Adobe InDesign 2.0 page-layout software has the tools to inspire your creativity and simplify elaborate design tasks. Version 2.0 offers object transparency, long-document management options, one-step table creation, XML import and export, improved performance, and more. InDesign 2.0 delivers tight integration with other Adobe graphics applications, easy-to-use tools that reduce elaborate design tasks to a few steps, and built-in support for publishing pages anywhere--in print, on the Web, to Adobe PDF, as e-books, and more.
Capture inspiration with the ability to apply drop shadows, feathering, and other editable transparency settings to any object. Use Overprint Preview for proofing spot-color effects and overprint settings. Flexible table creation tools let you turn tab-delimited text into tables in one step. Plus, get faster performance when opening, saving, and closing documents and placing high-resolution images.

InDesign's integration with other Adobe products allows you to work more efficiently. You can directly export Adobe PDF files in Acrobat 4.0 or Acrobat 5.0 format. You'll have the ability to place native Photoshop and Illustrator files with the transparency preserved. InDesign 2.0 also features support for importing and exporting well-formed XML and easier tracking, management, and retrieval of InDesign documents through Adobe's new XML-based metadata framework.