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Hello. My name is Terry White, Worldwide Design Evangelist for Adobe Systems,
and it's my pleasure to walk you through some of the top productivity enhancements
for InDesign CS6.
So let's jump right in.
One of the first enhancements is a split-window display.
For example, I've got alternate layouts here
and I'm looking at the vertical layout, but if I wanted to see the horizontal layout
I could look at it in the pages panel but I'd actually have to scroll down
to where the actual horizontal layout starts.
Rather than have to constantly go back and forth in my document,
I can now just go down to the bottom right-hand corner,
click to turn on a split-window display.
So these windows operate independently of each other.
You can, of course, design or work in either window,
and whatever you do is happening in the document.
You're basically getting a split-window display that you've always wanted
to look at multiple parts of your document all in the same window.
So let's go ahead and turn off the split window, go back to the single window,
and now let's talk about one of the most asked-for enhancements inside InDesign.
That is a recently-used font menu.
So if I go up to my Type menu, I have the Font menu, but you'll notice
that now there's a section at the very top for fonts that I recently used or accessed.
So these fonts are always here in the application for fonts that I use,
no matter which document I'm using them in.
And of course I have my complete list of fonts all the way down,
so if I need to get back to Chaparral Pro, it's not just the font,
it's the actual family, and I can get to whichever one I need
and choose it as I need it without having to scroll through the list every single time.
As a bonus shortcut or tip, if you go to the preferences for Type,
you can actually control--because some people say, well, you know, I don't need that.
I just want the regular font list.
Then just set the number of recently used fonts to zero.
More importantly, if you're like me, I like things in alphabetical order,
so you can say Sort the Recent Fonts List Alphabetically,
and that way it won't be just the most recent one at the top or bottom.
It will actually be in alphabetical order at all times.
So you pick the options that best suit you.
I kind of like the alphabetical, and I'll keep it at the default of 10.
All right. So the next one is Align to Object, and this is actually one of my favorite new features.
I have three objects here; I have a logo, the 'A,' and another logo--Unison.
If I wanted to align those center, by default it would always pick, I believe,
the top object.
But now I can say maybe I want to align them all center on the 'A' or
all center on 'Unison' or all center on the top object.
So all I have to do now is just select each of the objects.
With the three objects selected, there is a new feature in the control panel
that says Align to Selection, Align to Key Object, Align to Margins,
Align to Page, Align to Spread.
So I want to Align to a Key Object.
I want to specify which object it aligns to.
When I do that, you notice that the top object, again by default, turns blue
or has a blue outline around it.
But if I select this object, it has a blue outline around it, so now it's my key object.
So now all I have to do is pick my alignment.
I'll say Align to Center, and they are all centered now on the 'A.'
So, love that feature; that's one I've been wanting for a long time.
Now, InDesign has always been able to save back at least one version,
but people--kind of like--where is that?
How do I do that?
So now in the File menu, when you actually do a Save As,
you don't have to do an Export; it's right here in the save menu: Save Back for CS4 or later.
So now we're actually going back 2 versions in the IDML format for CS6.
So CS4 users will be able to open these files as well.
This is one that's particularly important for people that are working for
monochrome displays such as some of the earlier Kindles
or you're just working on something that's going to to be in grayscale
and you want to actually either preview it or export a PDF in grayscale.
So, for example,I have under the View menu the ability to do Proof Setup.
We can choose Custom, and we can actually choose a grayscale preview.
So we can do sGray, we click okay, and now we get a grayscale preview
of our entire document that we can turn on and off at any time.
This is also important for people that may be designing multiple print jobs.
Or maybe I'm designing for digital publishing.
It's going out in color to my tablet but the actual printed version may be in grayscale
and I want to make sure that I'm not getting things either too dark or don't blend well together
because the colors are so similar.
I can turn that on or off at any time, and of course we have the ability to do that
for the PDF export as well.
