Adobe InDesign CS2 [OLD VERSION]

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Product Features

• Object styles apply a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks
• Export InDesign objects as snippets, to share with colleagues or reuse in other documents
• Selectively display layers and layer comps in PDF files
• Easily Anchor callouts, pull quotes, margin notes, and graphics to text - control anchored objects, apply text wrap settings, and more
• Improved Microsoft Word and RTF support - map Word styles to InDesign styles, resolve name conflicts instantly, save presets for future use

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00081I4W2
• Item model number: 27510753
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,822 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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When Adobe first introduced InDesign a few short years ago, analysts and professional designers expressed skepticism that the software would make any significant inroads into a market that had long been ruled by a few well-entrenched and respected programs.

With Adobe InDesign CS2 for the Macintosh, the writing is now clearly on the wall. What was thought to be a pipe dream just yesterday--Adobe InDesign being considered as the standard software package for professional publishers and designers--is today on the verge of becoming a reality. Book, magazine and high-end publishers and designers of all types are making the switch to Adobe InDesign. A glance at the new features that InDesign CS2 brings to the table makes it easy to see why.

Browse, search, organize, label, and preview graphics and InDesign documents, templates, and snippets in Adobe Bridge. Drag and drop assets from Adobe Bridge into layouts easily and efficiently.

Tighter Integration with Adobe Applications
Adobe has practically cornered the market with PhotoShop, Illustrator and Acrobat. With each of its past upgrades, Adobe made it increasingly easier to incorporate those and other Adobe applications--such as GoLive and InCopy--into InDesign workflow. InDesign CS2 continues that trend, and then some. Adobe Photoshop and PDF layer support, for instance, allows you to selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop and PDF files so that you can experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layout--all the while linking to a single file. And a streamlined interface that's more consistent across Adobe graphics applications allows you to export directly to PDF while maintaining layers in exported Acrobat 6.0-7.0 files. These features can significantly shorten production cycles of projects and introduce greater flexibility to your designs during the work flow.

Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge software is the new navigational control center that allows you to browse, organize, label, and preview graphics and InDesign documents and templates quickly and efficiently. (Adobe Bridge is also available separately in Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, and GoLive CS2 software.) Adobe Bridge is based on the File Browser introduced in Photoshop 7.0 but goes a step further by providing centralized access to your suite project files, applications, and settings. With file organization and sharing, plus Adobe Stock Photos at your fingertips all the time, you simply search for the files you want to place using metadata--such as key words, colors or image resolution--and seamlessly drag and drop your files into your InDesign CS2 file. You can even browse and search royalty-free images from leading stock photo agencies using Adobe Stock Photos in one convenient location. Adobe couldn't make it any easier. Without ever leaving InDesign CS2, you can purchase images from several agencies in a single shopping cart and manage all of your imagery. It's as simple as that.

Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a layout, InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page.

InDesign Snippets and Collaboration Features
Some of the most significant enhancements are InDesign CS2's collaboration features. The Snippet feature allows you to export InDesign objects as "snippets" that can be shared with colleagues for review or used in other documents. When you place or drag the snippet back into a layout, InDesign CS2 re-creates the original object, its formatting, and its relative positioning on the page. InDesign CS2 also features a collaboration tool that lets you to assign specific sections of a document to your colleagues while you continue to work on your own components. Taken together, these features add tremendous efficiencies to your workflow, giving you the ability to work simultaneously with several colleagues and making it much easier to beat your deadlines.

Improved Microsoft Word and RTF Support
Adobe has done wonders to increase InDesign's compatibility with Microsoft Word. With InDesign CS2 you can import Word styles into your document, and you can even save Word import settings for future use. You can also import tables designed in Word and Excel, or create new tables from tab-delimited files generated by Excel.

PageMaker Conversion Features
Adobe has made it nearly impossible for PageMaker users not to switch to Adobe InDesign CS2. For starters, Adobe has crammed InDesign CS2 with built-in support for numerous features that PageMaker users most desire, such as multiple undo, robust style support, flexible gradients, and easy table creation. Added to that is additional support for converting PageMaker 6.0-7.x files, a set of PageMaker compatible keyboard shortcuts, and such popular PageMaker features as data merge and InBooklet Special Edition for imposition. And if all that were not already enough to convince you to switch, Adobe now offers Adobe InDesign CS2 Upgrade from PageMaker for the Macintosh at an exclusive upgrade price for licensed PageMaker users. In short, if you're a die-hard PageMaker aficionado, there had never been better time to make the switch to InDesign.

Product Description

Marketing Information:

Join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe InDesign CS2 software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign CS2 delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.

