Third, InDesign enhancements
1. Find/Alternate
There are only 19 options for Find/Alternate in PageMaker, and the Find/Alternate option in InDesign has been increased to 64 items.
2. Text layout
PageMaker only provides horizontal rows from left to right and rows from right to right. InDesign adds rows from right to right and from left to right, which is very suitable for typesetting in Hong Kong SAR, Taiwan Province and classical books.
3. Form
PageMaker's forms are plug-in software, and InDesign's forms are built-in features. InDesign uses the table as a basic element of the page to generate and edit forms directly in the document, such as adding, deleting rows and columns, entering text, changing the size of the table, adjusting the color and width of the line, and the operation is very similar to Excel. In addition, InDesign can directly put Chinese and English versions of Word, Excel generated forms into the document and edit it.
4. Generate a PDF file
When PageMaker generates a PDF file, you need to create a PS file, and then use Adobe's other software, Acrobat Distill, to process the PDF. In InDesign, you can directly generate the required PDF file.
5. Various auxiliary lines (★)
There are various guidelines in InDesign to help users complete layouts more quickly and easily, such as: baselines, document grids, text box grids, layout grids, and custom guides.
6. Automatic page number function and page number style (★)
The automatic page number function is that after the user makes a page number on the home page, other pages can automatically define the page number of the page according to the serial number of the page, and the page number is automatically updated after the page is added or deleted. InDesign also offers a variety of page number styles. Although this function is also available in PageMaker, page numbers can be set in chapters in InDesign. Different chapters can be implemented by defining different page number representations.
7. Directory function
InDesign's directory function is more powerful than PageMaker's directory. InDesign not only can define the content of the directory, but also can define the format of the directory according to the paragraph style and character style, and can also save the defined directory style and use it repeatedly.
8. Composite fonts
Composite fonts in PageMaker can only define the correspondence between Chinese and English fonts. In InDesign, not only can these functions be achieved, but also the parameters such as style, scaling, and baseline of Chinese and English fonts can be defined. Creating a composite font in PageMaker is to generate a font definition file and save it in a specific directory. Composite fonts generated by InDesign are stored directly in the layout file created by the user. In this way, the output is more convenient in the post-output process. When outputting the film to the output center, there is no need to worry about the error of the composite font.
9. Custom trapping style
Trapping in InDesign increases the saving function of the style. The user can save the set trapping parameters as a style. The next time you use it, you do not need to adjust the parameters. Just apply the style directly.
10. Page Management
InDesign concentrates the functions of page management on an option board for ease of use, and its management features are also enhanced. For example, InDesign allows pages to be freely dragged, free to combine, and free to page.
11. Color Management
The color management function has been greatly enhanced in InDesign. It emulates a variety of color modes that PageMaker does not have, such as: Photoshop color space, Web graphics settings, analog Acrobat, European prepress settings, US prepress settings, Japanese printing Before setting etc.
12. Highlights
InDesign's highlighter adds 8 more options than PageMaker, allowing users to highlight, fill, and zoom.
13. Phonetic function
InDesign's phonetic features are more professional and powerful, and can define multiple phonetic styles.
14. Document Information (★)
The file information function allows the user to record the detailed information of the relevant document in a file so as to make it easier to grasp the related information of the document at the time of next use.
15. Alignment panel (★)
Mutual alignment of multiple objects is difficult to achieve in PageMaker. In InDesign's alignment panel, users can not only easily achieve left, right, and center alignment of multiple objects, but also allow multiple objects to be equidistantly arranged or pressed. Custom distance arrangement.
16. Image Link Management
When InDesign puts an image, it will create a link to the original image and keep track of the link. If the original picture is modified by others, InDesign will remind the operator whether to accept the modification, click on the approval, and the picture is automatically updated.
17. Text Box Options
InDesign has changed the way that PageMaker can only adjust the fields by using text boxes. It can directly column each text box in the text box options, adjust the spacing between the text and the text box, and adjust the column spacing.
18. Edit Dictionary (★)
InDesign has built-in Roman-based dictionaries of various national languages, allowing users to edit their own dictionaries, adding some professional words, names of people, place names, etc. to their own dictionaries in order to correctly determine the correct spelling in spell checking.
Yang Jun Guo Shengjiang Source: Digital Printing