Adobe InDesign
Create and publish stylish designs for print and digital publishing.
InDesign is the industry's leading page design software for print and digital media. Create beautiful graphic designs with fonts from the world's best companies and images from Adobe Stock. Quickly share content and comments in PDF. InDesign has everything you need to create and publish interactive books, e-magazines, e-books, posters, PDFs, and more. And it's only available in Creative Cloud.
Creative Cloud is a platform for creativity that connects users, content, applications, services, hardware, learning content, and the community. It gives business customers the creative tools and services they need to collaborate and create their best work, while making managing software fast, easy and flexible.
Principal functions
- Digital posts, dazzling interactions: Create digital magazines, e-books, and interactive online documents that engage viewers with audio, video, slides, and animations. InDesign makes it easy to manage design elements and quickly deliver immersive experiences in any format.
- Keep your team in harmony: Create faster, smarter designs with tools built for collaboration. Make changes quickly with paragraph, character or object styles. Simplify department manager reviews by sharing your designs on the web, or share files for feedback via PDF. The app integrates with Creative Cloud, so you can share content, fonts, and graphics across all your projects.
- Create an impressive impression: Design all kinds of stationery, brochures, posters, annual reports, magazines, and books. With these professional layout and text composition tools, you can create pages with multiple columns, elegant typography, and sophisticated images, tables, and graphics.
- Share them for review: The review process has become easier. Now you can share your designs on the web in just a few clicks and manage comments directly from the app.
- Automatic activation of Adobe Fonts: Say goodbye to unavailable fonts. Now InDesign automatically finds and activates all available fonts from Adobe Fonts.
- Keep the colors consistent: Easily find and replace colors on any type of object to maintain brand consistency and ensure color accuracy in print.
System Requirements
Windows
- Intel Pentium 5 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
- Microsoft Windows 10 version 1607, 1809, 1903, 1909, or 2004
- 4GB RAM (16GB recommended)
- 3.6 GB of available hard disk space for installation. Additional free space is required during installation (cannot be installed on removable flash storage devices). SSD is recommended.
- 1024 × 768 screen resolution (1920 × 1080 recommended). HiDPI display support
- To use the new InDesign Touch workspace, you must have a touchscreen monitor or tablet running Windows 10 or later (such as the Microsoft Surface Pro 3) with the screen resolution set to 2160 × 1440 or higher.
- 32 bit video card
- Adobe Flash Player 10 software is required to export SWF files
- Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, subscription validation and access to the necessary online services *
macOS
- Intel multi-core processor
- macOS 10.14, 10.15 or 11
- 4GB RAM (16GB recommended)
- 3.5 GB of available hard disk space for installation. Additional free space is required during installation (cannot be installed on a volume that uses case-sensitive files or removable flash storage devices).
- 1024 × 768 screen resolution (1920 × 1080 recommended). Retina display support
- 32 bit video card
- Optional: To utilize GPU performance, your Mac requires a minimum of 1024MB of VRAM (2GB recommended) and must support OpenGL version 4.0 or later.
Compatible equipment:- iMac 4K
- Mac 5K
- MacBook Pro Retina
- Mac Pro connected to a HiDPI monitor
- Mac mini connected to a HiDPI monitor
- Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, subscription validation and access to the necessary online services *
Frequent questions
What is InDesign and who is it for?
Adobe InDesign, a professional page layout application for print and digital publications, lets you design, preview, and publish a wide variety of content for print media, web pages, and tablet applications. This application offers precise typography control, built-in creative tools, an intuitive design environment, and strong integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Animate.
InDesign is built for designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers who work for magazines, design firms, advertising agencies, newspapers, book publishers, and retail and catalog companies, as well as corporate design, commercial printing, and other cutting-edge publishing environments.
Since InDesign is part of Adobe Creative Cloud, you have access to the latest updates and future versions as soon as they are available.
Can InDesign be extended?
Yes. Developers can fully extend and automate InDesign using standard programming technologies, including ActionScript, C ++, JavaScript, AppleScript, and VBScript. Additionally, they can sell and distribute their extensions to the entire Creative Cloud customer base through Adobe Exchange, which integrates with InDesign.
The InDesign Software Development Kit (SDK) provides documentation, tools, and sample code to help you customize and create plug-ins for InDesign.