Adobe CS5.5 65150444 User Manual

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65150444
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Adobe InDesign CS5.5 
What’s New
Top features
• Folio Producer tools (Page 2)
• EPUB export enhancements
(Page 3)
• Articles panel (Page 3)
• Dynamic image resizing (Page 3)
• Styles mapped to tags (Page 4)
• Embedded video and audio in
eBooks (Page 4)
• Linked text (Page 4)
• Drag-and-drop anchored objects
(Page 5)
• PDF accessibility enhancements
(Page 5)
With Adobe InDesign CS5.5, you can:
Create powerful, innovative digital documents. Engage, inform, and attract readers with 
documents that integrate interactivity, video, and sound for playback on a tablet, smartphone, or 
computer. Develop stronger, more compelling messages with rich interactive documents. 
Do more in less time. Create and edit documents faster. New productivity features—including 
linked text, the Articles panel, and the ability to drag and drop anchored objects—help make page 
layout simpler and smoother.
Create eBooks for screens and tablet devices.
 Retain greater control of content and typography 
when exporting documents to EPUB format, while reducing your dependence on developers. 
Design more engaging eBooks, with images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen. 
Who uses InDesign?
Designers, production specialists, and printers use InDesign to lay out, preflight, and publish 
documents for print, online publication, or delivery to mobile devices. InDesign offers precise 
control over typography to produce the best results possible for both print and digital distribution. 
Creative professionals take advantage of its tight integration with leading industry tools, including 
Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe Acrobat®, and Adobe Flash® Professional software. 
Publishers, designers, and advertisers can take advantage of Folio Producer tools that integrate 
with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite* to create and publish digital content through leading mobile 
marketplaces for consumption on tablet devices.
Top new features of Adobe InDesign CS5.5
Folio Producer tools
Invite viewers to engage more deeply with your digital content using interactive overlays that offer 
readers panorama views, the ability to rotate objects 360 degrees, the chance to scroll and pan 
across an image, and access to placed websites. Use the new Folio Producer tools to add interactive 
overlays to your documents and preview them within the context of your publication in InDesign. 
Interactive overlays are supported in .folio files used in Adobe Digital Publishing Suite,* which lets 
you create and distribute publications for tablet devices such as Apple’s iPad, BlackBerry Playbook, 
and the Motorola Xoom. In addition to the new interactive overlays, you can also include audio, 
video, slide shows, and hyperlinks in .folio documents.
You can preview how 
your publication will 
appear on a tablet— 
including interactive 
overlays such as 
panorama views, 360-
degree rotation, scrolling 
and panning, and placed 
websites—using  
Content Viewer for 
Desktop, one of the Folio 
Producer tools included 
with InDesign CS5.5.
Invite interaction
An interactive overlay is a compo-
nent of a publication that gives
readers an opportunity to interact
with the content. Using Overlay
Creator, one of the Folio Producer
tools included in InDesign CS5.5,
you can add audio, video, slide
shows, 360-degree viewers, image
panning, panoramas, and embed-
ded websites into your documents.
You can preview the interactivity in
context using the included Content
Viewer for Desktop.
Interactive overlays are supported
in .folio documents, which are used
by Adobe Digital Publishing Suite*
to create, distribute, and monetize
engaging digital documents for a
broad range of tablet devices, includ-
ing Apple iPad, BlackBerry Playbook,
and a wide variety of Android tablets
including the Motorola Xoom.