Adobe InDesign is a publishing tool to create posters, flyers, newspapers, magazines, brochures and books.
Adobe InDesign is a publishing software application used principally to create and lay out periodical publications, posters, and print media. InDesign also supports export to ePub and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines.
InDesign can also organise and publish content suitable for tablet devices when used in conjunction with Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite. Adobe InDesign is used by designers and production artists across the globe.
Awarded the Quality Choice Award
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InDesign CC currently scores 91/100 in the Graphic Design category. This is based on user satisfaction (90/100), press buzz (82/100), and other relevant information on InDesign CC gathered from around the web.
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Create posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, books and more.
Publish content for tablets and smart devices.
Supports XML, style sheets and other coding markup.
Adobe InDesign CC is a great tool in our pipeline encompassing writers and graphic designers. We use it to layout all of our print pieces, from magazines to school papers to books and publications. We couldn't do everything we do so efficiently if not for Adobe InDesign CC. It gives us a huge amount of versatility in our work every day.
There is nothing that I dislike about Adobe InDesign CC. At first, when Adobe moved to the subscription based service, I was nervous, but have since really enjoyed it. I love that we always have the most recent version of the software. Without Creative Cloud, we wouldn't have bugs fixed so quickly and easily. Adobe is second to none when it comes to creative software.
We have used Adobe InDesign CC for all of our print pieces. It has helped us tremendously in solving the issue of incorporating written text and graphic design quickly and easily. Our designers are able to incorporate what our writers have written alongside their graphic design work to give us great layouts for all of our work. InDesign is very intuitive for anyone that has used Adobe products in the past.
Quark Xpress was the standard when I started in design, and I hated it. It was clunky and unintuitive, and really restrictive. Whenever I could I would just do all my design in Illustrator. Then came InDesign and changed everything. It was like Illustrator, but for multiple pages, and it was even better. It worked incredibly well with Photoshop, and even if the printers wouldn't switch we could export to PDF and just send them that. Over the course of a few years, everyone got on board and made the switch. All I could say was "I told you so!"
There are just a couple of keyboard commands that are fairly often used in my workflow that are different from the other apps I am using at the same time, like Photoshop and Illustrator, so occasionally I hit the wrong one and have to undo something. I wish there was a way for the keyboard shortcuts to match perfectly, but the ones that are different actually make sense if you think it through though, so there isn't much to be done about it. Other than that it is pretty much perfect.
Any design work that I do that is going to print is designed in InDesign. It is the best program for layouts that integrate vector and raster graphics from other apps, and it goes to print easily and perfectly. The package for print feature makes it as simple as it can be to prepare files to share with the printer.
