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System Requirements
Product Features
- Complete set of tools for page-layout design
- XML import and export
- Faster performance
- Built-in support for publishing pages anywhere
- Fully integrated with other Adobe software
- NOTE: This is an upgrade for a previous version
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
InDesign 2.0 is all about creative page layout. A high-end desktop publishing product, it is aimed squarely at professional designers who need maximum flexibility alongside strong document management and support for industry standards. Eye-catching features like transparency and blending are combined with more mundane, but important, abilities such as table of contents and index generation, to make this a more complete and rounded product than earlier versions. It also benefits from integration with other Adobe products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive and Acrobat. Adobe maintains a consistent user interface across the range, easing the learning process.
The heart of a DTP product is typography, for which InDesign is second to none. There is fine control over drop capitals, kerning, tracking, justification and scaling. OpenType fonts offer advanced features like contextual alternative characters, which automatically inserts ligatures or other special glyphs according to their place within a word. The Paragraph composer optimises spacing and hyphenation for an entire paragraph, retrospectively re-formatting earlier lines as you type. A great feature is that imported graphics remain editable. For example, InDesign has its own excellent tools for drawing shapes and paths, so you can take in an Illustrator drawing and continue to work on it. The transparency options not only lets you control opacity but also offers special effects like drop shadows, feathering, and multiple blending modes such as soft or hard light. InDesign has complete support for professional printing standards, but Adobe also provides on cross-media choices, such as PDF, HTML and SVG, which is an emerging standard for Web graphics. There is also an option to import, export and edit XML, with exciting possibilities for repurposing content.
InDesign 2.0 is ideal for magazines, advertisements and brochures. For books or manuals, something like Adobe FrameMaker is a better choice. It is strong competition for the market-leading Quark XPress, and the fact that its system requirements are heavier is perhaps balanced by the fact InDesign is half the price of Quark. Convenience features like multiple undo and redo make InDesign a pleasure to use. Creativity in print has never been easier. --Tim Anderson
Product Description
Adobe InDesign 2.0 software delivers the page layout tools you've always wanted. It's easy to learn, and use, because it integrates tightly with the applications you already know--Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat. Its intuitive tools remove arbitrary creative limites, helping you capture your insipiration without interrupting the flow of creative ideas. When you're read to print, the results are precise and reliable. you can even move beyond print with built-in support for publishing pages in PDF, as eBooks, on the Web and more.
Transparent Art
Appy editable drop shadows, feathering and other tranparency effects directly in InDesign. Even preserver transparent backgrounds and soft edges in imported Photoshop files, and print them reliably.
Precise Printing
Print files reliably using an efficient new printing interace that reflects the input of print professionals worldwide. For example, quicly specify custom page sizes, print thumbnails, or view and accurate print proxy in the revised Print dialogue box.
Flexible Tables
Design tables easily: set row heioght and column width, apply colour fills to alternating rows, merge cells, insert graphics, and specify high-end typographical settings.
Move Beyond Print
Transparent Art
Appy editable drop shadows, feathering and other tranparency effects directly in InDesign. Even preserver transparent backgrounds and soft edges in imported Photoshop files, and print them reliably.
Precise Printing
Print files reliably using an efficient new printing interace that reflects the input of print professionals worldwide. For example, quicly specify custom page sizes, print thumbnails, or view and accurate print proxy in the revised Print dialogue box.
Flexible Tables
Design tables easily: set row heioght and column width, apply colour fills to alternating rows, merge cells, insert graphics, and specify high-end typographical settings.
Move Beyond Print
- Import and export XML documents using the Structure View and Tags palette
- Drag and drop XML content onto frames, or auto-flow it into tagged templates to quickly produce polished layouts. Also map XML tags to paragraph styles easily.
- Embed metadata tags in InDesign documents to make them easier to track, manage and retrieve.
- Exchange assets, such as Scalable Vector Graphics files with Adobe GoLive software.
- Export eBooks (tagged Adobe PDF files) directly from InDesign, including hyperlinks.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Well after a disapointing start with the 2.0 upgrade, now it's at 2.0.2 this program is really beginning to win me over. Things that you are constantly swapping back & forth between programs for in Quark are a breeze in this.
My only pet hate is that there is still not enough support from the print end... also long ducuments are a bit of a pain (especially if you add a few effects).
Version 3 will be something to watch out for if this is anything to go by...
If you are having problems installing the OS X upgrade, then take a visit to Adobe's web site as they have a new installer that works with your upgrade CD. The updates that take it 2.0.2 are essential.
Overall this is a great product & well worth learning!
I've been using Quark and InDesign and I must say Indesign is the winner! With all the support for the latest technology (e.g. Opentype) it is the professional layout programme. Blends in with all the other Adobe products. It also has basic drawing tools so that you can draw strait on your page rather than make a drawing in Illustrator or Freehand first.
I did several projects with it and all worked out very well. The only thing is that you need an up-to-date machine performance wise to run it on. Otherwise it will be too slow.
I did several projects with it and all worked out very well. The only thing is that you need an up-to-date machine performance wise to run it on. Otherwise it will be too slow.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Overall I'd love to say I love this, but seeing as how the only way I'm going to get it running on Mac OS 9.22 is to spend hours on tech support phones - I can't.
If you need this to work straight out of the box, look at as many forums as possible or call tech support at Adobe.
This is a shame as the potential for this product is huge! 1/2 the price of it's main competitor & with a feature set to die for - shame the horse stays in the stable...
I'll add to this review when I can get it working!
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