Adobe InDesign: The Gold Standard for Publication Layout & Design
Updated December 13, 2021

Adobe InDesign: The Gold Standard for Publication Layout & Design

John La Belle | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Adobe InDesign

Indesign is being used in our graphic design company for the final layout of print publications including books, brochures, business cards, wedding invitation packages, flyers, stationery packages, posters, signage and most other artwork for printing and specialties.
  • Powerful tools for handling large amounts of text, with full control over white space, kerning, justification, leading and all other aspects of typesetting.
  • Combining text with graphics from other applications such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDRAW! and other graphic programs.
  • Powerful Prepress controls for pre-flighting your print publication, handling overprints and trapping, and doing both Pantone spot color as well as 4 color process separations.
  • The only thing I don't like about InDesign is the CS Live Adobe Community Help interface. It's highly buggy and difficult to search. It's usually much easier to just do a Google search for a solution or feature you cant find, rather than try to use the Community interface.
  • InDesign is integral to the way we prepare artwork and publications for our clients. The ROI is essentially 100% positive from the get-go, especially if you're upgrading from older or alternative desktop publishing software.
InDesign is basically the default goto for publication assembly in our industry. Anything else is clunky or has inadequate tools by comparison. It's the industry gold standard.
Support is hit or miss. As mentioned before, the CS Live help system is problematic, so your best bet for support is searching the web for solutions if you run into a problem, and you invariably are lead to a solution at the Adobe Website, or at other Graphic Design forums.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Adobe InDesign go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe InDesign again?

Yes

InDesign is especially well designed for use in the Graphic Design, Printing and Advertising industries.