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InDesign CS4 boosts Flash integration, adds live preflighting
Macworld — With the unveiling of InDesign CS4 as part of its newly announced Creative Suite 4 collection , Adobe worked to bring the online and print publishing worlds closer together. Adobe says it was motivated by feedback from users of the page-layout application who see InDesign as a way to distribute content across multiple platforms. To accomplish that goal, Adobe tightly integrated the latest version of InDesign with Flash CS4 Pro. Users can employ InDesign as a layout tool, later opening that layout in Flash. Page design and typography are preserved in Flash. InDesign ...

Adobe Announces Vast Creative Suite 4
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... Command key to that mix changes the brush's hardness. When moving around a file using the Hand tool, a flick of the mouse "tosses" the canvas in the same way that flicking one's finger tosses a screen on the iPhone. Oh, and Command-~ (tilde) finally switches between open windows like most Mac applications. John Nack, principal product manager for Photoshop, lists dozens of such improvements on his blog. InDesign CS4 -- Adobe's page-layout application InDesign CS4 now works harder at making the publishing process easier with several new ...

Update your ancient Quark on the cheap
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... of the first programs I ever learned on the Mac. It was also the most frustrating piece of design software ever -- guaranteed to crash the computer at least once an hour, and don't even think about using the Auto Backup feature on the early versions. I learned Quark back in version 3.1.1 and cursed its existence through the next decade ... until Quark 7. It did something that it had never done before -- not crash on my Mac. It was a stable piece of software and while definitely not my preferred design software, it doesn't make me want to cry in a corner if I have to use it. ...

Image-placing shortcuts in Adobe InDesign
Macworld — ... One of the things I love about Adobe InDesign is that there’s usually more than one way to accomplish virtually any task. Take placing images in your document. ...