Most of the high-profile improvements to InDesign are aimed at repurposing content. The clever new Content Collector, Content Conveyor, and Content Placer tools work together to help you collect items for repurposing, multiple re-use, and efficient placement. They're a perfect fit with InDesign’s conventions of placing content and editing. For example, Adobe fashioned the Content Placer to match the behavior of the existing Placer Gun—you can place multiple objects from the Conveyor one after the other, or skip some as you’re placing them.

These features reflect the increased popularity of creation for tablets like the iPad, Kindle, and Nook ebook readers. Adobe has improved the output quality for ePub-based readers and streamlined features for creating ePub-ready documents. For example, you can now paste or place interactive HTML content into an InDesign layout, and when you export the document to HTML, ePub 3, or .folio format, the interactivity remains.

Because Flash is clearly on its way out for these kinds of projects, Adobe encourages you to use Adobe Edge beta to create animations in HTML 5 format for your website. You can then embed that Web page into your ePub file, though you can’t yet place Edge code into InDesign directly. It’s even possible to build your own HTML content in InDesign, which now supports including multiple CSS files and JavaScripts.

Oddly, InDesign’s installation does not include Digital Publishing tools such as Folio Builder and Folio Overlays. When you open the Folio Builder panel for the first time, it instructs you to use the Help menu to download the latest updates.