Adobe InDesign 1.5 | 
| From: Adobe
Buy New: $155.49
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 11420
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Macintosh, Linux, Unix, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Linux
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 9.1 x 3.3
MPN: 17510220
Model: 27510216
UPC: 718659116705
EAN: 0718659116705
ASIN: B00004T1LQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Product Description
Page layout and design for the future of professional publishing, Adobe InDesign 1.5 software is redefining professional publishing for graphic designers, production artists, and prepress professionals and delivering a level of Adobe integration, creative freedom, productivity, and precision that no other page layout program can touch. It works seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, providing a single, integrated design environment that doesn't interrupt your creative process. InDesign even opens QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker Plus files, so you can bring your work with you as you enter a new world of design possibilities.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Cumbersome and slow. October 12, 2000
Michael A. Brown (Salt Lake City, UT USA)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
Adobe promised big things for inDesign. They delivered on most all of them. Unfortunately, in their desire to make this program all things to all people compatible, they made it slow loading and cumbersome to work with. Even a two or three page document can take many seconds to load. Stick with Quark XPress until Adobe can get this one right.
 The DTP prog for the future September 8, 2001
Antony (Sultanate of Oman)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have been using InDesign 1.5 for the last one year and is constantly amazed by its features and flexibility. I have given up Quark for good. Fortunately, our printer has also been willing to change and so we are able to bring out much better stuff than what we were previously doing with QuarkXpress, especially superb typography, and excellent and precise colour.InDesign is now to Quark as Quark was to PageMaker years ago. It may take some time for the graphic professionals to change, given the investment they have made into QXP and its xtensions, but change they will have to. Fortunately, Indesign is easy to learn, especially if you know photoshop or illustrator. So one can switch any time.
 Slow but worth the wait December 16, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although the program does load and run a bit slow, I find the interface is so easy to use that it's well worth the wait. It has all the ease of use of Adobe's products, and all the bells and whistles of Quark XPress. Truly the best of both worlds!
Makes designing easier. October 10, 2001
S Smyth (Belfast, Co Antrim United Kingdom)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Because PageMaker 6.5 is such a useful product in comparison to the likes of Microsoft Publisher, Indesign, at first glance, appears to be nothing too fabulous given simple layouts. But try something a little more complex and Indesign quickly shows how fabulous it is. A deceptively simple layout such as the front page of a newspaper, for example, with its columned text boxes is hard going in PageMaker, but so much easier with Indesign: Sit back and let the pasted text auto-flow in the columns so easily applied. Text placed along a curved line as an overlay directly in the document instead of trying to import an EPS from Illustrator is equally impressive. And the colour printouts / proofs from your office desk-jet are also. The edit > preferences > etc are much better, you only having to set the image display option once instead of every time you go to create a new document. Short cut keys such as Z and H for the zoom and hand / pan tools are now consistent with other Adobe applications, but many of the commands in PageMaker do not apply: auto-flow for text being one such discrepancy, as is the way in which placed images are resized via their sizing handles. This is a little disconcerting, but the included help-manual is of great assistance for matters such as these. ( Pity it's not a PDF one like in Acrobat. Why does Adobe not do this across their applications? ). Indesign has a PDF export option, but I found that the file sizes were pretty large in comparison to those created via Distiller as postscript files and then distilled for a given job-option setting. The only problem with this approach was that the colour was CMYK and not RGB as with the direct export option. Perhaps this is because the try-out version I was using didn't have the full postscript driver setup. Users who don't have Acrobat will not find this an issue. For making up complex - for print - designs, Indesign works very well. But care should be exercised if you are creating PDFs for screen viewing, since it's all too easy to create pages that are very dense and hard to manage in the Acrobat Reader.
Best for DTP August 12, 2001
Randy Sandberg (San Diego, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
InDesign is chock full of tools, and it integrates so well with other Adobe products. I rarely find a need to move back and forth between InDesign and image design programs. Having used PageMaker for years, I nevertheless kept a copy of Ventura on my hard disk because of some of the features it offers. I don't see the need for that anymore. I recommend InDesign for anyone who is seriously interested in desktop publishing.
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