Adobe InDesign CS4 (Mac) Upgrade

This upgrade version of Adobe InDesign CS4 will install only if you are a licensed user of Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe InDesign CS2, or Adobe InDesign CS.

Adobe InDesign CS4 software breaks down the barriers between online and offline publishing. Create compelling print materials, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents - all with beautiful typography and stunning design. With customer-inspired enhancements, powerful new features, and streamlined workflows, you can now easily deliver sophisticated and engaging layouts across media.

KEY FEATURES:

• Multichannel publishing
  Deliver an engaging reading experience for print or screen. Export immersive SWF files for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime, interactive PDF documents complete with video and sound, or sophisticated layouts for publishing to print..
  

• Integration with other Adobe design applications
  Take advantage of tight integration with other Adobe Creative Suite 4 components to quickly design and deliver engaging page layouts for multiple media. Use common presets and color settings and a standard user interface for a more efficient workflow.

• Layout productivity tools
  Quickly and precisely produce sophisticated page layouts with gorgeous designs using productivity tools that were created or enhanced based on the input of Adobe InDesign users worldwide.

• Professional typography
  Create beautiful, sophisticated typography for any media with the power of text and table styles, text wrap control, the Paragraph Composer, OpenType support, drop caps, and more.

• Extensive creative tools at your fingertips
  Explore creative possibilities directly in InDesign, resulting in more nuanced page layouts in less time. Powerful tools include built-in Adobe Photoshop effects, support for Photoshop artwork in 3D, integrated drawing tools, nondestructive effects, and finer ttransparency controls.

• Preflighting and print controls
  Use a range of tools, presets, onscreen controls, JDF technology, and live preflighting to fix errors while you work, so you can speed up production, increase reliability, and deliver your document correctly for print - the first time.

• Automation for long-document creation
  Rapidly create complex long documents with cross-references, conditional text, automated bullets and numbering, dynamic page addition and deletion, and more, which minimize manual production, help ensure content accuracy, and enable consistent formatting.

• Workflow automation
  Create powerful automated workflows using standards-based XML features to automatically populate and lay out pages with text and images. Incorporate database-driven content for utmost efficiency while publishing across channels.

• Extensibility
  Rapidly build unique workflows and software solutions for custom publishing using InDesign Markup Language (IDML), an XML-based file format that enables developers to create or modify files using standard XML tools.

• Online services
  Tap into the creative community quickly, and collaborate smoothly with your customers, colleagues, and vendors. Share your screen, search for expert help, and get color inspiration through online services - accessed from within InDesign.

NEW FEATURES:

• Live Preflight
  The new Live Preflight feature alerts you to potential production problems in real time--directly within your layout. Preflighting while you design helps you achieve better results, greater time savings, and lower production costs. Immediately identify and correct errors during the design phase of your project instead of waiting until the document is ready for print. When an error is detected, quickly navigate to the problem area, fix the problem, and keep working on your document.

• Customizable Links panel
  Find, sort, and manage all of your document's placed files in the customizable Links panel. View attributes that are most critical to your workflow such as scale, rotation, and resolution.

• Conditional text
  Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.

• Cross-references
  Simplify the writing, production, and management of long documents with flexible and powerful cross-references that dynamically update as content is changed or moved within a document.

• Interactive document design with SWF file export
  Transform page layouts into dynamic SWF files without working in the Adobe Flash authoring environment. Create digital documents with interactive buttons, hyperlinks, and unique page transitions for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime.

• Smart Text Reflow
  Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference. Smart Text Reflow works hand in hand with conditional text as pages are automatically deleted or added when conditional text is hidden or shown in the document.

• Page transitions in SWF and PDF files
  Apply page transitions such as curl, wipe, dissolve, fade, and more to individual pages or all spreads, and output to SWF or PDF. Preview a page transition before it is applied, and experiment with speed and direction for greater design control.

• Export to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional (XFL)
  Export documents to the XFL format and open them in Flash CS4 Professional with the visual fidelity of your original InDesign layout maintained. Use Flash to add sophisticated interactivity, animation, and navigation to complex layouts for an engaging reading experience.

• Smart Guides
  Quickly align, space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides. The guides, object dimensions, rotation angles, and x and y coordinates appear dynamically so you can quickly snap an object's edge or its vertical or horizontal center to another object or page edge in the layout.

• Spread rotation Temporarily rotate the spread view without physically turning your monitor. Enjoy full editing capability at 90- and 180-degree angles so that you can easily include nonhorizontal elements in your designs.

Adobe Indesign CS4: All Features List

Adobe Indesign CS4: System Requirements and Languages

Windows:

• 1.5GHz or faster processor
• MicrosoftWindowsXP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows VistaHome Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1.8GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on Indesign-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Macintosh:

• PowerPCG5 or multicore Intelprocessor
• Mac OS X v10.4.11-10.5.4
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 1.6GB 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 Indesign-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

*This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The online services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages, and/or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the online services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Adobe Online Privacy Policy, and access to these services may require user registration. Some online services, including services that are initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees. For more details and to review the terms of use and Online Privacy Policy, visit www.adobe.com/uk/.

Activation
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Adobe Indesign CS4: System Requirements and Languages

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