Adobe InDesign Makes Great Magazine Publishing SoftwareAdobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software program developed by Adobe Systems. Designers are the target market for the program and InDesign is used in creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. Longer documents still are often designed with its sister product Adobe FrameMaker, such as manuals, books, and catalogs. InDesign, is however, a perfect magazine publishing software solution. InDesign is the successor program to Adobe PageMaker which was acquired with the purchase of Aldus in 1994. By 1998 PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional community to the comparatively feature rich competitor QuarkXPress 4.1, which was released in 1996. At this point Quark stated their intention to buy out Adobe and to eliminate PageMaker from the combined company's portfolio to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe rejected this offer and instead worked on a project built independently of PageMaker, code-named "K2," and released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999. Beginning in version 3 (also known as InDesign CS) the program received a boost in distribution by being bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in the Creative Suite. InDesign exports documents in Adobe's famous Portable Document Format (PDF) and has multilingual support. It was the first DTP application to support Unicode for text processing, advanced typography with OpenType fonts, as well as the first desktop publishing program for Mac OS X. Later versions of InDesign magazine publishing software introduced new file formats, but offer some support for older versions. InDesign CS2 has retro-compatible .inx format support and a XML-based document representation. InDesign CS versions updated with the 3.01 update (free from the Adobe site) can read InDesign CS2-saved files exported to the .inx format. The InDesign Interchange format does not support versions older than InDesign CS. Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, CA. Adobe was founded in December of 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. The name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders. Adobe acquired a number of its former competitors, including Macromedia, since the 90's. As of January 2007, Adobe Systems had over 6,000 employees, about 40% of which work in San Jose. Since 1995, Fortune has ranked Adobe as an outstanding place to work. Adobe is probably best known for its PDF and Photoshop applications, but is also well known for its magazine publishing software and other programs designed for professional creative works. |