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Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
With the application frame, Mac users can now put all the InDesign ele-
ments in their own container so that they don’t float freely and other appli-
cations don’t peek through. You show the application frame by choosing
Window➪Application Frame — doing so makes InDesign for Mac behave
like InDesign for Windows. (By default, the application frame is turned off in
InDesign for Mac.)
Conversely, Windows users can choose Window➪Application Frame to hide
the application frame so that InDesign for Windows looks like InDesign for
Mac. (By default, the application frame is turned on in InDesign for Windows.)
The Application Frame menu command is a toggle, hiding the application
frame if it’s visible and showing it if it’s hidden. You see a check mark next to
the menu option if the application frame is visible. (InDesign uses the same
toggling indicator in other menus.)
Above the Control panel is the new application bar, which offers easy access
to other Adobe applications, such as Bridge, and access to controls over vari-
ous view options. It appears by default if the application frame is enabled.
When the application frame is hidden, you can show or hide the application
bar by choosing Window➪Application Bar.
The application bar has several handy elements. From left to right:
 The first element is the set of quick-access buttons to Bridge and other
Adobe software.
 The second element is the Zoom Level field and pop-up menu, which
replaces the Zoom pop-up menu that used to be at the bottom of the
document window.
 The third element is the View Options pop-up menu, which lets you
hide and show frames boundaries, hidden characters, grids, and other
such visual aids from one handy location. These options previously
existed but only in a variety of scattered menu options (where they also
remain).
 The fourth element, the Screen Mode pop-up menu, duplicates the
Screen Mode feature at the bottom of the Tools panel (see Chapter 2).
 The fifth element, the new Arrange Documents pop-up menu, gives you
fast access to InDesign CS4’s new controls over how document windows
are arranged (covered later in this chapter).
 The sixth element, the Workspaces pop-up menu, gives you quick access
to the workspaces you’ve defined (as described in the “Working with
Panels, Docks, and Workspaces” section, later in this chapter).
 At the far right is the Search menu, which you can use to find files on
your computer or via the Adobe Bridge program.
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