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If you use Adobe PageMaker software, then Adobe InDesign CS software is a natural upgrade choice, delivering innovative features that help you work smarter and faster on the latest Windows and Macin-tosh operating systems Now making the switch to InDesign is easier than ever with Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition, which is designed specifically for PageMaker users The PageMaker Edition includes Adobe InDesign CS software, plus an Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack, templates, and training materials With InDesign CS PageMaker Edition, you can be productive immediately—applying what you already know about PageMaker and other Adobe products to get to work quickly with InDesign CS In addition, you can open PageMaker 6.0–7.x and QuarkXPress 3.3–4.x documents, switch keyboard shortcuts to match those in PageMaker, and take advantage of tight integration with Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, GoLive®, and InCopy® software Now is the time to join the community of PageMaker users— creative professionals, service providers, educators, and others—who are switching to InDesign CS

About this document The first section of this document describes the features included in the PageMaker Plug-in Pack The second section discusses how the tight integration between InDesign CS and other Adobe products, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, works for you as a PageMaker user The third section takes you on a tour of cutting-edge InDesign CS features that will inspire you and other PageMaker users to make the switch The features described in the second and third section are available in the standalone

ver-sion of InDesign CS More information about these features is available on www.adobe.com/indesign and in the Adobe InDesign CS New Feature Highlights The final section of this document summarizes pricing and

availability information of Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition

A comprehensive, cost-effective solution for Adobe PageMaker customers

Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack

Adobe InDesign CS software

Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition:

Everything you need for a successful transition to Adobe InDesign

• Editable transparency effects, including drop shadows

• Direct export of Adobe PDF files

• Reliable printing, plus Sepa-rations Preview palette for onscreen evaluation of plates

• Robust cross-media support

• And hundreds of other state-of-the-art design and layout features!

• Standard Adobe user interface

• Ability to open PageMaker 6.5–7.x files directly

• Native support for the latest Photoshop and Illustrator files

• Story Editor

• Control palette

• Flexible table creation

• Groundbreaking typography

• Publication converter for PageMaker 6.0 files

• InBooklet Special Edition plug-in for turning individual documents into impositions

• Automated bullets and numbering

• Data merge for creating customized publications

• Position tool for resizing, moving, and repositioning content in relation to their frames (similar to the Crop tool

in PageMaker)

• Template browser and profes-sional template sets

• PageMaker compatible key-board shortcuts set

• PageMaker toolbar

AND

Training materials designed just for PageMaker users

Top 10 new features in Adobe

InDesign CS PageMaker Edition

• Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack,

which includes:

• Publication converter for

PageMaker 6.0 files (see this

page)

• InBooklet Special Edition

plug-in for turnplug-ing splug-ingle

docu-ments into impositions (see

this page)

• Automated bullets and

num-bering (see page 3)

• Data merge for creating

customized publications (see

page 4)

• Position tool for resizing,

moving, and repositioning

content in relation to its frame

(see page 5)

• Template browser and

professional template sets

(see page 5)

• PageMaker compatible

key-board shortcuts set (see

page 6)

• PageMaker toolbar

(see page 6)

• Standard Adobe user interface

(see page 7)

• Native support for the latest

Photoshop and Illustrator files

(see page 7)

• Training materials (see page 6)

• Story Editor (see page 7)

• Control palette (see page 8)

• Flexible table creation (see

page 10)

• Outstanding typography (see

page 10)

• Direct export of Adobe PDF files

(see page 8)

• Reliable printing (see page 10)

Hit the ground running with familiar PageMaker tools

Widely credited with launching the desktop publishing revolution (together with the Apple Macintosh and Adobe PostScript® printers), Adobe PageMaker has enjoyed a long and venerable product life It transformed the way designers work, introduced many innovative design and layout features, and served millions of design customers worldwide for close to 20 years However, its role as a leading publishing tool has now passed to Adobe InDesign CS, which offers a more robust design toolset and a modern codebase that can adapt easily and swiftly to the needs of today’s designers That’s why Adobe no longer plans to release any feature-based versions of Adobe PageMaker, nor do we plan to offer a version of PageMaker with native support for Mac OS X While we will continue to sell PageMaker 7.0 and to offer technical support and customer service for the foreseeable future, we encourage you to switch to Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition As a loyal PageMaker customer, you’re entitled to this specially priced version—less than half the retail cost of Adobe InDesign CS—which delivers:

