A must for any print designer
December 17, 2019
A must for any print designer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe InDesign
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 really helped with our rebrand a few years ago, which has gotten us a lot of attention and praise from colleagues in the industry, and I'd say more donors too.
- If you have it through TechSoup, make sure you stay on top of your annual subscription so your rates don't go up too much.
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