Adobe® InDesign® CS5 Bible

Appendix B. What's New in InDesign CS5

IN THIS APPENDIX

• Changes to the InDesign interface

• New document and page-manipulation capabilities

• What's enhanced for object functions

• New and revised text functions

• Enhancements to Web and multimedia functions

• Changes in InCopy

In its eighth major version (after 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0 [CS], 4.0 [CS2], 5.0 [CS3], and 6.0 [CS4]), InDesign 7.0 — known formally as InDesign CS5 — has become a very strong page-layout program offering a broad range of flexible, powerful tools. This newest edition introduces two brand-new tools — the Gap tool and the Page tool — aimed at print and PDF designers, as well as a whole suite of new animation capabilities, plus major revisions to the use of media files such as audio and video in Flash SWF and other interactive file formats, as part of InDesign's ongoing move beyond a pure print focus.

You can find a host of updated features in this latest release, as well as some key new features. Although the chapters in this book identify new features as they come up in the coverage of InDesign's publishing capabilities, this appendix brings the whole list to you in one place for easy browsing. The new features are arranged in roughly the same order as this book because that reflects the basic workflow of publishing and the major functional divisions.

InDesign Interface

The basic user interface — the iconography, panel design, window management, and so on — in InDesign CS5 is essentially the same as in InDesign CS4, but InDesign brings ...