Adobe InDesign CS [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Intuitive creative toolset helps you refine design ideas rapidly
• Ability to import native Photoshop, Illustrator, and PDF files saves significant production time
• Integration with other Adobe applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and GoLive
• Publish content to multiple channels more easily with enhanced XML support
• Produce pages quickly and reliably; get accurate, consistent results when you print

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.8 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000DBOC8
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 29, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,178 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Intuitive creative toolset helps you refine design ideas rapidly. Ability to import native Photoshop, Illustrator, and PDF files saves significant production time. Integration with other Adobe applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and GoLive. Publish content to multiple channels more easily with enhanced XML support. Produce pages quickly and reliably; get accurate, consistent results when you print.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quark: move aside..., December 16, 2003

By 

Manny Hernandez "@askmanny" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Adobe InDesign CS [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

InDesign CS is perhaps the application that benefited most from the most recent upgrade that Adobe made to its key applications, bringing a load of useful and highly expected features. I'd like to stress ONE feature, though, that blew me away... two words: NESTED STYLES. If you have suffered through the painful process of laying out a document where more than two styles are required in a particular content block, you will shed tears of joy when you see this at work!

You are bound to also find very handy the enhanced table features such as automated running headers and footers for tables that run across multiple linked text frames. Printers (people in the printing industry) are also going to be happy (or so Adobe wants) with the features that have been included in InDesign CS for them.

All in all, if I were Quark, I'd be shaking because InDesign is not going to stop until it takes over the current market share that QuarkXpress has... it's just a matter of time and perhaps a version or two more. But try CS now: I think you will love it!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great upgrade to InDesign, February 27, 2004

By 

Stephen Zielinski (Allison Park, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe InDesign CS [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

As a long-time user of Adobe PageMaker and as a person who preordered InDesign 1.0, I can easily recommend InDesign CS to anyone who needs a well-thought out, superbly engineered page-layout program. InDesign 1.x's typesetting power was the product's initial selling point. To that Adobe has added nested styles in release 3.0, a capacity that can eliminate hour's of busywork performed by those working with long and complex documents.

One caveat: InDesign's users want footnoting! Better table handling would also be much appreciated! Please!!!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best package of its kind, January 26, 2005

By 

A. Butterfield (UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Adobe InDesign CS [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I think when a piece of software is as good as InDesign, you can't help being hard on its weaknesses. If only it did this, or that, it would be perfect, you think to yourself.
I switched from working in Corel Draw, which despite its severe limitations when producing multi-page documents still has many features InDesign could use to great effect and which I miss. As a Corel Draw user, I find it irritating to have to switch between fill and stroke (especially for text) before applying colour, when before it was left click for fill, right click for stroke. I also miss Corel's multi function tools, and it seems clumsy to have to switch to a different tool to resize a box you've just drawn.
But you get used to that sort of thing the more you use it.
After six months of use, I'm generally delighted by InDesign's power and logic, but there are some issues that Adobe really must take care of.
There are no automatic bullets or numbered lists for instance. A glaring omission. There's no 'on the fly' spell checking with wiggly red lines, which is another odd thing to leave out. There's a bug in the align function which makes aligning clumsy. The tool palettes are too small and hard to see and adjust. Switching from the text tool is a clumsy affair that leads to constant errors. The scroll function on the mouse has a bug that means it stops working every so often. You can't make a headline span several columns in one text frame like you can in Corel Ventura. Printing samples like booklets is unnecessarily difficult and baffling. Use this thing for six months and you end up with a list of essential improvements.
BUT, the good still outweighs the bad to a large degree. I like InDesign for its unerring stability, its integration with the other CS programs, its wonderful pro text handling and the way it lets you produce a long document with great ease. I guess the best thing about InDesign is that I trust it: I know that when I deliver a file to my printer that they'll be able to handle it and I'll get what I expect. When you're working to tight deadlines, this means a lot.
So, it's great. Perhaps the best of its kind now. But it could be quite a bit better!