What’s new, Productivity enhancements – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN CS4
Resources
To learn more about InDesign, step through the free “Getting Started with Adobe InDesign CS4” chapter of the
InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book:
See also
What’s new
Choose Window
> Workspace > [What’s New] to highlight menu commands of new and enhanced features.
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Productivity enhancements
Live preflight
Preflight while you design for better results, greater time savings, and lower production costs. Continuous preflighting
alerts you to potential production problems in real time. The new Preflight panel lets you navigate to and select the
objects that are triggering the preflight error. View contextual tips to help you correct errors directly in layout. See
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Preflighting files before handoff
Spread view 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 work on non-horizontal design elements, such as rotated calendar spreads and tables.
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Smart Guides
Align, space, rotate, and resize multiple objects in one step. Align to the horizontal, vertical, or center of page edges.
The guides, object dimensions, rotation, and X,Y coordinates appear dynamically so you can snap objects in relation
to other objects in the layout. See “
Smart Dimensions
When you create, resize, or rotate one object, Smart Dimensions shows the width, height, or
rotation of your object, highlighting when the dimensions or rotation matches nearby objects.
Smart Spacing
Evenly space multiple items on your page by snapping objects into position without having to use the
Align panel.
Updated 18 June 2009