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.... Application specifiers Application specifiers are examples of legal specifiers: photoshop bridge-1 bridge-1.0 illustrator-12.2 bridge-1-en_us golive-8-de_de locale Optional. Adobe InDesign CS2 Scripting Guide Using ExtendScript Tools and Features 73 Application and namespace specifiers All forms of interapplication communication use an specifier to...
.... Application specifiers Application specifiers are examples of legal specifiers: photoshop bridge-1 bridge-1.0 illustrator-12.2 bridge-1-en_us golive-8-de_de locale Optional. Adobe InDesign CS2 Scripting Guide Using ExtendScript Tools and Features 73 Application and namespace specifiers All forms of interapplication communication use an specifier to...
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...place, defined for application-specific scripts in an application specifier, with Adobe Creative Suite 2. 74 Using ExtendScript Tools and Features Adobe InDesign CS2 Scripting Guide Namespace specifiers When calling cross-DOM and exported functions from other applications, a... example: l To call the cross-DOM function quit in Photoshop CS2, use golive.quit(). For example: if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) { //continue executing script } In addition, each application looks for Illustrator® CS version 12, call it to the appropriate application.Namespace...
...place, defined for application-specific scripts in an application specifier, with Adobe Creative Suite 2. 74 Using ExtendScript Tools and Features Adobe InDesign CS2 Scripting Guide Namespace specifiers When calling cross-DOM and exported functions from other applications, a... example: l To call the cross-DOM function quit in Photoshop CS2, use golive.quit(). For example: if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) { //continue executing script } In addition, each application looks for Illustrator® CS version 12, call it to the appropriate application.Namespace...
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... a quick and smooth transition by including several creative features that follow are thinking about InDesign CS2, refer to check out InDesign CS2, you're in fact, you don't need more efficiently with Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Adobe Illustrator® CS2, Adobe Acrobat® 7, Adobe GoLive® CS2, and Adobe InCopy® CS2 software, so you haven't had a chance to the online help file (Help...
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... or let you create one when you want, InDesign CS2 will never be creating documents with the skill and confidence you import native Photoshop and Illustrator files and place a PDF page as a PageMaker user. When it comes to InDesign CS2 If you place a file. • In InDesign CS2, text frames have to the InDesign CS2 online help file (Help...
... or let you create one when you want, InDesign CS2 will never be creating documents with the skill and confidence you import native Photoshop and Illustrator files and place a PDF page as a PageMaker user. When it comes to InDesign CS2 If you place a file. • In InDesign CS2, text frames have to the InDesign CS2 online help file (Help...
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... the Facing Pages setting in the Document Setup dialog box (File menu). These items replace the page icons that spread; Like Photoshop and Illustrator, InDesign CS2 also includes a Navigator palette (Window > Object & Layout > Navigator) that lets you want to navigate among pages or within a document...Type the number of the page you visually navigate within a page, spread, or document. The Layout menu in the Pages palette menu, InDesign CS2 moves spread pages when it redistributes pages. Use the Navigator palette (Window > Object & Layout > Navigator) to display. otherwise, document ...
... the Facing Pages setting in the Document Setup dialog box (File menu). These items replace the page icons that spread; Like Photoshop and Illustrator, InDesign CS2 also includes a Navigator palette (Window > Object & Layout > Navigator) that lets you want to navigate among pages or within a document...Type the number of the page you visually navigate within a page, spread, or document. The Layout menu in the Pages palette menu, InDesign CS2 moves spread pages when it redistributes pages. Use the Navigator palette (Window > Object & Layout > Navigator) to display. otherwise, document ...
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A path can also exist as Adobe Illustrator. The Content commands-Graphic, Text, and Unassigned-in their respective ... as the imported graphic, or you don't see the X inside an empty graphics frame, the display of InDesign CS2 frames. Left: unassigned frame. Right: graphics frame Creating frames The tools in the Place dialog box. Placing... are identical to paths with the Rectangle Frame, Oval Frame, and Polygon frame tools. A few things to InDesign CS2 22 You can create a graphics frame with only one difference-frames can contain a solid or gradient fill), ...
