So, let’s get the shocking part out of the way first…I bought my first Mac. It’s a brand spankin’ new 13″ aluminum Macbook and it’s absolutely beautiful. I’ve owned quite a few laptops but the engineering and design that went into this puppy is quite amazing.
Now I get to write my first Mac only post. Not just Mac only but Macbook and Macbook Pro only. One of the things I really like about the Macbooks is the trackpad. While I’m a devoted mouser the gestures feature (if you don’t know what they are, just watch an iPhone commercial) is enough to at least make me think about letting go of the sucker. Adobe has cleverly added support for these gestures in CS4. Gestures allows you to simply swipe the trackpad to navigate from page to page, pinch to zoom in and zoom out and rotate to either rotate selected objects or with nothing selected to rotate the spread.
As a side note: spread rotation is one of my favorite new features. Not because I use it a lot because vertical spreads has been such a frequently requested feature I’ve found myself writing up workarounds many times. Now I can just type “upgrade to CS4.” :)
Gestures are really cool and may even prevent one or two cases of carpal tunnel syndrome. They’re only supported on the newest Macbooks but were introduced with the last round of Macbook Pros. If find yourself working with one of these machines and aren’t taking advantage of this give it try….you may find yourself wishing you could design a calendar.
This article was last modified on December 19, 2021
This article was first published on November 5, 2008
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