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InDesign 1.5: Half a Giant Step Forward
Adobe InDesign 1.5
Rating: ∗∗∗∗

Adobe InDesign version 1.5 fills many holes that 1.0 was criticized for when it was released last fall (for a complete list of features, go to www.adobe.com/products/indesign/whatsnew.html.) It also adds some important and ground-breaking innovations.

InDesign has been most popular with ad agencies and other creators of short, design-intensive documents. Version 1.5 is aimed mainly at this audience, and adds only a few long-document features. (Adobe is addressing long document publishers, at least for now, with the newly upgraded FrameMaker.) High-end print production is where InDesign intends to make its mark.

Many of 1.5's new features are clearly of the catch-up-to-QuarkXPress variety: Automatic page-level trapping controls (although still no object-based trapping apart from 1.0's overprint spreads for strokes and fills), text on a path, drag-and-drop colors, a plug-ins management control panel, and object alignment and distribution controls. In some cases (particularly the last) InDesign does a better job of it.

But there is one inimitable advantage that InDesign has over XPress: its interface integration with Illustrator and Photoshop, which is stronger than ever in 1.5. While not a true integrated suite--you'll find redundant tools in all three applications--they look the same, feel the same, and make it easy to switch from one progra...

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