Adobe InDesign webmasters have been rewriting InDesign’s underlying code for years to best leverage the most current operating systems and hardware. The outcome is a speedier InDesign CC with support for Apple’s Retina and other high-resolution displays. It offers Mac users a new interface, a font-menu overhaul, a new QR Code generator, and significant ePub improvements. The updates will be appreciated the most by users who works with advanced OpenType fonts, Retina displays, open documents from a networked file server or create footnotes. When Adobe changed the method through which it sells its software from selling its Creative Suite application in a box to releasing Creative Cloud program as a service, it also started including frequent upgrades to InDesign and the remaining Adobe’s slate of professional creative programs. InDesign’s new, darker interface brings it into visual alignment with Photoshop and Illustrator. You can now create a personal set of favorite fonts and restrict the font list to just those favorites. Select the star right in front of a font name to add it to your favorites, and then show only your favorites by enabling the Show Favorite Fonts Only checkbox in the Font menu in the control panel or the character panel.
Without a doubt, one can easily conclude that the best updates to InDesign are still under the hood. If you own any of Apple’s new Retina displays, you would have noticed a much different-looking interface. Adobe InDesign CC for Mac, which now comes as a 64-bit application, takes advantage of more than 3GB of RAM to ensure it does not affect your Mac’s performance when you are on very large or complex files. Starting up the program takes almost the same amount of time as with the previous version, but without the popular welcome screen; instead, you are taken to the main InDesign interface. The bleed and slug settings are more apparent, and clicking the new preview button automatically displays the new document in the document window before you click the OK button.
It also comes with a New Document dialog box with improved features like the icons near the top that allow you to save or delete presets, to enjoy the benefit of the advanced OpenType features in the program, click on the tiny O badge that displays below a selected text frame or selected text. During zooming and panning, the new GPU Performance feature helps to improve the image and document preview quality. InDesign CC is available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud for as little as $19.99/month (or $9. 99/month if you are a previous InDesign subscriber). The program offers full support for Mac OS X 10.10 or later on Intel 64-bit processor.
