Adobe® InDesign® CS5 Bible

Appendix A. Installing InDesign and Extensions

IN THIS APPENDIX

• Understanding CS5 system requirements

• Installing InDesign CS5

• Upgrading from prior versions of InDesign

• Removing InDesign

• Managing plug-in software

Installing InDesign CS5 is surprisingly easy, but before installing or upgrading, make sure your system meets the InDesign CS5 system requirements.

Then use the steps in this appendix to make quick work of the installation process. If you're upgrading from an earlier version, you'll actually perform a new installation, but read the section on upgrading near the end of this appendix for information about making the transition to InDesign CS5.

Understanding InDesign CS5 System Requirements

InDesign CS5 does not require extraordinary resources. If you have a Mac or PC that runs one of the required operating systems, you can run InDesign CS5. Just be sure to have enough hard-drive space and memory to be able to work with large images, many fonts, and multiple projects as well, so that you can have additional applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, open at the same time.

Here are the official requirements:

• For Mac systems, a multicore Intel processor, running Mac OS X version 10.5.7 (Leopard) or later or Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Note that the drive you install InDesign CS5 on must not use the HFS file system from Mac OS 9 and earlier, so be sure to use the Mac OS Extended file format (the default on all Intel Macs) as the drive format.

Note

InDesign CS5 does not support Mac OS ...