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Additional fees or membership charges may apply. InDesign only • When a new document is opened with the Preview option on, the primary text frame column number fails to synchronize with the layout column number. (#3554328) • The parent document setup dialog is dismissed when the warning message for page size smaller than columns and margins is invoked. Also, this leads to crash on using the document setup dialog again. (#3554324) • InDesign crashes on changing the Intent and then clicking OK while the Preview option is off. (#3554322) • If you launch the new document dialog box through a document preset having facing pages turned off and the number of columns is greater than 1, and turning the Preview option on or off and then clicking OK crashes InDesign. (#3565795) • InDesign crashes on turning off the Facing Pages option and modifying the number of columns after turning off the Preview option in the new document dialog box.

How To Make A Side Scrolling Game In Java. (#3554323) • InDesign crashes on turning off the Preview option and then changing the intent with custom number of columns and modified margins. (#3568108) InDesign and InCopy • Mac: InDesign crashes when you click any widget in any CSXS extension panel when another panel is in inline editing mode.

(#3554318) • Special characters such as ‘?’ or ‘=’ used in hyperlinks are converted to invalid characters and this results in broken links in the exported PDF. (#3554342) • In a two columns text frame, if you select text with the mouse in a footnote placed in the left column text, the text disappears. (#3554333) • Font search results are not correct when the ‘ Show Favorite Fonts Only’ option is selected. (#3554337) • If the ‘ Show Favorite Fonts Only’ option is selected in the Font menu, InDesign crashes on closing a document with document fonts.

(#3554334) • InDesign crashes on selecting the text tool if there are specific fonts present in the system. (#3567444) • InDesign crashes on selecting a row or column with drop shadow applied on it. (#3577944) • Fonts having illegal Postscript characters in their names are crashing the application.

(#3585880) • There is a no easy way to identify whether the launched version of InDesign CC on Windows is 64-bit or 32-bit. (#3554339) • A wrong cursor is displayed when using text drag-and-drop and creating a new frame. (#3574244) • A Flash player object is not loading in ScriptUI. (#3590770) • Windows: a user is unable to type text in a macro text field in the Text Macros Panel.

Page designers these days are about as focused on the printed page as writers are—that is, not so much. Both professions have bloomed onto new mediums, like websites, ereaders, and smartphones. Adobe InDesign is the go-to application for page designers the world over, and the latest version goes to great lengths to help these professionals keep pace with new trends in digital publishing. Adobe InDesign CS6 ($699; $125 upgrade from CS5.5; $249 upgrade from CS3, CS4, and CS5) easily earns a five-star rating and our Editors' Choice for its wonderful flexibility and creativity-boosting enhancements for designers. No one is saying InDesign is perfect, but it's far better than it ever has been, and version CS6 pushes the software further in the right direction, with additions like Alternate Layouts, Liquid Layout, and Content Collector.

Surely, Adobe will refine, improve, and otherwise tweak these new features in future releases as working pros provide feedback, and as the digital publishing landscape itself evolves. Still, as it stands in CS6, Adobe InDesign empowers page designers and graphic artists with a fantastic set of tools, a flexible work environment, and a keen sense of what will be important to them next. Interface Adobe InDesign CS6 sports the same familiar interface of other recent versions of the page-design program.

Adobe InDesign CS6 software is a professional page layout application that gives you pixel-perfect control over design and typography. Create elegant and engaging.

In the past, Adobe (and other graphic arts software makers) took a lot of heat for delivering cramped and cluttered workspaces. But I find it hard to complain about InDesign anymore.

Menus and toolbars snap in and out of place easily. Preset buttons let you switch quickly from one customized set of tools to another. In InDesign, I think Adobe has found an ideal balance by providing more than enough features but not cramming them all onto the screen at once. In its official press materials, Adobe doesn't even mention InDesign's interface, because it's no different than before. But to me, that says Adobe got it right.

And I think that's worth an acknowledgment. New Features Alternate Layout. Designers, especially those who make marketing materials, know that one project is never a single piece of work. That poster you spent two weeks creating? It also needs to be a banner, a direct mail card, and oh, did anyone mention the new iPhone app that will have the same look? InDesign's new Alternate Layout feature removes much (but not all) of the tedium of replicating and reconfiguring content for different page dimensions and uses.

