Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign CS2 running on Windows XP
Developer:	Adobe Systems
OS:	Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Use:	Desktop publishing
License:	Proprietary
Website:	www.adobe.com/products/indesign

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History

Launched as a direct competitor to QuarkXPress, it initially had difficulty in converting users. In 2002 it was first to release a Mac OS X-native version. Also, InDesign CS and CS2 were bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in the Creative Suite. InDesign can export documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format and offers multilingual support that Quark users can get only by purchasing a much more expensive "Passport" version. InDesign was the first major DTP application to support Unicode for text processing, advanced typography of OpenType fonts, advanced transparency features, layout styles, and optical margin alignment. The cross-platform scriptability using JavaScript still sets it apart. Finally, it features tight integration and user interface. QuarkXPress is a page layout application for Mac OS X and Windows, produced by Quark, Inc. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Portable Document Format (PDF), sometimes mistaken for Printable Document Format, is an open file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 and is now being prepared for submission as an ISO standard[1]. It is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent fixed-layout... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... OpenType is a scalable computer font format initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems. ... For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ... JavaScript is the name of Netscape Communications Corporations and now the Mozilla Foundations implementation of the ECMAScript standard, a scripting language based on the concept of prototype-based programming. ...

InDesign was positioned as a higher-end alternative and successor to Adobe's own PageMaker. InDesign's primary adopters are designers of periodical publications, posters, and other print media. Longer documents are often still designed with FrameMaker (manuals and technical documents) or QuarkXPress (books, catalogs). The combination of a relational database, InDesign and Adobe InCopy word processor, which uses the same formatting engine as InDesign, is the heart of dozens of publishing systems designed for newspapers, magazines, and other publishing environments. PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also for the PC. It relies on Adobe Systems PostScript page description language. ... Adobe FrameMaker is a desktop publishing application that is popular for large documents. ... QuarkXPress is a page layout application for Mac OS X and Windows, produced by Quark, Inc. ... Adobe InCopy is a professional word processing software product made by Adobe Systems. ...

New versions of the software introduced new file formats. To support the vast array of new features (particularly typographic features) introduced in InDesign CS, both the program and its document format were not backwards-compatible, initially upsetting some users. Fortunately, InDesign CS2 introduced the backwards-compatible InDesign Interchange (.inx) format, an XML-based representation of the document. Versions of InDesign CS updated with the 3.01 April 2005 update (available free from Adobe's Web site) can read files saved from InDesign CS2 exported to this format. The InDesign Interchange format does not support versions earlier than InDesign CS.

Adobe is currently developing InDesign CS3 (and the rest of Creative Suite 3) as a Universal binary for native Intel and PowerPC Mac compatibility and is expecting to ship InDesign CS3 in Q2 2007. Because the Mac version of CS2 has code tightly integrated with the PPC architecture (not natively compatible with the Intel processors featured in Apple's new machines), porting these products is a huge endeavor. Adobe decided to devote all its resources to developing CS3 (including integrating Macromedia products acquired in 2005) rather than recompiling CS2 and developing CS3 simultaneously. This decision has upset many Intel Mac early-adopters, especially since Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen initially announced "Adobe will be first with a complete line of Universal applications." Universal Binary Logo A Universal binary is — in Apple Computers parlance — an application bundle that runs natively on both PowerPC- and x86 (Intel)-based Macintosh computers. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... IBM PowerPC 601 Microprocessor PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... IBM PowerPC 601 Microprocessor PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ...

Server Version

In October 2005 Adobe released a server version of InDesign, called "InDesign CS2 Server". This enables solutions that allow page editing and page layout functionality in a web browser.

Versions

• InDesign 1.0 shipped August 16, 1999.
• InDesign 1.5 shipped in early 2001.
• InDesign 2.0 shipped in January 2002 (just days before QuarkXPress 5).
• InDesign CS (3.0) shipped in October 2003.
• InDesign CS2 (4.0) shipped in May 2005.
• InDesign Server released.
• InDesign CS3 (5.0) expected release in Q2 2007 (including Universal binary versions to natively support Intel-based Macs, Regular expression, Table styles, new interface)

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See also

• QuarkXPress
• Scribus
• Adobe InCopy

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External links

• Quark VS InDesign.com
• Designorati:Desktop Publishing
• About Desktop Publishing: InDesign Tutorials and Online Class
• Adobe templates and template instructions
• Adobe InDesign User Group (United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Switzerland)
• InDesign Secrets - for all things InDesign
• InDesign Magazine
• InDesign Central