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Adobe InDesign

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What is Adobe InDesign?

Adobe InDesign supports creating digital and print documents such as flyers, stationary, posters, and other types of media, with rich graphics, images, and more. Adobe InDesign is available standalone or as part of the Adobe Creative Suite collection of media…

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The industry standard

9 out of 10
November 25, 2021
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InDesign is the gold standard as far as desktop composition software goes for publishers. We (and our vendors) use the product to create …
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Monthly Plan

$31.49

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Annual Plan, Prepaid

$239.88 ($19.99)

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Annual Plan, Paid Monthly

$251.88 ($20.99)

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Adobe InDesign?

Adobe InDesign Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe InDesign supports creating digital and print documents such as flyers, stationary, posters, and other types of media, with rich graphics, images, and more. Adobe InDesign is available standalone or as part of the Adobe Creative Suite collection of media management and creation products.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Adobe InDesign are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe InDesign is being used by our organization by the marketing staff to design product packaging and related materials.
  • Many powerful features for creating marketing materials.
  • Designed to handle photoshop and illustrator graphics and put them together.
  • Adobe InDesign is not required for single-page documents or marketing materials. Illustrator can handle many of the tasks Adobe InDesign can do.
It is well suited for large, multiple page documents or marketing brochures. If smaller, single page marketing materials are required, other software can handle the job.
January 08, 2020

