Item: Adobe InDesign
Rating: 7
Author: Todd Dodge

Overall Satisfaction with Adobe InDesign

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe InDesign is currently only being used in the marketing department, by the graphic designers. We are currently using Adobe InDesign for our travel magazines and brochures. Adobe InDesign is great for building and creating long-form magazines and hosts a master edit that will affect all pages, unlike Illustrator where you can design the layout of a magazine, but with no master edit, it takes a lot more effort and revision editing to make it work.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Familiarity
Organized
Learnable

Cons

More features
Similar tool layout to Illustrator
More real-world related tutorials

Return on Investment

Frequency of use
Cost
Learning curve

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat DC

Adobe InDesign is useful when implementing PDFs into its files, much like the other programs listed, but lacks the direct-editability of say Adobe Acrobat DC, where its simple to edit a selected text in a PDF and then save and leave it, even if it is a flattened PDF. Both Illustrator and Photoshop file sizes can become quite large when adding multiple PDF files to them, and Indesign is better at handling multiple PDF imports and edits, while keeping the size down.

Other Software Used

Adobe Sign (formerly EchoSign), Microsoft Office 2016, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat DC

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe InDesign is great, as mentioned before, for magazine layouts and being able to edit a page, and it will automatically adjust the rest of the pages, whereas other Adobe programs don't take that into effect. InDesign is best suited for that, but not much else, and lacks the features of Illustrator and Photoshop, and with both those programs having more features, I tend to use those more often.

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Great for Publishers and Graphic Designers of Print