Adobe CS5.5 v.7.5, Mac 65103908 User Manual

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Adobe InDesign CS5.5 
What’s New
Styles mapped to tags
Managing the design of your type through styles saves you time and hassle—while allowing you to 
create more sophisticated text. Create digital documents that conform to open standards with 
improved basic typography without needing to make changes directly to the HTML code. In 
InDesign CS5.5, you can map paragraph and character styles directly to HTML, EPUB, and PDF tags 
to ensure that styles you define in InDesign are exported appropriately. For more advanced 
workflows, you can add CSS class names and type in your own custom tags.
Embedded video and audio in eBooks
Add another dimension to eBooks with embedded audio and video.
 Whether you’re adding 
soundtrack music to a children’s book, including tour videos in a travel guide, or including 
contemporary news footage in a historical volume, audio and video content take eBook readers 
beyond the traditional reading experience. 
InDesign CS5.5 supports video and audio tags for newer standards such as HTML5 and  
EPUB 3. Embedded audio and video play in eBook reader applications that support those 
standards, such as Apple iBooks.
Linked text
Save time and reduce errors by linking identical text blocks in a document, so that edits you make 
to the original story (the parent story) apply to all of them. Take advantage of this feature to ensure 
text remains consistent across duplicated content, such as when you’re updating boilerplate legal 
text or product descriptions that appear throughout a document. With linked text, you can edit 
information in the parent story and simply update the link in the Links panel to correct the text 
everywhere it appears.
Simply select the text you 
want to link, choose  
Edit > Place And Link Story, 
and then click in the new 
text frame. The text you 
copied becomes the parent 
story; the linked text is 
added to the text frame; and 
the link appears in the Links 
panel. Update the link just 
as you would any other link.
In the Export Tagging 
pane of the Character 
Style Options and 
Paragraph Style Options 
dialog boxes, you can 
map styles to HTML, 
EPUB, or PDF tags.   
Though the tags make no 
difference to the display 
in InDesign, they’re 
mapped to the correct 
standard when you 
export HTML, EPUB, or 
PDF documents.
Improved text formatting  
in eBooks
InDesign CS5.5 automatically
handles drop caps, bulleted and
numbered lists, and tables when you
export to EPUB format, so the text
appears as you expect it to in the
exported documents.