Production chiefs will like the new preflighting engine, which now identifies violations to printing standards as you create your document. A related capability called variable text will be very useful for catalog publishers-you could have one document contain dollar, euro, and pound prices, for example, printing a separate version for each from one master file. InDesign CS4 also extends its pervious text variables feature so these references can contain not just page numbers but chapter names and other attributes.

For example, the ability insert cross-references in text to other parts of your layout is most welcome if your documents use cross-references (such as “See Chapter 3 on page 45”). The rest of InDesign’s new capabilities are useful but targeted to subgroups of users. That means you can now do things like set a paragraph’s first line to be in all small caps, even as the text changes.Īn enhancement to the nested styles features in InDesign CS4 means you can apply a character style automatically to one or more lines of text. I was pleased to see one of my ongoing requests finally addressed: You can now set a nested style to have character styles applied to a specified number of lines in a paragraph, not just to a specific number of sentences or characters. If there’s a must-do reason to upgrade to InDesign CS4, this is it. I love how unobtrusive but helpful this feature is. And when you rotate an object, it displays an onscreen indicator when the current rotation matches that of a nearby object. The smart dimensions feature takes the same principle and applies it to sizing, so if you are creating a series of frames, it indicates when the new one matches the size of a nearby one. With the new smart guides, spacing, and dimensions, InDesign CS4 constantly compares the position, size, and rotation angle of the object you’re manipulating with the mouse and displays on-screen guides when your eyeballed placement matches that of nearby objects.įor example, if you are moving a text box near two others, InDesign CS4 highlights when the space between the object you’re moving matches the space between the nearest two objects. At bottom, it pops up an indicator that lets you space a third object at the same distance from the second object as the second object is from the first object. In the middle, InDesign displays an alignment indicator so you can make the new object’s bottom match that of a nearby object. At top, the new object (at right) is being sized. The new smart guides feature in InDesign CS4 helps you precisely place, size, and rotate objects as you work with them by popping up alignment indicators as you work on the objects.

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