But in InDesign, it is standard practice that text that flows from one frame to the next, over many pages. In Illustrator, the content on one each artboard generally does not flow onto a second artboard. While I realize that multiple pages (art boards) can be created in Illustrator, Illustrator remains an illustration program, not a long document creation program. InDesign is specifically designed to produce multi-page documents. Why? Because scrolling is how many users navigate through a multi-page or multi-spread document. While I personally don’t see the benefit of this feature in any programs, I think Hover Scrolling is particularly dangerous in InDesign. Having my documents changed wihtout my knowledge IS a big deal. I realize that this behavior was designed to save users a click, but I don’t want to save a click. This is now standard behavior in InDesign CC, Illustrator CS6 and CC, Premiere Pro CC, Flash CC, and others. But frankly, I rather liked being in charge of choosing when to interact with the drop down menu… It may actually be InDesign trying to save you a few clicks. So if your documents ever have changes in them that you don’t recall making, it may not be coworkers playing jokes on you or your dog walking across your keyboard. For fun, I tried getting this behavior to work with some third party plugin panels, but it appears to only work in native InDesign panels. If you have some text selected and accidentally twirl or move your fingers while hovering over the font menu, your typeface will change! I tried to replicate these behaviors in CS6, and it appears just to be a CC feature. All I did was hover over them and start scrolling with the scroll wheel (or even with a two-fingered swipe on a Mac OS trackpad). Sounds cool, right? Well watch what can happen to a document without me ever having to click on any of the drop downs. Prior to InDesign CC, drop downs in panel never changed without my knowledge.īut now apparently in InDesign CC there is a new feature that lets you interact with the dropdown menus without ever having to click on them.
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