proofing and online use. For more information about
working with transparency flattener styles, see the Adobe InDesign 2.0 Printing Guide for Service Providers at
www.adobe.com/products/indesign.
Specify transparency flattener settings and save
them as a style that you can reapply.
Overprint Preview
The new transparency capabilities in InDesign 2.0 provide another convenient option: the ability to preview
on-screen the overprint, blending, and transparency settings that you’ve manually applied to objects, as well
as the effects of aliasing inks with the Ink Manager. When you select View > Overprint Preview, InDesign
approximates on-screen how these settings will affect color-separated output. For example, you can see
underlying objects through overprinted objects to identify and proof these effects.
Note You can also proof overprint settings on desktop printers using the new Simulate Overprint option in
the Advanced panel of the Print dialog box. For more information about this option, see “Enhanced Print-
ing Controls” earlier in this document.
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Long Document Support
Adobe InDesign 2.0 provides comprehensive support for longer documents: You can now group related
documents in a book file to number pages sequentially, synchronize styles and swatches, and generate tables
of contents, indexes, and hyperlinks. This support enables teams of editors, writers, designers, and produc-
tion artists to work more efficiently with books, magazines, and other long documents. This section takes
you on a tour of the new long document features in InDesign 2.0.

Book Files
The classic example of a long document is, of course, a book. Typically, an editorial and design team needs
to be able to work on separate sections of a book in parallel without sacrificing design consistency or easy
control of pagination, tables of contents, indexes, and other global attributes of the book. With InDesign
2.0, you can create separate working files for each chapter or section of the document, and then collect them
in a book file, where you can perform global tasks with ease.

When you create a book file, InDesign automatically opens a book palette. All of the documents that you
group in the book file are listed in this palette. Documents can also be associated with more than one book
file. Let’s say, for example, that you publish regional editions of a weekly magazine. You set up separate
documents for each section of the magazine and group them in book files, with a separate book file for each
regional edition. The shared content would be assigned to all of the book files, while special advertising sec-
tions and other regional content would appear only in the appropriate book file.
B
A Style source for synchronizing styles and swatches
C B Pagination column
C Book palette menu
D Missing document icon
A
E Open document icon
D F Modified document icon
E G Document in use or read-only icon
H Removes selected documents
F I Adds documents
J Prints a book or selected documents
G K Saves a book file
L Synchronizes a book or selected documents

L K J I H

The book palette lets you see at a glance whether documents have been opened or modified, are in use, or
are missing. Dragging documents from one position to another in the palette list changes the document
order in your book (and affects pagination if automatic pagination is enabled). Double-clicking a docu-
ment name in the palette list opens that file. Dropping files or folders onto the book palette list automati-
cally adds them to the book.

Reorganize—and automatically repaginate—documents in

a book by dragging those documents to a new location in
the book list.

Once you’ve created a book file and assigned documents to it, you can easily do the following:
• Paginate the documents. By default, automatic pagination is turned on for book files. As you add docu-
ments to the book file, InDesign paginates the documents, and displays the page ranges next to the docu-
ment name in the book list. Settings in the Numbering & Section Options dialog box (Layout > Numbering
& Section Options) or the Document Page Numbering Options dialog box (on the book palette menu)
determine the style of page numbers used. If you modify the book list, page numbers change on the fly, so
they’re always up to date. You can specify whether page numbering continues from the previous document
or whether InDesign skips to the next even or odd page in subsequent documents.
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Specify how InDesign paginates
documents in a book list.

• Synchronize styles and swatches. Design consistency is critical but more difficult to maintain for longer
documents. InDesign streamlines this effort by making it fast and easy to synchronize paragraph styles,
character styles, TOC styles, color swatches, and even trapping styles across all of the files in a book list or
only some of them. You can also choose to synchronize some options but not others—for example, to syn-
chronize the paragraph, character, and TOC styles but not the color swatches and trapping styles.

Specify which styles and swatches are

updated when you synchronize the
documents in a book.

• Preflight and package, print, or export selected documents to Adobe PDF. Book files save you consider-
able time performing standard actions on multiple files, such as preparing them for handoff to your print
provider. You can preflight and package, print, or export selected documents in a book list to Adobe PDF
by selecting commands on the book palette menu. If no documents are selected, then InDesign preflights,
prints, or exports the entire book.

Preflight, package, export,

and print all or specified
documents in a book.

Table of Contents Support

InDesign 2.0 can generate one or more tables of contents (TOC) for any document or book file. You could,
for example, create a TOC that lists all of the chapters in a book, another listing all of the illustrations, and
a third listing the graphs that appear. The process for creating a TOC is simple: You apply paragraph styles
consistently to the text that you want to appear in the TOC. You then choose Layout > Table of Contents,
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select the paragraph styles to include in a particular TOC, and assign paragraph and character styles for
formatting the TOC entries. Then click OK to generate the TOC and flow it as an independent story on a
separate page or in a separate document.

Select the paragraph styles to include

in an InDesign table of contents. Then
specify how InDesign should style the
entries in the generated TOC.

By default, TOC entries are formatted with the styles applied in the document. However, you can map those
styles to TOC styles that specify different fonts, first line indents, tab leaders, and more. Character styles can
be designed for formatting the space after entries and page numbers. You can specify TOC settings for each
paragraph style that will be included in your TOC, such as:
• Whether page numbers appear before or after an entry, or don’t appear at all.
• What types of characters are used between entries and page numbers, including em or en dashes, em or en
spaces, flush spaces, hair spaces, thin spaces, and more.
• What the TOC level is from 1 to 10.
• Whether to include text on hidden layers.
• Whether or not entries are sorted alphabetically (for example, for lists of advertisers in a magazine or for
names of people who contributed to the piece).

You can even save standard TOC settings as styles,

which you can load into other InDesign documents to
streamline TOC production. These styles are saved in
separate text files that can be shared with colleagues
as well.

Save TOC settings as styles to

streamline production.
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Indexing Controls
InDesign 2.0 introduces indexing controls for creating keyword or comprehensive indexes. The Index
palette provides a flexible, interactive command center for indexing individual documents or complete
book files. In InDesign, an index entry is comprised of the topic, which is the subject of the entry, and the
reference, which is either to a page number or to another topic. The Index palette provides two modes that
correlate to the two parts of an index entry. In Topic mode, the Index palette displays a list of topics that
you’ve generated to ensure consistency when creating index entries. (These topics do not become part of a
generated index unless you add page numbers or cross-references to turn them into working index entries.
They simply help you plan for an index and establish what’s made plural, what’s capitalized, and so on.) The
Reference mode displays topics and their page numbers or cross-references.