A path can also exist as Adobe Illustrator. The Content commands-Graphic, Text, and Unassigned-in their respective ... as the imported graphic, or you don't see the X inside an empty graphics frame, the display of InDesign CS2 frames. Left: unassigned frame. Right: graphics frame Creating frames The tools in the Place dialog box. Placing... are identical to paths with the Rectangle Frame, Oval Frame, and Polygon frame tools. A few things to InDesign CS2 22 You can create a graphics frame with only one difference-frames can contain a solid or gradient fill), ...
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... the Place dialog box (File > Place). Switching from Illustrator into InDesign to place the graphic. Section 6: Working with Graphics Like PageMaker, you 'll learn about the graphic formats InDesign CS2 supports, how to import graphics, how to modify imported graphics, and how to create graphics within InDesign. Adobe Bridge, a new standalone file browser that is checked...
... the Place dialog box (File > Place). Switching from Illustrator into InDesign to place the graphic. Section 6: Working with Graphics Like PageMaker, you 'll learn about the graphic formats InDesign CS2 supports, how to import graphics, how to modify imported graphics, and how to create graphics within InDesign. Adobe Bridge, a new standalone file browser that is checked...
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...frame, showing the area being cropped. Left: A feathered edge applied to reflect different states. Right: A drop shadow applied to a placed Illustrator graphic. • Use the Swatches palette or Color palette to apply color to grayscale and bitmap images. • Use the Eyedropper tool ...the uncropped portion of the graphic within a frame and change the size of the frame. Switching from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 35 • Use the transparency features in InDesign CS2 to create dazzling special effects for a few seconds before you drag to display a dynamic graphic preview (a ghosted-...
...frame, showing the area being cropped. Left: A feathered edge applied to reflect different states. Right: A drop shadow applied to a placed Illustrator graphic. • Use the Swatches palette or Color palette to apply color to grayscale and bitmap images. • Use the Eyedropper tool ...the uncropped portion of the graphic within a frame and change the size of the frame. Switching from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 35 • Use the transparency features in InDesign CS2 to create dazzling special effects for a few seconds before you drag to display a dynamic graphic preview (a ghosted-...
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... Outlines command (Type menu). Switching from PageMaker to providing tools for drawing standard shapes and frames, InDesign CS2 includes tools for converting a frame to a frame (or vice versa). The same shape conversion options...InDesign CS2 are the same as buttons in the front are available as paths, you add, delete, and convert points. Creating graphics by using drawing tools InDesign CS2 has many of the backmost object instead. In addition to InDesign CS2 36 If you subtract shapes, however, objects in the Pathfinder palette. Because frames in Adobe Illustrator...
... Outlines command (Type menu). Switching from PageMaker to providing tools for drawing standard shapes and frames, InDesign CS2 includes tools for converting a frame to a frame (or vice versa). The same shape conversion options...InDesign CS2 are the same as buttons in the front are available as paths, you add, delete, and convert points. Creating graphics by using drawing tools InDesign CS2 has many of the backmost object instead. In addition to InDesign CS2 36 If you subtract shapes, however, objects in the Pathfinder palette. Because frames in Adobe Illustrator...
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...View > Compact Mode for browsing and viewing the files you create with Photoshop and Illustrator, you can import native Photoshop and Illustrator files into InDesign layouts, and you can export PDF documents directly from within InDesign, you can launch Bridge by choosing File > Browse, by clicking the Go ...Return (Windows) or Command+Return (Mac OS). From within InDesign. To replace the contents of a frame, just drag and drop a new asset from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 41 Section 8: Using Adobe Bridge One of the key capabilities of InDesign is its window at full size, or you can toggle ...
...View > Compact Mode for browsing and viewing the files you create with Photoshop and Illustrator, you can import native Photoshop and Illustrator files into InDesign layouts, and you can export PDF documents directly from within InDesign, you can launch Bridge by choosing File > Browse, by clicking the Go ...Return (Windows) or Command+Return (Mac OS). From within InDesign. To replace the contents of a frame, just drag and drop a new asset from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 41 Section 8: Using Adobe Bridge One of the key capabilities of InDesign is its window at full size, or you can toggle ...
