Download & Install a CS6 Trial
Posted by Vikrant in CS & Creative Cloud on May 23, 2012
Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) is here. Have you taken it for a spin yet?
Adobe CS6 is a collection of several industry-leading software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Premiere Pro and several others. If you want to see for yourself what the new software is like, you can download a trial. Adobe offers trials for individual products as well as the suites (with multiple products). If you want to try out all products, Master Collection is for you.
To get a trial, Go to the Downloads page, select a product to Try, and click Download now.
How to download a CS6 trial?
If you need Trial Download instructions, see the following self-paced demo on how to download and install a CS6 Trial. In the demo we use After Effects as an example, but the process is the same for all products.
Download a free trial for CS6 or any of the individual products and take it for a spin. A trial is valid for 30 days and the software is fully functional. If you like what you see, just Buy a licence, and enter the serial number in the trial software to convert it.
InDesign CS6 | HunSpell dictionaries
Back in CS5.5, InDesign added support for open-source Hunspell dictionaries to verify spelling and hyphenation.
In InDesign CS6, HunSpell is the default dictionary provider. Several dictionaries are shipped with the software, but you can also download additional spelling and hyphenation dictionaries from the OpenOffice website.
Using Hunspell to verify spelling and to hyphenate words, you are no longer limited by the number of languages shipped within the product. Dictionaries for over 90 languages are available for integration at the Open Office website. Several other sites also provide Hunspell dictionaries. You can download language dictionaries of your choice and add them to InDesign CS6.
InDesign CS6 Dictionary Preferences (Edit > Preferences > Dictionary)
To view the instructions, from within the product, click HunSpell Info in the dictionary preferences dialog box.
The instructions are also available at http://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/add_cs_dictionaries.html
InDesign CS6 | Online Help
I thought that I’ll compile a list of all the links at one place, and also try and explain the role each page plays. If you’ve installed the CS6, then you probably know this already; not sure how helpful this will be, but here it is.
- Launching help from InDesign open the help content in your default web browser
- The Adobe Help Manager lets you download offline help and notifies you when updated content is available.
See What’s new with Adobe Community Help for more detailed information.
Online Help
Help Hub page
The Help Hub page is a central page that contains information about getting started with the product and where to access the help from. Most of the links in this post can be accessed through the Help Hub page. It provides a single launch point from where you can access various resources.
Topics
The Topics page is displayed when you press F1 or choose Help > Online Help. This page replaces the Table-of-contents page, and does away with the “Tree” navigation and multiple clicking that was necessary in the earlier versions. (If you have stubby fingers like mine, this works quite nicely on tablets and phones too)
- All help articles are at the same level, and clubbed under Topics
- Articles that fall under multiple topics, appear multiple times
- Not all links are displayed under each topic. To view a complete list of the articles under each topic, click the More link next to the topic heading.
- Clicking on the InDesign Help title/link (top-left of the page) will take you one level up to the Help Hub page.
Whats new in CS6 (HTML)
The What’s New in InDesign CS6 page lists the new features in InDesign CS6 in one place. Provides basic information about the features and helps you find the new features in the product. We have tried to add enough information so that you don’t have to look elsewhere to get started. However, hyperlinks take you to more detailed information for complex features.
- Clicking on the InDesign Help title/link (top-left of the page) will take you one level up to the Topics page.
Getting Started (HTML)
The Getting Started page lists resources that you can use to quickly learn the product. Whether you’re completely new to InDesign or just moved to CS6, you’ll find links to videos, blog posts, help articles that will help you get started. This page is frequently updated with new information as and when it becomes available.
PDFs
The CS6 PDFs are not available yet. As soon as they are available, I’ll update this post to add the links.
Previous versions
If you need PDFs for the previous versions, such as CS5.5/5, you can access the PDFs for the previous versions from the Archives page.
Changes to Save for web in Illustrator CS6
Posted by Vikrant in Illustrator on May 17, 2012
There have been some changes in the Illustrator CS6 Save for Web dialog box. For one, its not called Save for Web and Devices anymore.
Ivan David rounded up all the changes and put them in one place. Have a quick look, to see what the changes are.
The Save for Web feature is used, chiefly, to optimize artwork and images for the purpose of using it in web browsers and applications. This was achieved by optimizing image size and color. However, as the web evolves and bandwidth becomes increasingly and easily available, the Save for Web feature has also evolved to keep up with the times. The feature has been reworked, and the changes include availability of certain formats from different menu options, removal of the WBMP format and automatic HTML generation, and modifications to the slices feature.
Read the complete post here: http://blogs.adobe.com/ivandavid/illustrator_cs6_save_for_web/
InDesign CS6 | Export to PNG
You could always save your layouts as JPEG, but sometimes the results were less then pristine because JPEG, by design, is a lossy format. In today’s web and device dominated world, if anything you need a lossless format such as PNG. And in InDesign CS6, you can do just that. Read on to figure out how to save from InDesign as PNG. This is the Save as PNG capability that you’ve been waiting for.
Export as PNG
- To export as PNG, choose File > Export (Ctrl/Command + E) and then select PNG from the Save as Type drop down list.
Export options
PNG Export options dialog box
You can export a selection, a range, or All pages/spreads in your document. Additional options lets you specify, quality, resolution (ppi), color space etc.
Download Trial
Have you taken the PNG export for a spin yet? If not, download a trial and let us know how it goes.
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