InDesign 2018

InDesign 2018 Chinese version is a multi-functional page layout and typesetting design software. Adobe InDesign The official version of CC2018 focuses more on improving user experience, has built-in a variety of commonly used functions and workflows, and achieves a high degree of scalability. InDesign 2018 software provides solutions for user-defined magazines, advertising design, catalogs, retailer design studios and newspaper publishing.

InDesign 2018 software introduction

Adobe InDesign CC 2018 software is a design software positioned in the field of professional typesetting and a new platform for companies’ professional publishing solutions. Published by Adobe. It is based on a new open object-oriented architecture that allows for a high degree of scalability, and also builds a platform for third-party developers and system integrators to provide custom magazines, advertising design, catalogs, retailer design studios and newspapers. The core of the publishing program. Can support plug-in function.

InDesign 2018 function introduction

1. Pre-press inspection

Perform pre-press inspection during design. Continuous preflight provides real-time warnings of potential production issues so you can quickly navigate to the issue, fix it directly in the layout and continue working.

2. Link panel

Find, sort and manage all of your document's placed files in a customizable links panel. View the properties most important to your workflow, such as scale, rotation, and resolution.

3. Page transition

​​Apply page transitions such as roll-out, draw-out, dissolve, fade, etc. to individual pages or all spreads, and output to SWF or PDF. Preview the page transition before applying it, and experiment with transition speed and direction to increase design control.

4. Conditional text

        Serve multiple versions of a document to different users from a single InDesign source file. Hide text at the paragraph, word, or even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow into the layout.

5. Export

                        Export the document to Open them in Professional to maintain the visual fidelity of the original InDesign layout. Use Flash to add sophisticated interactive content, animation, and navigation to complex layouts to create an engaging reading experience.

6. Cross-reference

​ ​ Simplify the writing, production, and management of long documents with flexible and powerful cross-references that dynamically update when content changes or is moved within the document.

7. Intelligent reference lines

Quickly align, space, rotate, and resize one or more objects with dynamic guides. Guides, object dimensions, rotation angles, and x and y coordinates are dynamically displayed so you can align the edge of an object or its vertical/horizontal center. Quickly snap to other objects in the layout or to the edge of the page.

8. Document design

Transform page layouts into dynamic SWF files without going through the Adobe Flash authoring environment. Create digital documents with interactive buttons, hyperlinks, and unique page transitions for use in Adobe Flash. Playback while Flash Player is running.

9. Cross-page rotation

Temporarily rotate the spread view without turning the monitor. Achieve comprehensive editing capabilities at 90 degrees and 180 degrees, and easily integrate non-horizontal elements into the design.

InDesign 2018 software features

​ ​ 1. You can feather, shade and make the image transparent, eliminating the steps that need to be done in Photoshop

​ 2. Borrowed from Photoshop’s “eyedropper tool”, it provides a lot of convenience for quickly viewing and copying colors.

3. The drawing functions of "Bezier Tool" and "Free Pen" are comparable to those of drawing software such as CorelDRAW, which saves you the trouble of using other drawing software.

4. In the palette, you can drag the CMYK control bar as you like to get the color you want, making it easier for users to choose color combinations during design, etc.

5. Multiple UNDO (undo) and REDO (redo) functions improve the flexibility of users in product design. But PageMaker only does it once, and some operations don’t even happen once.

​​ 6. The "recovery" function allows you to automatically restore your last operation due to unexpected system failure, which greatly reduces the losses caused by accidents.

​ 7. Integrate a variety of key technologies, color management technology

​ 8. It has extensive support for PDF and can store PDF format directly without going through Acrobat. An intermediate program like Distiller will have obvious advantages when PDF becomes a standard in the future. PageMaker is even more outdated in these aspects. The aging PageMaker can only be repositioned in the business typesetting market to compete with Microsoft's Publisher. There are many advantages similar to the above, so I won’t list them all here. To sum up, there is no doubt about InDesign’s outstanding advantages in typesetting software. In the professional field, it is an inevitable trend for InDesign to replace PageMaker and become the mainstream of professional software in the industry.

InDesign 2018 Instructions for Use

1. Create a form

When you create a table, the new table fills the width of the text box that serves as the container. When the insertion point is at the beginning of a row, the table is inserted into the same row; if the insertion point is in the middle of the row, the table is inserted into the next row.

Create a form:

​​ 1. Use the text tool to draw a new text box, or place the insertion point in an existing text box or table

​​ 2.Select "Table/Insert Table"

3. Specify the number of rows and columns

​​ 4. If the table will span more than one column or box, specify the number of header and footer rows that you want to repeat

5. Click "OK"

2. Add text

You can add text, accompanying pictures, accompanying text boxes or other tables in table cells. To add text, type, paste, or place directly. The row height of the table will increase with the number of text lines, unless a fixed row height is set

3. Add pictures

When the added picture is larger than the cell, the height of the cell will increase to accommodate the picture, but the width of the cell will not change and the picture may extend beyond the right side of the cell. If the cell where the graph is located is set to a fixed height, a graph that exceeds the row height will cause an excess of cells.

4. Table conversion

When you convert a table to text, InDesign removes table lines and inserts specified separators at the end of each line and column. For best results, use different delimiters for columns and rows, such as anchor tags and paragraphs for rows.

5. Import the form

​​ 1. When using the "Place" command to import a Microsoft Excel table or a Microsoft When importing Word text, the imported data becomes an InDesign table in InDsign. These tables can be edited. If you are not satisfied with the result of importing a table, you can select "Unformatted anchor text" when placing the file, then organize the text, and then convert it into a table

​ ​ 2. You can also copy and paste data from an Excel data sheet or Word table into an InDesign document. When you paste a table from another level, the information appears as tagged text. Can convert text into tables

InDesign 2018 update log

​​ 1. Fixed other bugs;

​​ 2. Optimized software compatibility.