• Adobe InDesign CS software and all of the productivity-enhancing layout and design features it offers

• The Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack, a set of new plug-ins based on popular PageMaker features and enhanced for use in Adobe InDesign CS, including an easy-to-use template browser and more than 80 templates created by award-winning professional designers

• Comprehensive training materials produced specifically to help PageMaker users get to work quickly and explore InDesign features more deeply

Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack With each release since version 1.0, Adobe InDesign has introduced more tools to help designers streamline production tasks and output pages precisely, while nurturing a flexible creative process Many of the fea-tures in InDesign CS—from character styles and built-in table support to gradients, arrowheads, editable drop shadows, and direct export of Adobe PDF files—are at the top of the wish list for PageMaker users That said, PageMaker has a few popular features of its own that are critical to those who want to make the switch to InDesign The Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack takes advantage of the flexible modularity of InDesign software to add such features as basic imposition, bullets and numbering, data merge, PageMaker compatible keyboard shortcuts, and a Windows-style toolbar

When you install the Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack, the following features are added to InDesign CS:

PageMaker 6.0 publication converter

With the PageMaker Plug-in Pack, you can convert PageMaker 6.0 documents and templates to InDesign

CS format, and in some cases even fix damaged PageMaker files (with limitations) This capability expands the conversion support currently built into InDesign CS, which enables you to open PageMaker 6.5–7.x and QuarkXPress 3.3–4.x documents Information about converting PageMaker documents to InDesign

CS format is available in the training materials included with the PageMaker Edition and online at

www.adobe.com/indesign.

InBooklet Special Edition plug-in for document imposition

One of the most popular “can’t live without it” features in PageMaker is the Build Booklet command, which lets you automatically rearrange the pages in a document so that they will fall in a correct sequence

after bring printed, folded, trimmed, and bound—a task known as imposition InDesign CS PageMaker

Edi-tion now offers similar funcEdi-tionality through the InBooklet Special EdiEdi-tion plug-in, created by third-party developer, a lowly apprentice production (alap), and included in the PageMaker Plug-in Pack

Create standard impositions, such as 2-up saddle stitch, from individual InDesign CS documents using the InBooklet SE plug-in Control margins, gap, bleed, creep, crossover, and signature size in the resulting imposition.

The InBooklet SE plug-in enables you to impose pages from a single InDesign document with complete control over margins, gaps, bleed, creep, and crossover traps (choose File > InBooklet) You can start

an imposition on any page, include specific page ranges and spreads, and choose among several imposi-tion styles, including 2-up saddle stitch, 2-up perfect bound, and 2-, 3-, and 4-up consecutive The actual reordering of pages in the document is handled at print time to produce faster and more reliable results However, you can preview your imposition in the InBooklet dialog box Final printing is performed using standard InDesign print controls In addition, you can choose the Create New Document option to build imposed spreads in a separate InDesign file, leaving the original file untouched Everything in the InDesign imposition, including the InBooklet crop and registration marks, remains fully editable, so you can enter late-stage edits and proofing changes, as necessary, into imposed spreads

Automated bullets and numbering

Bulleted and numbered lists are common design elements used to organize information and make it easier for your readers to skim Now the PageMaker Plug-in Pack adds automated bullets and numbering to your InDesign CS toolkit The fastest way to format a bulleted or numbered list is to select the text, and click the Bulleted List or Numbered List icons on the PageMaker toolbar (see page 6 for more details about this toolbar) If you then change the list—for example, insert another item between item 2 and item 3 in a num-bered list—InDesign CS automatically renumbers the entire list

Alternatively, you can exercise more control over the design of your bulleted and numbered lists by choos-ing Bullets and Numberchoos-ing from the Paragraph palette menu and then specifychoos-ing the options you want In addition to deciding whether the list type is Bullets or Numbers, you can choose a Font Family, Font Style, Size, Color, Position (flush left or hanging), Indent, and Tab Position You can work with the bullet glyphs available in a particular font, or add other bullet glyphs from other fonts For example, you can easily apply a bullet glyph from Zapf Dingbats, even if the rest of the text is styled with a different font A Preview option enables you to view the affect of your choices in your layout as you work All of the options available

in the Bullets and Numbering dialog box are also available on a Bullets and Numbering tab in the Para-graph Styles dialog box, so you can easily incorporate automated bullets into your named styles

Preview how the resulting imposition will be output using the InBooklet SE plug-in.