Say you've designed a two-page magazine spread that needs to be ported for viewing on an iPad. Select 'iPad' from the Alternate Layout menu, and not only will the right dimensions appear for the new design, but all the content that you need to reuse, like text boxes and images, will be copied to that workspace as well. Plus, that new workspace is right in the same document in which you started. It's still up to you, the designer, to figure out how to fit the page elements onto the new layout (unless you use Liquid Rules, discussed in more detail below), but InDesign at least gets you started by laying out all the pieces of the puzzle.

Liquid Layouts. Think of Liquid Layouts as template rules for porting content. This new feature lets you set up rules for moving content from one layout to an alternate one, which is helpful if you tend to design for the same dimensions and platforms over and over again. You can scale content, re-center it, and align assets to guides.

There's also an object-based rule that lets you tell InDesign how to adjust a specific object and where to place it. Liquid Layouts don't make the work a cakewalk by any means, but they can cut out a lot of time for designers who adapt the same kinds of content from one template to another over and over again. Neither Liquid Layouts nor Alternate Layouts perfectly and magically create good-looking final products—but if they did, you'd be largely out of the job. What these two features do provide is a bit of automation and speed for the annoying parts of the process, and I for one am happy to see them included in CS6. Linked Content. Linked content is exactly what it sounds like: assets, repurposed across pages—or, wait for it documents!—that are linked so that when you change one, they all update. It is yet another feature for busy designers who spit out six or seven iterations of the same content, only to hear that the boss no longer likes green and wants blue used throughout.

When content is linked, changing one asset changes them all. If you open a document with linked assets that have been changed, InDesign throws a warning icon before pulling in the updated item, giving you a chance to unlink them if you need. Content Collector. My first impression of the Content Collector was: 'Oh look, a pasteboard?

An object library?' The Content Collector is indeed both a pasteboard and a simplified version of an object library, and it looks a whole lot like the tray in ($499 direct, 3.5 stars). InDesign's Content Collector pops onto the bottom of your screen when you select it from the main toolbar, and it serves as a place to collect assets for reuse, such as logos and boiler plate text. You can grab anything on the page in front of you and send it to the Collector, and you can reuse any assets that you've saved there, even if it's from another document.

One way Corel's tray trumps InDesign's, though, is how it interacts with online materials. CorelDRAW lets you export all the assets on a Web page from any URL and save them to the tray. It also lets you search online for images you might want to use in your work and plop them into the tray for easy access (you still have to acquire a high-resolution image for final use later, but the advantage is you can try out a number of creative ideas quickly). Corel also lets you set up and name multiple trays, whereas InDesign only has one. Support for PDF Fields.

One last feature addition to note: InDesign now lets you build interactive PDFs, which makes sense, seeing that it's Adobe InDesign. Forms, like membership applications or enrollment paperwork, that page designers used to push to programmers to build, are now possible to create with simple buttons in InDesign. In testing the software, I didn't find all the options completely straightforward, but that may have more to do with my lack of PDF knowledge than the utility of the tools. The simplest ones, however, like creating checkboxes and yes/no selections, took hardly any effort to include on a document. A Brilliant Design Adobe InDesign CS6 remains the number-one professional page-design software on the market, and there's no question that it deserves an Editors' Choice. Adobe has done an outstanding job of getting this application to a very refined and easy-to-use state. Designers working in multiple mediums, from print to mobile platforms to ebooks, will find InDesign goes a long way toward making their jobs simpler, automating the process of porting and reconfiguring page assets as much as it can.

Jill Duffy is a contributing editor, specializing in productivity apps and software, as well as technologies for health and fitness. She writes the weekly Get Organized column, with tips on how to lead a better digital life.

Her first book, Get Organized: How to Clean Up Your Messy Digital Life is available for Kindle, iPad, and other digital formats. She is also the creator and author of ProductivityReport.org. Before joining PCMag.com, she was senior editor at the Association for Computing Machinery, a non-profit membership organization for.