View, create, edit, and manage index

entries with the Index palette.

Generate and lay out indexes

with complete control.

InDesign gives you control over all aspects of your index. You can:
• Create nested indexes with up to four levels of information, or run-in indexes where all of the entries for a
particular topic appear in a single paragraph.
• Add index entries efficiently because the New Page Reference dialog box lets you add multiple entries with-
out closing the dialog box each time. Also add index entries using keyboard shortcuts.
• Control how index entries will be sorted in a generated index by entering text to provide the basis for sort-
ing. For example, ensure that “St. Charles” appears in an index in front of “Santa Claus” by entering “Saint
Charles” in the sort field.
• Set page ranges for index entries using nine automated options, including Current Page, To Next Style
Change, To Next Use of Style, To End of Story, To End of Document, To End of Section, To Next # of Para-
graphs, and To Next # of Pages. You can also choose to suppress page ranges.
• Set up cross-references using preset cross-references, including See [also], See, See also, See herein, and See
also herein; or specify custom cross-references. Add cross-references as efficiently as you add index entries
without having to close the dialog box each time. Also add cross-references using keyboard shortcuts.
• Automatically index every occurrence of a word in a document or book.
• Import index topic lists from another document or book to jumpstart work in your current document or book.
• Navigate to any index reference location using the Go To Marker button on the Index palette.
• View index markers by choosing Type > Show Hidden Characters.
• Clean up indexes by automatically deleting all topics with no associated entries.

• Globally change the capitalization of selected index entries to ensure consistency.
• Generate an index that’s automatically formatted the way you want. You can use the preset index styles
Create, delete, and navigate to
hyperlink sources and destinations
using the Hyperlinks palette.
Tip: Display Performance
Preferences
InDesign 2.0 gives you more control
over display performance. Choose
Edit > Preferences > Display Perfor-
mance to specify settings that trade
off between on-screen quality and
redraw speed for vector, raster, and
transparent items. Just as with earlier
versions of InDesign, you can set pref-
erences to favor redraw speed over
quality and then use context-sensitive
menus to quickly switch individual
graphics to higher quality display as
you work.
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in InDesign, or create your own and assign them to each index entry level, cross-reference, and cross-ref-
erenced topic in an index. Even specify a character style for certain page numbers to make them easier to
identify—for example, italicize page references for illustrations so they stand out.
Hyperlinks
With InDesign 2.0, you can create hyperlinks for documents that you plan to export to Adobe PDF or HTML.
The Hyperlinks palette makes it easy to turn selected text, text frames, and graphics frames into hyperlink
sources—the hot spot that you click to jump from your current location to a new destination. The destination
can be a text anchor, document page, or Web URL (you can jump to text anchors or document pages in any
document you specify). When you set up hyperlink sources, you control their appearance: Position them in
visible or invisible rectangles. Specify the color, line thickness, and line style (dashed or solid) for visible rect-
angles. Also, choose a highlight for the hyperlink source—Invert, Outline, Inset, or None.
Set up hyperlink destinations. Then
use the New Hyperlink dialog box to
assign destinations to text, text frames,
and graphics frames.
InDesign also turns all TOC and index entries into hyperlinks automatically when you export eBook files.
For more details about eBooks, see “eBook Support” later in this document.
Faster Performance
Improving performance is a key goal of InDesign 2.0. We’ve revamped the text composition and database
engines, improved how images and other page items are cached, and revised text and graphics import filters
for Photoshop (PSD), EPS, TIFF, JPEG, RTF, and Microsoft Word files to optimize performance in version
2.0. The result is that InDesign 2.0 is significantly faster than InDesign 1.0, 1.5, and 1.5.2 when opening,
closing, and saving InDesign 2.0 documents; placing high-resolution images and large vector graphics from
local hard disks or from servers; importing and autoflowing text; resizing and moving text frames; find-
ing and changing text attributes; recomposing stories with text wraps; and performing screen redraw with
standard display performance settings.
Enhanced Paragraph Composer
From its first release in 1999, InDesign transformed desktop typography by introducing a unique text com-
position engine called the multi-line composer. The multi-line composer automatically examined multiple
lines of text in order to determine the line breaks that best supported your hyphenation and justification
settings—a capability no other desktop page layout program has offered. Evaluating multiple lines at once
produced more even spacing and fewer hyphens, results that used to require a lot of manual work and mul-
tiple rounds of review between designers and copy editors.
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Now InDesign 2.0 improves on this typographical control, replacing the multi-line composer with the
paragraph composer. Instead of analyzing several lines of text, the paragraph composer examines an entire
paragraph at a time and applies weighted penalties to alternative line breaks to produce optimal results. For
example, it favors evenness of letter and word spacing and avoids hyphenation whenever possible. Because
it evaluates an entire paragraph at once, it can optimize earlier lines to avoid unattractive breaks later in the
paragraph. The essential benefit, however, is that InDesign produces the best-looking text automatically,
freeing you to focus more on other creative tasks.

Automatically produce optimal line

breaks using the enhanced Adobe
Paragraph Composer.

Hyphenation Penalty Slider

The Hyphenation dialog box now includes the hyphenation penalty slider, a new option that enables you
to interactively make tradeoffs between spacing and hyphenation and preview the results on-screen. To use
it, click an insertion point in a paragraph or select the text you want to affect. Then choose Hyphenation
from the Paragraph palette menu, and adjust the slider. If Preview is checked, you can see how the tradeoffs
you’re specifying affect your text. You can adjust the settings for individual paragraphs or save the settings
you establish with your paragraph styles.

Interactively make
tradeoffs between
spacing and
hyphenation.

Glyphs Palette
Earlier versions of InDesign included the Insert Character command (Type > Insert Character), which—for
the first time in a desktop page layout application—gave you direct access to the hundreds, or even thou-
sands, of glyphs available in many fonts. These glyphs range from multiple versions of individual letters,
such as é, ñ, or ü, to typographically correct fractions, special ornaments, and more. InDesign 2.0 takes this
support a step further with the new Glyphs palette, which
offers a more accessible and interactive way to browse and
insert glyphs from the fonts you have installed.

