CS6 Design Standard / Features

Create and design alternate layouts that reposition content and synchronize text for other page sizes, orientations, or devices within the same document and without losing control.

Apply liquid page rules to automatically adapt content when you create an alternate layout with a different size or orientation in InDesign.

Link content that appears in multiple InDesign documents so that changes made to parent text or objects are applied automatically to all linked children objects. Save time and avoid hassles when making last-minute changes.

Quickly copy groups of content from one layout to another. Select desired text and objects in one layout, and place them in the new layout in the order you want them to appear.

Use InDesign to create media-rich publications for iPad and other tablet devices. Add interactive elements such as pan and zoom, slide shows, audio, and video. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite† for distribution. 

Edit video in Photoshop to include in your digital publishing projects. Quickly combine clips and stills using transitions, audio, and effects, such as pan and zoom.

Create engaging eBooks with refined typography and images that resize automatically to fit any screen. Add video and audio for eBook mobile devices that support HTML5 video and audio tags, and take advantage of EPUB3 support.‡

Use InDesign to add form fields to a layout. Include standard elements such as text fields, radio buttons, and checkboxes, and export the form as a PDF file for online publishing.

Protect against losing your work during unexpected shutdowns. Auto-save your edits without interrupting your progress, and keep working while saving even the largest Photoshop files in the background.

Generate geometric pattern fills more easily with new Scripted Patterns.

Easily migrate your presets, workspaces, preferences, and settings so you can experience Photoshop in the same way on all your computers.

Experience more than 50 creativity and productivity boosts directly requested by users.

Apply blurs, glows, drop shadows, and other effects with astonishing speed.

Efficiently edit layers, swatches, brushes, artboards, and more directly in panels without intermediate dialog boxes.

Sample colors faster and more precisely using an expandable color spectrum in the Color panel. Quickly copy and paste hex values into other applications.

Experience numerous refinements for crafting beautiful graphics and illustrations in fewer steps and less time. 

Quickly access the fonts you use most often. Recently used fonts appear at the top of the font list.

Set frames that grow to accommodate additional text, using simple parameters. Grow and shrink frames automatically for headlines, callouts, or other variable content.

Apply accessibility rules in InDesign — including tab and read-aloud order — and then check, adjust, and validate accessible PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat Pro.

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.

Add inline graphics and other anchored objects quickly and intuitively by simply dragging them to the desired anchor location in the text.

Take advantage of over a dozen enhancements — including page-specific PPI, split window views, a recently used fonts list, and persistent text frame fitting options— to help you fly through production tasks without compromising quality.

Sketch with Adobe Ideas and refine in Photoshop or Illustrator. Edit images with Adobe Photoshop Touch and refine in Photoshop. Create color themes in Adobe Kuler® for use in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.§

In InDesign, lay out media-rich publications for delivery as apps for iPad and other tablet devices. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite† for further production and distribution.