Adobe Indesign 2.0 Upgrade [Old Version]

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000065CG1
• Item model number: 27510345
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,980 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Adobe InDesign 2.0 is simply the best professional print design and layout package available. Version 2.0 outweighs former market leader QuarkXPress and should dominate the future of desktop publishing with significant performance improvements, seamless integration with other Adobe products, and a bevy of sophisticated new visual effects and cross-media integration. Previous versions of InDesign were processor-intensive and sluggish. InDesign 2.0 runs significantly faster and smoother, even on older systems like Pentium I and II PCs. For Mac users, it is OS X native.

Graphic designers will love InDesign's robust feature set, which includes advanced type tools that allow for multiple font-control options at both the character and paragraph level. InDesign 2.0 also incorporates many of the most useful Photoshop visual effects, including editable drop shadows, lighting effects, feathering, and transparency that can be applied to any object--text, graphics, or images. These effects can also be imported with native Photoshop and Illustrator file placement. In addition, InDesign's unlimited multiple undo and redo options offer a major improvement over QuarkXPress.

InDesign 2.0 not only supports tables and multipage table formatting (Quark 5.0 cannot format multipage tables), it can also convert and retain the original formatting of any tab-delimited table data from word processing, database, or spreadsheet documents such as Microsoft Word and Excel. InDesign 2.0 allows for seamless Acrobat PDF file import and placement, as well as the ability to import both PageMaker and QuarkXPress documents (3.3 or later).

As with previous versions, InDesign 2.0 does not support documents created with QuarkXTensions. InDesign also does not allow for export to Quark or PageMaker formats or backward-compatibility file export, as did older InDesign file versions. However, users can export InDesign 2.0 files in multiple media formats, including EPS, SVG, RTF, HTML, and XML. You can also embed Metadata (XMP) into InDesign layouts for automated workflows.

InDesign 2.0's Web publishing options are a significant step up over previous versions but are still fairly primitive; InDesign is emphatically not a Web editor but instead offers limited Web publishing support. The HTML export automatically converts most text to images (rather than exact-positioning CSS layers as one might expect), producing very large files with frequently poor image quality and few image optimization options. There's also no support for browser preview, rollovers, or image maps, which QuarkXPress 5.0 provides. InDesign offers fairly simple and easy-to-use, well-formed XML support (no DTDs) that can both import and export XML tags; the XML in rival QuarkXPress is more advanced but less product-integrated and is DTD-based.

With its focus on visual effects, design production, and prepress and printing needs, plus the added bonus of multichannel publishing support (print, Web, etc.), InDesign 2.0 is clearly intended for professional print and graphic designers. For easier-to-learn and more basic office and small-business document publishing, Adobe PageMaker or even a Microsoft publishing product is more appropriate. Conversely, for large technical publications or larger corporations with true cross-media publishing and content-management needs, Adobe FrameMaker is a better option, with more advanced native support for content markup languages and multiple export formats.

Though InDesign 2.0 offers many compelling new features, there remains room for improvement, particularly for HTML export, WYSIWYG type menus, and more targeted user tools. However, these are small complaints. InDesign 2.0 should be the product of choice for today's design professional. --Rich Ting

Amazon.com Product Description

Adobe InDesign 2.0 page-layout software has the tools to inspire your creativity and simplify elaborate design tasks. Version 2.0 offers object transparency, long-document management options, one-step table creation, XML import and export, improved performance, and more. InDesign 2.0 delivers tight integration with other Adobe graphics applications, easy-to-use tools that reduce elaborate design tasks to a few steps, and built-in support for publishing pages anywhere--in print, on the Web, to Adobe PDF, as e-books, and more.

Capture inspiration with the ability to apply drop shadows, feathering, and other editable transparency settings to any object. Use Overprint Preview for proofing spot-color effects and overprint settings. Flexible table creation tools let you turn tab-delimited text into tables in one step. Plus, get faster performance when opening, saving, and closing documents and placing high-resolution images.

InDesign's integration with other Adobe products allows you to work more efficiently. You can directly export Adobe PDF files in Acrobat 4.0 or Acrobat 5.0 format. You'll have the ability to place native Photoshop and Illustrator files with the transparency preserved. InDesign 2.0 also features support for importing and exporting well-formed XML and easier tracking, management, and retrieval of InDesign documents through Adobe's new XML-based metadata framework.