Browse through
all of the glyphs
in a font and
easily insert
glyphs in your
layout. Also sort
the available
glyphs to more
quickly find only
the glyphs you
need.
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Ability to Style Text by Selecting Text Frames

InDesign 2.0 is more flexible about how you style text. In the past, you could highlight text and apply for-
matting, or you could click an insertion point or highlight text and apply paragraph and character styles.
With InDesign 2.0, you can also select text frames and apply individual text attributes or text styles. This
capability is similar to what you can do in Adobe Illustrator. It makes it simple to select several individual
text frames and quickly style them the way you want. For example, you could select several captions at once
and apply text formatting to them.

Select several text frames with the

selection tool and instantly apply
text attributes or styles.

Work Efficiently Through Tight Adobe Integration

What’s the number one request from designers everywhere? Better integration with the graphics programs
you use every day—Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. From the start, InDesign was designed to
integrate tightly with Adobe’s professional graphics programs. It shares commands, palettes, tools, and
keyboard shortcuts with these programs, so you can get up to speed more quickly. It also includes Adobe
core technologies to ensure better font handling, color management, graphics display, and Adobe PDF file
support. InDesign 2.0 enhances this integration with a variety of new features, including support for
Acrobat 5.0 PDF files; tight compatibility with Illustrator 9.0 and 10, Photoshop 6.0, and InCopy 2.0; the
addition of the new Adobe Color Engine for maintaining consistent color across Adobe applications; direct
support for Adobe Studio; native Mac OS X support; and more.

Direct Export of Adobe PDF Files

Adobe InDesign 2.0 expands its Adobe PDF support with its ability to export Acrobat 5.0 PDF files, and
other significant new PDF export options. Adobe PDF files offer numerous benefits. They preserve the
design and content of the original file, they can be viewed on almost any platform, they support high-end
printing, and they are compact, portable, and easy to navigate. For these reasons, they are the file format of
choice for electronic reviews with clients, for distribution of content on the Web, and for output to desktop
and professional printing devices. Here is a quick look at the expanded Adobe PDF support in InDesign.

When you export Adobe PDF files from InDesign 2.0, you can choose whether to make them compatible
with Acrobat 4.0 [PDF 1.3], or Acrobat 5.0 [PDF 1.4]. (Note Acrobat 5.0 and Acrobat Reader 5.0 can open
PDF 1.3 and PDF 1.4 files, but Acrobat 4.0 cannot open PDF 1.4 files.) Among other benefits, Acrobat 5.0
PDF files display and output transparency settings. In addition, InDesign 2.0 offers four preset PDF Export
styles to streamline production of PDF files. These presets are based on the ones offered in Acrobat Distiller
5.0. They include eBook for creating PDF files for on-screen viewing, Screen for preparing compact PDF
files for Web and e-mail distribution, Print for producing PDF files for output on desktop printers, and
Press for optimizing PDF files for high-end professional output. InDesign also enables you to save PDF
export settings as styles directly from the Export PDF dialog box, just as it allows you to save print styles
from the Print dialog box. Styles are useful for quickly and consistently setting export options.
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Export Adobe PDF files directly from

InDesign 2.0 with finer control over
the export settings.

Note: eBook export is explained in detail in “eBook Support” later in this document. In brief, you can select
the Include eBook Tags option to export a Tagged PDF file. Tagged PDF files are valuable because their con-
tent can be saved to other formats such as XML and RTF, they reflow automatically to suit different display
devices, and they support accessibility for people with visual and motion impairments.

InDesign features a number of other PDF export enhancements, many of which behave like comparable
options in the Print dialog box. You can, for example, export nonprinting objects, as well as visible guides
and grids, to Adobe PDF files. The Include Hyperlinks option enables you to export table of contents, index,
and hyperlinks entries as PDF hyperlinks, and the Include Bookmarks option turns table of contents entries
into PDF bookmarks.

InDesign includes a new compression option, bicubic downsampling, which works like a similar option in
Acrobat Distiller and Photoshop. Bleed settings can be set separately for the Top, Bottom, Inside, and Out-
side edges of a PDF file. Plus, you can now specify the weight, as well as the offset, for printer’s marks. The
Simulate Overprint option in the Advanced panel makes it possible to use PDF files to soft proof document
colors on-screen. Transparency flattener styles help you prepare transparent Acrobat 5.0 PDF files for high-
end output. Finally, the Export PDF dialog box includes a Summary panel, just like the one in the Print
dialog box, which lists all of the settings selected for exporting a PDF file. This list of settings can be saved to
a text file for archiving or sharing with others.

InDesign 2.0 also provides enhanced support for copying and pasting PDF content. Now you can copy
content in PDF format to the Clipboard for pasting into other Adobe applications, such as Illustrator and
Photoshop. You simply choose Edit > Preferences > General, and select the Copy PDF To Clipboard option.
In addition, you can set whether Illustrator content is pasted into InDesign in its native PDF format or in
AICB format (choose Edit > Preferences > General and check or uncheck Prefer PDF When Pasting). Past-
ing Illustrator files in PDF format preserves transparency settings but prevents you from editing the files.
Pasting Illustrator files in AICB format eliminates transparency information but converts the files to
InDesign format for easy editing.

Tighter Integration with Photoshop and Illustrator

Integration with Photoshop and Illustrator is a touchstone of InDesign. InDesign 2.0 continues this tra-
dition with a number of subtle improvements that enhance the interaction among these programs. For
example, the pencil tool in InDesign 2.0 now behaves exactly like the pencil tool in Illustrator 8.0 and later.
In addition to drawing freeform lines, you can now:
• Reshape any path by selecting that path and then drawing on or near it with the pencil tool.
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• Connect two paths by selecting both of them and then drawing from an endpoint of one path to an end-
point of the other.
• Extend an existing path by selecting it and then dragging from an endpoint of that path.

InDesign 2.0 also lets you temporarily switch from the text tool to the grabber hand using a popular
Illustrator keyboard shortcut. If you’ve selected text or text on a path, just press Command+Spacebar (Mac
OS) or Ctrl+Spacebar (Windows), then release the Command or Control key to access the grabber hand
without losing your text selection.