Style automated bullets easily in the Bullets and Numbering dialog box.

If you insert a new item between two numbered bullets, InDesign CS automatically updates the other numbered items in the list.

Data merge

The PageMaker Plug-in Pack installs a new Data Merge palette, which enables you to efficiently create customized publications, such as catalogs, direct mail campaigns, business cards, form letters, and mailing labels, using text and image data saved in a data source file Personalized content is highly effective in a wide range of marketing efforts from non-profit fundraising to high-end catalog sales In addition, being able

to quickly generate business cards and other personalized content is useful for many businesses By adding Data Merge capabilities to InDesign CS, you get the design quality and control you require and the produc-tion automaproduc-tion you need to be your most effective

The data source document used in a data merge typically originates from a spreadsheet or database appli-cation, but you can also create your own using a text editor The data source must be saved as a comma-delimited file (.CSV) or as a text file (.TXT) In a CSV file, each row constitutes a record, and each column delimits a data field in that record In a TXT file, paragraph breaks define records and tabs define data fields A data source file can include text or pathnames to images, which will be placed into appropriately tagged image frames, as long as you insert an @ (at sign) as the first character in the file heading

Setting up a design template into which the data is merged is easy First, design your basic layout Then, use the Data Merge palette to import a data source file (choose Select Data Source from the Data Merge palette menu) Next, select frames or click insertion points where you want text or image files to appear and click the name of the data type in the Data Merge palette list to assign a tag Apply any paragraph styles and graphics settings that you want to appear on every page in your custom document Check your work

by clicking the Preview Record option on the Data Merge palette InDesign automatically selects the first record in the CSV or TXT file, but you can also preview other records by clicking the Next Record or Previ-ous Record arrows in the Data Merge palette Finally, choose Create Merged Document from the palette menu InDesign then flows the data into the template you’ve set up, automatically adding pages as neces-sary to handle all of the records These options are versatile enough to handle any kind of layout, whether you’re incorporating a single record per page to create personalized letters or tiling multiple records per page to produce business cards, labels, and more

Click an insertion point where you want a particular piece of merged text to appear and then tag it with the appropriate item in the Data Merge palette list For example, click an insertion point under the Warranty head and tag it with Warranty to populate the resulting document with warranty information in this location Apply a paragraph style to the text,

so that all of the resulting records are auto-matically styled the way you want.

Preview how the records in the CSV or

TXT file will merge with your tagged

template by checking the Preview

Record option in the Data Merge palette

and then clicking the Next Record or

Previous Record buttons.

Position tool

The new Position tool works similarly to the Crop tool in PageMaker 7.0 It also eliminates the need to switch between InDesign CS tools to resize and move images and their frames or to reposition content

in relation to frames To select the Position tool, click the Direct-Selection tool in the toolbox, press your mouse button down, and select the Position tool Then do the following:

• Place the Position tool over a frame handle, and then click and drag to resize the frame Press the Com-mand (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Window) key as you click and drag to scale the contents with the frame

• Place the Position tool over an image to switch temporarily to the Hand tool, and then click and drag to adjust the portion of the image that’s visible in the frame A ghosted back preview of the image appears to help you make exactly the adjustment you want as quickly as possible

• Place the Position tool over an image and press the Command (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Window) key as you click and drag to move the image and its frame together

Note If no objects are selected, the Position tool cursor changes as it moves over different elements to indi-cate that it can select an item

Template browser and professional template sets

Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition comes with more than 80 templates created by leading designers from Adams Morioka, CMDC, Concrete Design Communications, Gee + Chung, HarperCollins, Mucca Design, Scott Design, and studio blue to help jumpstart your projects The PageMaker Edition also includes

a Template Browser palette (choose Window > Template Browser) for browsing, adding, deleting, and recategorizing templates, and for opening templates as new documents which you can then modify

In the Template Browser, you can view templates by Publication Type or by Visual Theme Publication types include ads, books and booklets, business cards, CD/DVD art, cards/postcards, certificates, forms, letterhead, menus, newsletters, posters, and trade catalogs Viewing templates by visual theme categorizes them by the designer who created them Clicking a thumbnail in the Template Browser displays key infor-mation about the template, such as its file name, template name, creation or modification date, author, fonts, colors, width and height, and file size, as well as offering designer notes about its use The Template Browser gives you extensive control: In addition to adding, deleting, and recategorizing templates, you can sort, search for, and rename templates, control their thumbnail size, and much more

Place the Position tool cursor over an image

When it changes to the Hand tool, click and hold down the mouse button A ghosted pre-view of the entire image appears to help you reposition the contents

of the frame.

