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OverviewDesign professional layouts for print and digital publishing
AdobeŽ InDesignŽ CS5.5 software lets you design and preflight engaging page layouts for print or digital distribution with built-in creative tools and precise control over typography. Integrate interactivity, video, and audio for playback on tablets, smartphones, and computers.
Highlights
Folio Producer tools
Create and preview digital magazines, newspapers, and catalogs with engaging elements such as 360° object rotation and image panoramas for a wide variety of tablets. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite1 for further production and distribution.
Access to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
Access the hosted services of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite from within InDesign to publish engaging digital documents for a range of tablet devices.1
Enhanced eBook authoring
Create more engaging eBooks, with less need for developers. Use a smoother workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize to fit virtually any screen. Even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that support HTML5 video and audio tags.2
Articles panel
Control the sequence of text, images, and graphics when you export to EPUB or HTML without changing your InDesign layout. Organize your content by dragging it into the new Articles panel to define the export order.
In depth
Create rich interactive documents
Design a rich array of interactive documents from digital brochures, to eBooks to interactive magazines. Add interactivity, animation and rich media such as video and sound. Export your documents as SWF for playback in the Flash player or interactive PDF.
Print work
Quickly create stunning print work using a variety of productivity and production tools including simplified object selection and editing, Live Preflight, PDF export in the background, custom print presets and more.
Create interactive presentations
Lay out presentation pages in InDesign, including graphics, text, video, audio, and motion. Add navigation features. Export as a SWF file for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime.In DepthWhat's new in InDesign CS5
Adobe® InDesign® CS5 software introduces breakthrough productivity and collaboration features such as simplified object editing and selection, integration with Adobe CS Live online services,* and the ability to create rich interactive documents that attract and engage readers. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Interactive documents and presentations
Add interactivity, motion, sound, and video to documents and presentations, exporting directly to SWF for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime.
Simplified object selection and editing
Perform repetitive layout tasks efficiently using new and enhanced tools and on-object controls.
Integration with Adobe CS Review
Create and share reviews online while working in InDesign with Adobe CS Review, part of CS Live online services. See feedback in the context of your page layout.
Track Text Changes
Mark up text directly in InDesign, easily tracking copy revisions.
Redesigned Layers panel
Easily manage page items with a redesigned Layers panel that is more like the one in Adobe Photoshop® and Illustrator® software.
Export to Flash Professional
Export InDesign documents to Flash Professional to add sophisticated interactivity, animation, and navigation to complex layouts.
eBook creation enhanced
Create compelling eBooks in the EPUB format for the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble nook, mobile phones, and other devices.
Maintain the fidelity of your original file
Hand off page layouts from InDesign to Adobe Flash Professional with even greater fidelity. Add sophisticated interactivity to your documents without compromising on page design.
Do more with Adobe Creative Suite® Design Premium
Multiple page sizes
Create pages with different sizes in a single document.
Paragraphs that span or split columns
Quickly create text that spans or splits into multiple columns in just a few steps.
Production enhancements
Find and drag images into page layouts from Adobe Mini Bridge without leaving InDesign. Document-installed fonts can help eliminate missing font issues.
Live Captions
Generate static or live captions automatically from image metadata.System RequirementsWindows®
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
- Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended);
- Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
- 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
- 1.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- Adobe Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
Mac OS- Multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
- 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
- 2.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
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