


What is Adobe InDesign?
Adobe InDesign is the industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media. Create beautiful graphic designs with typography from the world’s top foundries and imagery from Adobe Stock. Quickly share content and feedback in PDF. Easily manage production with Adobe Experience Manager. InDesign has everything you need to create and publish books, digital magazines, eBooks, posters, interactive PDFs, and more.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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97 Plan to Renew
84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love Adobe InDesign?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
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Adobe InDesign Reviews

Natasha Kiara E.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2023
A professional product that is easy to use.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Adobe InDesign from other similar products?
The professionalism of the product but it still easy to use. Allows full customisability to create the documents you have in mind.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Custom margins and rulers to create precise designed documents.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes colour edits can be tricky. Such as amending a gradient.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Not necessarily a recommendation, but give yours self time to fully play with the product to discover what it can do.
Pros
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
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Scott A.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2023
Using anything else is painful
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Adobe InDesign from other similar products?
Superior tools and vector based program that lets you create professional documents that are on the level of any major publisher of the world
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to create stunning layouts
What do you dislike most about this product?
The breadth of its capabilities make it difficult to truly master without expensive training for internal teams.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It will change your life if you're not using it for proposals right now.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Romi K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Entertainment
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2023
A safe bet for the designers in publication field
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Adobe InDesign from other similar products?
Overall, Adobe InDesign's has an advanced layout and design tools, robust typography support, and integration with other Adobe products making it a popular choice for professional designers and publishers. Not all competitor tools are a full package like Indesign.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy text editing, layout, templates, and most recently the auto layout/design feature for quick publishing.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing at this point but it's funny when I was new in this industry I always thought why do we need InDesign if have an illustrator?
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Publishers must go with this tool, I don't see any better option.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Inspires Innovation
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Cons
- Inhibits Innovation
- Slower Product Innovation
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