Adobe InDesign

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About Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a layout design and desktop publishing software designed to help businesses and creative individuals create graphic designs with typography from various foundries and imagery from Adobe Stock. The platform lets teams create and publish digital magazines, books, eBooks, interactive PDFs, posters, and more.

Adobe InDesign enables users to manage design elements and deliver immersive experiences in multiple formats. The application integrates with Experience Manager and Adobe Creative Cloud, allowing organizations to share graphics, fonts, and content across projects. Users can publish content to the web and use the built-in content analysis tool to gain insights into the performance of their content.

Adobe InDesign offers a variety of Adobe Stock free templates such as brochures, landing pages, infographics, and more. Teams can also directly import shapes and color themes from Adobe Capture and receive Adobe Fonts suggestions based on the raster image of a font.


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4.8 /5
(310)
Value for Money
4.2/5
Features
4.7/5
Ease of Use
4.1/5
Customer Support
4.2/5

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Tiara
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The Holy Grail of publishing

Reviewed on 2023/11/19

Pros

Indesign is a part of Adobe Suite so it can integrate with other Adobe programs. I mostly use it in conjunction with Photoshop and Lightroom. Indesign also feature many customizable layouts to create beautifully curated print designs.

Cons

Large files can become an issue if you don't have a computer with sufficient storage space. Also, because of the large files, exporting can be very time consuming. External storage may be necessary.

Janice
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

I use InDesign on a daily basis

Reviewed on 2024/05/09

I use InDesign almost every single day of the week. Have been very happy with all of it and...

I use InDesign almost every single day of the week. Have been very happy with all of it and InDesign help is very good at helping me to solve and learn new avenues of creating.

Pros

I love Adobe InDesign and honestly don't know where I would be without it. I love being able to seamlessly import and export with other Adobe products and also being able to create just what I need

Cons

Nothing to report on this. Love InDesign.

Kelly
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent user friendly design software

Reviewed on 2025/02/17

I use the Adobe software together and InDesign is the perfect software to begin designing my...

I use the Adobe software together and InDesign is the perfect software to begin designing my projects.

Pros

I really enjoy all the products by Adobe for graphic arts and design. InDesign is the beginning software when I am creating flyers, pamphlets for companies. User friendly and allows you to create the design you imagine.

Cons

Honestly, I haven't found anything that stands out in this software.

Emilio
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  • Industry: Defense & Space
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

The standard for layout designing and publishing

Reviewed on 2023/05/30

I love InDesign, I've been using it almost all my life. But it as time goes by it is becoming more...

I love InDesign, I've been using it almost all my life. But it as time goes by it is becoming more and more outdated. Although there are new softwares more capable in many areas I'm not switching because InDesign it's the standard

Pros

It is the most complete software for publishing and layout designing. Once you are used to it, it is capable almost of everything. There are many feature to automate repetitive task which are super convenient.

Cons

It is becoming outdated. I find annoying the fact that you cannot open a document generated with a newer version of InDesign. Launching it is super slow even though it is not a demanding resources program. There are not many tools for digital publish layouts, and the ones that it has are outdated.

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Reasons for Switching to Adobe InDesign

Because it is still the standard for publishing.
Cyril
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Adobe Indesign a very good software

Reviewed on 2024/12/15

My overall experience is very good and unmached till today.

My overall experience is very good and unmached till today.

Pros

A very nice software that make desing easer and really time efficient. The software is updated very often and offer cool features, and AI intergated.

Cons

Can't think of something. Very good software.

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Adobe InDesign offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$20.99/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Adobe InDesign has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000

Adobe InDesign supports the following languages:

English

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