All-new
Adobe InDesign CS software takes page design to a new level, combining
extraordinary production power and creative freedom with innovative cross-media
support. Through its tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator,
and Acrobat software, this essential upgrade from InDesign 2.0 helps you
produce pages quickly and output them reliably.

Features

• Separations Preview palette
  
  Prevent printing errors by using the Separations Preview palette to preview
  plates, overprinting, ink limits, and more.
  
  
  
  


• Story Editor
  
  Edit and style text in the Story Editor, an integrated word processor that
  helps you more efficiently handle text spanning multiple frames.
  
  
  
  
  


• Flexible workspace management
  
  Take advantage of numerous workspace enhancements, such as the new Control
  palette and custom workspaces, to tailor your work environment to your needs.
  
  
  
  
  


• Enhanced support for Photoshop (PSD) files
  
  
  Place and print native Adobe Photoshop CS files, including duotones,
  tritones, and quadtones, as well as PSD and TIFF files that contain spot channels.
  
  
  
  
  


• Usability enhancements
  
  Work more efficiently with dozens of usability enhancements. For example,
  double-click a text frame to switch instantly to the Type tool.
  
  
  
  



• Nested styles
  
  Perform complex text formatting more efficiently with nested styles. For example,
  specify a unique drop cap font with a character style nested within a paragraph
  style.
  
  
  
  


• Running headers and footers in tables
  
  Automatically add running headers and footers to tables that run across multiple
  linked text frames.
  
  
  
  
  


• Stroke style editor
  
  Create and save striped, dotted, and dashed stroke styles and apply them to
  underlines and strikethroughs, as well as to lines and paragraph rules.
  
  
  
  


• Enhanced XML support
  
  Automatically style imported XML documents or add structure to formatted content
  by mapping XML tags to paragraph and character styles, or vice versa.
  
  
  
  
  


• Document presets
  
  Save your commonly used document settings, such as page size, columns, margins,
  and bleed and slug areas, as named presets that you can instantly apply to
  new documents.