Working with Preferences Files


InDesign stores preferences in several places. Some are stored in the documents themselves , so they work as expected as they are moved from user to user . Others are stored in files on your computer and affect only you.

InDesign Defaults file

The preferences you set in InDesign, from measurement units to color -calibration settings, are all stored in the InDesign Defaults file. On the Mac, this file is in the InDesign 3.0 folder in the Adobe InDesign folder in the Preferences folder in the current user's Library folder. In Windows, it is in the \Document and Settings\[Current User]\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\Version 3.0 folder on the drive that contains Windows.

To specify these defaults, you modify settings in the Preferences dialog box when no documents are open . All new documents you create are based on these settings.

Because some of the information affects how text flows and how documents look, you may want to standardize it for a workgroup by setting preferences once and sharing the InDesign Defaults file. (Sharing the file is a simple matter of giving copies of the file to other InDesign users to place in the appropriate system folder.)

New Feature ‚  

InDesign CS adds the option of deleting the InDesign Defaults preference files when opening InDesign: Press Control+Option+Shift+ z or Ctrl+Alt+Shift when launching InDesign.

Note ‚  

If you make changes to preferences while a document is open, the change is saved with that document and not in the InDesign Defaults file. The document remembers its own preference settings so it will look the same when it's opened on other computers running InDesign.

Presets folder

The Presets folder in your InDesign application folder contains three kinds of standards: shortcut sets, color-swatch libraries, and workspaces. InDesign lets you create shortcut sets, so different users can have their own shortcut definitions; these preferences are stored in the InDesign Shortcut Sets folder in the Presets folder. The Swatch Libraries folder contains color-swatch libraries, both those that come with InDesign and any you might add yourself. Finally, the Workspaces folder contains workspace definitions; a workspace is a set of palettes and palette positions that you can save so, for example, you can have all text editing palettes appear when you're working on text.




Adobe InDesign CS Bible
Adobe InDesign CS3 Bible
ISBN: 0470119381
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 344
Authors: Galen Gruman

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