[.ca] Adobe Indesign CS3 Upgrade from Pagemaker

Focusing on InDesign and long documents:
As some who writes and edits books in InDesign, many thanks for the long document features. I've got a book in progress that was designed assuming you'd add running headers and footers. Thanks for not disappointing me! I'm not quite sure what "synchronized master pages" are. A Google search turned up absolutely no hits. But if it's what I think it is, then thanks yet again. It'll mean that I can tell InDesign to automatically apply a chapter master page to every page with a chapter heading style. That'll save a lot of hassle. Unfortunately, there wasn't any mention of the two other major hassles of doing books in InDesign. First, while magazines and newspapers usually have their length fixed in advance, books have to grow or shrink as they're edited and proofed. I saw nothing about the new InDesign being smart enough make the page count fit the text length (as in FrameMaker). Second, InDesign users need a way to break multi-column text for a single column heading and then return to multi-column text in the same text frame. Currently, we face the misery of ending a multi-column text frame, adding a single-column frame for the heading, and then creating yet another multicolumn frame--all of which have to be adjusted when the text length changes. Number of columns should be an attribute of a paragraph and not of the frame, again like FrameMaker, the preeminent long document application. Finally, I've seen the new user interface demoed with the Photoshop beta and love it. Thanks for getting rid of palette clutter, my #1 gripe with CS2. --Michael W. Perry, author of Untangling Tolkien