File Extension IND

File Extension Name: IND

File Extension Description: The InDesign Publication or .ind file extension is page design software. This software gives a touch of professionalism to layouts, typography, and graphics. The IND publication is supported by Windows and Macintosh.

The InDesign CS3 software streamlines repetitive tasks thus allowing more time for creative brainstorming. The productivity is improved. The publishing platform serves as a flexible foundation for dynamic publishing workflows (PDF, 5.12MB). The InDesign is compatible and works well with Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver software, Illustrator, Acrobat, and InCopy. The complex documents produced can be outputted to multiple media.

Page layouts using IND can have non-destructive live effects. Experimentation on effects of object’s fill, stroke, or content can be done easily. The layout effects include gradient feathers, transparency, and other creative effects.

The preview presents the exact printing output. All efforts in utilizing every feature will not be wasted. There are tools for productivity enhancement like faster frame fitting, visual pages panel, “Quick Apply”, and the Multi-file Place. Exporting of Adobe PDF files and sharing custom presets are supported. Print-to-web workflows and other multi-format publishing are accomplished by exporting the InDesign content as XHTML. This is automatically formatted using cascading style sheets with editing using Dreamweaver possible.

The typographical controls and full-featured tables tandem gives options for wide range of manners of presentation. There are controls for open type font, glyphs, drop caps, paragraph composer, optical kerning and margin alignment. For rich formatting of tables, you can build tables using InDesign or import Microsoft Word document, Excel tables, for tab-delimited text files. A more customized table is achievable by applying any of the manual formatting options for tables and cell styles.

The smart text handling feature, aside from the ability to import style text, allows application of complex text wraps around objects. This is applicable for production of long documents. Application to bullets and numberings, running headers and footers, and synchronized master pages maintains consistency and uniformity to the entire document. The ExtendScript toolkit of the InDesign automates processes and simplifies workflows using scripts.

Author: Adobe Systems Incorporated

Author URL: http://www.adobe.com

Associated Applications: Adobe InDesign CS3, InDesign CS2

Common Path: N/A