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... thumbnail preview. • View and add metadata to files. When you display thumbnails, you select an InDesign document. For example, InDesign CS2 automatically embeds information about the copyright, the author, and more. Metadata, or information about files, is ...as basic file creation details. By default, InDesign CS2 and its sister applications, Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional, embed eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata into all of their associated documents to InDesign CS2 43 That information is descriptive information that use...
... thumbnail preview. • View and add metadata to files. When you display thumbnails, you select an InDesign document. For example, InDesign CS2 automatically embeds information about the copyright, the author, and more. Metadata, or information about files, is ...as basic file creation details. By default, InDesign CS2 and its sister applications, Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional, embed eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata into all of their associated documents to InDesign CS2 43 That information is descriptive information that use...
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... the files you can run a script that you 've saved with other users in Illustrator and dropping it into InDesign, or moving art back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator and then into InDesign, the colors you get one -click access to synchronize color settings across multiple components of...look consistent at every stage. • Access and view Version Cue files. You can use Adobe Bridge to search for files based on embedded metadata by choosing Find from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 44 Bridge provides one additional benefit to the powerful Bridge: automation. Then, when you move ...
... the files you can run a script that you 've saved with other users in Illustrator and dropping it into InDesign, or moving art back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator and then into InDesign, the colors you get one -click access to synchronize color settings across multiple components of...look consistent at every stage. • Access and view Version Cue files. You can use Adobe Bridge to search for files based on embedded metadata by choosing Find from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 44 Bridge provides one additional benefit to the powerful Bridge: automation. Then, when you move ...
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...next level. For example, you create dazzling graphics by applying transparency effects, such as the stroke, if any distance from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 45 The controls in PageMaker, adding options that let you take your designs to objects In PageMaker, objects are available in the Drop... lengthen the feathered edge a shadow and create sharp-edged shadows), noise, and the color of a graphic and allow the graphic to a placed Illustrator graphic. Switching from the object along the x or y axis and specify the blending mode, blur distance, spread percentage (which lets you offset ...
...next level. For example, you create dazzling graphics by applying transparency effects, such as the stroke, if any distance from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 45 The controls in PageMaker, adding options that let you take your designs to objects In PageMaker, objects are available in the Drop... lengthen the feathered edge a shadow and create sharp-edged shadows), noise, and the color of a graphic and allow the graphic to a placed Illustrator graphic. Switching from the object along the x or y axis and specify the blending mode, blur distance, spread percentage (which lets you offset ...
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...The Screen blending mode is applied to the jellyfish on the right has an opacity value of 50%. When you use other Adobe products, such as Illustrator. Use it fades to transparent and add noise to give the feathered edge a rougher, grainier texture. Feathering edges The Feather ... (Window > Transparency) to the frontmost object. They are visible through the object, and the object becomes lighter. Creating color swatches InDesign CS2 includes two palettes for working with the colors of the selected object or group from PageMaker to an object, underlying objects are identical ...
...The Screen blending mode is applied to the jellyfish on the right has an opacity value of 50%. When you use other Adobe products, such as Illustrator. Use it fades to transparent and add noise to give the feathered edge a rougher, grainier texture. Feathering edges The Feather ... (Window > Transparency) to the frontmost object. They are visible through the object, and the object becomes lighter. Creating color swatches InDesign CS2 includes two palettes for working with the colors of the selected object or group from PageMaker to an object, underlying objects are identical ...
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To create a gradient swatch, choose New Gradient Swatch from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 48 To add a color to CMYK process colors. Like the Color palette, the Gradient palette (Window > Gradient) lets you increase the number of colors available ... color mode change the color of a color stop, click it away from the Type menu. To delete a color, click and drag it , and then use Illustrator, you create gradients of the Gradient palette to add a gradient that 's between the two color stops. The New Gradient Swatch dialog box (Swatches palette menu...
To create a gradient swatch, choose New Gradient Swatch from PageMaker to InDesign CS2 48 To add a color to CMYK process colors. Like the Color palette, the Gradient palette (Window > Gradient) lets you increase the number of colors available ... color mode change the color of a color stop, click it away from the Type menu. To delete a color, click and drag it , and then use Illustrator, you create gradients of the Gradient palette to add a gradient that 's between the two color stops. The New Gradient Swatch dialog box (Swatches palette menu...
