Making the Most of InDesign's Workspace Feature

Thu, Feb 19th, 2009

When Adobe introduced its first Creative Suite back in 2003, the company offered a new feature that got very little attention called Workspace. In the three major revisions since then, a few tweaks have been made to Workspace, but the feature still doesn't get the love it truly deserves.

To understand Workspace, think of your office desk. Everything on your desk--the stapler, tape dispenser, pen-and-pencil cup, inbox, phone, and so forth--has its place. It would be pretty annoying if those things get moved around; you would have to spend time moving them back--time that could be spent getting your work done.

Now think of InDesign as your desk. Every panel should have it's place on your screen. But sometimes you move panels around in the course of working on your document. Moving those panels back to where you normally like them is time wasted.

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