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Adobe® InDesign® 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.

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Folio Producer tools

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. Now you can create and share an unlimited number of .folio files.

Access to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Access to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Access the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite from within InDesign to publish engaging digital documents for a range of tablet devices.1 New Single Edition now available for publishing to iPad.

Interactive documents and presentations

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.

Export to Flash Professional

Export to Flash Professional

Export InDesign documents to Flash Professional to add sophisticated interactivity, animation, and navigation to complex layouts.

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Digital publishing

Digital publishing

Create engaging interactive documents for virtually any screen or device. Design compelling eBooks, create and publish cutting-edge content for tablets through integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite,1 and export interactive layouts as SWF or PDF files.

Integration with online services

Integration with online services

Build engaging interactive documents for tablets and improve the efficiency of design processes using essential Adobe Digital Publishing Suite1 and Adobe CS Live online services,3,4 directly accessible from InDesign.

Integration with other Adobe solutions

Integration with other Adobe solutions

Move projects smoothly from design to print or digital output, thanks to tight integration with industry-leading Adobe software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Flash Professional, and Digital Editions.

Preflight and production tools

Preflight and production tools

Speed up production, increase print reliability, and deliver error-free documents with live preflighting, document-installed fonts, JDF technology, background PDF export, and enhanced support for PDF/X standards.

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Folio Producer tools

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. Now you can create and share an unlimited number of .folio files.

Access to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Access to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Access the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite from within InDesign to publish engaging digital documents for a range of tablet devices.1 New Single Edition now available for publishing to iPad.

Enhanced eBook authoring

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

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.

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Built-in creative tools

Built-in creative tools

Explore creative possibilities directly within InDesign using integrated drawing tools, nondestructive effects, built-in Adobe Photoshop® effects, finer transparency controls, and support for 3D Photoshop artwork.

Preflight and production tools

Preflight and production tools

Speed up production, increase print reliability, and deliver error-free documents with live preflighting, document-installed fonts, JDF technology, background PDF export, and enhanced support for PDF/X standards.

Integration with online services

Integration with online services

Build engaging interactive documents for tablets and improve the efficiency of design processes using essential Adobe Digital Publishing Suite1 and Adobe CS Live online services,3,4 directly accessible from InDesign.

Paragraphs that span or split columns

Paragraphs that span or split columns

Quickly create text that spans or splits into multiple columns in just a few steps.

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Built-in creative tools

Built-in creative tools

Explore creative possibilities directly within InDesign using integrated drawing tools, nondestructive effects, built-in Adobe Photoshop® effects, finer transparency controls, and support for 3D Photoshop artwork.

Preflight and production tools

Preflight and production tools

Speed up production, increase print reliability, and deliver error-free documents with live preflighting, document-installed fonts, JDF technology, background PDF export, and enhanced support for PDF/X standards.

Integration with online services

Integration with online services

Build engaging interactive documents for tablets and improve the efficiency of design processes using essential Adobe Digital Publishing Suite1 and Adobe CS Live online services,3,4 directly accessible from InDesign.

Paragraphs that span or split columns

Paragraphs that span or split columns

Quickly create text that spans or splits into multiple columns in just a few steps.

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InDesign news

Introducing Muse (code name)

Design and publish HTML websites without writing code with this new software from Adobe. Download the complimentary beta today.

Creating accessible PDF documents/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file

Learn how to use new features in InDesign CS5.5 to efficiently produce PDFs that are optimized for screen readers and assistive devices for people with disabilities.

Adobe InDesign Family CS5.5 7.5.2 update

The Adobe InDesign Family CS5.5 7.5.2 update provides key fixes in the areas of epub/ebook, PDF export, Cyrillic characters, text, font handling and others.
This fix is recommended for all users.

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02/16/2012 Make your own motion path in InDesign! This video tutorial from Lynda.com shows...
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02/13/2012 InDesign: #AdobeMuse Beta 6 now available! 80+ updates & enhancements, changes to installer & new feature support- http://t.co/bkhyjHi8 @Ado [...]

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02/17/2012 Valuco: Aesthetic Apparatus
02/16/2012 Target Education Illustrations: Ty Wilkins
02/15/2012 The Solar System Tee: Brent Couchman
02/14/2012 Owen: Jeff Rogers

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Park City

Park City

Park City Mountain Resort and experience agency Ascentium used InDesign to create an interactive brochure that playfully educates visitors about the resort.

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1 Adobe Digital Publishing Suite requires a separate license and payment of associated fee(s). See www.adobe.com/products/digitalpublishingsuite for more information.

2 InDesign uses EPUB3 and HTML5 code to create eBooks with audio, video, and other advanced features. EPUB3 and HTML5 presentation, media playback, and double-byte character support (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean) may not be supported by all devices, browsers or EPUB readers.

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