Editing Adobe InDesign (section)

{{Short description|Desktop publishing software}}
{{Overly detailed|date=April 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Adobe InDesign <!--Pure text in this field only; used for other functions -->
| logo                   = Adobe InDesign CC icon.svg
| screenshot             = Adobe InDesign 2020 on macOS Catalina.png
| caption                = Adobe InDesign 2020 running on [[macOS Catalina]]
| developer              = [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe]]
| released               = {{start date|1999|08|31}}
| latest release version = CC 2025 (20.0.1)
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2024|11}}
| programming language   = [[C++]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stroustrup.com/applications.html |title=The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0 |first=Vincent |last =Lextrait |date=January 2010 |access-date=March 14, 2010}}{{dubious|reason="I (Bjarne Stroustrup) don't make any guarantees about the accuracy of the list. I believe that it's accurate -- I trust the people who sent me examples, but I have not seen the source code myself."|date=August 2023}}</ref>
| operating system       = [[Windows]], [[macOS]]
| language count         = 24
| language footnote      = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/languages/ |title=language versions &#124; Adobe InDesign CS5 |publisher=Adobe.com |access-date=December 4, 2010}}</ref>
| language               = English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Zulu
| genre                  = [[Desktop publishing]]
| license                = [[Trialware]], [[Software license#Proprietary software licenses|Proprietary]], term
| website                = {{URL|https://adobe.com/indesign}}
}}

'''Adobe InDesign''' is a [[desktop publishing]] and page layout designing software [[application software|application]] produced by [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe]] and first released in 1999. It can be used to create works such as [[poster]]s, flyers, [[brochure]]s, [[magazine]]s, [[newspaper]]s, presentations, [[book]]s and [[ebook]]s. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. [[Graphic designer]]s and [[production artist]]s are the principal users.

InDesign is the successor to [[Adobe PageMaker]], which Adobe acquired by buying [[Aldus Corporation]] in late 1994. ([[Adobe FreeHand|Freehand]], Aldus's competitor to Adobe Illustrator, was licensed from [[Altsys]], the maker of [[Fontographer]].) By 1998, PageMaker had lost much of the professional market to the comparatively feature-rich [[QuarkXPress]] version 3.3, released in 1992, and version 4.0, released in 1996. In 1999, Quark announced its offer to buy Adobe<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0531/6311064a_print.html | title = Pride goeth before destruction | first = Ann | last = Marsh | date = May 31, 1999 | access-date = February 5, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170828143201/https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0531/6311064a.html | archive-date = August 28, 2017 | work = [[Forbes]]}}</ref> and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid problems under [[United States antitrust law]]. Adobe declined Quark's offer and continued to develop a new desktop publishing application. Aldus had begun developing a successor to PageMaker, code-named "Shuksan". Later, Adobe code-named the project "K2", and Adobe released InDesign 1.0 in 1999.

InDesign exports documents in Adobe's [[PDF|Portable Document Format]] (PDF) and supports multiple languages. It was the first DTP application to support [[Unicode]] [[character set]]s, advanced typography with [[OpenType]] [[Typeface|fonts]], advanced transparency features, layout styles, optical margin alignment, and cross-platform scripting with [[JavaScript]]. Later versions of the software introduced new file formats. To support the new features, especially typography, introduced with InDesign CS, the program and its document format are not backward-compatible. Instead, InDesign CS2 introduced the INX ({{Not a typo|.inx}}) format, an XML-based document representation, to allow backward compatibility with future versions. InDesign CS versions updated with the 3.1 April 2005 update can read InDesign CS2-saved files exported to the {{Not a typo|.inx}} format. The InDesign Interchange format does not support versions earlier than InDesign CS. With InDesign CS4, Adobe replaced INX with InDesign Markup Language (IDML), another XML-based document representation.<ref>{{cite web|title=InDesign developer documentation|url=https://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/documentation.html#idml|work=Adobe Developer Connection|publisher=[[Adobe Systems]]|access-date=November 24, 2013}}</ref>

InDesign was the first native [[macOS|Mac OS X]] publishing software. With the third major version, InDesign CS, Adobe increased InDesign's distribution by bundling it with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Acrobat in [[Adobe Creative Suite]]. Adobe developed InDesign CS3 (and Creative Suite 3) as [[universal binary]] software compatible with native [[Intel]] and [[PowerPC]] [[Apple Macintosh|Macs]] in 2007, two years after the announced 2005 schedule, inconveniencing early adopters of Intel-based Macs. Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said, "Adobe will be first with a complete line of universal applications."<ref>[http://live.macobserver.com/article/2005/06/wwdc2005_keynote.shtml San Francisco - Live Coverage of Steve Jobs Keynote 1:00 PM EDT, June 6th, 2005], WWDC 2005 - Live Coverage of Keynote, The Mac Observer</ref>