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| Adobe InDesign | |
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 Adobe InDesign 2020 running onmacOS Catalina | |
| Developer | Adobe |
| Initial release | August 31, 1999 (1999-08-31) |
| Stable release | CC 2025 (20.0.1) / November 2024; 1 year ago (2024-11) |
| Written in | C++[1] |
| Operating system | Windows,macOS |
| Available in | 24 languages[2] |
List of languages English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Zulu | |
| Type | Desktop publishing |
| License | Trialware,Proprietary, term |
| Website | adobe |
Adobe InDesign is adesktop publishing and page layout designing softwareapplication produced byAdobe and first released in 1999. It can be used to create works such asposters, flyers,brochures,magazines,newspapers, presentations,books andebooks. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.Graphic designers andproduction artists are the principal users.
InDesign is the successor toPageMaker, which Adobe acquired by buyingAldus Corporation in late 1994. (Freehand, Aldus's competitor to Adobe Illustrator, was licensed fromAltsys, the maker ofFontographer.) By 1998, PageMaker had lost much of the professional market to the comparatively feature-richQuarkXPress version 3.3, released in 1992, and version 4.0, released in 1996. In 1999, Quark announced its offer to buy Adobe[3] and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid problems underUnited States antitrust law. Adobe declined Quark's offer and continued to develop a new desktop publishing application. Aldus had begun developing a successor to PageMaker, code-named "Shuksan". Later, Adobe code-named the project "K2", and Adobe released InDesign 1.0 in 1999.
InDesign exports documents in Adobe'sPortable Document Format (PDF) and supports multiple languages. It was the first DTP application to supportUnicodecharacter sets, advanced typography withOpenTypefonts, advanced transparency features, layout styles, optical margin alignment, and cross-platform scripting withJavaScript. Later versions of the software introduced new file formats. To support the new features, especially typography, introduced with InDesign CS, the program and its document format are not backward-compatible. Instead, InDesign CS2 introduced the INX (.inx) format, an XML-based document representation, to allow backward compatibility with future versions. 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 CS4, Adobe replaced INX with InDesign Markup Language (IDML), another XML-based document representation.[4]
InDesign was the first nativeMac OS X publishing software. With the third major version, InDesign CS, Adobe increased InDesign's distribution by bundling it with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Acrobat inAdobe Creative Suite. Adobe developed InDesign CS3 (and Creative Suite 3) asuniversal binary software compatible with nativeIntel andPowerPCMacs in 2007, two years after the announced 2005 schedule, inconveniencing early adopters of Intel-based Macs. Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said, "Adobe will be first with a complete line of universal applications."[5]
| InDesign document | |
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| Filename extension | .indd |
| Internet media type | application/x-indesign |
| Open format? | no |
| Website | https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/supported-file-formats-indesign-cs5.html |
The MIME type is not official
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).[7][8]
In October 2005, Adobe released InDesign Server CS2, a modified version of InDesign (without auser 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.[9][10] In March 2007 Adobe officially announced Adobe InDesign CS3 Server as part of the Adobe InDesign family.
Paragraph styles are an essential tool for designers when working with text in Adobe InDesign.[11] Despite their menacing appearance, they are straightforward to operate. Other features that make InDesign a good tool for working with text and paragraphs include:
InDesign Middle Eastern editions have unique settings for laying out Arabic orHebrew text. They feature:
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