Adobe InDesign CS3 - Professional Page Layout Software

Adobe InDesign CS3 software delivers powerful new features that allow you to explore more creative possibilities, experience greater productivity and streamline repetitive tasks.

With such fierce competition from all directions, you need to capture and keep your customer's attention. InDesign CS3 is packed with tools for building competitive advantage through compelling design. Explore creative possibilities right from within your page layout software with features such as built-in Adobe Photoshop creative effects, sophisticated drawing tools and enhanced control over transparency and gradient feathers. Comprehensive typographical and composition tools offer unprecedented precision for styling text, whether you are polishing display type in a full page ad and or formatting a book interior using custom tracking and kerning.

InDesign CS3 offers a host of new and enhanced features, such as table and cell styles, fast frame-fitting options and the ability to place multiple files at once in long documents.  This flexibility automates the creation of bulleted or numbered lists, table of contents and running headers and footers. You can also integrate content from many other sources, including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat. Other Creative Suite components from within InDesign include Adobe Bridge CS3 for synchronizing color settings across applications and quickly organizing and accessing creative assets and Adobe Acrobat Connect for interactive web conferencing. You can streamline publishing through integration with InCopy and/or Design Server, as well as output to a variety of media.

Since Adobe has no future development plans for PageMaker, Mindware will be updating the text export capabilities in TOP to interface to Adobe InDesign CS3 in the near future. PageMaker can be upgraded to InDesign on the Adobe website (www.adobe.com) for $199.00.

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Things You May Not Know About TOP

Each TOP application has an Options Menu. To display an Options Menu, enter ? from any TOP menu. To access an options menu in another module, press F1 and enter the Options Menu code or type ? to display available menu codes (AR, OE, etc).

To add or edit information, select the letter of the menu item to display. Press F1 to enter maintenance mode, F2 to print a hardcopy or F4 to return to the Options Menu selections.

To display information, select the letter of the menu item to display. Press the Enter key to advance the display forward or the first few characters to advance the display. Press the Spacebar+ the Enter key to return to the beginning of the display. Press F3 for multiple sort options (when available) or F4 to return to the Options Menu.

From within most data input fields, press ?+ the Enter key to display the data selection window. Once in the window, press the Enter key to advance the screen display forward or the Spacebar+ the Enter key returns the display back to the beginning. Select a letter A through F+F1 to insert data item into the current field.

The size of the Options Menu can be altered by using the following keys: + increases the window height in 2 line increments, - decreases the window height in 2 line increments, ^ moves the window up in 2 line increments and * increases the window to its maximum size. Upon exit, the Options Menu will default back to its original size.

The calendar is available in every options menu. Three months are displayed at a time, starting with the current month with today's date highlighted. Press the Enter key to advance the calendar display. Enter month and year in MMYYYY format to advance the calendar display to a specific month.

The calculator function is available from every options menu. From certain numeric fields during order and invoice data entry, type ?+ the Enter key to display the calculator. Press F9, F10 or Q to exit the calculator program, F10 will insert the total. To use the calculator, the number is entered first followed by the operation.

June 30 Deadline for Windows XP!

Microsoft has made it official as of April 3, 2008, that there will be no new reprieves for Windows XP. Some customers and partners had been hoping the company might extend again the deadline for all PC makers to be allowed to preload Windows XP, rather then Windows Vista, on new PC's. But Microsoft officials have said the June 30 date would remain in place for the vast majority of machines.

Only makers of ULPC's (ultra low cost PC's) will be allowed to continue to preload Windows XP until June 30, 2010, or one year after the availability of the next version of Windows. Microsoft has said its target date for Windows 7 is some time in 2010.

Microsoft will still provide mainstream (free) support for XP until April 2009 and extended support (free for security fixes and paid for other help) will end in 2014.