Adobe InDesign CS - Top Ten Features for Print Professionals

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InDesign CS - Top Ten Features for Print Professionals

Reliable printing - Get accurate, consistent results when you print using a streamlined interface, sophisticated preview capabilities, and other powerful printing features.
Separations Preview palette - Prevent printing errors by using the Separations Preview palette to preview plates, overprinting, ink limits, and more.
Flattener Preview palette - Ensure desired results when printing spreads with transparency effects by using the Flattener Preview palette to check and adjust the effect of transparency flattener presets.
Document presets - Save your commonly used document settings, such as page size, columns, margins, and bleed and slug areas, as named presets that you can instantly apply to new documents.
Print and PDF Export Presets - Define presets to automate how print options, trapping, transparency flattener settings, and Adobe PDF export options are applied.
Control palette - Perform common tasks—such as formatting text, resizing objects, and modifying tables—in one central location using the new context-sensitive Control palette.
Direct export of Adobe PDF files - Export Adobe Acrobat 6.0, 5.0, and 4.0 files directly from InDesign for electronic reviews and high-end printing. Maintain layers in exported Acrobat 6.0 files.
Enhanced support for Photoshop (PSD) files - Place and print native Photoshop CS files, including duotones, tritones, and quadtones, as well as PSD and TIFF files that contain spot channels.
Enhanced Preview Mode - Instantly hide all nonprinting items and show a trimmed version of a page as it will print. Also preview bleeds and slugs.
Improved performance - Enjoy faster screen redraw and overall responsiveness when zooming, scrolling with the Hand tool, importing Photoshop files, wrapping text, printing, and exporting Adobe PDF files..