InDesign 2.0 continues to place native Illustrator and Photoshop files. It even maintains transparent set-
Quickly sketch tings. In fact, you can maintain soft edges when placing transparent Photoshop files (other applications
graphics using the convert soft edges in transparent files to hard edges on import). For more details, see “Versatile Transpar-
enhanced pencil
tool, which works ency Controls” earlier in this document.
like the one in
Adobe Illustrator.
Integration with Adobe InCopy 2.0
Adobe InDesign integrates tightly with Adobe InCopy 2.0, a new version of InCopy that has been
announced and is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2002. Adobe InCopy is an easy-to-use
tool for writers and editors in professional publishing environments. It combines the familiar look and feel
of a word processor with comprehensive change-tracking features and other flexible tools. Because InDesign
2.0 and InCopy 2.0 share the same type engine and are designed to work together, writers and editors can
polish their copy and track changes at the same time that designers and production artists are refining their
layouts. This tight integration enables editorial and design staffs to work more collaboratively to meet tight
schedules without compromising high standards.

InCopy 2.0 introduces a number of new features, including native support for XML, more tools for editorial
professionals, and built-in support for Network Publishing. For more information about InCopy 2.0, visit
the Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com/products/incopy.

Note InDesign 2.0 is not designed to work with InCopy 1.x. However, you can exchange tagged text files
between these applications.

Content in InDesign 2.0

Content in InCopy 2.0

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Adobe Core Technologies: Adobe Color Engine

InDesign has always shared core Adobe technologies with Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat to ensure
consistent font handling, graphics display, color management, and more across these applications. InDesign
2.0 enhances its color management support by adding the latest version of the Adobe Color Engine (ACE),
which is also built into Photoshop 6.0, Illustrator 9.0/10, and Acrobat 5.0. With this addition, Adobe deliv-
ers the first off-the-shelf publishing solution to offer consistent color across raster, vector, and page design
tools. Furthermore, by providing a common experience across these leading publishing programs, color
management is easier to implement and control to produce consistent color. InDesign 2.0 even includes
soft proofing controls (View > Proof Setup and View > Proof Colors) that work similarly to Photoshop and
Illustrator to help you accurately preview CMYK and RGB images on-screen and on a desktop color printer.

ACE is designed to streamline how you configure a device-indepen-

dent, color-managed workflow. All of the color management con-
trols now appear in one dialog box for easy access, plus they come
equipped with built-in Help that provides immediate feedback
on different settings. You can choose between advanced and stan-
dard modes, depending on how much control you want to exert.
InDesign 2.0 includes a number of presets for color management,
including standard U.S. (SWOP), European, and Japanese prepress
settings—and even a Web graphics preset. These presets are saved
in separate Color Settings files that are shared with Photoshop 6.0,
Illustrator 9.0/10, and Acrobat 5.0. You can also specify custom
settings and save those settings in a separate file for on-going use.
InDesign 2.0 lets you set color management policies in advance
or decide every time you open or paste a file whether to discard,
preserve, or convert a color profile. You can choose to convert all
files to the current working color space, or to preserve embedded
profiles.

Perhaps the most significant advantage of this new color manage-

ment engine is its integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and
Acrobat. All three applications save their color management settings
in a common location, so settings used in one application can easily
be loaded into another. Plus, InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
can each detect when their color management settings vary from
each other and prompt you to synchronize them to produce better
color fidelity.

InDesign shares the Adobe Color Engine with

Photoshop 6.0 and Illustrator 10, so you can set up
a color-managed workflow more easily to achieve
consistent color across your vector, raster, and page
design tools.

Integration between Japanese and Roman Versions

InDesign has always provided extensive support for multi-lingual publishing at no additional charge. For
one thing, any Roman-language version of InDesign can open any other Roman-language InDesign file. For
example, an ad agency with offices in Hamburg, Paris, Stockholm, London, Milan, and New York can work
in the language-version of InDesign for their country. They can then exchange files among those offices
with complete confidence that a French version of InDesign can open a file created in the Italian version of
InDesign, or a German version can open Swedish files. In addition, InDesign includes 20 Proximity lan-
guage dictionaries covering 12 languages to support multi-lingual spell-check and hyphenation.
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Now InDesign 2.0 extends this multi-lingual approach even further: You can open
and edit Roman files in the Japanese version of InDesign, or Japanese files in any
Roman version of InDesign, because they share a single file format (2.0 files only).
When you open Japanese files in a Roman version of InDesign, you can edit a range
of layout elements, including colors, graphics, and any Roman text. However, you
won’t have access to the Japanese-specific type and layout tools, such as the horizon-
tal and vertical frame grid tools, for editing Japanese files. With InDesign, it’s easy to
work globally—and that’s good for your business.

Integration with Adobe Studio

Open Japanese InDesign files in Roman versions
of InDesign, and vice versa, because they share a
common file format.
Adobe InDesign 2.0 integrates smoothly with the Adobe Studio Web site, a new
online design network that Adobe has built to serve creative professionals. Adobe
Studio offers designers online tools and services to inspire the creative process,
improve productivity, and find new business opportunities. The Adobe Studio Web
site consists of two main areas:
• a free community area with a wealth of design-related content
• Adobe DesignTeam, a subscription-based online collaboration environment for
conducting online reviews, sharing visually rich files, handling version control,
communicating with clients, and tracking projects

InDesign 2.0 fits in easily with Adobe DesignTeam because of its built-in support for WebDAV (Web Dis-
tributed Authoring and Versioning) server technology. Through this support, InDesign 2.0 can connect
online directly to Adobe DesignTeam to download and upload files (you use commands on the File >
Workgroup submenu). Because the files are being managed by DesignTeam, multiple people can have access
to a file but only the person who’s checked a file out can make changes to it. This ensures that files won’t be
accidentally overwritten or file updates lost. For more information on InDesign 2.0’s support for WebDAV,
see “Built-in WebDAV Support” later in this document.

