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Key facts
- Developer
- Adobe
- Initial release
- August 31, 1999 ( 1999-08-31 )
- Stable release
- 21.2 / January 2026 ; 5 months ago ( 2026-01 )
- Written in
- C++
- Operating system
- Windows , macOS
- Available in
- 24 languages
- Type
- Desktop publishing
- License
- Trialware , Proprietary , term
- Website
- adobe .com /indesign
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tapor.ca →InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. The latest version, InDesign CS5.5 , is the twelfth generation in the product line. Smart guides (Quickly align space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides.) Conditional text (Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.) Smart Text Reflow (Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference.)
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Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout designing software application produced by Adobe and first released in 1999. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books and ebooks. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users.
InDesign is the successor to PageMaker, which Adobe acquired by buying Aldus Corporation in late 1994. (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 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.