

Its purpose it to facilitate and optimize the use of space for the benefit of communication as well as to enable the integration of various graphic and textual elements in the same medium and their alignment at best. The current running version is InDesign CC (2015 version).Īdobe InDesign is a DTP, i.e. Since then, InDesign has been integrated with Adobe’s Creative Cloud. It’s notable that InDesign has experienced some compatibility issues with Leopard on Mac OS X v10.5 – which were resolved with the Apple OS X 10.5.4 update.

InDesign’s evolution since its release in 1999 has been regular with a new version being released almost every year or least once in two years. Its integration in the Creative Suite along with Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat jump-starts the distribution of InDesign 3.0.

In 2002 InDesign became the first Mac OS X native desktop publishing software. However, Adobe refused this offer and worked hard to design a new desktop publishing software in fact, it was Aldus who started the project code-named “Shuksan” and later “K2”, until it was published as InDesign 1.0 in 1999. In 1998, PageMaker had almost lost all of its business users to its direct competitor (and mighty!) QuarkXPress, Quark announced its intentions to take over Adobe. InDesign is PageMaker’s worthy successor, which Adobe acquired by buying Aldus at the end of 1994. Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing ( DTP) software (computer layout-assisted publishing) used for creating paper media such as magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, catalogs.