My InDesign Experience

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Adobe InDesign for a lot of different use cases, but recently, it has been to make booklets, brochures, and pamphlets in relation to youth activities within the organization. I manage the design team, and we're a team of about 10 designers who collaborate and share files within the Adobe InDesign space. There are a lot of different youth activities and events every year, and we use Adobe InDesign to help make our marketing efforts easier.
  • You can easily create margins for printing.
  • You can easily interact with other Adobe softwares and move back and forth without having to finish everything and go back into it.
  • There is not much you can do with editing graphics.
  • Photos don't have that much editing functionality, so you have to do that within another Adobe software and import it.
Some things that Adobe InDesign does really well are creating multi-page content and getting that ready for printing, setting up margins, etc. Anything where you require quick editing of a pdf or document you download (non-Indesign file) can't be edited in the software, which is a bummer because it'd be good to have everything in one software. You also have limited functionality within the software itself for graphic design editing. You can, however, copy and paste from other Adobe software.
Veronica Rivera | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe InDesign is primarily used by our creative team to create print marketing materials. Our team offers brochures, postcards, flyers, and other print marketing materials to our clients as a part of their product suite. We also use Adobe InDesign internally to create sales proposals and digital documents to help our sales process.
  • Print Layout
  • Digital Publishing
  • Improve handling of large image assets to speed up the program.
  • Color management could be improved to better manage colors.
Adobe InDesign is the industry standard when it comes to graphic design and print layout. It has all of the tools necessary to create stunning materials (brochures, business cards, sales materials, postcards, etc.). It is also great for digital and web products if you want everything to look crisp and clear. Its packaging and export features are amazing because they give you exactly the print-ready pdf, assets, fonts, and information that printers need. Adobe provides amazing support, and there is a wealth of information available if a designer needs help doing something.
Courtney Birnbaum | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Since our transition to full-time Adobe InDesign use in 2017, our publishing group inside the larger company has seen streamlined production, improved quality in graphics produced, and growth in the ability for each team member to contribute to the larger picture of good design and style. We use InDesign every day to prepare magazines and other publications for print and digital distribution, and InDesign continues to offer new assets to our team. As part of InDesign's fuctions, Adobe Typekit — when functioning properly — allows a uniform look no matter which user or computer our designs are viewed on, as we can trust that Adobe's quality fonts are also consistent in appearance for everyone (and the included licensing pleases our legal department as well).
  • Publishing design: The variety of design tools available in InDesign are impressive, helping limit some of the work that needs to be handled in a second program like Photoshop or Illustrator so that we can complete a design sooner. When a second program is necessary, InDesign is also quick to integrate work between Illustrator and Photoshop as well.
  • CSV integration: Comma Separated Values sheets lower our production time in the best way. One InDesign template format with a CSV form can be used to produce the thousands of pages we need each year with the same information for different groups with just a few clicks, instead of the copying and pasting from records that used to be required.
  • InDesign does not seem to have a simple way to combine many files into one book or document that can be used at the same time. Indeed, it unfortunately runs slower the more pages you put into the same document, and if all pages are in one document, the pages cannot be edited by different people at the same time — no group editing option.
  • Most of InDesign's tools work well, and even those that are not as natural to learn, it is simple enough to adapt to using these tools. Selecting objects within groups can be difficult to do without going into the Layers panel, however, and I believe the most difficult feature that I used the most often is the guides tool, which could definitely use better functionality in setup, adjustment and having objects snap to them.
InDesign is my preferred tool for publishing, but it is cost prohibitive, and it is not so far above other publishing software options to make it my 10/10 recommendation because of this price issue. For businesses, groups or individuals with 1) heavy software use, 2) ample budget, and 3) nearly constant work to be done, InDesign makes immediate sense. Designers who need web hosting will also find InDesign a great option, because the Publish Online tool is so simple and satisfactory. For those learning to use publishing or who cannot afford the monthly drain that an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription insists upon, another publishing program, such as Affinity Publisher or a free and open source (FOSS) option, would be more appropriate. Other reasons that might make the monthly commitment to Adobe InDesign and its fees unnecessary include if 1) you are only infrequently using layout software and don't use other Adobe products, or 2) you do not need the freedom and customization options and can do the work in a word processing software just as well.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At my company, I use InDesign to design and stylize long documents for my company and any other projects that I am working on. It is used in our department and by those who work in a design-related role. It allows us to standardize any official documents such as contracts, decks, pitches, etc.
  • Paragraph Styles
  • Bleed & Trim Marks
  • Spell Checking
  • UX design
InDesign is well suited for working on long documents while it is less appropriate to work on short documents/one-off designs. If you are looking to design and be creative by making graphics, perhaps it would be easier to complete this task in a different Adobe product (Illustrator/Photoshop) and then import it into InDesign. Adobe products work seamlessly together if you know how to use each one.
Theo Anele | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InDesign is the optimal program when designing for print usage. Typically we'll mock up a design rough draft in Photoshop, and then once it's decided we'll complete it in InDesign. Furthermore, we utilize InDesign for a wide range of solutions for our clients, both print and for web documents. It just depends on the client's needs.
  • Superior document setup for print. You can control the bleed, slugs, and much more.
  • Data merge options for variable data printing.
  • The page facing options can be a bit confusing at the surface level.
  • Explain the bleed and slug options to new users.
Great for designing a brochure or flyer for print usage. InDesign is not so great for graphic design or photo manipulation.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for presentation purposes to create PDFs to show design intent to clients. It’s typically used by intern employees or other employees who are tasked with preparing the presentation. It’s easier to set it up how we want it to look unlike using a pre-setup file like PowerPoint or something similar.
  • Setting up presentations.
  • Combining files.
  • Scaling
  • Placing
It is appropriate for combining multiple files to create a PDF, or for putting together a presentation, and works really well for that purpose. It is less appropriate to use to create images or files or drawings, which is what you should use Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop instead, and then combine them using InDesign.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We don't use Adobe InDesign all that often. We are in the process of creating some more in-depth content and are using it as a tool to lay that out. When we do use it, it's generally a tool that's used only by the Marketing department, that allows us to create e-books, articles, etc.
  • It's great to layout e-books.
  • If you're unable to use Illustrator, it's a great alternative to photoshop to create graphic content.
  • Since I don't use it that often, I've never experienced anything that would need to be fixed, or noticed any needed functionality.
InDesign is great for magazine or book layout. It allows you to create digital books and has tons of options to create unique formatting designs. It's not as great for large scale printing or graphic design, as it's not a vector program so the images can look pixelated or blurry if they're scaled too large.
Michael Prewitt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses multiple Adobe applications within the Adobe Creative Suite; we have a Teams subscription plan. InDesign is used primarily for print layouts (periodicals, products, advertising, displays, etc.). Occasionally it has been used for design of graphics for a digital context (web banners, etc.)—although we tend to use Photoshop for that most of the time.

