InDesign 2 has only a few new color-management tools (such as the Overprint Preview option), but its color-management system is still significantly better than XPress’s. XPress 5 sports a new, more intuitive color-management dialog box and can specify rendering intents (or how the program should handle out-of-gamut colors). Fortunately, both Quark and Adobe have tried to make managing color as accessible as possible. InDesign can’t create multi-inks for blends of spot colors, for example.Įveryone wants more-consistent color from scan to screen to ink-jet printer to printing press, but few people enjoy getting their hands dirty with arcane color-management technologies. However, XPress still has more features, especially when it comes to spot colors. InDesign 2 has slightly better color control than version 1.X it allows you to drag and drop color swatches. (Both of these were also in version 4.X.) There are a few graphics features unique to XPress, including the ability to edit the contrast curve of imported JPEG and TIFF images, and the option of allowing images to break past the borders of their picture boxes. In addition, a five-page document with two large images per page creates a 50MB file in XPress 5 but only a 10MB file in InDesign 2. XPress 5 provides better-looking screen previews of TIFF images than XPress 4.X, but while InDesign lets you zoom in to see the true resolution, XPress is still limited to a 72-dpi screen preview. More importantly, InDesign offers significantly better screen previews of your graphics - even of EPS files, which have traditionally been almost impossible to view properly on screen. However, InDesign also supports native Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files, which can be helpful in some workflows. Both programs handle TIFF, JPEG, EPS, and other popular file formats. In any language, pictures are as important as type, and here, too, the scales tip in InDesign’s favor. XPress, on the other hand, can manage only one language at a time to do multilingual publishing, you need QuarkPassport, which looks and feels like XPress but costs almost twice as much.
InDesign is also Unicode compliant, so you can open Japanese documents in the English version of the program.
It ships with dictionaries for 12 languages, so if you can type it, InDesign can hyphenate it properly and check its spelling. Typesetting in languages other than American English is increasingly important in today’s international business culture, and InDesign shines in this area, too. XPress 5 has no new typography tools, though it lets you specify a color in the Find/Change dialog box and check the spelling of a selection. One problem remains: you can’t select a text character and set it to a dingbats font. For example, you can now set text leading (the space between baselines) for an entire paragraph at a time, and text can now wrap accurately around EPS graphics.
XPress provides neither of these features.Īdobe has also fixed a number of problems that irked InDesign 1.X users. InDesign 2 has a plethora of other timesaving type features, such as hanging punctuation slightly outside the margins of justified text, and optical kerning to automatically adjust spacing between characters (based on their shapes) - both were also available in version 1.X. InDesign 2 can automatically find and insert the For example, say your OpenType font includes a specially drawnĬombination. In contrast, XPress looks at only one line of text at a time, so a paragraph’s color is often not quite even.Ī subtler example of InDesign’s superiority is its greater support of OpenType fonts (available from Adobe and several other foundries), which can include special characters such as fractions, swashes, foreign-language characters, and even context-sensitive ligatures. An obvious example is InDesign’s Paragraph Composer feature (called the Multiline Composer in previous versions) it adjusts hyphenation and the spacing between letters and words, in an effort to achieve an even typographic color over a whole paragraph.
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