About Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign is a layout design and desktop publishing software designed to help businesses and creative individuals create graphic designs with typography from various foundries and imagery from Adobe Stock. The platform lets teams create and publish digital magazines, books, eBooks, interactive PDFs, posters, and more.
Adobe InDesign enables users to manage design elements and deliver immersive experiences in multiple formats. The application integrates with Experience Manager and Adobe Creative Cloud, allowing organizations to share graphics, fonts, and content across projects. Users can publish content to the web and use the built-in content analysis tool to gain insights into the performance of their content.
Adobe InDesign offers a variety of Adobe Stock free templates such as brochures, landing pages, infographics, and more. Teams can also directly import shapes and color themes from Adobe Capture and receive Adobe Fonts suggestions based on the raster image of a font.
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- Industry: Design
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The best software to create designs for print and publishing media.
Reviewed on 12/6/2022
Adobe InDesign helps me a lot to create newsletters, magazines, brochures, flyers, and marketing...
Adobe InDesign helps me a lot to create newsletters, magazines, brochures, flyers, and marketing materials design. I really feel comfortable designing with this amazing software. The functionality and features seem easy to me as an adobe user. If you are familiar with other design software like Photoshop and Illustrator, it will be easy to operate for you.
Pros
Adobe InDesign is one of my favorite software to create a design for print and publishing media. The user interface is pretty good and similar to other Adobe software like Photoshop and illustrator. That's why it's easier to design with this tool. It's capable of doing a great job in gutters, alignment, spacing, typography, and advance layout.
Cons
Pricing and lack of advanced features in terms of pages and frames. It takes tremendous resources to operate this tool.
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Scribus is pretty good for beginners. If you go for advanced work, it can't meet all the goals. Here, I found Adobe InDesign one of the best.Switched From
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It's the most familiar product of adobe and I am good at adobe design software.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
inDesign is an Essential
Reviewed on 29/8/2023
I've been using it 10+ years, and it's still reliable for the things I need. It's the least...
I've been using it 10+ years, and it's still reliable for the things I need. It's the least intuitive of all of the Adobe Products, but I always go back to it when needed because of it's simplicity.
Pros
InDesign is great for layouts, and organizational design. I've been using it since high school when I was on the Yearbook staff lol. It's great to pass on to other people to use for templates and stuff too! It's easy for anyone to learn. It's like a step in between Microsoft Word and full-blown Photoshop or Illustrator
Cons
I wish there were a way to edit photos and stuff, but if it did that, then it would basically be Photoshop or Lightroom.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Takes a while to learn but can do some cool things
Reviewed on 19/11/2023
Pros
In design makes it easy to format and modify the appearance of a page or document. You can make the page interactive and easy to view for the end user
Cons
Navigating in design takes a while to get the hang of. There are also different ways to access the same feature through the menu or side bars. YouTube and Reddit were helpful for learning ways to do things like make a fill able form on a website
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great product for all design needs
Reviewed on 24/11/2023
Pros
No designer could be without this product! It has all the tools and options needed to create a wide variety of marketing materials as well as graphic design assets.
Cons
It can be hard to use and take a while to learn to become quick, for example using shortcuts.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Expensive but powerful software for designing portfolios
Reviewed on 23/11/2023
Pros
Powerful software that takes a lot of the busywork out of publication by doing it automatically for you. Keeps swatches nicely organised so you can keep a coherent design throughout.
Cons
There are quirks to it that work completely differently to other adobe products. They should be more transferrable than they currently are. For instance, resizing images should work the same across the adobe suite but it works completely differently in indesign.
Adobe InDesign FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Adobe InDesign.Q. What type of pricing plans does Adobe InDesign offer?
Adobe InDesign offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$20.99/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Adobe InDesign?
Adobe InDesign has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000
Q. What languages does Adobe InDesign support?
Adobe InDesign supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Adobe InDesign support mobile devices?
Adobe InDesign supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Adobe InDesign integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Adobe InDesign has
Q. What level of support does Adobe InDesign offer?
Adobe InDesign offers the following support options:
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