Then drag the image

to a new location in the frame.

Use the Template Browser to view and select among more than 80 templates produced by award-winning designers, or to add and select templates that you’ve designed Sort by Publication Type or Visual Theme to locate the style of template you need

PageMaker compatible keyboard shortcuts

If you’re like most designers, you’ve invested time learning keyboard shortcuts that help you work as rapidly as possible—so the last thing you want to do is to teach your fingers a whole new set of shortcuts That’s why you can switch the keyboard shortcuts in InDesign CS to match the familiar shortcuts from PageMaker 7.0 Simply choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, select Shortcuts for PageMaker 7.0 for Set, and click OK In addition, InDesign CS lets you edit shortcuts for practically every tool and command on an application or palette menu This means you can customize the application to work just the way you want

PageMaker toolbar

The Windows-style PageMaker toolbar—which is similar to ones used in Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word—gives both Mac OS and Windows users easy access to commonly used commands, such as New Document, Open Document, Save, Print, Find/Change, Insert Pages, Remove Pages, Text Frame Options, Place, and Update Links It also speeds up access to the Character, Paragraph, and Text Wrap palettes; adds another high-speed way to zoom in and out of pages; and enables you to quickly launch Illustrator or Photoshop software, or to initiate packaging InDesign documents for GoLive or exporting them as Adobe PDF files Open the toolbar by choosing Window > PageMaker Toolbar Like the new Control palette in InDesign CS, the toolbar docks to the top or bottom of the monitor (Mac OS) or document window (Win-dows), or floats freely over your document area Alternatively, you can dock the toolbar to the right or left edge of your workspace For information about the Control palette, see page 8

Training materials Getting to work quickly with InDesign isn’t hard, but extra information can help you dive deeper Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition includes comprehensive training materials developed specifically to help PageMaker users make a rapid and successful transition to InDesign: Watch professional training videos and refer to an online Help system designed to answer how-to questions about InDesign from a PageMaker user’s perspective Whatever training support you need, you’ll find built right into the PageMaker Edition

Master Adobe InDesign CS with confidence

In addition to the added value of the PageMaker Plug-in Pack, InDesign CS itself offers numerous features designed specifically to appeal to Adobe PageMaker users Perhaps the most important is its standard Adobe interface and tight integration with other Adobe products, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat If you know one of these programs—and most PageMaker users do—you’ll be able to master InDesign CS with confidence by putting that knowledge to work InDesign also offers new and improved versions of two popular PageMaker features: the Story Editor for efficiently editing text and the Control palette for context-sensitive access to text-formatting and graphics-handling options InDesign CS even takes Adobe PDF creation to a new level by directly exporting Acrobat 6.0, 5.0, and 4.0 files for review, high-end printing, and interactive viewing

Switch the keyboard shortcuts in InDesign CS

to match those in PageMaker by selecting a built-in set that comes with the PageMaker Edition

Windows-style toolbar with

commonly used commands

Standard Adobe user interface InDesign CS shares standard Adobe commands, tools, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat This integration enables you to put your knowledge of other Adobe products to work with InDesign CS The result? You can get to up to speed quickly and work more efficiently because it’s so smooth and intuitive to move from program to program

Native support for Photoshop and Illustrator files InDesign CS imports and outputs native Photoshop (PSD) files saved in Photoshop 5.0, 6.x, 7.0, and CS, including duotone, tritone, and quadtone files and PSD or TIFF files that contain spot channels You can also import native Illustrator files, or copy and paste Illustrator objects into InDesign If you uncheck Prefer PDF When Pasting (General Preferences) before pasting Illustrator objects, they come in as editable AICB files—you can then edit paths, colors, and more in InDesign If you leave Prefer PDF When Pasting checked, InDesign places Illustrator objects in their native PDF format, which you cannot edit InDesign

CS even offers new support for an Illustrator shortcut: Use a quick keyboard shortcut (Option-click on the Mac OS and Alt-click on Windows) to open Photoshop, Illustrator, and other linked files in their original application, and then make changes, save the files, and automatically update your InDesign layouts Shared Adobe technologies

