Adobe InDesign Reviews & Product Details

The best about InDesign is almost the same reason I like the most Adobe products, the best user interface that you can encounter out there with tons of different ways of how to make your projects look good. The same interface that they use for Photoshop or Illustrator, is the same for InDesign, almost identical, and that's what I like the most from Adobe. Also, it allows you to create different sheets, and export or import to a lot of formats, like Jpeg, pdf, png, etc. and that gives you the possibility to be compatible with so many other programs or software as well as a web interface. In personal experience, I use it for architectural presentations and allows me to be so creative and professional at the same time. In small words, you can create a professional but good looking presentation without having to create each and every single page of the document for yourself in another software. Also it allows you to give all your pages one or different patterns or "title blocks" and that is a huge tool on my point of view, because you don't have to go through all the pages again to do one single change, you just change it once on the master page and that is all.

There's just almost nothing that I dislike, but if I would have to choose what I don't like, would be the performance issue with your computer. No matter if you have 32 GB of Ram, it will always be a problem to display everything in high quality, but it also gives you low quality so I have no issues using that while working on it.

Architectural Presentations. Great end product for the client.

I love the diversity of things you can create with inDesign and the tools that are available.

I have not found anything that I dislike yet

I create a monthly magazine with inDesign, as well as flyers, newsletters, ... you name it

El software de diseño de página simplifica la combinación de texto y gráficos y los presenta en páginas de cualquier tamaño. Algunas versiones de esta aplicación ofrecen una lista de comprobación preliminar, por lo que puede controlar todo lo que ha hecho y debe hacer antes de imprimir.

InDesign no ofrece algunas herramientas gráficas que se encuentran en los otros productos de Adobe, pero estas aplicaciones aún ofrecen algunas formas de mejorar sus imágenes.

InDesign es una de las mejores aplicaciones de diseño de página disponibles. Funciona bien con otras aplicaciones de Adobe, por lo que es fácil transferir fotos y gráficos que haya creado con otras aplicaciones a InDesign. El software es complejo, pero a medida que aprenda sus muchos matices, descubrirá que aumenta sus capacidades para crear un documento verdaderamente único y bien diseñado para su publicación.

In design is easy to use once you get the hang of it and allows the user to create professional, appealing brochures, newsletters, reports, booklets and flyers.

This used to be a stand alone software but now is cloud based and has gotten expensive. The frequent updates are sometimes frustrating but the improvements are worth it.

I work in a large church where I do a weekly newsletter as well as many other publications and promotional materials. In design makes it easy for me to set up templates and easily go in to modify them for different events. Several of my co workers use Publisher which is in my opinion an inferior product.

Easy to comp different options in one file

Don't like how it doesn't save in certain formats

Using it to design ads, signs and newsletters. Benefits are that you can layout anything quickly and easily to show quick comps

I absolutely love this software. It is one of the most helpful softwares I've ever had the chance to try and use. Since the very first time using it, and only knowing the Adobe products interface I had the chance to work fluidly with it and the things I couldn't do are so easy to learn by any tutorial and by the support. This tools is way too amazing to work with it.

The only thing that I'd love to be improved would be the text editing and styles a bit like Illustrator. Actually that would be the one and only suggestion to the developers, that the text editing on Ai and Id would work like the same.

One of my recent works has to do with a project brochure, and this Adobe In Design has made me the tools to be more productive and even creative by the way of making it more easy to customize (the document) and that means a lot in terms of efficiency and deadlines.

The ease of use is my favorite feature. Being able to set up the design layout from the start really helps with visibility of how your design will look.

Auto positioning of text when copy and pasting.

Clean, crisp delivery to my customers

The way ID integrates seamlessly with AI and PS, especially now with the Libraries feature.

Lack of support for learning the program. They have user forums, but those are so massive it's difficult ot navigate them.

Business benefits? Hard to get specific – the program simply enables me to set up files for offset and digital production quickly and efficiently.

the ADOBE Suite allows for drag and drop layout placement. this is key when editing for fast delivery. Time is everything and the faster you get things done the quicker you get the finished product out.

I dislike that there are not enough options from template design. I would love to see adobe include add-ons that aid in the design layouts instead of them being made by faulty third party companies.

We dont really solve any problems. it is an application that we use that is functional and efficient.

I love the ability to flow text through multiple pages easily. It makes large document layout much easier to deal with.

I dislike that when I select images to resize them, it’s necessary to manipulate the frame and the image separately. This is useful for certain things, but can be irritating.

I frequently use this for multi page documents, directories, and publications with lots of information.

As a graphic designer I create all my brochures and books with InDesign. During my studies I picked up InDesign really quickly and would recommend it to anyone who works in design.

I dislike the difference in the shortcuts as I am more used to using the shortcuts from Illustrator. It takes some time for me to switch my brain to the other one.

I am creating brochures and book files for my customers and for me it´s the best software ever.

I like the control it provides to allow me to create a layout exactly how I want it to look.

I dislike that it has moved into a subscription pay model. While there are updates more of then, I think that the new versions are less refined because they are able to push out a patch.

