Adobe InDesign Reviews

One of the most significant advantages of InDesign is its integration with the Creative Cloud suite. That relates to its biggest disadvantage: price (see below). But the ability to link to Illustrator or Photoshop files, and have those linked files update in InDesign when they're edited, is powerful.
Even though crashes are actually not uncommon, the attention to detail with which the program is crafted gives the sense that this is a high-quality, thoughtful, and competent program. I love the layers of automation and workflow efficiency baked in, even though I don't use nearly all of them.

Biggest drawback: subscription pricing. It's worth it for work, probably, though I keep wondering if Serif's products aren't a good alternative.
Also, Adobe interfaces can be clunky in general. I'm personally not a fan of the Touch interface that Adobe volunteers for my laptop.

Photoshop gets all the attention but Indesign is the unsung hero of the print design world. It doesn't get the viral tutorials or talked about much but it's the real money maker in my opinion. I have mastered this software and with every job I get, it becomes the backbone. Assembling complex PDFs for online distribution or creating magazines or even large format print documents. I simply love Indesign. The recent round of updates is amazing and really improves the overall experience. I have always loved how it perfectly balances complexity and simplicity. It's my babe. All the other designers come to me for Indesign needs because they skipped over it. A shame, but I don't mind as it keeps the money coming in.

I can't find a complaint. The only issue was how small the interface was, has now been corrected in this last update.

The program makes developing, editing and presenting something a whole lot easier. It has all the features needed to accomplish whatever design project one may have in mind to a great extent.

Besides the price tag attached to using Adobe products and their learning curve, this program falls short when it comes to properly editing images and editing certain shapes. So it is a little restrictive given certain perimeters which forces you to use their other programs.

When laying out text, images, preparing documents for printing, and making mass changes across a document, InDesign is fantastic and very intuitive and fluid. The fact that so many people within the design field use this software, makes sharing and inheriting files from other people relatively stress-free.

There are many quirks and functionality issues that come into play depending on your project. For example, we deal with importing tables into documents on a regular basis and InDesign is very particular about how those can be imported and implemented.

InDesign is the most powerful and fully featured document layout tool available. It provides flexible, easy to use layering that enables advanced overlays and far more complicated designs than are possible with a more traditional layout tool. What's more, with a wide variety of font types and masking tools, the sky is the limit for making professional looking documents. It is flexible enough to lay out everything from infographics to multi-column reports to covers and posters. Plus, it brings the power of the Adobe Suite through integrations with Photoshop, Illustrator, and more.

There are few features I've encountered that are missing for InDesign. That said, the learning curve for can be steep for someone who has no experience with design products, particularly those of the Adobe Suite. That said, Adobe provides ample learning resources so that users can get up to speed fairly quickly. InDesign integrated seamlessly into our report production workflow, so I fully recommend it.

I love being able to integrate graphics and images easily into layouts with linked graphics/fonts easily packaged.

I have no complaints! I love InDesign!! I have used it as a designer for over 25 years and will until I no longer design. Best layout software ever!

It's a very powerful and quite the industry standard software to use

It's quite expensive if you don't need to use other Adobe products.

I love the layout functionality of the entire program. You can design a brochure, business card, postcard, booklet, white paper, etc. all in the same program.

You can import Word files easily BUT you have to do major clean-up on them after via fonts, colors, etc.

The functionality for creating small booklets and brochures is the best part about this software. There are plenty of design tutorials if you need a creative spark. Combined with the CC Suite, this functions very well.

You must buy into the Adobe world, mastering their language/terminology and shortcuts to function at the highest capacity. It also works best with the Creative Cloud suite and that can get costly.

I like the flexibility InDesign offers for creating marketing materials from standard to unique sizes.

There is a bit of a learning curve to overcome, so if you are brand new to graphic design, InDesign is not what I would deem very user-friendly.

Ease of use and cross functionality between programs

Not their fault but there are so many options and variables...just takes awhile to learn

There are many tools available to create amazing products. I personally love how each tool has a keyboard shortcut that comes in very handy once you are familiar to the interface. InDesign provides loads of different fonts and is great for integrating graphics and images into all the projects that you are working on, example brochures, business cards, magazines etc. One of the cool features that I love about InDesign is the bleed feature, which ensures that your business cards or brochures do not end up with a white strip along the edge of your print work.