Native Mac OS X Support

You can add InDesign to your Mac OS X (version 10.1) desktop with confidence because it’s designed to
work natively on this platform. Running InDesign on OS X v. 10.1 offers numerous advantages because of
how this new operating system is designed. Here are the top examples:
• Protected Memory If another application unexpectedly freezes or quits, it won’t affect InDesign. You can
just continue working.
• Enhanced virtual memory You no longer need to allocate memory to your desktop applications, nor will
InDesign run low on memory easily if your system meets our standard system requirements.
• Faster performance For many operations, InDesign is faster on a Mac OS X system than on a Mac OS 9.1
or 9.2 system. This additional speed is a direct benefit of the enhanced virtual memory and improved file
input/output, as well as of other architectural enhancements in the Mac OS X operating system.
• Multi-tasking support Because Mac OS X supports multi-tasking, you can switch among applications easily
to continue working. You can, for example, apply a processor intensive change to an image in Photoshop
and then switch back to InDesign to continue working on a layout.
Tip: Opening QuarkXPress and
PageMaker Documents
On a Mac OS X system, you can InDesign 2.0 sports the new Mac OS X user interface enhancements, including animated icons and throb-
double-click a PageMaker 6.5–7.0 or bing buttons. In addition, palettes won’t flicker—as they sometimes do on Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, and Windows
QuarkXPress 3.3–4.1x file and open
these files directly in InDesign—if you systems—because Mac OS X supports off-screen windows. Perhaps the most significant benefit InDesign
don’t have PageMaker or QuarkXPress
installed on the system.
offers, though, is that it’s built to run well on both Mac OS 9.1/9.2 and Mac OS X, v. 10.1, so you can transi-
tion from one operating system to the other whenever you’re ready to make the move.
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Move Beyond Print

Adobe InDesign 2.0 makes it easy for you to move beyond print with built-in support for publishing pages
anywhere—to PDF, as eBooks, on the Web, and more. InDesign 2.0 now supports XML, so you can import,
create, edit, and export XML files easily. XML is an open standard for storing content, such as text, graphics,
and tables, in a structured file format that enables you to redeploy that content more efficiently. In addition,
InDesign 2.0 directly exports tagged Adobe PDF (eBook) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files, supports
the WebDAV protocol for managing shared files across an Internet or intranet, and offers built-in support
for Adobe’s new eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP). InDesign 2.0 lays the foundation for the next gen-
eration of publishing—so you can take your design vision anywhere you want it to go.

XML Import and Export

InDesign 2.0 can build XML-based structure into documents, making it more efficient and cost effective to
deploy content to multiple channels including print, Web, handheld/wireless devices, and more. If you’ve
ever struggled with getting content from one format into another in order to use it in different venues,
you’ll quickly appreciate how much more productive you can be using this built-in support for XML.
What’s more, the XML tools in InDesign use the familiar Adobe interface, so they’re approachable and easy
to learn. This section explains how InDesign supports XML, as well as why XML support is important, how
you can apply this functionality to your work today, and how developers can extend its capabilities.

What is XML, and Why Does It Matter?

InDesign 2.0 uses XML as a method for tagging content in a document, so that its components can
be identified and reused by other computer applications. XML tags label information in a descriptive
manner. For example, a tag like this might identify a headline in a document:

<Headline>Imagine This!</Headline>

In addition, tags identify structure by establishing relationships between items. You could, for example,
tag three pictures and a caption individually and then group them using a parent tag, so that these
items are easy to identify as a unit.

XML is relevant for designers and content creators because it enables you to separate form (how some-
thing looks) and content (what it is), and then store information about the content in an open format
that’s easy to move between applications. XML is
based on open standards, so a wide range of appli-
cations support it, including authoring programs,
database applications, and content management
systems. What this means is that you can tag a
design file, export it as XML, and then efficiently
A
translate it into appropriately formatted content for
different publishing channels.

XML
Two examples of how you might use XML files
XML
XML
will help you visualize what you can do: You could
design and tag a layout in InDesign, export an XML
file, and then import it into tagged InDesign tem-
B plates to quickly generate different print layouts. Or
you could produce and tag a print design, export an
InDesign Adobe PDF
XML file, and then use Adobe GoLive 6.0 templates
GoLive
to dynamically generate Web pages based on that
content. This ability to deploy content quickly and
cost effectively across multiple channels is essential
to the future of publishing.

Alternate InDesign layouts (A and C), XML files (B), Web layout (D),
C D E and eBook on handheld device (E)

About the XMedia UI Plug-in
The XMedia UI plug-in adds the
Structure view, Tags palette, and
associated commands to InDesign
2.0, so you can import, create, edit,
and export XML files. When InDesign
2.0 ships, the XMedia UI plug-in
will be a Beta version, designed
to introduce you to the new XML
capabilities in InDesign. We recom-
mend installing this Beta plug-in
from the Adobe InDesign Cross-
media Publishing Resource CD and
then using the tutorials and other
information on the CD to explore
the functionality.
To find out how to install the plug-
in, see the XmediaUI_plugin.pdf
on the Cross-media Publishing
Resource CD. For additional infor-
mation about cross-media support
in InDesign, visit www.adobe.com/
products/indesign/crossmedia.html.
A B C
D E F G
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How Does InDesign Support XML?
All of the tools you need to import, create, edit, and export XML are completely integrated into InDesign
2.0, so that it’s easy for you to design documents and then output them for different cross-media workflows.
This section provides an overview of the tools you’ll use in InDesign 2.0.
Structure view The Structure view provides an alternative way of viewing the content of InDesign docu-
ments by revealing the hierarchical relationships between—or the structure of—tagged content. With the
Structure view, you can view and browse structured documents, import and lay out the content of XML
files, add structure to existing documents, create templates for autoflowing XML content, rearrange the
hierarchy of XML content, and more. In addition, the Structure view is designed to be easy to use: If you’re
comfortable viewing and moving files in the directories (folders) on your computer, you’ll quickly feel at
home viewing and organizing content in the Structure view. Here’s a quick look at the Structure view.
D C B A
J K
A Opens the Structure menu. G A black dot under an element indicates an attribute that’s
B Deletes selected items and associated child elements assigned to that element.
from the Structure view and layout. Also deletes selected H Example of a parent and its subordinate child elements.
attributes. I Icons without a blue diamond ( ) indicate elements that
C Adds an element to the structure. haven’t been placed yet.
D Adds an attribute to a selected element. J Provides a shortcut for showing and hiding the Structure view:
E Contains the document structure. Required part of XML Simply click it to open or close the view.
file, which you can rename and place but cannot delete. K Shows on-screen what elements have been tagged when View >
F Icons displaying a blue diamond ( ) indicate that the Show Tagged Frames is activated. The displayed colors match the
text or graphic element is placed in the layout. ones assigned to the tag in the Tags palette.
Tags palette The Tags palette enables you to create, import, and manage the tags you use in creating struc-
tured documents. The InDesign Tags palette uses the classic Adobe palette interface, so you can apply what
you know to how to tag elements. In fact, if you’re familiar with applying paragraph and character styles to
text, you’ll quickly get up to speed on tagging content. This overview identifies the main things you can do
with the Tags palette.
A Click an insertion point in text and then add or change
a tag.
B Remove a tag from a selected element or frame.
C Display the Tags palette menu.
D View the color assigned to tag(s). Then use the color to
identify different groups of tagged items.
E Click a tag to assign it to a selected item. Double-click
the tag name to edit it, or the color swatch to edit tag
options.
F Create a new tag.
G Delete a tag.
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Mapping tags and paragraph styles InDesign 2.0 makes it easy to map tags to paragraph styles to quickly
Tagging Content
InDesign offers several different format imported XML content. Conversely, you can format text as you normally would with paragraph
ways to tag or retag content.
You can: styles and then map those styles to imported tags to quickly add structure to a design. When you map tags
• Drag and drop an element to paragraph styles or vice-versa, you can specify one-by-one which tag goes with which style. Or, if you’ve
from the Structure view to
the page, or from the page to used identical names for tags and paragraph styles, you can click the Map By Name button in the Map
the Structure view. When you
drag an untagged element
Styles to Tags or the Map Tags to Styles dialog boxes to instantly map them appropriately.
onto the Structure view,
InDesign presents a context- Quickly style a tagged document
sensitive menu, so you can by assigning—or mapping—tags
select the tag. to paragraph styles.
• Drag and drop a tag from the
Tags palette onto an item on
a page or an element in the
Structure view.
• Activate a context-sensitive
menu for an item on a page
or an element in the Struc-
ture view, and then choose a
tag name.
• Map paragraph styles to tag
names.
• Select an item on a page and
then click the tag in the Tags
palette or the element in Viewing tagged content on-screen To quickly see which page items are tagged on-screen, choose View >
Structure view.
Show Tagged Frames. InDesign then highlights tagged frames on-screen in the color you’ve specified for
a particular tag or set of tags. You can assign a color to a tag when you create the tag or edit its options
(choose New Tag from the Tags palette menu or select a tag and choose Tag Options from the menu). Just
as with layer colors, tag colors provide a visual cue on-screen and don’t affect the final layout.

