Adobe® InDesign® CS5.5

Design professional page layouts for print and digital publishing

Adobe InDesign CS5.5 software lets you design engaging page layouts for print or

digital distribution with built-in creative tools and improved control over typography.

Build engaging publications for tablet devices using Folio Producer tools and access

to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite* hosted solution. Export EPUB documents with

embedded audio and video† and with images that resize automatically to fit the viewer’s

screen, while you retain greater control over text formatting and content order.

 

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe InDesign CS5.5

Folio Producer tools—Create, preview, and bundle engaging digital documents for tablet

devices such as Apple iPad, RIM BlackBerry PlayBook, and a wide variety of Android tablets,

including the Motorola Xoom. Upload these documents to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite*

for further production, distribution, and analysis.

Enhanced eBook authoring†—Create more engaging eBooks with less need for developers.

Enjoy a smoother workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize automatically

to fit virtually any screen. You can even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that

support HTML5 video and audio tags.

Articles panel—Control the sequence of text, images, and graphics when you export to EPUB

or HTML without changing your InDesign layout. Organize your content by dragging it into the new

Articles panel to define the export order.

Styles mapped to tags—More easily create digital documents with improved basic

typography—with no manual code changes required. Map paragraph and character styles directly

to HTML, EPUB, and PDF tags to ensure that styles you define in InDesign are correctly exported

to appropriate specifications.

Linked text—Maintain consistency more easily when working with content that’s duplicated

throughout a document. Link identical text blocks within a layout so that changes to the parent

block are automatically made in all the others.

Dragging and dropping of anchored objects—Add inline graphics and other anchored

objects quickly and intuitively by simply dragging them to the desired anchor location in the text.

PDF accessibility enhancements—Reduce the time it takes to create PDF documents

that are accessible to people with disabilities. More easily add, edit, and view Alt text attributes

associated with an image or object.

 

The continuing evolution of creative power from Adobe

With InDesign CS5.5, Adobe continues its tradition of offering an ever-improving environment

for page layout and design for print and online publishing. Keep up with the latest software

from Adobe to stay at the forefront of professional creativity. Here are some of the top new

and enhanced features included in InDesign CS5.5 and previous releases.

 

Typographical Control:

Compose beautiful typography and easily create Middle Eastern and multilingual documents in Adobe InDesign CS5.5. Get the most of InDesign CS5.5 with features to type and layout Middle Eastern text, including the possibility to:

- choose digits (Arabic, Farsi or Hindi),
- use kashidas for letter spacing and full justification,
- use ligatures,
- position vowels/diacritics,
- choose the justification (Standard, Arabic, Naskh)

 

Bi-directional text flow:

Explore more layout possibilities in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 with the possibility to use Middle Eastern (written from right to left) and/or Roman text (written from left to right) within the same paragraph, character, story and table. Easily mix Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right words, paragraphs and stories within a same document.

Easily create a multilingual or Middle Eastern document using the reverse layout feature and convert a Left to Right document (Roman) to a Right to Left one (Middle Eastern) or vice versa.

 

Find/Change feature:

Dictionary and spell checking:

Control your text in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 with a dictionary for Middle Eastern and spell check your Arabic text to avoid typos with a choice of rules, such as Strict Aleef Hamza, Strict Final Yaa, both or none.

Depending on your system capabilities, control your text in Adobe InCopy CS5.5 with a dictionary and hyphenation module for Hebrew.

 

Font support:

Multilingual book file publishing:

Importing and Exporting options:

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System Requirements:

Windows
1.5GHz or faster processor
Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista)
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
1.8GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services

Macintosh
PowerPC® G5 or multicore Intel® processor
Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
1.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services