Adobe InDesign CS5.5 For Windows

Create Powerful, Innovative Digital Documents

Want to engage, inform and attract readers? Of course you do! InDesign CS5.5 helps you do just that, with documents you create within the software. These documents integrate interactivity, video and audio. Devise stronger, more compelling messages with rich interactive publications.

Folio Producer Tools

Generate and preview digital magazines, newspapers and catalogs featuring engaging elements, like 360° object rotation and image panoramas for a broad range of tablets. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for greater production and distribution. Now, you have the ability to create and share a virtually limitless number of .folio files.

Please note: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite requires a separate license and payment of associated fees.

Access To Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

You can access the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite from within InDesign to publish engaging digital documents for a wide variety of tablets. The New Single Edition is now available for publishing to your iPad!

Please note: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite requires a separate license and payment of associated fees.

Interactive Documents And Presentations

Have a blast adding interactivity, motion, audio and video to your documents and presentations. Export right to SWF for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime

Export To Flash Professional

You can export InDesign documents to Flash Professional for the purpose of adding advanced interactivity, animation and navigation to intricate layouts.

Create Better eBooks With ePUB Export Enhancements

Design compelling eBooks as you minimize your dependence on developers. Make video and audio part of your eBooks, and include images that resize to fit nearly any screen. Keep greater control over content and typography while exporting documents to the EPUB format.

Enhanced eBook Authoring

Produce more engaging eBooks while minimzing your reliance on developers. Utilize a smoother workflow as you include sophisticated typography and images that resize to fit almost any screen. You can even add video and audio for eBook reader applications supporting HTML5 video and audio tags.

Please note: InDesign utilizes EPUB3 and HTML5 code to create eBooks with audio, video and other sophisticated features. EPUB3 and HTML5 presentation, media playback and double-byte character support (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) may not be supported on all devices, browsers or EPUB readers.

Embedded Video And Audio In eBooks

You can include video and audio in InDesign layouts that you export to the EPUB format, in order to produce more engaging digital books. Embedded audio and video will play on mobile devices supporting HTML5, such as the iPad.

Please note: InDesign utilizes EPUB3 and HTML5 code to create eBooks with audio, video and other sophisticated features. EPUB3 and HTML5 presentation, media playback and double-byte character support (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) may not be supported on all devices, browsers or EPUB readers.

Articles Panel

Manage the sequence of text, images and graphics when you export to EPUB or HTML without altering InDesign layouts. You can organize your content by dragging it into the new Articles panel to specify export order.

Styles Mapped To Tags In EPUB Export

Now, easier than ever before, produce standards-compliant digital documents with enhanced basic typography - with no manual code changes needed. Map paragraph and character styles right to HTML, EPUB and PDF tags, so that they export with the proper specifications.

Dynamic Image Resizing

Design and publish an EPUB eBook with imagery that will look fine on nearly any screen on which it is played, regardless of size. On virtually anything from a desktop monitor to a smartphone, your eBook imagery will look good! This makes your content accessible and enjoyable on any device.

Do More In Less Time

Create, edit and publish documents quicker than was previously possible. New productivity features make page layout easier and faster, even when creating PDF documents meeting federal accessibility requirements.

Linked Text

Keep consistency more easily while working with content that has been duplicated throughout a document. You can link identical text blocks within a layout, so that changes to the parent block will be automatically made in every other one.

Dragging And Dropping Of Anchored Objects

You can add inline graphics and other anchored objects quickly and intuitively, just by dragging them to the preferred anchor location within the text.

PDF Accessibility Enhancements

Minimize the time taken to create PDF documents that are more accessible to the disabled. Add, edit and view Alt text attributes associated with an image or object with greater ease than before.

Preflight And Production Tools

Speed up production, improve print reliability, and deliver error-free documents with live preflighting, document-installed fonts, JDF technology, background PDF export and improved PDF/X standards support.

Multiple Page Sizes

Create pages with various sizes in the same document.

Paragraphs That Span Or Split Columns

Speedily create text that spans or splits into multiple columns in a few simple steps.

Simplified Object Selection And Editing

Perform repetitive layout tasks with greater efficiency via convenient tools and on-object controls.

Document-Installed Fonts

Help get rid of font substitution issues with document-installed fonts.

Track Text Changes

Mark up text right in InDesign, and easily track copy revisions.

Integration With Adobe CS Review

Create and share reviews online while you're working in InDesign via integration with Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service. View feedback in the context of your page layout.

Please note: CS Live online services are complimentary until April 12, 2012. Adobe online services, including Adobe CS Live Services, are available only to users 13 years of age and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. Not available in all countries or languages, and may require user registration and be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees may apply.

Integration With Other Adobe Solutions

You can move projects smoothly from design to print or digital output, courtesy of tight integration with industry-leading Adobe software, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Flash Professional and Digital Editions.

Integration With Online Services

Produce engaging interactive documents for tablets and enhance the efficiency of design processes with essential Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and Adobe CS Live online services, directly accessible from InDesign.

Please note: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite requires a separate license and payment of associated fees. CS Live online services are complimentary until April 12, 2012. Adobe online services, including Adobe CS Live Services, are available only to users 13 years of age and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. Not available in all countries or languages, and may require user registration and be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees may apply.

Productivity Tools

Create advanced page layouts with customer-inspired productivity features, including Smart Guides, rapid table creation, multiple-file placement, on-object controls, and the ability to produce pages of varying sizes within the same file.

Built-In Creative Tools

Explore your creative options directly within InDesign via integrated drawing tools, nondestructive effects, built-in Adobe Photoshop effects, finer transparency controls, and 3D Photoshop artwork support.

Adobe Mini Bridge

Locate and drag images into page layouts from Adobe Mini Bridge--without ever leaving InDesign.

Live Captions

Automatically generate static or live captions from image metadata.

Automation

Generate powerful automated workflows via standards-based XML features, to lay out pages with text and images. Use database-driven content for even higher levels of efficiency when publishing across channels.

Collaboration In Editorial Workflows

Enhance the collaboration of design and editorial teams via tight integration between InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe InCopy CS5.5.

Extensibility

For custom publishing with InDesign Markup Language (IDML), an XML-based file format allowing developers to create or modify files via standard XML tools.

Robust Text Composition

Produce beautiful, advanced text for any medium with professional typography features like styles, text wrap, the Paragraph Composer, OpenType support, drop caps, and the power to map styles to tags in EPUB export.

Enhanced PDF Export Options

You can export PDF files meeting the PDF/X-4:2010, PDF/X-5:2010, and PDF/VT-1 standards for tight integration with Adobe Acrobat X and Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.5.

Comprehensive Layers Panel

With ease, you can manage page items using a Layers panel similar to the one in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.