Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium All-in-One for Dummies®

Chapter 9. Integrating InDesign

In This Chapter

• Integrating Version Cue

• Exporting to Acrobat

• Working with Photoshop files

• Using Illustrator files in InDesign

• Using InDesign with Dreamweaver

The Adobe Creative Suite and InDesign offer you a multitude of options to integrate all the Creative Suite 4 applications. (When you integrate products, you work on a single project using more than one piece of software.)

When software products are built as a suite, it typically is an advantage to the user. Software designers create ways that the user can integrate the products to work together and give the user more power to maintain a workflow, check errors, and help with consistency in a project. By making the Adobe Creative Suite 4 products work together, you can get some incredible results!

Using InDesign with Version Cue

With Adobe Version Cue, you can keep a project organized and accessible from all the Creative Suite applications. Many users don't jump right in because they've never experienced the convenience project management software provides, but we guarantee that you'll love it.

Adobe Version Cue manages files you author in the following Adobe Creative Suite components: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Acrobat 9. In Version Cue, you create projects, either new, blank projects that you save into, or new projects from existing work.

You and other users can then access the projects through the Creative Suite applications. Version Cue manages files stored in projects, ...