Adobe InDesign CS3 features revealed

In a private briefing with InDesignSecrets, the Adobe revealed four features planned for the next major release of the page layout application, InDesign, which will ship in the second quarter of 2007 as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 (CS3). InDesign CS3 will be a Universal Binary when it’s released, capable of running on Intel Macs. The application is already up and running as a Universal Binary, Adobe revealed in demonstrations on a MacBook Pro.

One of the new features of the application, dubbed “Object Effects,” will allow designers to apply Photoshop-like effects such as bevel, emboss and inner shadow, to any InDesign object including text. Another feature will allow transparency effects to be applied to an object’s fill, stroke, or contents on an individual basis. InDesign CS3 will also offer designers more control over the way they select and work with multiple files.

“You will be able to select more than one graphic or text file in the Place dialog box, and when you click OK, you’ll see a small thumbnail of each image next to the Place cursor,” InDesignSecrets said in its report. “You can then quickly place each image or text file into a frame with a ‘click, click, click.’ Even better, you can cycle through the images “loaded” in the Place cursor with the arrow keys before clicking.”

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