InDesign is a desktop publishing software application for creating flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, and books. Projects created using InDesign can be shared in both digital and print formats. InDesign is used by graphic designers, artists, publishers, and marketing professionals. It is developed and produced by Adobe Systems and is available individually, or as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud. InDesign was previously available as part of the Creative Suite.
Over the course of InDesign’s takeover of the desktop publishing space, its features have enjoyed a rapid evolution. The achievement of Adobe in not only overtaking QuarkXPress’s dominance in the desktop publishing niche but in remaining relevant in today’s mobile-first world of apps and online tools can’t be underestimated.
The new interactive design features and the ‘publish online’ collaborative workflow are two of our favorite recent enhancements. The collaborative workflow is a huge boon to designers; enabling us to share work using a web link instead of emailing a stream jpeg or pdf previews.
InDesign exports documents in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) and has multilingual support. It was the first DTP application to support Unicode for text processing, advanced typography with OpenType fonts, advanced transparency features, layout styles, optical margin alignment, and cross-platform scripting using JavaScript.
Below, we'll be exploring how InDesign came to be what it is today.
The software was built in 3 major segments:-
Adobe InDesign basic versions
InDesign 1.0 (1999)
InDesign 1.0 (2000)
InDesign 2.0 (2002)
Adobe Illustrator CS versions - CS stands for Creative Suite
InDesign CS
InDesign CS2
InDesign CS3
InDesign CS4
InDesign CS5
InDesign CS6
Adobe InDesign CC versions – CC stands for Creative Cloud
InDesign CC 2014
InDesign CC 2015
InDesign CC 2017
InDesign CC 2018
InDesign CC 2019
So the purpose of giving an evolution overview of Adobe InDesign is to understand hard work and journey of InDesign till date as you noticed there were number of updates for enhancing the software, which help us improve our designs and create what we actually imagine. It is now estimated to have more than 12 million subscribers.
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