Adobe 27510753 Switch Guide - Page 1

Switching from Adobe PageMaker to Adobe InDesign CS2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Section 1: Getting Started with InDesign CS2 13 Section 2: Converting PageMaker Publications 14 Section 3: Setting Up Documents 21 Section 4: Working with Frames 25 Section 5: Working with Text 33 Section 6: Working with Graphics 37 Section 7: Working with Styles 41 Section 8: Using Adobe Bridge 45 Section 9: Applying Transparency, Colors, and Strokes 52 Section 10: Creating and Editing Tables 56 Section 11: Working with Long Documents 59 Section 12: Printing and Exporting to Adobe PDF Introduction Congratulations! If you're reading this document, it's because you've made the switch- or are thinking about making the switch-from Adobe® PageMaker® software to Adobe InDesign® CS2 software. As a PageMaker user, you've probably invested many hours developing your expertise, and the thought of learning a new page layout program may at first seem daunting. However, InDesign CS2 makes it easy to make a quick and smooth transition by including several familiar PageMaker features among the many powerful features available in InDesign CS2. This document helps ease the transition to get you quickly up to speed. The main focus is on key differences between the two programs. The 12 sections that follow are arranged in the way you would learn and use any page layout program-setting program preferences, opening documents, creating and modifying text and graphic objects, building pages and documents, and finally printing and exporting documents. If you need more detailed information about InDesign CS2, refer to the online help file (Help > InDesign Help). Benefits of InDesign CS2 If you haven't had a chance to check out InDesign CS2, you're in for a pleasant surprise. InDesign CS2 offers several compelling advantages, not only over PageMaker, but also over all other page layout programs. Benefits of switching to InDesign CS2 include: • InDesign CS2 is tightly integrated with Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Adobe Illustrator® CS2, Adobe Acrobat® 7, Adobe GoLive® CS2, and Adobe InCopy® CS2 software, so you can quickly get up to speed with InDesign CS2 and then can work more efficiently with the other creative applications you use every day. It also includes Adobe Bridge, the new file management hub for all Adobe Creative Suite 2 components. • InDesign CS2 offers sophisticated typographic features, including optical kerning, optical margin alignment, nested paragraph styles, paragraph-based text composition for improved hyphenation and justification, and full support for OpenType® fonts. • InDesign CS2 offers several creative features that aren't available in PageMaker. These features include transparency effects, such as drop shadows and blending modes; type on a path; object styles; character styles; nested frames; multicolor gradients; custom line styles; and built-in corner styles and arrowheads. • InDesign CS2 lets you directly export Adobe PDF files without having to go through Acrobat Distiller®-in fact, you don't need Distiller or an installed PostScript® driver. In addition, PDF files exported from InDesign CS2 can contain prepress or interactivity information that can't be included in PDF files created from PageMaker. • The multiple undo feature in InDesign CS2 lets you undo a virtually unlimited number of steps (depending on available RAM), which means you can design with complete freedom. • InDesign CS2 was developed from the "ground up" using modern modular software design and development techniques.