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Adobe’s cross-fertilisation of tools and functions across its Creative Suite line is a source of both joy and frustration. It’s great when innovative tools from one application are transferred to another, allowing you to be more creative or work more efficiently – but it’s also irritating when you can see something in another tool that you want, but can’t have. It’s as if we’ve come to expect all tools to be introduced across all applications. In the former group for InDesign users is Smart Gui...
Smart Guides make layout faster, Live Preflight offers easier production, working with hyperlinks and buttons is now much simpler...
SWF output limited, Kuler colour-scheme creator can’t compare to Illustrator’s Live Color...
Current InDesign users will want the CS4 version for Smart Guides and Live Preflighting; other new additions make it worth the upgrade price, too...
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digitalartsonline.co.uk Updated: 2013-09-19 01:47:13
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Adobe’s cross-fertilization of tools and functions across its Creative Suite line is a source of both joy and frustration. It’s great when innovative tools from one application are transferred to another, allowing you to be more creative or work more...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated: 2013-09-19 01:47:14
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Adobe InDesign has been the best professional desktop publishing software for some time. However, the recently released QuarkXPress 8 left it looking exposed in two key areas: productivity and online delivery. Working with InDesign is now more effic...
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techradar.com Updated: 2013-09-19 01:47:14
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Despite the desktop publishing aspirations of Microsoft Word and Apples Pages, you need a different league of software to create magazines, brochures and other content for press output. InDesign has become the leader in this field, but its rival, Quar...
Smart Guides are a great layout aid, Live Preflight saves hassle, Rotate View can be a godsend, Flash export opens up possibilities...
No stunning new features this time, Expensive as a standalone product...
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InDesign is the central application in Adobe's publishing vision, taking text and images and combining them as multiple page publications ready for output on paper and screen. As such, efficiency is key, and InDesign CS4 benefits from all the latest CS...
Advanced long document functionality and screen-based publishing via Flash contribute to another Quark-bashing...
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The newest version of InDesign, Adobe InDesign Creative Suite 4 (CS4) is expected to ship in October. InDesign CS4 is a nice update, but not an essential one. Much of whats new in this sixth version of Adobes InDesign page-layout program is under...
Getting Adobe InDesign CS4 is a no-brainer if youre upgrading the whole Creative Suite. As a stand-alone product, its tempting but not essential. Galen Gruman Lowest online price: ££519.40 Buy it now: click here...
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consumersearch.com Updated: 2013-09-19 01:47:12
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March 2009. Reviews say that for professional desktop publishing, Adobe InDesign CS4 is more convenient than its main competitor, QuarkXpress 8. Adobe InDesign offers sophisticated typography and page layout tools for creating commercial projects such...
Professional capabilities, Efficient, Mac version available, Integrates with Photoshop, Dreamweaver...
Steep learning curve, Overkill for many users, Improvements from CS3 not huge...
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This is the sixth in a series of reviews that will cover what is contained in the Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) Master Collection. When Adobe released CS4 this past fall, they not only released single version products, but also six separate suites of pr...
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computershopper.com Updated: 2013-09-19 01:47:13
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InDesign CS4, the latest version of Adobes high-powered desktop-publishing app, is slick, elegant, and just plain cool. But its long-document features need polishing.The most spectacular addition to InDesign is Live Preflight: on-the-fl...
Fabulous Live Preflight feature; Flash export; intelligent sizing and alignment functions...
Index generation from embedded Word tags is substandard; export to Microsoft Word is clumsy, buggy, and inaccurate; no single-page view; style dialog boxes arent modeless...
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The latest release of Adobe InDesign, the print and online publishing powerhouse, packs terrific new features. For example, users whose efforts appear on paper will be thrilled to find that with InDesign CS4 ($699 direct) they can create precisely b...
Smart Guides and Smart Spacing. Redesigned Links panel. Excellent Flash integration. Live Preflight.
Conditional Text feature could be expanded. Keyboard shortcuts dont allow temporary tool access.
With InDesign CS4, Adobe maintains supremacy in the world of page layout. The programs powerful tools and tight integration with the rest of the Creative Suite (including Flash) keep this application on the top of the heap...
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