While multiple departments use Adobe apps, InDesign is primarily used by my department, and occasionally by others who need to use files we created. I would not consider it to be a great fit for people with very elementary design or publishing needs. But for people trained in graphic design, it is perfect. Our company also uses InCopy, which allows others to edit InDesign documents without getting tangled up in all the layout controls.

That InDesign works so seamlessly with other Adobe apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat) is a big plus. I am a long-time user, since version 1, and consider InDesign to be the premier publishing app with the best selection of professional features. InDesign lets us create the kinds of designs we want with a minimum of effort, with fine control, and with great results.
  • InDesign has great control of text composition and flow. If spacing, kerning, leading, grouping text elements, hyphenation control, OpenType features, etc., are your thing, InDesign has got you covered.
  • InDesign has great layout and design features built in. You can create a lot of your layout elements right inside InDesign without needing other applications.
  • InDesign is not geared toward general office users. It has a complex user interface, and the level of controls could intimidate basic users. The workflow is more complex than creating something like a Microsoft Word or Apple Pages document.
  • The software is expensive. You can acquire it only through a subscription license plan, and this will set you back hundreds or thousands of dollars every year depending on the number of users in your company.
If you are doing professional graphic design, and especially if you are doing design for print or for digital publishing (PDF, etc.), Adobe InDesign is exceptionally good. For magazines, newsletters, books, DVD and CD jackets, business cards, signage, fliers and brochures, newspaper ads, bulletins, etc., it is an ideal software app. However, it does require a somewhat advanced level of computer operator skill, and the initial learning curve is a bit steep.

I would not recommend it for someone whose needs are more in line with what Microsoft Word or Apple Pages can do.
December 17, 2019

