powerful set of tools that are not available in any other page layout application." We do not expect the publishing industry to suddenly flip on a switch and change overnight. There's no doubt that the book industry took notice of InDesign, but is there a chance of its rapid adoption?įor one, Adobe, Evans says, "has very realistic expectations. "You don't have to even own InDesign to receive prepress files," Evans stresses. According to Evans, a prepress file is a "very vanilla-flavored version of a PostScript file, completely self-contained," and the recommended format for trapping and imposition.
In addition to the ability to export PDF files, it's possible to export the so-called prepress files from InDesign. "We've done an awful lot between 1.0 and 1.5 to improve our PostScript output," he comments. The new version of Adobe Acrobat, 4.05A, he adds, corrects some of the problems with printing InDesign-exported PDF files. they wanted to share with all of their customers, they can define that style and. "What this means," he explains, "is that if a book publisher had created a certain PDF style that. To simplify PDF export, Adobe, says Evans, added in 1.5 the ability to both script PDF output and to define PDF style.
It analyzes the flow of text on the page and causes the line to break much more efficiently and smoothly. One of the new typography features that is guaranteed to make book publishers happy, Evans remarks, is the multiline composer. These new features provide users with the ability to align text to any path and then apply special effects and create clipping paths from the alpha channels. Publishers of graphics-heavy books, he continues, would appreciate the support for the new clipping paths and alpha channels in Photoshop files.
"There are things that we've done to enhance our support, for instance, of native Photoshop files and native Illustrator files," says David Evans, Adobe's senior InDesign evangelist. In 1.5, it is now possible to wrap text around any imported EPS, PDF or image file undo multiple steps customize keyboard shortcuts, use the toolbox layout, and even define which plug-ins are running.
A reported over 70 new or improved features include design tools (some are standard in other Adobe products) like the eyedropper, free transform and smooth paths, and docking palettes. Like its previous version, InDesign 1.5 can be integrated with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files InDesign 1.5 also opens QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker files directly.
However slowly, book manufacturers are getting ready to embrace Adobe InDesign 1.5, a wisely priced and vastly improved upgrade to 1.0Īdobe InDesign 1.5, the recently released upgrade to Adobe's professional page layout and design program InDesign 1.0, offers several features that enhance its PDF workflow and integration with other Adobe products.