See at a glance which elements

are tagged when View > Show
Tagged Frames is selected.

Assigning attributes An attribute is a string that contains a name and value that provide additional
useful information about the content of a tagged element. For example, when you tag a linked graphic,
InDesign automatically creates an href attribute, which identifies the path for the link. Or, you might assign
an attribute to tagged text that enables keyword searches—you could call the attribute keyword and assign
the search words you want to use. These attributes are automatically included in exported XML files.

Assign attributes to any element. These attributes appear in

the Structure view for easy browsing. You can show or hide
them by clicking the triangle to the left of the element.
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Reorganizing and navigating tagged content InDesign makes it easy to rearrange content in a structured
Tip: Displaying Text Snippets
InDesign will display a text snippet document and to identify and navigate between tagged elements. To change the hierarchy of elements, you
next to placed text elements in the simply drag elements to different positions in the Structure view. You can, for example, tag several items as a
Structure view, so you can more
easily identify which tagged element group by creating a parent element and then dragging the related item onto the parent element to establish
goes with which text frame. A text
snippet contains up to 32 characters
a relationship. In addition, double-clicking a tagged element in the Structure view highlights it on the layout
from the start of each story. Choose page. And double-clicking a tagged element in a layout causes an underline to appear under the element in
Show Text Snippets from the Struc-
ture menu, or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) or the Structure view.
Right-click (Windows) an icon in the
Structure view and choose Show
Shift-select and drag elements on top
Text Snippets.
of other elements in the Structure view
to make them subordinate.

Exporting XML files When you’ve tagged your content and you’re ready to export it as an XML file, you
simply choose File > Export. Then choose XML for Format (Mac OS) or Save As Type (Windows), specify a
name and location, and click Save. In the Export XML dialog box, you can add comments, specify an encod-
ing method (UTF8, UTF16, or Shift-JIS), choose whether to view the file in a browser, and more. InDesign
then exports a well-formed XML file.

What Can You Do with the XML Support in InDesign?

Here are several scenarios for how you can put the XML support in InDesign to work for you:

Add structure to existing design documents. You can add structure to any document you can open in
InDesign 2.0, including InDesign 1.0 and 1.5 files, QuarkXPress 3.3–4.x files, and PageMaker 6.5–7.0 files.
Instead of laboriously copying and pasting content out of design documents to transfer that information to
the Web or to another venue, you can tag the content in InDesign 2.0 and export XML files that can be used
widely by other XML-aware applications.

Select frames and click tag

names in the Tags palette
to add structure to existing
Tip: Using Context-Sensitive documents.
Menus with Tagged Content
InDesign 2.0 gives you instant
access to options for tagged content
through context-sensitive menus.
You can, for example, Ctrl-click (Mac
OS) or right-click (Windows) a frame
in a layout and quickly assign a tag,
delete a tag, or highlight the cor-
responding element in the Structure
view. In addition, you can open a
context-sensitive menu to perform
a range of actions on any element in
the Structure view.

Create structured templates for autoflowing XML content. You can streamline production of standardized
designs by creating templates, tagging the placeholder frames, and then importing XML files that use the
same tagging structure. InDesign will automatically flow the content into the frames on import. Then you
can map tags to paragraph styles and start refining your design. For example, many newspapers present
content in highly structured formats that can take advantage of these capabilities: A newspaper staff could
increase productivity by using XML-based templates to automate standard layouts, freeing them to focus
more creative energy on improving visual quality using typographical and other controls in InDesign.
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Tagged frames in an InDesign template

Tagged frames with content autoflowed in

Import XML files and interactively lay out their content. The interface for importing and laying out XML
files in InDesign 2.0 is designed to be interactive. For example, you can import an XML file and then start
dragging and dropping elements from the Structure view onto the layout page as you work out the details
of your design.

Drag and drop elements

onto a page to interactively
lay them out.

Update design content easily. Because XML files contain the notion of structure, you can update content
with them easily. For example, a print and a Web design team could work in parallel using the same XML
content as a data source. As changes are incorporated into the XML file, these teams could easily update
their content.