Adobe InDesign CS, Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, GoLive CS, InCopy CS, and Acrobat 6.0 Professional offer consistent font handling, color management, on-screen graphics display, and PDF support because

of shared Adobe technologies These core technologies help to ensure that you get the results you want, no matter which of these Adobe products you’re using

Story Editor With InDesign CS, you can enter and edit text in the new Story Editor, an integrated word-processing view that works similarly to the one in PageMaker, helping you change and copy-fit text across multiple text frames and pages more efficiently As you work in Story Editor, changes to the text appear in the layout, so you can see how they affect your design Viewing and applying paragraph and character styles, XML tags, and text formatting is fast and easy, especially when applying styles to text that runs across several pages

Note Adobe InDesign CS,

Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS,

GoLive CS, and Acrobat 6.0

Professional are part of the Adobe

Creative Suite The Adobe

Cre-ative Suite is a complete design

solution that provides today’s

creative professionals with the

tools they need to create and

publish content for print and the

Web faster, more easily, and more

affordably than ever InCopy CS is

sold separately

The Story Editor is highly customizable, particularly if you prefer the look of a classic word-processing system Story Editor Display preferences include font, font

size, font color, line spacing, and background color The text cursor can be set to a standard, barbell, thick, or block shape, and blinking can be turned on or off An anti-aliasing option gives you control over the onscreen appearance of text A choice of built-in themes enables the Story Editor to mimic the look of ink on paper, amber monochrome, classic system,

or terminal with a single setting

Add, edit, and delete text efficiently in the Story Editor, a separate word-processing view

in InDesign CS

Customize the appearance of the Story Editor to suit you.

As you make edits in the Story Editor, you can see them appear in your layout—making it easier to copyfit text

Easily style text in the Story Editor using the Paragraph Styles and Character Styles palettes.

Control palette InDesign CS has adopted another popular PageMaker feature—the Control palette, which offers efficient new ways to work Now, as an alternative to switching among the Character, Paragraph, Transform, Stroke, and Table palettes to style text, edit objects, and fine-tune tables, you can use the Control palette, which centralizes these options in one handy location The Control palette is context-sensitive, so the options available depend on the object selected on the InDesign CS page: when the type tool is inserted in a text frame, text-formatting options appear; when an image or InDesign CS object is selected, transform, stroke, and other options are available; and when one or more table cells, rows, or columns are selected, table-specific options appear The Control palette can float over the page, or dock to the top or bottom of the window, depending on your preference

Rich Adobe PDF support Adobe InDesign CS ranks as one of the top Adobe PDF authoring tools available today It can export Adobe PDF files in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5), Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4), or Acrobat 4.0 (PDF 1.3) format This capability is built into InDesign CS, so you no longer have to install a PostScript driver and Acrobat Dis-tiller to be able to export Adobe PDF files directly—a requirement of working with PageMaker You can even export InDesign CS layers as Adobe PDF 1.5 layers, and then hide, show, and work with these layers in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional, the latest version of Acrobat for creative professionals For example, if you often set up multiple design concepts on different InDesign layers, you can now export those concepts to a layered Adobe PDF file for review by colleagues and clients InDesign CS also increases the output reliability

of high-end PDF print workflows with its ability to export ISO-standard PDF/X-1A files, which support high-resolution CMYK output, and PDF/X-3 files, which support CMYK and color-managed RGB work-flows PDF Export Presets help you apply PDF export settings quickly and consistently

InDesign CS takes direct export of Adobe PDF files to a new level, delivering the tools you need to author and export interactive PDF files, which include bookmarks, hyperlinks, rollover buttons, and movie, ani-mation, and audio files These interactive PDF tools expand your design toolkit, whether you’re producing interactive forms, putting together an advertising campaign with print, video, and audio options for client approval, authoring a PDF book with interactive learning content, or any number of other design uses For example, imagine that you’re working on an integrated ad campaign with print, television, radio, and Web components You create multiple campaign concepts for client review and feedback With InDesign CS, you

Let the Control palette float over your workspace or dock it to the top or bottom of your screen Use the Control palette to edit text, adjust graphics, or modify tables

Text options

Graphics options

Export InDesign CS layers in Adobe PDF 1.5 files Then hide and show those layers in Acrobat 6.0

Create and nest bookmarks

in InDesign CS files, and then

export them to Adobe PDF files.

