Adobe 27510753 Switch Guide - Page 5

Terminology differences between PageMaker and InDesign CS2 Many of the terms used in the InDesign CS2 menus, dialog boxes, and palettes are identical to and have the same meaning as terms used in PageMaker. For example, words like page, book, leading, horizontal and vertical scale, group and ungroup, lock and unlock, and place have essentially the same meaning in both programs. In some cases, you'll discover that PageMaker and InDesign CS2 use different terms for the same thing. For example, PageMaker users create publications, while InDesign users create documents. In such cases, after you get past the difference in terms, you're likely to find that the associated concepts are quite similar. Here are some key terms that differ between PageMaker and InDesign CS2. PageMaker Term Publication. The files you create with PageMaker are referred to as publications. Printer Styles. The Printer Styles command lets you save, retrieve, and apply print settings to any publication. Printer style settings are saved in a defaults file called PStyles.CNF (Windows) or Printer Styles (Mac OS). Colors palette. The Colors palette displays a list of the available colors for a publication and includes commands for creating colors, deleting colors, importing colors, and so on. Linking options. In PageMaker, you use the Links Manager, Link Info, and Link Options commands to identify and monitor objects in your publication that are linked to external text and graphics files or applications. InDesign CS2 Term Document. The files you create with InDesign CS2 are called documents. Print Presets. The Print Presets command (File > Print Presets > Define) lets you specify and save print settings. You can also save print settings by using the Save Preset button in the Print dialog box (File menu). You can save and import print presets, making it easy to back them up or to make them available to service providers, clients, or others in your workgroup. Print preset files are saved with a .PRST extension. Swatches palette. The Swatches palette in InDesign CS2 is similar to the Colors palette in PageMaker. In addition to creating spot and process colors, you can also create multicolor gradients, color tints, and multi-ink colors that combine two or more spot or process colors. InDesign CS2 also includes a Color palette (Window > Color) for creating unnamed colors on the fly. Links palette. The functionality of the PageMaker Links Manager, Link Info, and Link Options commands is grouped into a single palette-the Links palette (Window > Links)-in InDesign CS2. Styles. With PageMaker you can create paragraph styles, which are simply called styles, and use them to quickly format text. You manage and apply styles by using the Styles palette. Crop tool. You use the Crop tool to trim areas of imported graphics. Paragraph, character, and nested styles. InDesign CS2 lets you create three types of styles for formatting text: paragraph styles, character styles, and nested styles. Paragraph styles are applied to entire paragraphs. Character styles are applied to a range of characters rather than an entire paragraph. Nested styles is a technique for embedding character styles within paragraph styles to make it faster and easier to apply complex text formatting. The Paragraph Styles palette (Type > Paragraph Styles) lets you manage and apply paragraph styles. The Character Styles palette (Type > Character Styles) lets you manage and apply character styles. InDesign CS2 also lets you create Object styles, which let you quickly apply formats, such as stroke, fill, and rotation to objects. Position tool. The Position tool in InDesign CS2 is similar to the Crop tool in PageMaker. The Position tool lets you move a graphic within a frame, as well as change the size of any frame. The Position tool is dynamic, automatically changing to reflect different states. When you move the pointer over a graphic frame, it changes to the Hand pointer to indicate that you can drag the graphic within the frame. When the pointer is over a text frame, it changes to an I-beam. If you click when the I-beam is displayed, the Type tool is selected and the text insertion bar flashes within the frame. Switching from PageMaker to InDesign CS2