Adobe Upgrade to ® InDesign® CS2

Upgrade to Adobe® InDesign® CS2, NL, CD, Mac With its sophisticated design and production controls and unmatched integration with other Adobe applications, Adobe® InDesign® CS2 software is not only a better choice for page layout — it's a superior way to work.

Put your creativity in control

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support
Selectively display layers and layer comps in Photoshop® files, and layers in Adobe PDF files, to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file in your layout — all while linking to a single file.

Transparency
Apply editable drop shadows, feathering, and other transparency effects. Maintain soft edges when placing transparent Photoshop files.

OpenType font support
Unlock the full potential of OpenType® fonts with support for multilingual and alternate glyphs including old-style numbers, fractions, ligatures, and swashes.

Anchored Objects
Easily anchor callouts, pull quotes, margin notes, and graphics to text. Precisely control the positioning of Anchored Objects, apply text wrap settings, and more.
Anchored Objects

Tables
Import styled Microsoft Word and Excel tables, create tables by importing from tab-delimited text files, or build from scratch in InDesign. Further refine your tables with formatting options such as color fills in alternating rows and automatic running headers and footers.

Work faster, create more

Adobe Bridge
Browse, organize, label, and preview graphics and InDesign documents, templates, and snippets in Adobe Bridge. Drag and drop assets from Adobe Bridge into layouts easily and efficiently. Search for files using metadata, such as keywords, colors, and image resolution.

Object styles
Apply and globally update object-level formatting more efficiently using object styles. Save a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks.

InDesign snippets
Easily export InDesign objects as snippets, which can be shared with colleagues or reused in other documents. When you place or drag a snippet into a layout, InDesign re-creates the original objects, their formatting, and their relative positioning on the page.

Smart text handling
Enjoy powerful text handling features including the ability to drag and drop and paste without formatting text, plus an integrated word processing tool to enable quicker editing.

Flexible XML support
Import XML files with greater control, including linking to XML content for easier updating. Also apply XML tags to tables, and then import XML content into and export it from those tables.

Plug into the power of Adobe integration

Using native Adobe file formats
Give yourself more time, creative freedom, and production control by using Adobe native file format support within your page design.

Adobe InCopy CS2 assignments
Assign only the elements of a document that an editor needs to work on in InCopy® CS2 software while you're designing the rest — whether that's specific frames on a page, frames on one or more spreads, or all the frames in a document.

Direct export to Adobe PDF
Export Adobe Acrobat® 4.0–7.0 files directly from InDesign for electronic reviews and high-end printing, using a streamlined interface that's more consistent across Adobe graphics applications. Maintain layers in exported Acrobat 6.0–7.0 files.

Package for GoLive command
Export objects or a complete InDesign document to jump-start your web design. Then open in Adobe GoLive® software and choose to generate an XHTML web site automatically, apply a CSS template, or drag and drop design elements into your web page.

Backwards compatibility with InDesign CS
Export your InDesign CS2 document to the InDesign Interchange (INX) format and open it in InDesign CS for sharing with people still working in the previous version.