So if I go to my File menu, choose Export,
choose Adobe PDF for Print,
we'll choose one of the higher standards of PDF,
and now when we go to output, we can do our color conversion
and we can choose the same profile of sGray to make a grayscale PDF.
Our next feature we're going to talk about is another one that is near and dear to my heart.
It's about text frame fitting options.
So we have text frames and, as you know, if you were to
have a frame that was basically the size of the text,
and then you were to continue typing,
what you would ultimately get is basically a warning
letting you know you're in an overset situation.
In other words, you've got more text than that frame can handle.
Well, in a word processing environment, we have the ability to just continue typing.
The page will grow; it'll add more pages.
Now, although InDesign can insert additional pages,
it doesn't really do it on a frame-by-frame basis, making the frames themselves larger.
So, for example, I want to be able to take this frame and have it grow
as the text grows inside of it or adds inside of it.
So let's go ahead go up to our Object menu.
Let's come down to Text Frame Options.
There is now a new Auto Size Category,
and I can say Auto Sizing, make it the height, the width,
height and width, or height and width--keep proportions.
So I'm just going to do the height,
and I'm going to say that it grows from the top down.
So now when I click OK, it will automatically continue making that frame bigger
as I continue to type.
So the frame will automatically adjust based on the content that's in it.
Great feature. Love it.
So it will not let me have an overset situation.
I can't even make it do it; it's just going to keep making that frame big enough.
All right. Next let's talk about spelling.
Of course, InDesign has supported spelling for multiple languages
and multiple dictionaries for a long time.
Well now we've switched the default to--if we go to Spelling it will basically be--
or our Dictionary--the Hunspell dictionaries, by default.
Now your existing InDesign documents are okay.
It'll still use Proximity.
But any new documents you create will be on Hunspell.
What's the difference?
Well, the Hunspell dictionaries are open-source,
so that means that there are tons of them available
for people to download and now install right inside of InDesign
without going through any extra hoops or circles to get the dictionaries installed.
So Hunspell open-source dictionaries--good thing because you can grab
more as you need them, and it's the new InDesign default.
Proximity still works for those of you who have Proximity dictionaries,
but Hunspell will be the default going forward.
So this next one is really a geeky feature.
It's one of those things that the average user probably wouldn't think twice about,
but for those of you who are into calculations,
you're going to really enjoy this one.
It's complex calculations in InDesign. Let's take a look.
So here I have that frame that we were working with.
I had it wide and we can go ahead and now condense it down,
and of course the height will continue to change
based on what it needs to to make the content fit.
But if we look at this--for example, let's go ahead and make this frame
a little bit bigger.
There we go--it's 296 pixels wide.
What if I wanted it to be twice that?
I could do the math in my head or grab a calculator
or I could use InDesign.
So, for example, if I click here, I can put in the times symbol for calculations,
times 2, and it will make the frame twice as wide.
We were already doing that.
What complex calculations means is that we can do it further.
We can add more operators.
So, for example, I can say not only make it 296 times 2,
but make it 296 times 2 plus 30 pixels.
So it will make it twice as big and add 30 pixels to it.
And just like that--I hit enter and it does the calculation, does all the math for me.
And those of you--I know you grabbed your calculators and you checked it,
but it worked.
One of the other things that we've added to InDesign CS6
is the ability to do a new kind of export.
It's another graphics format.
As a matter of fact, it's one of the most popular graphics formats.
It's PNG, or, Portable Network Graphics.
Let's go to our File menu, choose Export,
and PNG is now one of the native formats that we can export to.
So if you are working with a system that you prefer to export the graphics out as PNGs,
or, Portable Network Graphics, you can do that right inside of InDesign.
You get the same kind of options as far as page range, spreads, quality, and
whether or not it's going to be a transparent background,
which PNG supports.
Once you do your export, it will take the number of pages you specify
and export them out as PNG files that can be placed in other documents
or other systems that require PNG.
So, as you can see, InDesign CS6 and all of its productivity enhancements
is going to make your job easier, going to allow you to work faster and more efficiently.
My name is Terry White. Thanks for watching.
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