Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?

Question

Adobe CS6 is out! Will that bring new features to DPS or viceversa?
Thank you,
al3nai

Answer 1

I am so excited CS6 is finally out
There's one big feature that should interest DPS folks: alternate layouts. In InDesign CS6 you can now have one InDesign file that contains layouts for multiple orientations and/or devices.
Here's one easy example of where that's helpful: no more "_H" and "_V" files littering your machine. Just one InDesign document that has both H and V inside. Here's another example: one file that has your iPad and your Kindle Fire layouts in it.
The best part about this is the text is linked between the layouts, so if you have to make a text change somewhere you can do it once, the links panel will indicate the other layouts are out-of-date, and you can update the link to make the change ripple across the other layouts in the file. Typo correction is now far less painful.
You can also use the new page rules feature to define ways for InDesign to automatically create layouts for you. For example, you can start with an iPad layout, apply some page rules, and generate the Kindle Fire layout.
One small feature to look forward to: you can directly paste HTML snippets into your file and automatically get a web overlay with that HTML.
Note that to actually produce folios using the above you'll need the next release of DPS. The current release (v19) does not support CS6.
Neil