Adobe InDesign is Adobe's desktop publishing program that can help you design high quality documents for print or the web. This is the tool that many magazine editors and designers use to work on their creations. It can also be used for web designers to create a magazine like website with interactive elements. So what's new in the Adobe InDesign CS5? Let's take a look at some of the features.

InDesign CS5 now gives you control over the page sizes. You can add new pages and get the page spread you want (tall or wide). This allows you to work in different designs, try out different formats, and even overlap one page onto the other. This is a great feature that magazine designers will truly appreciate.

There are also features to make typography and formatting much more easily than before. Previously, you would have to add new layers to fix issues with formatting text. But there are many preset column and row options you can use to quickly format the page as quickly as 2 clicks. This is a big relief and saves a lot of editing work.

For images, there is the gap tool which you can use to adjust and resize your frames on the fly. You can stretch the frame so that one image is wider than the other. You can also add borders to the images, giving them more styling and flair to your design. All these options can be used with a couple clicks of your mouse.

Probably the most exciting feature of Adobe InDesign CS5 is the ability to create interactive documents without writing a line of code. Using the preset interactive options, you can easily create slideshows, integrate flash videos, create animation, use sounds, and allow people to browse through your document just like a website.

You don't need to spend countless hours trying to write the code for all this. Everything you need is inside InDesign CS5 and there isn't much of a learning curve as the options for creating a slideshow, animation, and every other new feature is easy to use. This is a great way to create stunning presentations, set up online magazines, and turn an ordinary editorial into one that comes alive.

These are just some of the many new features in Adobe InDesign CS5. Aside from the new features, the usability of the software program has been improved. Adobe worked on making it easy for designers to get what they're going for and it's easy to import and export your files. InDesign has addresses many of the things that designers were looking for and is very intuitive, making it a great investment for fans of InDesign's previous versions.