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Still the King
November 12, 2019

Still the King

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Adobe InDesign

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
  • Positive - Familiar tools and shortcuts as other Adobe products so most users are instantly comfortable
  • Positive - makes handoff to vendors extremely simple
  • Negative - must budget for the subscription each year
InDesign is the most widely accepted layout software in the world. It has plugins for extending its abilities and has had a vast industry lead since Dethroning Quark almost two decades ago. Publisher is a Microsoft train wreck and just isn't cut out for heavy lifting. Affinity Publisher is a very interesting competitor; Affinity has raised the bar in terms of affordable competition to Adobe's reign. I'm very interested to see how many people adopt to their programs.
Adobe's support site has always felt bloated and hard to navigate to me. Most of the help I find is through tutorial videos or online design communities. We're also part of an enterprise subscription so we have to first run any issues through the administrator. Takes forever so we just Google a fix and try to figure it out.

Do you think Adobe InDesign delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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 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).