Home
Contact Us
Training:
Services Offered
Schedule
Class Descriptions
Training Facilities
REGISTRATION

About I.D.E.A.S.:
Certifications
About the Trainer

About our Customers:
Testimonials
Customer List

Useful Info:
Download & Tips
Software Links
Free Stuff!

Primary Improvements

  1. Table and Cell Styles
    Pasting Tabbed Text into Tables.
  2. Photoshop Transparency Effects: Additional transparency effects such as inner glow, outer glow, bevel, emboss, inner shadow and satin, which can be applied to objects.
  3. Transparency improvements: Transparency can be applied independently to the stroke, fill, or text of an object, or to an entire object.
  4. Find/Change:
    allowing find/change on object attributes, saving queries, support for regular expressions and customizing the scope of the search.
  5. Bullets & Numbering Improvements:
    including section/hierarchical numbering and allowing skipped paragraphs in lists.
  6. Text Variables can contain page count, date, modification date, file name or custom text.
  7. Print Selected Layers:
    In Layers panel designate layers to print or not.
    In the Print and PDF Export, select which layers to output
  8. Placing INDD files, which acts like a placed PDF
  9. Relink All Instances
  10. Loading master pages from other documents and syncing master in book
  11. Multiple Selection in the Place dialog
    Thumbnail preview
  12. Find Font edits style definitions
  13. Master page improvements
    master page objects can be set to not be overridden.
    Cmd + Shift + marquee select to override all objects in selection.
    Master objects have dotted stroke; No-override objects have no frame
  14. Print Booklet:
  15. File>Export HTML

Secondary Improvements

  1. Text wrap on master pages:
    (accessible via the context menu or the Text Wrap panel).
  2. Style Sets:
    User-customizable folders in the Paragraph and Character Styles panels for organization of styles.
  3. Expanded Quick Apply
  4. Looping in Nested Styles:
     repeat the style sequence through to the end of the paragraph.
  5. Control panel customization
  6. Tool navigation:
    Esc to select text frame from text context
    Double-click on frame handle to fit frame to content.
    Double clicking on a graphic frame will toggle selection tools.
    Double clicking on an object that is a member of a group will select that individual item.
  7. Merge Identically Named Layers on Export for PDFs exported from  a book
  8. Hyphenation contains a control for Hyphenate Across Columns.
  9. Drop Cap improvements:
    Align to Text Edge adjusts the left side, and Adjust for Descenders
  10. Script UI: There have been improvements to allow scripts to more easily create UI within InDesign.
  11. Script Attachability: The user can make a script run when a menu item is invoked.
  12. Default location for assignments and assigned content, and file management for assignments

Tertiary Improvements

  1. Pages panel thumbnails
  2. Agates measurement system added.
  3. Preference for the text tool to convert graphic frames.
  4. Re-locatable snippets: Alt invokes opposite preference.
  5. The Align panel has a dropdown that allows relative to the selection, margins, page or spread.
    The Control panel also had a button that allows the user to control this option.
  6. The user can now select a resolution when exporting JPGs.
  7. Frame Fitting Options: A frame has fitting options which can be edited via the Object>Frame Fitting Options dialog. A crop amount and alignment can be specified for the placed content.
  8. Transform Improvements:
    Resizing will only resize the frame (not content); scaling always resizes content.
  9. Additional Text Wrap Options: The Text Wrap panel now contains options to wrap to the left side, right side, side toward the spine or the side away from the spine.
  10. Externalized Glyph Sets
  11. The Glyph panel displays the most recently used glyphs.
  12. Drag and Drop Unformatted Text: Holding shift will force the text to inherit the formatting of the destination.
  13. UI Customization: Photoshop-like UI available from Edit>Menus...
  14. Pathfinder operations are now scriptable

Other Improvements

  1. Moving Pages Between Documents invokes
  2. Simplify Paths for Text Wrap
  3. Grabber Hand in Pages Panel.
  4. Auto scroll in Pages Panel.
  5. Improved Mouse Wheel Support.
  6. Chain Icon added to Text Wrap panel and Text Frame Options dialog
  7. Preview checkbox in Step & Repeat dialog
  8. Context menus in Color Panel
  9. Context menu in Info Column of Story Editor.
  10. Export remembers last exported format
  11. Select next/previous in group wraps around.
  12. Open Path selects the point where path was opened.
  13. Links panel improvements: Ability to sort links by type, and a context menu on items listed in the Links panel.
  14. Control panel Buttons for Flip and Rotate.
  15. Context menu on the Layer panel, Gradient panel and Table Strokes proxy.
  16. More than 100 documents in a book: Books can now contain more than 100 documents.
  17. Relink dialog improvements: The Relink dialog will now have a preview of the selected asset. The Show Import Options is also available now in that dialog.
  18. Index markers update the index palette selection when selected in text.
  19. Reverse path is enabled in regular selection mode.
  20. Keyboard shortcuts to navigate between panels (Cmd/Ctrl + number) now work in Export PDF and Object Styles dialogs
  21. Context menu in Library Panel
  22. Bitmap printing: The user will now have the option to print as a bitmap (known as Print as Image in Acrobat), and to choose the resolution in the Print dialog box.
  23. Keyboard shortcut to always insert straight quotes.
  24. Table of Contents & Index improvements for multiple languages
  25. Keyboard shortcut for vertical text scaling
  26. Control for Paragraph Rules at the top of a frame
  27.  Panel dock: The panels now have a new look and feel, as well as a new behavior around attaching the panels to side. Panels can be placed into a drawer on the left or right side of the screen, and the drawer can be opened or closed. The user can also minimize the drawer to an icon view and panels can be shown or hidden individually by clicking on the panel icon.

InCopy-based Improvements

  1. InCopy Email-based Assignments using the Package for InCopy
    This command will take all the stories in an assignment, check them out, zip them into a file and open the default email client. The external contributor send the assignment back via the Package for InDesign commands.
  2. InCopy plug-ins will be installed by default
  3. Assignments panel improvements: Drag & drop from layout to panel to assign stories and graphics; story reordering done in the panel is remembered.
  4. InCopy files now contain proxy/preview images
  5. Default location for assignments and assigned content, and file Ghosting Unmanaged Stories
  6. When opening an assignment, stories not included in that assignment will be dimmed or ghosted back.

XML Improvements

  1. Import CALS tables as InDesign tables: There will be an additional option in the Import Options dialog when importing XML, to convert any CALS tables in the incoming XML into InDesign tables.
  2. Apply XSLT on import: There will be an additional option in the Import Options dialog when importing XML, to specify an XSLT to be applied to the incoming XML.
  3. XML Rules: Users will be able to create a set of layout rules via scripting, which can be applied to incoming or existing XML to perform actions such as formatting, and creating frames. This feature is only accessible via scripting.
  4. Insert Parent Element command:  An new command to insert a parent element above a selected element is available in the Structure view menu or the context menu when an element is selected.