Product Information

Software Sub Type: Graphics/Designing

Software Name: InDesign CS2 - Complete Product

Features & Benefits:

Adobe Bridge

Object styles

InDesign snippets

Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments

Anchored Objects

Improved Microsoft Word and RTF support

Smart text handling

Language Support: English

Platform Support: PC

License Information

License Type: Complete Product

License Pricing: Standard

License Quantity: 1 User

Miscellaneous

Compatibility:

Flexible XML support

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support

Backwards compatibility with InDesign CS

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tighter Integration Now Possible with InDesign CS2, December 10, 2005

By	D-MAG.org Reviewer (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews

Adobe has totally re-done the interface to streamline it and make it cleaner from versions prior to CS. If you are a QuarkXpress user, you'll find that in InDesign CS2, you get the feeling that it is laid out in a logical and easy-to-use manner. The tools and tool palettes are where you'd expect them to be in the menu structure and on the screen. Small touches like being able to save your workspace, like you can do in Photoshop CS2, are great.

I tested the integration between InDesign CS2 and some of its counterparts in the Adobe Creative Suite Premium. I created different graphics in Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2 and I found it was really easy to import them into InDesign CS2 and use. You can effects like drop shadows and feathering to images directly in InDesign CS2. No need to go to another program. With the Control Palette you can also resize objects too. This palette functions with Transform and Stroke features for graphics, and it includes paragraph, character and table features for text editing. What the palette does is affected by the type of selection you have made - either graphic or text.

I imported some formatted text in from Microsoft Word 2003 and two different tables in from Microsoft Excel 2003. I was concerned how the tables would appear after the import from Microsoft Excel. The tables imported easily. With InDesign CS2, you can now automatically style Microsoft Word files on import by mapping Word styles to InDesign CS2 styles as well.

An issue for a long time has been how to preview or view other types of files that you want to incorporate with InDesign CS2. Now, Adobe "bridges" that gap. Bridge now comes as a part of InDesign CS2 and the Premium Suite. So, viewing any Adobe-type formatted file or standard graphic format is easy to do. Using the same interface between the different programs is a help as well. Adobe Bridge is a standalone program.

Being a Web Designer and using Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Dreamweaver 8, I was familiar with using Snippets. These are portions of code you can save for use in other programs or you can export them to give to someone else. Now, InDesign CS2 offers this Snippet capability. You can export objects as snippets. These objects can be shared or reused in other documents. Simply place or drag a snippet into a layout, and InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page. No more wasted time redesigning, just to get something you have brought in from another document to fit.

InDesign CS2 also now has an Info palette that is just like those found in Photoshop and Illustrator. Size dimensions and resolution are immediately available by selecting the graphic and simply glancing over to the Info palette. This is a crucial tool when fitting graphics in a specifically space-limited area. It's important to know the actual dimensions with which you are working.

Sometimes in designing and re-designing printed work, you have to move objects. When this happens, your structure can often change in different ways. InDesign CS2 helps you maintain your layout by allowing you to anchor your callouts, pull quotes, margin notes, and graphics to text. You can now precisely control the positioning of Anchored Objects, apply text wrap settings, and more.

As with other Adobe products, it is very easy to export your finished work in PDF format. InDesign CS2 works so well at exporting to PDF, it even maintains the layers in Acrobat 7. You can pre-define your Acrobat export settings as well. InDesign CS2 also supports specialty PDF formats like PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3, which are used in workflows. It also supports high-resolution CMYK output and color-managed workflows.

If you are familiar with previous versions of InDesign, the upgrade to the new version is easy. InDesign CS2 is even backwards compatible CS. You will find that your learning curve is greatly decreased.

Loren Elks, Group Manager
D-MAG.org

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Version of InDesign Almost Out, March 26, 2007

By	Michael W. Perry "Michael W. Perry, author of... (Author of Untangling Tolkien, Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Unless your needs are pressing, you might want to delay buying InDesign. InDesign CS3 will be announced tomorrow (March 27, 2007) and it'll ship toward the end of April. And yes, if you buy just before a new product is released, Adobe will usually give you an upgrade for the cost of shipping and handling. I just confirmed that this morning with a customer service rep. But you avoid a bit of hassle if you wait. And the new version has quite a few new features including a much improved user interface. Some graphics features of Photoshop have also been ported to InDesign.

And keep in mind that if you've got a licensed copy of PageMaker or an older version of InDesign back to 2.0, you can upgrade it to InDesign for much less than the full new price.

Mike Perry, author of Untangling Tolkien: A Chronology and Commentary for The Lord of the Rings

3.0 out of 5 stars CS2 versions were always so slow, November 29, 2008

By	Scott (NJ) - See all my reviews

It was ok but now there up to CS4 and its was faster. The entire CS2 line was super slow and always crashed.