Adobe InDesign CS6 – Adapt content

Use a powerful set of new Adaptive Design Tools to efficiently repurpose your page layouts to myriad page sizes, screen sizes, orientations, and devices without sacrificing good design or typography.

Liquid Layout

Apply liquid page rules to automatically adapt content when you create an alternate layout with a different size or orientation in InDesign.

Alternate Layout

Efficiently create and design multiple versions of a layout for different devices and print needs, all within a single InDesign file.

Content Collector tools

Grab text and objects from an existing layout using the Content Collector. In a new layout, use the Content Placer to add items in the order you want them to appear.

Linked content

Link content within or across InDesign documents so that changes (including interactivity) made to the parent text or object are applied to all linked children objects.

Pages panel enhancements

Display alternate layouts in the Pages panel to organize content efficiently.

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.

Adobe InDesign CS6 - Design beautiful page layouts

Harness the professional design and typography features in Adobe® InDesign® CS6 software to create stunning and sophisticated page layouts with pixel-perfect control.

Recently used fonts

Access fonts you use frequently. Recently used fonts appear at the top of the font list.

Persistent text frame fitting options

Set frames to grow with additional text, based on simple parameters. Expand and shrink frames automatically for headlines, callouts, or other variable content.

Multiple page sizes

Create pages with different sizes in a single document.

Hunspell dictionary enhancements

Access more than 100 open source dictionaries.

Drag-and-drop support for anchored objects

Add inline graphics and other anchored objects quickly and intuitively by simply dragging them to the desired anchor location in the text.

Paragraphs that span or split columns

Quickly create text that spans or splits into multiple columns in just a few steps.

Efficient object selection and editing

Perform repetitive layout tasks efficiently using convenient tools and on-object controls.

Document-installed fonts

Help eliminate font substitution issues with document-installed fonts.

Integration with other Adobe solutions

Move smoothly from design to output, thanks to tight integration with industry-leading Adobe software such as Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat®, and Flash® Professional.

Built-in creative tools

Explore creatively with integrated drawing tools, nondestructive effects, built-in Adobe Photoshop effects, fine transparency controls, and support for 3D Photoshop artwork.

Adobe Mini Bridge

Find and drag images into page layouts from Adobe Mini Bridge without leaving InDesign.

Live captions

Generate static or live captions automatically from image metadata.

Robust text composition

Create beautiful, sophisticated text with styles, text wrap, the Paragraph Composer, OpenType® support, drop caps, and style mapping for EPUB export.

Comprehensive Layers panel

Easily manage page items with a Layers panel similar to the one in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Key object alignment

Align selected items to a key object you define.

InCopy CS6

What is InCopy?

Adobe® InCopy® CS6 software is a professional writing and editing solution that tightly integrates with Adobe InDesign® CS6 software to enable an efficient collaborative workflow between design and editorial staff.
Accelerate production cycles for print and digital publications with Adobe® InCopy® CS6 software. Style and copyfit text in seconds, track text changes with more control, and make simple layout modifications to meet editorial needs.

Parallel collaborative workflow

Experience tight integration with InDesign CS6 to enable writers, editors, and designers to simultaneously work on a single document without overwriting each other's contributions.

Flexible page views

Edit in the view most suited to your current task. Galley View displays 100% accurate line breaks. Story View enables faster word processing. And Layout View lets you edit text in relation to design.

Precise copyfitting

View copyfit information as you work. Constant visual feedback informs you of space remaining — or how far you're overset — as well as story depth and line, word, and character counts.

Powerful tools for editorial productivity

Use the Eyedropper tool for quick text styling, the Links panel for easy management of placed image and text files, and paragraph and character styles for typographical consistency.
 Enhanced editorial collaboration
Track text changes across your entire document, including tables. Hide, show, and navigate changes, and accept or reject them en masse or per user. Store annotations
in notes tied to specific positions in a story or table cells.
 Flexible workspace
Work productively with easy access to key controls and tools. Use the Adobe Mini Bridge panel to browse and open files without leaving InCopy. And create custom workspaces that can be used for specific editorial tasks.

Professional typography

Apply a wide range of precise typographic adjustments such as leading, letter spacing, and paragraph spacing; use OpenType® fonts and Unicode character encoding; and easily insert glyphs using the Glyphs panel.
 Support for long documents
Minimize manual updates and inaccuracies. Quickly produce multiple versions of a document from a single source file with support for conditional text, and create cross-references that update as content changes or moves within an InDesign document.
 Print and digital publishing
Develop and deliver content for both print and digital documents. Experience support for digital document features in InDesign CS5.5, insert hyperlinks directly into your InCopy file, and export files to Adobe PDF or XML.
 Paragraphs that split columns

Quickly turn any text selection into multiple columns within an existing text frame.

 Paragraphs that span columns
Cut production time with a simple click that makes single-column text span multiple columns. Quickly create a column-spanning headline or subhead in your existing text frame — no need to ask the designer to create a dedicated frame.
 Layers panel

Hide or lock obscuring layout elements to easily access the text in a multilayered document.

 Links panel

Manage placed files in your InCopy documents and see metadata including keywords, headline, and description.

Document-installed fonts

Avoid the inconvenience of missing fonts. When you open an InCopy story, InCopy CS5.5 automatically looks for an associated Document fonts folder, installs the folder's fonts temporarily for use in the story, and then uninstalls the fonts when you close the story.

Hunspell dictionaries

Access more than 100 open source language and hyphenation dictionaries, allowing you to spell-check and compose text in more languages than ever before.

Recently used fonts

Access fonts you use frequently. Recently used fonts appear at the top of the font list.

World-ready composer

Use the world-ready composer, an alternate composition engine included in the International English version to enable support for complex script languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Indian languages.

Middle Eastern language support

Buy and update the Middle Eastern version of InCopy directly from Adobe for easier localization of global documents and enhanced functionality, including support for tables in the Story Editor, improved Kashida justification, enhanced diacritic positioning, and more.

Complex calculations

Calculate values in panels and dialog boxes using complex calculations (for example, 12.5p / 2x3).

Extension manager

Enable or disable individual extensions or entire sets of extensions to meet the needs of your current workflow.

Adobe Flash Professional CS6

What is Flash Professional?

Adobe® Flash® Professional CS6 software is a powerful authoring environment for creating animation and multimedia content. Design immersive interactive experiences that present consistently across desktops and multiple devices, including tablets, smartphones, and televisions.

New support for HTML5

Leverage a new extension (available separately) to create interactive HTML5 content by building on core animation and drawing capabilities in Flash Professional. Export as JavaScript to target the CreateJS open source framework.
More about Toolkit for CreateJS

Sprite sheet generation

Export symbols and animation sequences to quickly generate sprite sheets that help improve the gaming experience, workflow, and performance.

Wide platform and device support

Reach Android™ and iOS devices by targeting the latest Adobe Flash Player and AIR runtimes.

Prepackaged Adobe AIR application creation

Create and deliver applications with a prepackaged Adobe AIR captive runtime. Streamline application testing and enable end users to run your content without additional downloads.

Adobe AIR mobile simulation

Simulate common mobile application interactions like screen orientation, touch gestures, and accelerometer to help speed up testing.

Stage 3D targeting

Turbocharge rendering performance by using direct mode to leverage the open source Starling Framework for hardware-accelerated 2D content.