InDesign review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use InDesign to put together proposal documents for my company. This enables us to change information and styles efficiently and seamlessly throughout, all while maintaining a professional yet graphic look.
  • Paragraph styles are a great way to only have to change something once, and have it change throughout the document.
  • Sharing files is also extremely easy. It's easy to use the package tool to bundle all of the images, fonts, and context to provide to another user.
  • Having InDesign auto save would be very useful. There is no control over when the program decides to crash.
  • If you don't have the most recent version through CC, it makes it difficult to work with older versions.
This program is well-suited for any company who creates lengthy documents that can be time-consuming to edit. It makes it easy to create a layout that is consistent throughout and to make changes that create a domino effect where applicable. It's great that it also works well with other CC design programs such as Illustrator. I am able to create more eye-catching graphics in Illustrator and place those files within my InDesign document.
Lisa Fargo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InDesign is used daily to create brochures, annual reports, multiple product/sales sheets and catalogs. It is the best way to organize, paginate and print prep multi-page documents. It is much more efficient than trying to organize multiple pages in Acrobat or Photoshop and the text tools are far superior. As an original Quark user, the transition to InDesign was a no-brainer. We would be lost without it.
  • Text editing
  • Multi-page organization
  • Better image editing tools
  • Better interpretation of vectors cut and pasted from Illustrator
Any project that is going to be over 6 pages long should be done in InDesign just for the page organizational capabilities alone. The paragraph/character menus and tools are far more advanced than other Adobe programs. If a project is vector or image-heavy AND limited pages, we tend to favor Illustrator.
Janae Balibrea | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InDesign to create quarterly performance reports for investors of our properties. The other assistant in the office and I are the only ones who use it. I use the program a few weeks each quarter (January, April, July, October). It addresses the problem of creating clean, clear, beautiful reports for our investors to get a snapshot of how their investments are performing.
  • InDesign makes it easy to have one template across a project.
  • InDesign makes it easy for you to create custom projects.
  • InDesign is complex to use and requires training.
  • InDesign makes it a little difficult to format text uniformly.
Adobe InDesign is well suited for creating custom, attractive, high-quality reports. It's not great for time saving and efficiency, so if you haven't learned the program and are short on time, it wouldn't be ideal.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm the only person at my office who uses InDesign. I use it on a nearly daily basis, for all sorts of print layout projects (posters, booklets, note cards, brochures, signs, etc). It addresses our need to have professional-quality designs, made efficiently, with the utmost attention to detail. Branding is very important to me and InDesign allows me to have total control over the look of the design. We're a small nonprofit so nobody else on staff has the responsibility to use it. We hire a freelance graphic designer for our bigger projects, and she uses InDesign as well.
  • Incredible level of control over the details of every page. You know exactly how things will look when they print.
  • A decent learning curve (not too difficult) if you're reasonably tech-savvy, considering how robust it is.
  • There's a really annoying feature with scrolling for fonts, where sometimes it scrolls up and other times it scrolls down when you're moving your mouse the same way both times. You can't turn off this feature. I have no idea why they made it.
It's really the best option for anyone who will be doing print design projects on a somewhat regular basis. It's very affordable, especially if you're a nonprofit (get signed up with TechSoup). It wouldn't be appropriate for someone who has absolutely no design skills. They should look for one of those online apps that guides you through the design process and has lots of professional-looking templates. Just don't do Word or Publisher. They are so limited for design work, and people will be able to tell!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InDesign is being used to create our publications. We have 2 designers using InDesign and 2 sub-editors. It is so widely used that all members of the team had previous experience with the software. This allowed the more experienced to teach the less experienced team members. We have not had any issues.
  • Most people have experience using InDesign.
  • Easy to implement across the business.
  • Adobe InDesign is an expensive product but a must.
  • It should be easier to open InDesign files in other programs.
You really need all the Adobe programs if you are in the media world. Adobe InDesign is particularly important if you are producing print media. Our business uses the software to create and edit our portfolio of magazines across the horticulture sector. I would recommend Adobe InDesign to fellow media professionals.
Ben Caplan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With InDesign, we're able to design print material and other products that will go to print.

It is ideal for letterhead, business cards, mailers, and many other print products.

We don't currently use InDesign across the board, but rather with just our marketing department. InDesign gives us the liberty to create a printed product that doesn't conform to a standard pre-built template that could be purchased online.
  • Creative liberty.
  • Powerful tools for digital design.
  • Perfect templates for use later.
  • Cost.
  • The steep learning curve.
  • Overwhelming number of options of tools and features.
If you need something designed that can be printed, this is the tool. It is the "gold standard" across every industry for printing.

