Hi. Dave Dilling from Markzware. When updating your,
upgrading your InDesign Creative Cloud from, you know,
where you're at now, the 9.2 version to the new
Adobe InDesign CC 2014 version,
don't make the mistake of going up here to the little Adobe
Updater and opening the Updater.
My InDesign, but that was the old version,
the 9.2.2.
9.2.2 is the latest update for the
current co-existing version,
but not the most recent version, of Adobe Creative Cloud.
So, Adobe's doing that, because people with big workflows, you might need to,
you know, first triple check everything, before you implement it in the entire
corporate workflow. So, the existing 9.2 version,
like I said, 9.2.2, which I have here,
there is an update for that.
You can get it, and it will, you know, get you current,
but the real, new version that everyone's talking about,
you need to go, not through the Adobe Applications Manager.
Normally, there would be another icon here, a sort of
Adobe 8 icon, or something like that,
and that would do the same. But how you can get the new
version is you log in to your account,
you know, in the Creative Cloud. You go to your account.
You go to the Apps section, and then you can
simply get InDesign.
You can first check out what's new.
Yeah, there it is, InDesign CC 2014.
Here's where you can get it. So, you click Download.
It says InDesign is downloading now, and you get this little...
sounds about right. And now, you get that icon back, again.
This little icon here.
And, now, you can click Update. This icon should always,
should always be here. It'll pop away, if you get an
internet interruption, and it won't come back until you restart, I think.
In any event, then you click Update, and there it goes.
So, the process can be a little tricky. There's
your current version 9.2, and there's a 9.2 update,
and then, there's the totally new version, which is, of course, the
Adobe InDesign CC 2014,
which we're grabbing here, now. Been told it's been updated to the latest version.
Yeah, 14 updates available. Ah, okay, yeah, probably that, okay.
That was just this part. Now, I've got to go in and say okay,
I want to update.
InDesign CC 2014.
So, that's the next step. So, now, we're going to
do that. I don't think I need this open anymore.
So, we're going to click Update, InDesign CC 2014.
2014 release of Creative Cloud. Welcome to the release
of Creative Cloud desktop. Continue. Installing InDesign CC.
Yeah, that first bit was just installing the installer. (laughs)
That took, already, 20 minutes. Okay, well,
you know, it looks like it's going to be a long night. In any event,
alright, so now it's done. It just gave me a notification
and it just disappears, but for the rest, that's,
you know, that's okay. As long as it works,
right? But where do you find it? Well, it's not
down on my Dock, automatically.
So, I'm going into Applications here and I see all my
Adobe InDesigns and now you see I have three,
along with a new one, Adobe InDesign CC 2014.
CC 2014. Then, I can put this down my Dock.
Because I have to do a lot of support
and converting files, fixing bad files, I'll keep the other version, as well.
But now, I should be able to launch InDesign
CC 2014, and, in a moment, we'll go over some of the
new features and functions
of this new version. Wow, look at that new...
that's a funky, funky, splash screen. I mean that
triangle, pyramid,
interconnecting, you know,
geometry, pretty wild.
So, it looks very similar.
You do get this notice. Your previous
presets and settings from InDesign CC have been
successfully migrated and
are now available for use. Introduction, Enhanced Search,
pretty cool. And
this article (well, I'll put the link to it) highlights the top five
features and functions. Easier tables, sounds nice.
Typekit missing fonts workflow, we'll check that out. Color groups,
and you can easily find colors and group
them better. Easier search. You know, you always do
that Find > Next, Find > Next. And, now, you can just
go back to Previous, instead of having to, yeah,
freak out and do the whole thing over again.
That's a nice little feature. Once again, Markzware has a
PageZephyr stand-alone application, which will stand-alone search within your
InDesign file or files and
your entire drive or drives and it will find keywords
(snaps) like that for you. A very handy tool to have and very affordable.
EPub fixed layout. That's been asked for, by a lot of these ePub folks,
to export, in a fixed layout fashion,
and that's useful for ePub folks.
Export into ePub. Now, let's go check out in here, in InDesign. Here's this document
with some images and fonts and whatnot.
And the new InDesign Package feature, which is still in the same
Place > File > Package,
is that it will now... Let me go further here,
we'll just save this out.
When you go further here, you get the instructions for printers.
You get the Save As window. Now, notice something very important here
for later,
will not collect.
Another new feature, the Typekit Fonts, pretty interesting.
But here, you can include an IDML. Very useful, if you want to
give it to someone who needs to open a lower or higher version, or vice versa,
and include a PDF print and you can set
the quality of that file. And, then, when you hit Package,
"Restrictions apply to copying font
software." Right. Copy
what you can. And it does the job. InDesign makes a folder with
the InDesign file, the IDML file,
and the PDF.
So, kind of neat. That's something, in FlightCheck, you can do, as well,
add a PDF file into the folder, after it's been done.
Now, this is to show you Markzware, how it can package. We can take a file. We can take,
you know, we've got, we have several files here, right?
We can take all these various files.
I can even, you know, throw in a
Photoshop document. It doesn't matter, you can take all these files,
drag and drop them onto the FlightCheck icon.
FlightCheck'll start up, load the font database, and start preflighting
file after file. (FlightCheck eagle screeches)
And then, then with each individual file,
a preflight report, with all important details on what's inside that file.
So, extremely handy, just from the information standpoint.
Now, we call package "Collect" in FlightCheck, so it'll collect or package
these jobs and, now, what we're doing is we're going to compress
this job and it's going to collect all
of the files we've preflighted and all of
the elements that are used in those files. So, now we, we're going to
collect to our...
Let's collect to our Desktop,
and we'll collect that out. (computer chimes)
Now, what you'll get... Now, we can move all these
InDesign files back to their... And what we get is a
FlightCheck approval, in this case, FlightCheck disapproved, or
unapproved, CollectArchive. And if we open that up (and
you can then send this off to the next party in the workflow, very easily),
what you get
is all of those files we have all over our system,
all collected, copied over,
with a pre-flight report, with
all the fonts used and all the images used.
That's how easy it is, with Markzware's FlightCheck, to
package your InDesign files. Not just one file, but many,
and it'll even compress them. Now, what you get here, when...
The Adobe Typekit, it's been around for a bit here, but now, what you'll be able to do
is actually find the missing fonts
and add them in the Adobe Typekit. But there's
an issue with this Typekit, which some people overlook and that is that
these fonts that you just saw will not be collectible in the standard way.
That means the next person in the workflow
will have to also use Adobe Typekit, forcing it upon them,
more or less. And what happens is, once you
log in (which I'm not going to do right now), you can
then choose from a host of fonts to load into your system.
Now, the problem with this is, as you just saw with
Package (File > Package), what happens is the fonts
don't get copied over from Typekit. So, that means you're forcing
the next party in your workflow to use the Typekit fonts,
do that whole sign-up process. I just sort of Escaped out of there.
It's actually a dangerous area to be aware of.
And this has been how you can update your InDesign
CC to the latest 2014 version. It's quite simple.
Thank you. David Dilling from Markzware,
wishing you a great day!