Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign CS6 running on OS X
Developer(s) Adobe Systems
Stable release CC 2015.2 (11.2.0.100) / November 30, 2015 (2015-11-30)
Written in C++[1]
Operating system Windows, OS X
Available in 24 languages[2]
Type Desktop publishing
License Trialware
Website www.adobe.com/products/indesign/

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets, and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats. The Adobe InCopy word processor uses the same formatting engine as InDesign.

History

InDesign is the successor to Adobe PageMaker, which was acquired with the purchase of Aldus in late 1994. By 1998 PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe[3] and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues.

Adobe rebuffed the offer and instead continued to work on a new page layout application. The project had been started by Aldus and was code-named "Shuksan". It was later code-named "K2" and was released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999.

In 2002, InDesign was the first Mac OS X-native desktop publishing (DTP) software. In version 3 (InDesign CS) it received a boost in distribution by being bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in the Creative Suite.

InDesign exports documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) and has multilingual support. It was the first DTP application to support Unicode for text processing, advanced typography with OpenType fonts, advanced transparency features, layout styles, optical margin alignment, and cross-platform scripting using JavaScript.

Later versions of the software introduced new file formats. To support the new features, especially typographic, introduced with InDesign CS, both the program and its document format are not backward-compatible. Instead, InDesign CS2 has the backward-compatible INX (.inx) format, an XML-based document representation. InDesign CS versions updated with the 3.1 April 2005 update can read InDesign CS2-saved files exported to the .inx format. The InDesign Interchange format does not support versions earlier than InDesign CS. With InDesign CS 5, Adobe replaced INX with InDesign Markup Language (IDML), another XML-based document representation.[4]

Adobe developed InDesign CS3 (and Creative Suite 3) as universal binary software compatible with native Intel and PowerPC Mac machines in 2007, two years after the announced 2005 schedule, inconveniencing Intel-Mac early-adopters. Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen had announced that "Adobe will be first with a complete line of universal applications".[5] The CS2 Mac version had code tightly integrated to the PPC architecture, and not natively compatible with the Intel processors in Apple's new machines, so porting the products to another platform was more difficult than had been anticipated. Adobe developed the CS3 application integrating Macromedia products (2005), rather than recompiling CS2 and simultaneously developing CS3.

InDesign and Leopard

InDesign CS3 initially had a serious compatibility issue with Leopard (Mac OS X v10.5), as Adobe stated: "InDesign CS3 may unexpectedly quit when using the Place, Save, Save As or Export commands using either the OS or Adobe dialog boxes. Unfortunately, there are no workarounds for these known issues."[6] Apple fixed this with their OS X 10.5.4 update.[7]

Server version

Adobe InDesign Server

In October 2005, Adobe released InDesign Server CS2, a modified version of InDesign (without user interface) for Windows and Macintosh server platforms. It does not provide any editing client; rather it is for use by developers in creating client-server solutions with the InDesign plug-in technology.[8] In March 2007 Adobe officially announced Adobe InDesign CS3 Server as part of the Adobe InDesign family.

Versions

InDesign CS5 icon


Newer versions can as a rule open files created by older versions, but the reverse is not true. Current versions can export the InDesign file as an IDML file (InDesign Markup Language), which can be opened by InDesign versions from CS4 upwards; older versions from CS4 down can export to an INX file (InDesign Interchange format).[9][10]

Internationalization and localization

InDesign Middle Eastern editions come with special settings for laying out Arabic or Hebrew text. They feature:

User groups

InDesign has spawned 86 user groups in 36 countries with a total membership of over 51,000.[12]

See also

References

  1. Lextrait, Vincent (January 2010). "The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0". Retrieved 14 March 2010.
  2. "language versions | Adobe InDesign CS5". Adobe.com. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  3. Ann Marsh (May 31, 1999). "Pride goeth before destruction". Forbes. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  4. "InDesign developer documentation". Adobe Developer Connection. Adobe Systems. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  5. San Francisco - Live Coverage of Steve Jobs Keynote 1:00PM EDT, June 6th, 2005, WWDC 2005 - Live Coverage of Keynote, The Mac Observer
  6. "Adobe InDesign CS3 5.0.2 Update Read Me" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  7. Leopard 10.5.4 Fixes InDesign Nav Services Glitches By: Anne-Marie, June 30, 2008, InDesignSecrets
  8. "Adobe InDesign Server CS2 Frequently Asked Questions" (PDF). Adobe.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
  9. "How do I save my file using InDesign CS6 so that it can be opened with CS5?". forums.adobe.com. January 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  10. "Can You Save/Open CS6 Files on CS5, CS4 or CS3 – and Vice Versa?". prodesigntools.com. 2013-02-20. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  11. http://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/arabic-hebrew.html
  12. "User Group Chapters". indesignusergroup.com. Retrieved 2011-02-25.

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