The industry standard
November 25, 2021
The industry standard
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe InDesign
InDesign is the gold standard as far as desktop composition software goes for publishers. We (and our vendors) use the product to create page layouts for the vast majority of book projects.
- Incredibly deep feature set.
- Flexible UI.
- Fast.
- Good design/UX.
- Expensive.
- Not intuitive for beginners.
- Universal language (we use it, our vendors use it, production professionals know it).
- Good support.
- Subscribing means automatic access to industry-standard updates.
- We could not operate without it--we are a publishing company.
- QuarkXPress and Quark Publishing Platform
I have used proprietary composition web applications at other publishers, and I have used Quark (which is less powerful/feature-rich) and LaTeX (which is great for what it does but is not right for all projects). I prefer InDesign for its universality. It can be used on just about any book project and accommodates a variety of stylings as varied as your imagination.
Do you think Adobe InDesign delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Adobe InDesign's feature set?
Yes
Did Adobe InDesign live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Adobe InDesign go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Adobe InDesign again?
Yes