work First impressions of InDesign CS3

Posted April 30, 2007 • Comments Off on First impressions of InDesign CS3

It crashes when I try to activate. I’ll deal with that. If I have to activate over the phone, so be it.

The apps all launch. This is a great improvement over the previous situation, where most of CS2 would, you know, not launch.

The apps are speedy and quick. You really feel the Intel-native benefit.

I really do like the new icons after all.

I’m not sure how I feel about the “dock” for the side palettes. I feel like they’re taking a little more room than I have. I use a LOT of palettes in InDesign.

I love how InDesign dots the outlines of items locked to the master page. That’s awesome.

You can constrain table cell insets to be the same all the way around, and this is enabled by default. No more zero-tab-zero-tab-zero-tab-zero. Now, it’s just … zero.

My AppleScripts don’t seem to work. This troubles me in the extreme.
Later: The scripting language for find/change has changed completely. I may be, technically speaking, fucked.

There’s now an “Extra Small” option for the size of pages in the Pages palette.

Palettes are called panels. Just to make it harder to find the right references.

Command-shift-T turns on the Tabs dialog, but doesn’t seem to turn it off. Odd.

The loaded text cursor has a preview of the text you’re about to flow in. That’s weird, but cool.

Much later: Table styles and cell styles are cute, but they are elementary. They do not allow you to specify the size of your cells. This won’t help me at all.

Back to CS2 I go. I guess I have to deal with constant crashes and instability until WoodWing comes out with a new version of SmartStyles. At least their business is safe.