Adobe CS5.5 (v.7.5) Mac Upgrade NO 65103933 User Manual

Supercharging your workflow

In the fast-paced world of publishing, 

it’s essential that you find 

ways to optimize your workflow, whether you’re importing and formatting 

large amounts of text and graphics, working alongside editors, or 

collaborating with remote clients or colleagues. InDesign offers a number 

of features to help in these situations. Plus, InDesign is highly extensible 

and customizable through the use of plug-ins and scripts. InDesign is 

the hub of your workflow—taking some time to make that workflow 

efficient is an investment that will pay dividends for years to come.

To maximize profitability, publishers 

must find the most efficient ways to 

extract and store content in a format 

that can be reused. InDesign lets 

you import data from a database in a 

number of ways.
The simplest method to import text 

and graphics from a database or 

spreadsheet is via the Data Merge 

panel (Window > Utilities > Data 

Merge). This lets you import tab- or 

comma-delimited text files into a 

template that you create.
For more complex data publishing, 

InDesign offers extensive support 

for XML. You can import, create, for-

mat, edit, and export XML files using 

an integrated toolset that includes 

a Structure pane for viewing and 

managing tagged content, a Tags 

panel (Window > Utilities > Tags) 

for applying XML tags to content, 

easy controls for mapping XML styles 

to text styles (and vice versa), and 

optional use of Document Type  

Definition (DTD) files for defining 

and validating XML structure.
You can also use scripting to generate 

and format InDesign pages based on 

imported XML, or apply an XSL trans-

formation (XSLT) when importing 

or exporting XML content to make 

it easier to flow XML into InDesign 

page templates or export it to a data-

base or website.

When working with others in remote 

locations, you can choose File > 

Share My Screen to create a virtual 

room, based on Adobe ConnectNow 

(now directly accessible from within 

InDesign), where you and two other 

participants can share a screen; chat 

via text, audio, or video; or share col-

laborative whiteboards.

If you need powerful editorial col-

laboration capabilities, Adobe offers 

Adobe InCopy® CS5 software, a 

professional writing and editing pro-

gram that’s tightly integrated with 

InDesign CS5. 
The combined power of InCopy and 

InDesign lets editorial and design 

staff—whether offsite or on—work 

on the same file at the same time, 

without overwriting each other’s 

work. Designers retain complete con-

trol over the design, and writers and 

editors can produce or edit copy in 

the context of the layout. 

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