AdobeInDesign.com - A desktop publishing software developer based in San Jose, CA
Professional Page Layout and Graphic Design Software
Adobe InDesign is an application from Adobe Systems that is a page layout and graphic design package. Adobe InDesign offers an ideal solution for the designers who require complete control on the layout and the printing rather than for the graphical technician, and prefer to work based on exact standards. Adobe InDesign is one instrument meant for designing extremely powerful productions, guarantees precision and provides control with integration of professional graphical applications of Adobe, like Photoshop and Illustrator. It is possible to modernize or to personalize the greater part of the members of InDesign with the software plug-in of Adobe or other producers.
The most recent version of InDesign is CS2.
Features of Adobe InDesign CS2
- Adobe InDesign Snippets -- With InDesign snippets, you can easily import objects as snippets and share the same with your friends or others and also reuse the same in any other document. Whenever you drag or place a snippet into a layout, the application recreates the original document including the formatting and positioning of the same on your page.
- Improved support for Word and RTF documents -- The new Adobe InDesign has an improved support for Microsoft Word and RTF documents that allows you to import word and RTF documents in InDesign without loosing the formatting and other styles. Also, you can remove unused objects and configure the word or rtf document according to InDesign styles.
- Concatenation of text in the frames -- In Adobe InDesign, all the text is contained in frames. It is now possible to insert text into an existing frame or create a new frame while importing the text.
- Use of styles in InDesign -- In Adobe InDesign there are two types of styles. One is the paragraph style and other is the character style. The paragraph style contains the attributes of formatting of the character and the paragraph whereas the character style comprises only the attributes of the character and therefore comprises of formatting of words and phrases of a paragraph.
- Smart text handling -- The new Adobe InDesign features smart handling of text imported from other documents by way of drag & drop or copy-paste. The new InDesign allows you to retain the formatting of the text along with quick editing of the text.
- Support for Adobe Photoshop & Adobe PDF layer -- The new InDesign features the selective display of layers and it’s components in Adobe PDF files and in Photoshop files, in order to experiment with different designing options and/or use multiple variations of a file in one layout.
Creative Suite Integration
Adobe packages it's most popular graphic design applications as part of a Creative Suite. These applications include: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Premium versions of Creative Suite also include Acrobat Professional, Dreamweaver and GoLive, although it's been announced that starting with Creative Suite V3 (early 2007), GoLive will be removed in favor of Dreamweaver.
Hardware Requirements for Adobe InDesign CS2
- Processor: Pentium 3 or 4 processor
- Operating system: Windows 2000 with SP3, or Windows XP with SP1 or SP2
- Memory: 256MB minimum/320MB recommended
- Hard Disk: 850MB of available space
- Video: Resolution of 1024 X 768 or higher
- Processor: PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
- Operating System: Mac OS X v.10.2.8 through v.10.4
- Memory: 256MB minimum/320MB recommended
- Hard Disk: 870MB of available space
- Video: Resolution of 1024 X 768 or higher
Languages
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