I use it to create proposals for new business. It has robust features that help manage consistency within a long document and increase productivity from document to document with templates.It is really customizable and I am able to create exactly what I need.

This program is really geared towards projects and documents with multiple pages. Here, more than in any of the other adobe programs, the paragraph, text, and other style setting menus are critical. I love being able to lay out dozens of pages, and then be able to apply a style change to multiple paragraphs without doing the manual work of going back and fiddling with each little chunk.

There is a lot of really technical stuff you can do with indesign, but some things (like starting page numbering 3 pages in) requires a headache of digging through online tutorials to figure out. Lots of power, but probably the most technically challenging and least intuitive adobe creative suite program to learn and use.

Adobe Indesign is excellent for multiple page documents like white papers, sell sheets, magazines, ebooks, newsletters-- basically for anything with a template and lots of text and a need for print ease. It is infinitely better than adobe or photoshop for the sake of templates and revisions and text flowing. Sure, there's some overlap functionality that has been added into illustrator and photoshop, but indesign still has all the power.

I really enjoy using InDesign because I'm big on editorial design. I love that InDesign has tools such as paragraph Styles and character styles that help me to make headers, subheaders, and body paragraphs match throughout an entire novel or piece. I also love utilizing pre-flight to help me find any errors such as overlapping text or text that's been cut off by text box. Furthermore, I love that I can insert a Photoshop image into an InDesign document and actually still be able to edit the Photoshop image as well and have the changes be rendered in InDesign as they happen. I love that I can insert images and have them linked which means that I can always find the original document or image source. The software is also really good for bulk typesetting.

InDesign can get a little complicated to use. Especially if you just leap into the program with both feet without utilizing tutorials or an instructor. Compared to photoshop and illustrator I think that in design is the more complex of the three. It should really only be used by someone interested in publishing or something along the lines of Editorial Design. I can easily see someone who is just trying to get their bearings on the program getting a little confused and a little mixed up especially when it comes to laying down too many text boxes. One of the biggest changes that someone will have to make is instead of using multiple text boxes when it comes to multiple columns they will have to learn how to use the column tool for text. Also if you're not familiar with InDesign you won't really know how to utilize paragraph Styles instead of manually making the headers and subheaders match. I would say if you're going to use this software then you should probably utilize some tutorials maybe on YouTube or on Linda if you have access to it through your University.

I used InDesign all the time when I was working for the Mace and Crown campus newspaper. It was just essential because this was such a large editorial piece. InDesign really helped keep the paper cohesive throughout. I was able to make all the by-lines match and all the body text match in all of the headlines match as well. It just made the Mace and Crown look really professional and it's uniformity. Furthermore, because I was so knowledgeable of the software I was able to really push the limits of what could be done with the campus newspaper and have InDesign help me along the way. I was able to keep the newspaper both avant-garde but at the same time harmonious.

Adobe InDesign has been a very powerful page layout program for me. I have created a countless number of booklets, flyers, brochures, and all things print. It makes it so easy to create multiple page documents, properly edit text, and is so much more design friendly than Microsoft Word. InDesign helps you properly set up files for print, has data merge capabilities, paragraph/character styles, and more. If you don't have a page layout program and are designing things without Adobe Software - you need InDesign!

I'm not sure if there is much to dislike about Adobe InDesign. It has helped me grow as a designer. I guess the only thing I can say is that I am using an older version and do not have access to the newer features yet of the newer versions.

I am solving business problems by having the ability to create booklets and catalogs in a simple way by using spreads. There are so many features to easily create these with page numbers, master pages, spread view, and more.

This program has many great tools that make layout a breeze. My favorite is the way pictures are handled and sized within boxes.

I wish InDesign and the other Adobe products were more similar in how the same tasks are done in the different programs.

We lay out everything from postcards to flyers, ads, brochures, signs, banners, newsletters, etc. We use it to integrate with our Marcom system to make marketing pieces customizeable in the system.

I like the versatility of InDesign the best. I'm not a designer, but have begun using InDesign for some of our design tasks. Our graphic designer gave me a 30 minute overview of how to use some of the tools and that was enough to get going. That said, it's also an insanely robust tool that you can do much more than what I'm currently using it for. I like that versatility.

You certainly need an onboarding - quick as it might be - to grasp the functionality of the tool from the get-go.

We're using InDesign for various design tasks.

It's easy to use for anyone familiar with other adobe products

Not much really, it does everything that I need it to do.

Creating hi-res products for small businesses

I love InDesign, I basically use it every single day. It has gotten so much better in the 8 years i've been using it,

I have no complaints. It runs fast, easy to use.

I use indesign to create all of our banners, advertisements, our magazine pages, even basic forms and documents!

One of my favorite features is editing your links externally. When you place a link from Illustrator, you can edit them in the corresponding software and it will update automatically in your InDesign document. Master pages is another great feature; it makes your process a lot faster and less repetitive.

The interaction with Photoshop is lacking, selecting layers can be tedious.

InDesign is my go-to software for flyers, magazines, booklets, and brochures.