Dynamically generate Web pages with Adobe GoLive 6.0. GoLive 6.0 can use XML files exported from
InDesign as a data source. It can pair that XML content with structured GoLive templates to dynamically
generate Web pages. Using GoLive 6.0 and InDesign 2.0 in tandem, you can significantly streamline how
you publish print content to the Web.

Integrate XML files into other publishing systems. InDesign 2.0 produces well-formed XML that can be
integrated into a wide variety of XML-based content management and publishing systems that are created
by third parties or in-house development groups.

The Scripting and Scripting Label
Palettes
InDesign 2.0 includes a new Script-
ing palette to make it easier and
faster to access scripts that auto-
mate tasks. It also adds a Script
Label palette for viewing and
setting label properties for page
items. When InDesign 2.0 ships,
these two palettes will be Beta
versions. To find more information
about these plug-ins (as well as to
learn how to install them), see the
Scripting_plug-ins.pdf in the Adobe
Technical Info\Scripting\Beta Script-
ing Plug-ins folder.
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What Can Developers Do with XML and InDesign?
Adobe InDesign is known for its flexible, extensible architecture and robust scripting support. The XML
support in InDesign 2.0 is no different: It is fully extensible and scriptable, delivering a robust framework
for system integrators, third-party developers, and IT professionals who plan to create or customize XML-
based systems on the InDesign platform. InDesign 2.0 includes a Software Development Kit (SDK) on the
product CD at no additional charge. In addition, developers and production staff can automate processes
in InDesign using its built-in support for AppleScript (Mac OS) and Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Basic for
Applications, and VBScript (Windows).
eBook Support
InDesign 2.0 exports tagged Adobe PDF files—also called eBooks—directly from your layouts. An eBook is
an electronic book that’s designed to be read on a desktop computer, laptop computer, or handheld device.
eBooks may exist only in electronic form, or they may be the electronic versions of printed books. For
example, many textbooks, legal and medical references, best-selling novels, and timeless classics are now
being sold as eBooks.
eBooks offer readers a number of benefits: They are compact, portable, and easy to navigate, so you can
keep valuable information or easy-to-access entertainment at your fingertips at all times. They provide a
dynamic, interactive reading experience whether you’re looking up words in a built-in dictionary, annotat-
ing what you’re reading, or connecting to the Web for more information on a topic. eBooks can even offer
text-to-speech capabilities, making them accessible to the visually impaired.
To create an eBook from InDesign, you choose File > Export, and then select Adobe PDF for Format (Mac
OS) or Save As Type (Windows). In the Export PDF dialog box, you can choose a preset PDF export style
called eBook to specify the basic settings for exporting an eBook. Or, you can select the individual PDF
export settings you want to use. You must check the Include eBook tags option to create an eBook file.
If you also select the Include Hyperlinks option, InDesign will export table of contents (TOC), index, and
custom hyperlink entries as hyperlinks in your eBook. Checking the Include Bookmarks option turns TOC
entries into eBook bookmarks. InDesign can export a single document file as an eBook or multiple docu-
ments collected in a Book file.
Choose the eBook preset to
quickly specify basic settings for
exporting an eBook.
Because an eBook is a tagged PDF file, the file contains information about how the document is struc-
tured—basically, how different parts of it, such as headlines and body text, relate to each other. This infor-
mation enables eBooks to reflow automatically to suit different display devices. For example, an eBook may
open at full size with all of its graphics in place on a laptop or desktop PC, but then reflow as text only when
displayed on a handheld devices, such as a Palm Pilot.
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The Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader for Mac OS and Windows is available for no charge from the Adobe
Web site. You need the Acrobat eBook Reader for Palm OS to open eBooks on Palm devices. Visit
www.adobe.com/products/ebookreader/main.html for details.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Export

Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), SVG is a new graphics file format and Web devel-
opment language based on XML. SVG provides a wide range of benefits. For example, SVG content can be
linked to e-commerce systems, corporate databases, and other real-time information sources. In addition, it
maintains high-quality vector artwork and fonts, offering you smaller file sizes that download quickly; crisp
detail as you pan and zoom; high-quality printing at any zoom level; support for fills, blends, and gradi-
ents; fully searchable text; and more. InDesign 2.0 now enables you to export individual text and graphics
objects, or entire pages, as SVG graphics. You can then incorporate these graphics into Web templates using
an application like Adobe GoLive 6.0 and post them on the Web.

When exporting from InDesign, you choose whether to prepare SVG or SVG compressed files. You can
also set a number of other options, including whether to export a selection, a page, a range of pages, or a
spread; whether to link to or embed graphics and fonts; how to encode text characters; and what transpar-
ency flattener and cascading style sheet settings to apply. InDesign 2.0 comes with the Adobe SVG Viewer
3.0, a plug-in for your Web browser that enables you to display, pan and zoom, search, and do other tasks
with SVG files. For more information about SVG files and Adobe applications, visit the Adobe Web site at
www.adobe.com/svg.

Specify a range of SVG export options,

such as whether graphics and fonts are
linked or embedded.

Built-in WebDAV Support

With InDesign 2.0, you can use the Internet or an intranet to collaborate on InDesign files without fear that
files will accidentally be overwritten or file updates lost. That’s because InDesign 2.0 supports WebDAV (Web
Distributed Authoring and Versioning) server technology, an XML-based standard for efficient file sharing in a
distributed environment. If your IT department sets up one or more WebDAV servers for you, you can con-
nect to them through InDesign and use them to help with file management and version control.

Once InDesign 2.0 is linked to a WebDAV server, you can use commands on the File > Work-
group submenu to check files in and out, open local copies on your hard disk, update or revert
local files to reflect recent changes, and place managed assets. You can also set preferences for how
InDesign behaves when placing managed links or opening managed files. For a working example
of how InDesign interacts with WebDAV technology, see “Integration with Adobe Studio” earlier
in this document.
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Built-in Support for Adobe’s eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP)

For the past 15 years, the publishing industry has been focused on transitioning from older methods of
producing pages to digital processes. With rare exception, that digital conversion is complete and a new
challenge faces the industry: How to distribute these digital assets across multiple media efficiently and cost
effectively without compromising how they look or losing control over digital rights. The answer is to build
intelligence into assets, so that all of the graphics, images, design layouts, and other assets being deployed
contain information—or metadata—about how they were designed, who designed them, and so on.