can lay out the different print ad concepts, incorporate links to the related video, audio, and Macromedia Flash content, add bookmarks for easy navigation, and export the whole thing as a single interactive PDF file for streamlined review with colleagues and the client

Step up to a new level of design productivity

The question for many PageMaker users has been “Why switch when my product works?” The answer is simple: Adobe InDesign CS works significantly better InDesign combines the best aspects of PageMaker with productivity-enhancing features that take page design to a new level, so you can work smarter and faster than ever Designed for the latest technologies, InDesign runs smoothly on Mac OS X, Windows

2000, and Windows XP systems It’s packed with features that can handle any page design project from a one-page flyer to a complex book with a detailed index, including multiple undo/redo, flexible table cre-ation, character styles, and robust printing controls It also expands your creative toolkit with editable drop shadows, gradients, arrowheads, stroke styles, and much more Here is a sample of some of the top features

in InDesign CS, many of which have long been on PageMaker users’ wish lists:

Multiple undo/redo Undo or redo a virtually unlimited number of steps Almost any action you can take can be undone (or redone), so you can experiment more freely and confidently with your design ideas

Character styles Quickly apply consistent text formatting to short runs of text using character styles Char-acter styles can include a rich set of text-formatting attributes They can also be nested in paragraph styles to help you perform complex text formatting more efficiently

Eyedropper tool Quickly sample the fill, stroke, character, paragraph, and transparency settings applied to one object and apply them to other objects with the Eyedropper tool

Use the new Button tool to create interactive rollover buttons For example, draw a square button, and style

it with a gradient, drop shadow, and formatted text

Then assign an action to it, such as jumping to a URL when it’s clicked in the final exported Adobe PDF file.

Save text-formatting options

as character styles.

Apply complex text formatting, such as this, in one step by nesting character styles in paragraph styles In this example, one character style is applied to the number and hanging indent space and another character style to the opening words up to the colon Both were applied with one click of the mouse because they are nested in the overall paragraph style applied to this text.

High-resolution preview of graphics Display low-resolution versions of images for faster performance Then switch individual images to high-resolution display with a keyboard shortcut

Transparency Apply editable drop shadows, feathering, and other opacity settings to produce natural-look-ing transparent effects in InDesign Maintain soft edges when placnatural-look-ing transparent Photoshop files—a first for desktop page layout applications

Adobe Indesign CS PageMaker Edition

Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition

Stroke palette and the Stroke style editor Apply built-in strokes and arrowheads to lines Also, create custom stroke styles with stripes, dots, or dashes, and apply them to underlines and strikethroughs, as well

as to lines, paragraph rules, and more Export sets of stroke styles for use in other documents, or to share with colleagues

Paragraph composer Automatically produce the best line breaks possible using the unique Paragraph Composer

OpenType support Quickly set basic fractions, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, and other type features when using OpenType® fonts in InDesign CS, one of the first applications to offer built-in support for OpenType features

Additional typographical features Automatically create ligatures, hang punctuation, insert special charac-ters, identify missing fonts on-screen, and produce beautifully kerned text with optical kerning controls

Flexible gradients Define linear or radial gradients Then apply them to the stroke and fill of graphics and text—these items remain completely editable

Tables Create tables within InDesign CS in a few quick steps Also import styled Microsoft Word and Excel tables directly, or turn tab-delimited text files into tables Then refine how tables look: Set row height and column width, apply color fills and strokes to alternating rows, merge cells, create running headers and footers for linked tables, and more

Printing Print InDesign files reliably to PostScript Level 2, PostScript 3™, and non PostScript printing devices using an efficient printing interface that reflects the input of thousands of print professionals Define Print Presets to automate how print options, trapping, transparency flattener settings, and other options are applied Also prevent costly mistakes before they appear on film or on press by using the new Separations Preview and Flattener Preview palettes to evaluate plates and transparency flattener settings onscreen before you print

Availability and pricing

In the United States and Canada, Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2004 Registered users of any version of Adobe PageMaker are eligible to purchase Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition for the estimated street price of $349 (U.S.) for Mac OS and Windows

versions To register online, visit www.adobe.com In addition, Adobe InDesign CS customers can purchase and download the Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack from the Adobe Store on www.adobe.com for $49 (U.S.)

Apply a drop shadow to text, which remains com-pletely editable.

Apply a gradient to text, which remains completely editable.