Adobe InDesign software gives you precise control over typography and built-in creative tools to develop designs, proof content before printing, and publish documents in print, online, or on mobile devices. Bring your documents and presentations to life with interactive forms, animations, sound, and video. Powerful industry tools and improved performance make creating page layouts easier and faster. Access Adobe CS Live online services directly from InDesign to streamline critical review processes.
Multiple media publishing – publish documents in print, online, or on mobile devices. Create stunning interactive documents (SWF files) with animation, audio, and video for playback in Adobe Flash® Player, interactive PDF documents with video and audio, and sophisticated print layouts with a variety of intuitive tools.
Integration with Adobe CS Live online services – Improve the efficiency of your most important design processes with the new CS Live online services that are compatible with InDesign. Perform online layout reviews with CS Review, one of the new CS Live online services.
Integration with Adobe design, web, and digital preview applications – Move seamlessly from design to print or digital output with integration with industry-leading Adobe products such as Adobe Photoshop,® Illustrator,® Acrobat,® Flash Professional, and Adobe Digital Editions.
Productivity tools – create complex page layouts with user-centered productivity features such as the ability to include pages of different sizes in a single file, optimize selection and editing of objects with the new Layers panel, intelligent options, fast table creation, and the ability to move files with fewer steps.
Advanced text layout – Create vibrant, sophisticated text with professional typographic features such as styles, text wrapping, paragraph layout, OpenType® support, and lettering. Include headings that span or separate columns without a separate text frame.
Built-in creative tools – Explore new functionality right in InDesign with built-in drawing tools, reverse effects, built-in Adobe Photoshop effects, advanced transparency controls, and support for 3D Photoshop objects.
Pre-press and production – Speed up production, improve reliability, and create final documents with embedded fonts, background PDF export, real-time pre-press, JDF technology, and on-screen controls.
Automation – Create more efficient automated workflows by reducing time spent on repetitive tasks. Standardized XML functions can automatically populate pages with text and images. Add content from databases to improve efficiency when printing across multiple channels.
Extensibility – Quickly create unique workflows and software solutions for your own printing needs with InDesign Markup Language (IDML), an XML-based file format that allows developers to create or modify files using standard XML tools.