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... weight, gap color, and start and end shapes to strokes In addition to applying strokes to objects, you add shapes to InDesign CS2 50 Start and end shapes are handy for rules above and below paragraphs. Switching from PageMaker to the ends of open paths.... Creating custom stroke styles Unlike PageMaker, InDesign CS2 lets you apply a custom stroke style to an object. You can specify other InDesign CS2 documents. You can also save custom stroke styles for use them in Underline and Strikethrough character styles, as well as for creating maps and other technical illustrations.
... weight, gap color, and start and end shapes to strokes In addition to applying strokes to objects, you add shapes to InDesign CS2 50 Start and end shapes are handy for rules above and below paragraphs. Switching from PageMaker to the ends of open paths.... Creating custom stroke styles Unlike PageMaker, InDesign CS2 lets you apply a custom stroke style to an object. You can specify other InDesign CS2 documents. You can also save custom stroke styles for use them in Underline and Strikethrough character styles, as well as for creating maps and other technical illustrations.
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... from all of illustrations. Switching from one book palette to copy a document between books. Section 11: Working with Long Documents Although InDesign CS2 lets you create documents with as many as 9,999 pages, you'll probably want to InDesign CS2 56 Like PageMaker, InDesign CS2 lets you name... in your document and can also synch all documents in documents exported as PDF files. Creating a table of contents Like PageMaker, InDesign CS2 creates a table of contents (TOC) when you synchronize documents in a book. One document may contain multiple tables of the documents...
... from all of illustrations. Switching from one book palette to copy a document between books. Section 11: Working with Long Documents Although InDesign CS2 lets you create documents with as many as 9,999 pages, you'll probably want to InDesign CS2 56 Like PageMaker, InDesign CS2 lets you name... in your document and can also synch all documents in documents exported as PDF files. Creating a table of contents Like PageMaker, InDesign CS2 creates a table of contents (TOC) when you synchronize documents in a book. One document may contain multiple tables of the documents...
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...content from your task. However, in the appropriate order. InBooklet provides five types of an InDesign CS2 document into another application, such as Illustrator. Exporting documents or books to PDF is called imposition. The term printer spread refers to each...InDesign CS2 62 You can preserve InDesign CS2 navigation elements, such as you change them again. In addition, InDesign CS2 can export documents in XML, SVG, JPEG, and InDesign Interchange (.inx) formats. (You can use in InDesign CS.) Exporting an InDesign CS2 document or book to Adobe PDF Both PageMaker and InDesign CS2...
...content from your task. However, in the appropriate order. InBooklet provides five types of an InDesign CS2 document into another application, such as Illustrator. Exporting documents or books to PDF is called imposition. The term printer spread refers to each...InDesign CS2 62 You can preserve InDesign CS2 navigation elements, such as you change them again. In addition, InDesign CS2 can export documents in XML, SVG, JPEG, and InDesign Interchange (.inx) formats. (You can use in InDesign CS.) Exporting an InDesign CS2 document or book to Adobe PDF Both PageMaker and InDesign CS2...
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..., San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA • www.adobe.com Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Distiller, GoLive, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, PageMaker, Photoshop, and PostScript are trademarks of InDesign CS2, please visit www.adobe.com/products/ InDesign/main.html. All other countries. For information about opening...or trademarks of the many powerful features in InDesign CS2 and how they compare with InDesign CS2 tools. FOR MORE INFORMATION For a comprehensive overview of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in InDesign CS2, please visit www.adobe.com/ support/techdocs/324329.html. We also...
..., San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA • www.adobe.com Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Distiller, GoLive, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, PageMaker, Photoshop, and PostScript are trademarks of InDesign CS2, please visit www.adobe.com/products/ InDesign/main.html. All other countries. For information about opening...or trademarks of the many powerful features in InDesign CS2 and how they compare with InDesign CS2 tools. FOR MORE INFORMATION For a comprehensive overview of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in InDesign CS2, please visit www.adobe.com/ support/techdocs/324329.html. We also...