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My InDesign Experience
January 08, 2020

My InDesign Experience

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

Overall Satisfaction with Adobe InDesign

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.
  • Saves time every year on annual projects
  • Saves money through increased productivity
Publisher is something that we as an organization used to use at the beginning phase of our organization, and, as we grew and the team grew bigger and the needs increased, we needed a more professional tool. That's where Adobe InDesign came in. With Publisher, there was limited functionality, and we were asking for more than it could provide.
We give it this rating because Adobe InDesign really suits our needs in every way possible. You can't find any other software that can do everything Adobe InDesign can do, and it really is a time-saver and increases productivity within the team. We have annual events that frequently have a lot of the same content, and, when reusing the same formatting from previous years, it helps a lot to use Adobe InDesign.

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

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.