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Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity
using Adobe® InDesign® CS3 page layout software. Built for demanding workflows,
InDesign integrates smoothly with Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®,
InCopy®, and Dreamweaver® software; offers powerful features for creating
richer, more complex documents; and reliably outputs pages to multiple media.
With its sophisticated design features and enhanced productivity tools for
streamlining repetitive tasks, InDesign CS3 lets you work faster and better than
ever.
Explore new
creative possibilities.Discover a world of design possibilities with
InDesign CS3. Expanded creative tools and options allow you to experiment
quickly and flexibly and create sophisticated effects for text, images, and
objects from within your page layout application. Apply effects such as inner
glows and bevels without having to update linked files. Finer transparency
control allows you to apply transparency independently on an object’s stroke,
fill, or content. Fade objects into the background using gradient feathers. And
set beautiful typography using professional tools.
Be more productive.
Boost your efficiency through new and enhanced productivity tools that make it
faster and easier to lay out, export, and print graphically rich pages. Support
for styled tables and table cells as well as a host of powerful layout features,
including an expanded Find/Change feature, allow you to easily apply global
formatting and consistently edit text and objects. And work efficiently thanks
to tight integration with other Adobe tools and technologies; native file format
support; and consistent, reliable Adobe PDF output.
Automate routine tasks.
Save time and money by automating production workflows using InDesign CS3. From
robust long-document support to flexible XML import, InDesign offers powerful
features that minimize repetitive tasks. Streamline the creation of long
documents with features such as advanced bullets and numbering, as well as
running headers and footers. Accelerate routine tasks by writing scripts, and
generate layouts from XML content with flexible and robust scriptbased rules.
Detailed Features
Extensive integration
Work smoothly with Adobe® Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, InCopy®, and
Dreamweaver® software; enjoy consistency by using shared presets and color
settings; work more efficiently with native file format support; and easily
publish to multiple media.
Creative effects and controls
Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and
gradient feathers. Since effects are live and nondestructive, you can experiment
with ease. Apply effects independently to an object's stroke, fill, or content.
Reliable
prepress and printing
Have confidence in your output. Get
accurate, consistent results every time you
print using sophisticated preview
capabilities, exporting reliable Adobe PDF
files, and sharing custom presets.
Productivity
enhancements
Perform a variety of tasks more efficiently
using new and enhanced productivity
features, including Multi-file Place, Quick
Apply, faster frame fitting, and the visual
Pages panel.
XHTML export
Enable multiformat publishing, including
print-to-web workflows, by exporting
InDesign® content as XHTML. Edit the
exported content in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
software (available separately) and
automatically format it using cascading
style sheets.
Professional
typographical controls
Compose beautiful typography using
professional controls including the
Paragraph Composer, OpenType® fonts, drop
caps, glyphs, and optical kerning and margin
alignment.
Full-featured
tables
Create richly formatted tables. Import
tab-delimited text files and styled
Microsoft Word or Excel tables, or build
tables in InDesign. Apply a wide variety of
formatting options manually or using table
and cell styles.
Robust
long-document support
Maintain consistency and streamline the
production of long documents using advanced
bullets and numbering, running headers and
footers, and synchronized master pages.
Smart text
handling
Control your text with intelligent
text-handling features including the ability
to import styled text from Microsoft Word
files, apply complex text wraps around
objects, and comprehensively replace fonts.
Scripting and
extensibility
Accelerate and simplify workflows by
automating processes using scripts and
extending the capabilities of InDesign using
the ExtendScript toolkit.
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