If you work with a printer they generally like receiving the InDesign file so that they can gather the exact Pantone colors, modify the print settings or whatever they need to do. This is such a powerful tool for printing and more.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adobe InDesign for all of our day to day creative work. This work covers print advertising, marketing and sales brochures, flyers, direct mailers and other supporting collateral. Using InDesign allows our designers the flexibility to use our standard templates for brand work and non template work that can be shared amongst the designers internally and externally. We can use the packaging to collect all linked files and fonts for external printing and for archiving.
  • Integration with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Integration with our project management and approval tool Workfront.
  • Share document layouts with others.
  • Minimal learning curve when moving from version to version.
  • The ability to have editors edit in InDesign directly and not have to use InCopy.
  • Ability to import Word files better to bring in the Word stylesheets.
  • Preemptive typing, similar to what Google does with their email client.
For an in-house design group Adobe InDesign has been a valuable tool. For any print or online PDFs we use InDesign and have been very successful in doing what we do. From note cards to our award winning magazine Adobe InDesign does it all. There's no other tool like it in the marketplace today.
Hanzhi Jiang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InDesign for conference materials and brochures.
  • Design the layout of the booklets.
  • Make background papers.
  • Powerful functions.
  • For first-time users, it is overwhelming; too many buttons and it's hard to find some features.
InDesign works well with Illustrator and Photoshop and Adobe Professional for making brochures and booklets. For making books, InDesign is a powerful tool.
Chad Gabriel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe InDesign is primarily used by our branding and marketing functional areas including social impact. It allows us to create print ready publications for things like brochures, flyers, posters, magazines, and more.
  • Powerful capabilities for many print media formats
  • Team workflow via Creative Cloud
  • Handling large file sizes with high resolution photos
  • Steep learning curve
  • Occasional slow load time when opening
InDesign is ideal for when you need complete control of all aspects for printing including color, bleeds, slugs, I don’t, and margins for example. If you’re not worried about these types of things the product will still do the job but may be overkill.
Lochan Kalicharan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe InDesign is currently being used by our graphics department mostly to create templates and design layouts for various platforms and projects. Much of these projects include social media as well as printing so there is a wide range of use for the software. More recently this has been used to create brochures.
  • Layouts for social media projects
  • Layouts for print projects
  • Brochures
  • More variety in sample layouts for ideas
  • Quicker customer help
  • Frequent updates
So far, InDesign has been doing well for us. It has worked for everything we used it for and has given some new life to many current projects we have been working on. This is used in conjunction with other Adobe apps like Photoshop when we are creating brochures and other print projects.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe InDesign is used by myself personally as well as our Marketing Department. As a property management company that pulls most of its marketing in-house, we've utilized Adobe InDesign to tackle the challenge of creating updated property brochures. These brochures are being used for leasing, brokerage service, and more. We use these for both print purposes and digital display. Adobe InDesign helps keep everything organized for multiple pages.
  • Layout design organization
  • Pulls links to avoid large file sizes
  • Easily adaptable and user-friendly
  • A couple crashes here and there, but this has more to do with updates than the actual program itself
Best suited for multiple document layout design. Less useful if you're using it for graphic design tasks. I've seen users get used to the layout and tools reasonably quickly and have then used it for basic graphic design. While possible, it is best suited for its original purpose--multiple page documents and layout design.
November 12, 2019

Still the King

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our department uses InDesign for an overwhelming majority of our design work. As part of the Creative Cloud, it is our go to solution for all things print and even a lot of digital design such as static web banners and some ads. It allows us to easily open files created by others and also allows us to package our InDesign files to send to vendors.
  • Multipage document layouts - the industry standard.
  • Simple digital ads - InDesign has really drown in digital production.
  • Large format layouts such as banners and signage.
  • Precision export control and packaging for vendors.
  • Requires a Creative Cloud subscription; no standalone app purchase.
  • Rather bloated in some areas
  • Can be temperamental with fonts and linked images at times
InDesign is simply the industry standard. If you are planning on picking up or handing off work, there's a 95% chance you will be using InDesign for printed material. For department and enterprise applications it is really fluid to work on files as a group. If you are a freelancer or small team you really don't have much of a choice as there are no equal alternatives (yet).
Brittney Collier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Adobe InDesign as a member of the marketing department. Myself and a senior designer had access to Adobe InDesign to create content for marketing campaigns and for our website. While Adobe Illustrator works well for creating graphics and banners, Adobe InDesign helped us to create marketing collateral with a page layout like eBooks, whitepapers, and flyers. It helped us to create content that explained the benefits of our products to customers and ultimately, assisted in generating leads and making sales.
  • Adobe is great for creating content like eBooks and whitepapers. Many people use simpler applications like Microsoft Word for creating these types of documents, but Adobe provides more flexibility in layout which helps you to make more engaging content. The platform is more responsive to vector files - enabling you to change image colors. Also, text boxes and images can be placed anywhere on the page rather than having to follow a cursor for placement like one would have to when using Microsoft Word. It seems like the platform was built for creating more engaging content with a variety of imagery and text on every page.
  • One of my favorite features on Adobe is the option to create color themes. Most companies I've worked for have had brand guidelines that must be followed when creating content. One of the most important guidelines are the brand colors. With Adobe, I can save the company's brand colors as a color theme to make sure that every time I open the application, our brand colors are stored. This shortens the amount of time it takes to start a project and enables me to select, deselect, and change colors to see which brand color works best.
  • I love the "Layers" feature on Adobe InDesign. When working on other platforms, I always have to go to the images or text boxes on the page and select "bring forward" or "move backward" to make sure everything is displayed properly. For example, if I want white text on top of a blue shape, the blue shape may come forward and the text will be under the blue shape. This never happens in Adobe InDesign because you can separate your text and images into layers. In most cases, since text is supposed to be read, the text should be on top of all images and shapes. In Adobe InDesign, I can group every text box into a layer that always stays on top of the shapes and images.
  • The biggest issue that I think hinders people from using Adobe InDesign is how overwhelming it is to get started. The interface is not intuitive and doesn't mimic the layout of any similar application. Because of that, it can be difficult to adopt if your company's employees have not already had experience using it. In my case, I had been introduced to InDesign as an intern and later accepted a full-time role on a team where I was able to improve to an intermediate level because our senior digital designer (an InDesign expert) was there to support me as I used InDesign for content creation. In my opinion, this is a rare opportunity where a company already has an expert available. Having such a difficult learning curve to overcome also seems to impact employee workload. Since it takes a while for employees to understand how to use the platform, creating content using this application is often tacked onto one or to people who understand how to use it - making the person(s) feel overwhelmed.
Adobe InDesign is best for companies who rely on content to sell their products and need that content to be engaging. Even though the platform can be difficult to understand, it's worth it to invest the time to understand it if you have a complicated product. I have worked for two SaaS companies and selling software can require very detailed and technical explanations. Having Adobe would enable your marketing and/or design team to turn those technical details into colorful pages and graphics that keep prospective customers engaged. It would lower costs in the long run because you'll have employees with deep knowledge of the products creating these documents/graphics quickly rather than outsourcing to a design or marketing agency who would need to learn about your product and how it works for every piece of content you'll need.

