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Can You Run InDesign CS2 on a Mac Pro?

YES. You can.
But remember that if you have (or ever have) installed InDesign CS3 on that machine before, you need to uninstall it (using the official uninstaller) before you can install CS2 successfully.
More info at PrintPlanet.
Good luck.

Don’t Think of InDesign as a Ferrari, Think of InDesign as a Swiss Army Knife

We recently had a reader write in with a question about an InDesign feature and ended by saying that he really didn’t want to switch to InDesign because it’s kind of like “going to the grocery store in a Ferrari”.
It was a pretty funny analogy, but I want to try to dispel that myth a […]

Different Page Sizes in the Same InDesign Document

Reader Joanne wrote in to ask how she might be able to create a folded document with one half being portrait and the other being landscape. Technically, these are the same page size, just different orientations. If you want to work on them both “right side up” technically they will be different page sizes […]

Leopard, Helvetica, and InDesign

If you are an Adobe Indesign layout artist who has upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard, you have likely experienced a problem or two with Helvetica. We had some warning before we went into this that Helvetica was to become a system font in Leopard. That means that the operating system is going to take […]