You can control where the frame expands and set a minimum width and height. Set Auto-Sizing to expand just the width, just the height, or both. Again, this one is geared towards tablet publishing, but when you are working with small frames, what a great way to avoid overset text! Turn it on in Text Frame Options. Grow and shrink frames automatically for headlines, call-outs, or other variable content. New Favorite in Adobe InDesign CS6 :: Persistent text frame fitting options: Set frames to grow with additional text, based on simple parameters.

( Note: to disable this feature, just set the Number of Recent Fonts to Display to 0.) Just like Microsoft Word! Go to InDesign > Preferences > Type (Windows: Edit > Preferences > Type) to display between 0 and 50 recently used fonts at the top of fonts list. Recently used fonts appear at the top of the font list in the Type menu. New in Adobe InDesign CS6 :: Recently used fonts: Access fonts you use frequently.

Click the button (outlined in red) at the right of the horizontal scroll bar to turn split window on and off. In the example below, the same page is open in both windows, but the text is magnified in the second window. However, anyone can take advantage of this when they want to see two separate pages at the same time. This feature is geared towards alternative layouts, as it makes it easy to compare a horizontal layout to the same page in a vertical layout. New Favorite in Adobe InDesign CS6 :: Split window: View two side-by-side layouts within the same document to compare the look and feel of the layouts and help ensure consistency. But what if you don’t need to adapt your page layouts for a variety of devices and you don’t create forms distributed through Acrobat? Then this post is for you…here’s my list of the little changes that won’t grab headlines, but will help streamline your work. And all of them represent terrific reasons to upgrade to InDesign CS6. All of those topics deserve their own posts. Another really powerful new feature is the ability to set up forms fields in InDesign that will work in Acrobat.

InDesign CS6 new Adaptive Design Tools-Liquid Layout, Alternate Layouts, Linked Content and the Content Collector tools-all geared towards allowing you to easily adapt page layouts for print, tablets and screens. Posted on: May 15th, 2012 Author: barb.binder Category: Adobe InDesign by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign Home / Adobe InDesign / Adobe InDesign CS6: What’s New? Adobe InDesign CS6: What’s New?

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