Unless you're creating a catalog, I would not recommend Adobe InDesign for companies with products that can be explained in a photo or one simple graphic. It would be best to utilize Adobe Illustrator for those types of products.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InDesign for all of our print designs/layouts. As far as I am concerned it is worth the cost. Brochures, newsletters, ads, designing for social media...Adobe InDesign does it all. We are able to design and then export in several different formats which is also very helpful to be able to share files with others. Also crosses from Mac to PC platforms with ease.
  • Page layout
  • Compatibility with other programs
  • Great updates to the software
  • User friendly. I was a Quark user way back in the day and was able to easily transfer to InDesign without training.
  • The picture boxes can be a little tricky at first but once you get the hang of that the features are great.
InDesign is great for page layouts but not as great with designing for the web. I would say Photoshop would still be the preferred program for that. Great for brochures, ads, business cards, anything print related. We also use it to design for social media and can easily export those files as .jpg.
November 07, 2019

A top performer!

Sam Bean | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adobe InDesign to create layouts for a wide variety of printed materials for our clients. It is an intuitive software to use and we would not be able to be as productive using any other publishing program. The ability to layout a document quickly whether it be 1 page or 500 pages is critical to our success, and InDesign allows us to do that.
  • Easy to create custom text layouts.
  • Easy to incorporate photos and graphics into documents along with the text.
  • Easy to organize large documents.
  • Font management without 3rd party software additions.
  • More consistent keystroke commands with other Adobe products.
  • Greater program speed.
InDesign is a layout program for creating documents with text, photos and graphics - and is excellent for that. While it has some drawing tools, it is a bit cumbersome to use those tools, which I only use when needed for very basic quick graphic additions.
Samantha Crawford | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use InDesign to create pdfs. I am able to design beautiful magazines and guides for my clients with this software and it helps me boost business and look professional.
  • Features.
  • Usability.
  • Price.
  • Very heavyweight and takes a lot of processing power.
  • I would like to see better optimization.
Adobe InDesign is sometimes glitchy and it runs CP usage near 90%, but it gets the job done if you are not multitasking. This can be a dealbreaker for those with less processing power.
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