Adobe CS5 7, Mac, ES 65061709 User Manual

Adobe InDesign CS5 

What’s New

Object States panel. Create multi-state objects that 
indicate which button is selected, display images in a 
slide show, or show versions of text in different 
languages. Multi-state objects are page items that have 
multiple appearances. Object states can be images, text 
frames, or any other objects or groups you want to 
display when someone clicks or rolls over an interactive 
button while viewing an interactive document. For 
example, you might create a multi-state object that 
consists of multiple images to create a click-through 
slide show; when the viewer clicks a button, the next 
image appears.

Timing panel. Control animation timing and 
playback without having to use a timeline to 
add keyframes or create motion tweens. Use 
the Timing panel to determine when objects 
such as bullet points in a presentation or 
images on a page should animate in the 
interactive document. For example, 
animations can be triggered to play when the 
page loads, when the page is clicked, or 
when a button is clicked. Loop the animation 
or play it a specific number of times. Link 
objects to animate simultaneously, with the 
same or different durations. 

Media panel. Preview and scrub through 
placed video files without leaving InDesign. 
You can select a frame from the video 
sequence to represent the video in your 
InDesign document before the video plays, and 
even create navigation points that determine 
which parts of the video play when you click a 
button or otherwise trigger an action.

Preview panel. Take animations, buttons, and 
other interactive elements for a test drive 
without leaving InDesign. You no longer have 
to re-export your content every time you make 
a change to any rich media element—
interactivity, animation, video, or sound—just 
to see how the change affects the document. 
Instead, preview and test a selection, the page, or the  
entire document before you export your final SWF file.

Perform repetitive layout tasks efficiently in InDesign CS5. Numerous improvements can help 
make tasks such as aligning and distributing objects or customizing frame corners faster and easier.

Multiple transformations with a single tool. You can use one tool to select, align, distribute, 
rotate, resize, reposition, crop, and scale frames and frame content. InDesign CS5 dynamically 
switches to the right tool for the job, so you never need to lift your mouse from the layout. The new 
Content Grabber lets you quickly reposition content within a frame, just by clicking and dragging. A 
real-time crop preview helps you position the content precisely where you want it. 

Presentations made easy
Skip the presentation software!

Create engaging SWF presentations
complete with animation, interac-

tivity, video, and sound directly in
InDesign. Because InDesign supports
native Photoshop and Illustrator
files, you can easily edit them as you
perfect your presentation.
Use the new Preview panel to see
how your presentation will play, and
make timing or other adjustments
before you export it. If you need to

edit text, replace a graphic, or tweak

the layout later, make your changes
in InDesign and export again easily.
Present a page design, mood board,
and more to a client using the new
Presentation mode in InDesign—
show off your layout without menus

or panels cluttering the screen.

Entice viewers to watch an embedded video by selecting a 

frame to represent it on the page. 

Manage states in 
the Object States 
panel. You can 
rearrange states 
to change the 

order in which 

they appear.

The Timing panel provides an intuitive way to control when 

animations begin to play and how many times they repeat.