Lesson 13: Adobe InDesign CC New Features

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This lesson provides an overview of capabilities added to InDesign CC.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

  • Updated user interface
  • 64-bit support
  • Improved Font menu
  • QR code generation
  • Improved New Document dialog box
  • ePub enhancements

Starting up

This lesson is designed for existing InDesign users to get an understanding of what’s changed within this version of InDesign, or new users who may be working with one version of InDesign at home and another in the office, and want to know the differences. There are no specific lesson files used for this lesson.

About the new features in InDesign CC

Adobe InDesign CC is the ninth version of InDesign, and the software has been available for more than a decade. InDesign has a well-established way of performing most basic tasks, and the fundamentals of working with the software have not changed much in the last several versions. If you were to be placed in front of a computer using InDesign CS4, CS5, or CS6, you would likely feel right at home for creating most basic documents. The recent updates to InDesign have focused on minor improvements to the software to improve efficiency and more recently on digital publishing, especially ePub. We’ve updated every lesson in the InDesign CC Digital Classroom book to reflect changes in the InDesign CC software. Most of the new features are targeted ...

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