And trying to create PowerPoint presentation masters from PDF? Uggh! InDesign supports Type 1 fonts but not so Microsoft (starting with Office 2013 on Windows). Except for some raster images, Microsoft is RGB only ( implied sRGB). InDesign supports full ICC color management including CMYK and RGB of different flavours. InDesign supports 16 transparency blending modes (including multiply which is what normally should be used for drop shadows) while Microsoft only supports the equivalent of the Adobe normal blending mode (you can't even get a decent drop shadow). InDesign supports a much richer imaging model than Microsoft Office. It is totally unrealistic either through PDF to PowerPoint conversion or otherwise! Why? On the other hand, I don't expect to be able to convert these presentations to PowerPoint. It is the only way I can deal with placement of graphic objects, advanced graphic attributes, advanced typographical features, reliable layout (that doesn't change based on the phase of the moon and the resolution of the currently selected printer), and full access to paragraph and text styles. On Wednesday's, I post quick tips for Adobe apps.Actually, I use InDesign for 100% of my presentations. For building presentations in InDesign, your best bet is still to export a PDF and present in Acrobat. If Adobe intended for you to use this mode to show presentations, they would have supported transitions. Those transitions aren't shown in Presentation mode. Users can add transitions in InDesign that export with a PDF file. Although it seems clear to me that isn't Adobe's intention with the feature. And if you are like me and build 'PowerPoint' presentations in InDesign, it will be nice to preview your artwork in full screen mode before you export to PDF.Ĭould you actually use InDesign to show a presentation? I suppose you could.

Presentation mode will be helpful when showing artwork to clients and coworkers.

It's very similar to Full Screen Mode in Acrobat. Or you can click to advance and shift-click to go back. You can page between them using arrow keys.

So, what is Presentation mode? It hides the palettes and toolbar and displays only your InDesign document surrounded by black.

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