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What's new in Adobe InDesign CS2

Get the fast facts about the powerful new features in Adobe InDesign CS2.

Exclusive PageMaker upgrade

Upgrade to InDesign CS2 from Adobe PageMaker with an upgrade price available exclusively to licensed PageMaker users.

Adobe Creative Suite 2

Take your ideas further with the complete design environment of Adobe Creative Suite 2, which includes InDesign CS2.

Learn more about Adobe Bridge

Simplify file handling with the powerful new Adobe Bridge, available in InDesign CS2 and Adobe Creative Suite 2.

Adobe Stock Photos

Quickly find the perfect image by searching the stock photo partners you rely on, all within your favorite Adobe tools.

With its sophisticated design and production controls and unmatched integration with other Adobe applications, Adobe InDesign CS2 software is not only a better choice for page layout-it's a superior way to work.

• Put your creativity in control
• Work faster, create more
• Plug into the power of Adobe integration

Put your creativity in control

Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe PDF layer support

Selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, and layers in Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layout-all while linking to a single file.

Transparency

Apply editable drop shadows, feathering, and other transparency effects. Maintain soft edges when placing transparent Photoshop files.

OpenType® font support

Unlock the full potential of OpenType fonts with support for multilingual and alternate glyphs including old-style numbers, fractions, ligatures, and swashes.

Anchored Objects

Easily anchor callouts, pull quotes, margin notes, and graphics to text. Precisely control the positioning of Anchored Objects, apply text wrap settings, and more.

Tables

Import styled Microsoft Word and Excel tables, create tables by importing from tab-delimited text files, or build from scratch in InDesign. Further refine your tables with formatting options such as color fills in alternating rows and automatic running headers and footers.

 

Work faster, create more

Adobe Bridge

Browse, organize, label, and preview graphics and InDesign documents, templates, and snippets in Adobe Bridge. Drag and drop assets from Adobe Bridge into layouts easily and efficiently. Search for files using metadata, such as keywords, colors, and image resolution.

Object styles

Apply and globally update object-level formatting more efficiently using object styles. Save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks.

InDesign snippets

Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a layout, InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page.

Smart text handling

Enjoy powerful text handling features including the ability to drag and drop and paste without formatting text, plus an integrated word processing tool to enable quicker editing.

Flexible XML support

Import XML files with greater control, including linking to XML content for easier updating. Also apply XML tags to tables, and then import XML content into and export it from those tables.

 

Plug into the power of Adobe integration

Using native Adobe file formats

Give yourself more time, creative freedom, and production control by using Adobe native file format support within your page design.

Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments

Assign only the elements of a document that an editor needs to work on in InCopy CS2 while you're designing the rest-whether that's specific frames on a page, frames on one or more spreads, or all the frames in a document.

Direct export to Adobe PDF

Export Adobe Acrobat® 4.0-7.0 files directly from InDesign for electronic reviews and high-end printing, using a streamlined interface that's more consistent across Adobe graphics applications. Maintain layers in exported Acrobat 6.0-7.0 files.

Package for GoLive command

Export objects or a complete InDesign document to jump-start your Web design. Then open in Adobe GoLive® and choose to generate an XHTML Web site automatically, apply a CSS template, or drag and drop design elements into your Web page.

Backwards compatibility with InDesign CS

Export your InDesign CS2 document to the InDesign Interchange (INX) format and open it in InDesign CS for sharing with people still working in the previous version.

Adobe InDesign CS2 provides a major leap forward in creative productivity with improved text and graphics control and greater integration with other Adobe software, allowing you to output your files with complete confidence.

• Adobe Bridge
• Object styles
• Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe PDF layer support
• InDesign snippets
• Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments

• Backwards compatibility with InDesign CS
• Anchored Objects
• Improved Microsoft Word and RTF support
• Smart text handling
• Flexible XML support

Adobe Bridge

Browse, organize, label, and preview graphics and InDesign documents, templates, and snippets in Adobe Bridge. Drag and drop assets from Adobe Bridge into layouts easily and efficiently. Search for files using metadata, such as keywords, colors, and image resolution.

Object styles

Apply and globally update object-level formatting more efficiently using object styles. Save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks.

Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe PDF layer support

Selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop files, and layers in Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layout-all while linking to a single file.

InDesign snippets

Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a layout, InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page.

Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments

Assign only the elements of a document that an editor needs to work on in InCopy CS2 while you're designing the rest-whether that's specific frames on a page, frames on one or more spreads, or all the frames in a document.

Backwards compatibility with InDesign CS

Export your InDesign CS2 document to the InDesign Interchange (INX) format and open it in InDesign CS for sharing with people still working in the previous version.

Anchored Objects

Easily anchor callouts, pull quotes, margin notes, and graphics to text. Precisely control the positioning of Anchored Objects, apply text wrap settings, and more.

Improved Microsoft Word and RTF support

Automatically style Microsoft Word files on import by mapping Word styles to InDesign styles. Also resolve style name conflicts at import, preserve local overrides while removing other formatting, and save Word import settings as presets for future use.

Smart text handling

Enjoy powerful text handling features including the ability to drag and drop and paste without formatting text, plus an integrated word processing tool to enable quicker editing.

Flexible XML support

Import XML files with greater control, including linking to XML content for easier updating. Also apply XML tags to tables, and then import XML content into and export it from those tables.