by
David Nagel
Executive
Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com
Adobe today
released and update to InDesign, one of its page layout and publishing
programs for Macintosh and Windows. The latest version, 1.5.2,
offers several improvements in output and brings for the first
time support for non-PostScript printers in the Macintosh version.
There's a long list of other improvements as well. Some of these
include:
- PostScript
printing enhancements that provide tighter compatibility with
recent versions of postprocessing applications like ScenicSoft
Preps, ScenicSoft TrapWise, Artwork Systems Artpro and Ultimate
ImpoStrip.
- Page marks
in InDesign 1.5.2 PDF files automatically appear in Acrobat
viewers without requiring crop box adjustments in Acrobat.
- InDesign
1.5.2 PDF files containing TrueType fonts print without "typecheck;
offending command: CCRun" errors to Hewlett-Packard 4000 and
5000 series printers.
- Graphics
that are 48 KB or smaller are not automatically embedded.
- Linked
graphics update automatically after you use the Edit Original
command.
- DCS 2.0
files created by QuarkXPress 3.32 display correctly.
- Text containing
umlauts and other diacritical marks now hyphenate correctly.
- Kerned
or skewed text in a rotated text box appears correctly in exported
PDF files.
- For the
Windows version, CMYK TIFF images in composite PostScript files
separate correctly from ScenicSoft Preps 4.0.
The 1.5.2
update is free for users of InDesign 1.5 and is available from
Adobe's Web site. The Mac version can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/idmac.htm;
the Windows version is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/idwin.htm.