To facilitate digital asset management and collaboration, Adobe recently announced the eXtensible Meta-
data Platform (XMP), an open, extensible XML-based framework for embedding, tracking, and exchang-
ing metadata. Because XMP embeds metadata in files, the information travels with the file whether or not
a database or publishing system is managing it—making assets significantly easier to retrieve and use in a
variety of contexts.

InDesign 2.0, Illustrator 10, and Acrobat 5.0 are the first Adobe applications to support Adobe’s XMP frame-
work. InDesign automatically preserves the metadata in imported Illustrator 10 and Acrobat 5.0 PDF files. You
can embed metadata in InDesign layouts by choosing File > File Info and entering the relevant information.

Assign metadata to InDesign

files for easier tracking and
file management.

Other Innovative InDesign Features

InDesign has evolved rapidly since its first release in August 1999. With each iteration, we’ve incorporated
dozens of innovative features to help designers express themselves freely. Here are some of the top features
from InDesign 1.0 and 1.5:
• Multiple undo and redo With InDesign, you can experiment freely because you can undo and redo multiple
steps at any time. InDesign 2.0 now enhances this support with its ability to undo and redo steps through-
out a session, regardless of whether you’ve saved a document.
• Layers Organize objects on document-wide layers. Then hide, show, lock, and reorder layers as necessary to
help your work.
• Master pages Set up multiple master pages to apply repeating design elements across your documents con-
sistently. Even base one master page on another, so it’s easier for updates to ripple through related pages.
• Easy conversion of QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents Open QuarkXPress 3.3–4.1x and PageMaker
6.5–7.0 documents directly in InDesign.
• Optical kerning Automatically produce beautifully kerned text—even with a mix of different fonts and point
sizes. InDesign examines the visual characteristics of each character to determine the best spacing. If you prefer
kerning by hand, use optical kerning to jumpstart the process, and then refine your letter spacing from there.
• Optical margin alignment Hang punctuation with the click of an option to quickly create a smooth edge for
multiple lines of text.
• Flexible navigation and views Zoom from a 5% view to a 4,000% view using a variety of zoom controls,
including the standard Adobe Navigator palette, the zoom tool, or a zoom popup in the lower-left corner of
the InDesign window. Also, open multiple views of a publication so you can zoom in for precision work in
one view while keeping your eye on the overall design.
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• Large page and spread sizes Specify page sizes from 1 pica square (1/6 in., 0.421 cm) to 1296 picas square (18
System Requirements ft, 5.48 meters). As page sizes grow, the pasteboard adjusts dynamically. Also, create spreads of up to 10 pages.
Macintosh†
• PowerPC® G3 or G4 processor • Text on a path with unique 3D effects Align text to any path and format it with any of the high-end typo-
• Mac OS version 9.1, 9.2x, or
Mac OS X (version 10.1) graphical controls in InDesign. Also apply unique special effects to quickly create eye-catching results.
• 128 MB of RAM with virtual memory on
• 220 MB of available hard-disk space • Full-resolution display of images Display images with low-resolution settings for faster performance. Then
for installation quickly switch individual images to high-resolution display using a context-sensitive menus when you want
• CD-ROM drive
• 256-color at 1024x768 monitor to preview how your final design will look.
resolution
• For PostScript printers: Adobe • Eyedropper tool Quickly sample the fill, stroke, character, paragraph, and transparency settings applied to
PostScript Level 2 or Adobe
PostScript 3™
one object and apply them to other objects. You control which attributes InDesign picks up with the eye-
dropper tool.
Windows†
• Intel® Pentium® II, III, or 4 processor • Preflight and packaging controls Preflight one or more InDesign documents to check for and resolve prob-
• Microsoft Windows® 98 Second
Edition, Windows Millenium Edition, lems. Then package all of the associated files, including fonts, for handoff to your printer.
Windows NT® 4.0 Workstation with
• Keyboard shortcut editor Modify the keyboard shortcuts to fit your training. Even select a set of QuarkX-
Service Pack 6, Windows 2000 with
Service Pack 2, or Windows XP Press-compatible keyboard shortcuts that are included with InDesign.
• 128 MB of RAM
• 145 MB of available hard-disk space • Editable gradient strokes and fills Apply gradients to the stroke or fill of text and graphics. Then handle
for installation
• CD-ROM drive those late-breaking edits with grace because InDesign lets you edit the text or graphic with the gradient
• Video card that supports 256-color applied without starting over again.
at 1024x768 monitor resolution
• For PostScript printers: Adobe
PostScript Level 2 or Adobe
PostScript 3 Availability and Pricing
In the United States and Canada, Adobe InDesign 2.0 began shipping in January 2002. The estimated street
† An Internet connection recom-
mended price for Adobe InDesign 2.0 is $699 (U.S.) for all platforms.

Upgrade pricing in the United States and Canada Registered users of any version of Adobe InDesign can
upgrade to version 2.0 for an estimated street price of $149 (U.S.). In addition, a special 90-day upgrade
offer is available through March 22, 2002: Registered users in the United States and Canada can upgrade
to version 2.0 for an estimated street price of $99 (U.S.). Other special upgrade offers may be available in
other countries.

Special offers (English versions only) Registered users of PageMaker 7.0 or earlier can purchase InDesign for a
special price of $299 (U.S.). This offer is available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Complimentary upgrades Customers in the United States and Canada who purchased Adobe InDesign
1.5 on or after September 24, 2001 (the day that Adobe announced Adobe InDesign 2.0) can upgrade to
InDesign 2.0 for the cost of shipping. This offer can only be redeemed directly from Adobe. To do so, visit
the Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com/store/products/indesign.html or call Adobe Customer Service at
800-562-3623. A dated proof of purchase is required. The eligibility period ends on February 21, 2002 in the
United States and Canada.
Availability of other language versions Japanese, French, and German versions of InDesign 2.0 are expected
to ship within 45 days of the initial release of InDesign. Adobe also expects to ship Brazilian Portuguese,
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish versions of InDesign. The availability
of other language versions, as well as all pricing, upgrade, and support policies for other countries, will be
provided separately.

About Adobe Systems

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for Network Publishing, including Web, print, video, wireless, and broadband applications. Its graphic
design, imaging, dynamic media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, manage, and deliver
visually rich, reliable content. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is the second largest PC software
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