Upgrade details
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| InDesign CS4 | InDesign CS3 | |
| Extensive creative tools at your fingertips | ||
| Built-in Adobe Photoshop® effects | yes | yes |
| Fine transparency controls | yes | yes |
| Gradient feathers with multiple stops | yes | yes |
| Support for 3D Photoshop artwork | yes | yes |
| Free Transform tool | yes | yes |
| Sophisticated graphics and layout | ||
| Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support | yes | yes |
| Step and Repeat command | yes | yes |
| Built-in design tools | ||
| Drawing tools | yes | yes |
| Pathfinder commands | yes | yes |
| Join command | yes | yes |
| Convert Point command | yes | yes |
| Stroke style editor | yes | yes |
| Professional typography | ||
| Paragraph Composer | yes | yes |
| OpenType® font support | yes | yes |
| Convenient Glyphs panel | yes | yes |
| Optical kerning and margin alignment | yes | yes |
| Text on a path | yes | yes |
| Text stroke control | yes | yes |
| Color controls | ||
| CMYK, RGB, and LAB support | yes | yes |
| Mixed ink support | yes | yes |
| Consistent color | yes | yes |
| Color Picker | yes | yes |
| Gradients | yes | yes |
| Layout productivity tools | ||
| Spread rotation | yes | no |
| Smart Guides | yes | no |
| Smart Dimensions | yes | no |
| Smart Spacing | yes | no |
| Smart Cursors | yes | no |
| Edit Original | yes | yes |
| Edit With | yes | no |
| Image ghosting in anchored objects | yes | no |
| Multifile Place | yes | yes |
| Proportional Place | yes | no |
| Contact sheet creation | yes | no |
| Visual Pages panel | yes | yes |
| Advanced Find/Change command | yes | yes |
| Quick Apply panel | yes | yes |
| Versatile master pages | yes | yes |
| Apple Multi-Touch gesture support | yes | no |
| Custom page sizes | yes | yes |
| Grids and guides | ||
| Guide deletion | yes | yes |
| Ruler origin on the spine | yes | yes |
| Leading-based baseline grid increments | yes | no |
| Smart text handling | ||
| WYSIWYG font menus | yes | yes |
| Comprehensive font replacement | yes | yes |
| Microsoft Word and RTF support | yes | yes |
| Drag-and-drop text | yes | yes |
| Flowing text wrap | yes | yes |
| Story Editor | yes | yes |
| Built-in support for multilingual text | yes | yes |
| Flexible dictionary management | yes | yes |
| All-language user dictionaries | yes | no |
| Dynamic spell-check and automatic correction | yes | yes |
| Full-featured tables | ||
| Advanced table options | yes | yes |
| Table and cell styles | yes | yes |
| Styled table import | yes | yes |
| Inline notes supported in tables | yes | yes |
| Tables in the Story Editor | yes | no |
| Comprehensive styles | ||
| Rich paragraph and character styles | yes | yes |
| Object styles | yes | yes |
| Style group management | yes | yes |
| GREP support for character styles | yes | no |
| Nested styles | yes | yes |
| Nested style looping | yes | yes |
| New styles dialog box | yes | no |
| Preflighting and print controls | ||
| Live Preflight | yes | no |
| Professional printing interface | yes | yes |
| Built-in PDF Print Engine | yes | yes |
| Output previews | yes | yes |
| Package command for print or web document handoff | yes | yes |
| JDF integration between InDesign and Adobe Acrobat® | yes | yes |
| Custom print presets | yes | yes |
| Adobe PDF file export | yes | yes |
| Print Booklet | yes | yes |
| Intuitive workspace | ||
| Application frame | yes | no |
| Application Bar | yes | no |
| Tabbed documents | yes | no |
| N-up view | yes | no |
| Task-based workspaces | yes | no |
| Dialog box positioning | yes | yes |
| Control panel | yes | yes |
| Right-click tool access | yes | yes |
| Selection and Direct Selection tool switch | yes | yes |
| Power zoom | yes | yes |
| Dynamic text and graphics preview | yes | yes |
| High-resolution graphics preview | yes | yes |
| Multiple preview modes | yes | yes |
| Customizable keyboard shortcuts | yes | yes |
| Extensive integration | ||
| Native Photoshop, Illustrator®, and Adobe PDF format support | yes | yes |
| Support for Illustrator CS4 artboards | yes | no |
| Integration with Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4 | yes | yes |
| Integration with Adobe Digital Editions | yes | yes |
| Backward compatibility | yes | yes |
| Multiple export formats | yes | yes |
| Multiple import formats | yes | yes |
| Shared Adobe technologies | yes | yes |
| Adobe InCopy® CS4 workflow | yes | yes |
| Adobe InDesign Server support | yes | yes |
| Adobe services | ||
| Adobe Community Help | yes | no |
| Adobe ConnectNow | yes | no |
| Adobe Kuler™ | yes | no |
| Acrobat.com | yes | no |
| Adobe Bridge Home | yes | yes |
| Asset and file management | ||
| Custom Links panel | yes | no |
| Relink to Folder | yes | no |
| Integration with Adobe Bridge CS4 | yes | yes |
| XMP metadata support | yes | yes |
| Info panel | yes | yes |
| InDesign snippets | yes | yes |
| Library panel | yes | yes |
| Recent item display preference | yes | yes |
| Workflow automation | ||
| Rule-based layouts from XML | yes | yes |
| XSLT support | yes | yes |
| XML import | yes | yes |
| XML tagging and editing | yes | yes |
| XML mapping | yes | yes |
| CALS table import | yes | yes |
| Extensibility | ||
| InDesign Markup Language (IDML) | yes | no |
| Highly extensible editorial platform | yes | yes |
| JavaScript, AppleScript, and VBScript support | yes | yes |
| ExtendScript utility | yes | yes |
| Script protection | yes | yes |
| Robust long documents | ||
| Conditional text | yes | no |
| Smart Text Reflow | yes | no |
| Cross-references | yes | no |
| Text variables | yes | yes |
| Advanced bullets and numbering | yes | yes |
| Placed InDesign files | yes | yes |
| Synchronized master pages | yes | yes |
| Footnote support | yes | yes |
| Multilingual book publishing | yes | yes |
| Anchored objects | yes | yes |
| Text autoflow | yes | yes |
| Autocorrect editing | yes | yes |
| Personalized publishing | ||
| Data Merge panel | yes | yes |
| Interactive SWF and PDF Documents | ||
| SWF file export | yes | no |
| Interactive Adobe PDF files | yes | yes |
| Page transitions in SWF and PDF files | yes | no |
| Interactive buttons | yes | yes |
| Hyperlinks panel | yes | yes |
| Export to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional | ||
| XFL export for Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional | yes | no |
| Live text export | yes | no |
| Automatic object conversion and compression | yes | no |