It is expensive when you do not use other adobe products and requires a monthly subscription. The program has many advanced features that require a lot of patience to learn your way around making it not user friendly for beginners. It also uses quite a bit of RAM to run this program and can take some time to load.

InDesign seamlessly meshes with other Adobe products which is great. Love being able to use the libraries feature and have all our brand content at my fingertips.

Love that there is a collaborative editing/share for review feature, but also wish that multiple users could work in the same document in real-time. Would love if a spelling and grammar checker were automatically included too. Would be helpful for longer, text heavy documents.

Indesign is probably the best layout software for a graphic designer to this date. It has great functionality for all designers in the graphic layout world.

I think the one thing that I have always thought they should integrate into InDesign is when it comes to facing pages. In the printing world when doing a Perfect bound or spiral bound book you need to have bleed on all 4 sides of the page so that you do not have to under trim a book. Truly every designer wants to layout a book in facing pages when they design. The problem with this when doing a spiral or perfect bound book is you do not get the correct bleed on the gutter. You end up with bleed from the next page which isn't what you want in this type of book. They need to make it so you select Perfect bound or spiral on facing pages and it allows you to select the amount of bleed you want in between and then an option to hide that bleed so you can visually see it like normal.

ease of use and fully functional does everything i need

would like to see the ability to add a + sign to features like leading on the fonts

It is sophisticated but still user friendly. Not too complex; easy to use!

Would be awesome to have a chat feature somewhere for support

Adobe InDesign is not something new in layout designing, and recent updates are very valuable for everyone in this area. In short, I personally can say this is an "old-timer" software with modern day interface that can be easily operated, even for a beginner.

Online integration sometimes being a handicap for people that are living in areas with poor internet coverage.

I have been using InDesign for years and while it has updated frequently, it is easy for me to use as an experienced user. TONS of features that make laying out your design exactly what you want it to be.

This can be a hard software product to learn but I've learned from making many mistakes. It takes time, but it is worth it.

i love the way i can edit text and books with a lot of details and different styles, i love how its so easy to use and how the software is not to heavy on my computer

thing to improve: more support for gradients from illustrator, easier pattern option, support different image files (like photos from whatsapp)

InDesign has been around for many years and hardly changed - this is due to it being so well put together and the functionality working so well. It is easy to use, learn and there are plenty of functions that can do whatever is required of it.

Software is expensive as it is a subscription based model. Also we have issues with users who are on different versions - this usually corrupts the file. In addition to this users do find they get locked out of the file and this means work has been lost. Support for this is limited from Adobe. The console to assign users also periodically goes wrong and requires a call to the helpdesk to resolve, this is not usually very quick.

The expansive tools and features in the program for designing high quality documents that look professional.

The collaborating feature with fellow artists and the linking of images.

I've been using InDesign for about 22 years and its been great on layouts on prints and even web.

Bugs can be introduced on every updates, like what I have right now are palettes gone upon opening the app. This may be resolved with reinstallation but bothersome.

Publishing an A4 infographic? A 87 page Annual Report? Anything in between (and beyond)? InDesign has got your back. It's a professional tool not designed to be 'easy' to understand or use, but spending the time to learn it will make you a better designer and open up a range of opportunities you just won't have otherwise.

The learning curve is steep, and ultimately InDesign often relies on you also having both working knowledge of and access to Adobe's other design programs (namely Illustrator and Photoshop) which makes the cost involved balloon quite quickly.

This program is a good solution for those who want to do projects regarding layout designs. It is good because you can learn to use it very quickly, so you can make designs in an accurate, standardized and professional way. The integration between Adobe features is one of the best tools of this application.

Issues with resizing images and its container. Sometimes it is difficult makes the process slower.

-very easy to use, create templates and create design systems for an app along with other Adobe apps. -Easy user interface, anyone can learn and pick up on it easily - Robust and has all the features necessary for professional user interface designing for apps and websites-Integration with other Adobe software makes it easy to utilize it to full capacity and creativity

- cost-wise it can be pricey for individuals but it's good for teams and companies.