Adobe InDesign 1.5 Upgrade

Price: $47.87
  

Product Description
Adobe InDesign 1.5 is redefining professional publishing for graphic designers, production artists, and prepress professionals and delivering a level of Adobe integration, creative freedom, productivity, and precision that no other page layout program can touch. It works seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, providing a single, integrated design environment that doesn't interrupt your creative process. InDesign opens QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker Plus files, so you can bring your work with you as enter a new world of design possibilities.

Reader Reviews
I have not yet tried QuarkXPress, so I can't comment on whether or not InDesign is better. I have, however, used InDesign 1.52, PageMaker 6.5 and Corel's Ventura 7. Of the three, I prefer InDesign. In another review, I had said that Ventura was more user friendly but decidedly unstable, unforgivably causing me to lose text in some of the publications I was working on. Another knock against Ventura is that Corel seems to have abandoned the line. Version 8 is now over four years old, with no upgrade in sight. InDesign likely finds itself in PageMaker's shadow, especially now that PageMaker v7 has been released. But InDesign was able to match the user-friendliness of Ventura with the stability and power of PageMaker, and I was most pleased with the result. InDesign could do dropcaps, without mucking about with text-frames as PageMaker does. What an innovation!!! (Ventura'd done it since version 5) Unless Adobe changes direction and merges the PageMaker and InDesign lines into a single software package, the split appears to be that PageMaker is aimed at business publications, and InDesign is aimed at more artisticly minded publication houses. Neither are priced for the home user, and that's why I rate InDesign just four stars instead of five. The full version of InDesign is extremely costly, although the upgrade price is quite reasonable. If Adobe wants to prevent Microsoft Publisher from eating up more of the market, they'll cut the full price of the package significantly. Best, James Comment | Permalink | (Report this)