Adobe InDesign Reviews & Product Details

Easy to use and makes all of your presentations look great and professional.

I don't have any dislikes at this time. I find it easy to work with and quite professional.

I do all my flyers and brochures in indesign. I have also designed my professional portfolio with it and it came out FABULOUS

I love how easy it is to use, clicking and dragging elements and resizing is a breeze.

I’m not fond of the learning curve which can be a not as easy as other Adobe Products to use.

Used it to set up materials for printing such as books and advertisement.

InDesign is by far the easiest to use for creating catalogs, books, letters, etc.

It gets pretty cluttered when it comes to designing things like catalogs that include photos of products and what not. The bounding boxes on objects get pretty tiring on the eyes after a week of working on a certain catalog.

Most of our work with InDesign is done to create catalogs for products and letterheads for clients. The anchored pages help a bit and the ease of drag and dropping different objects is nice. I do wish resizing images wasn't such a difficult shortkey, because I swear that alone just seems like a flawed UX idea.

I love that InDesign files are small and they have pre set sizes for print and web

Updating links and fonts can be a pain sometimes.

Print materials, Web banners, social media

The ability to create professional looking collateral with ease

Learning curve to use the tool, it is not particularly intuitive

The ability to design brochures, invitations, and event materials in-house, saving us tons of money

the new functionality around changing page sizes within one document, making alternative layouts and the quick export features

it doesn't play nice with imported images from Photoshop & Illustrator (esp better integration with the CC Libraries). I think they need to improve the way you preview EPS files as well.

designing templates for sales presentations, RFPs and product tear sheets. It's also critical for designing name badges and using the mail merge tools

Indesign allows me the flexibility to work in the office or at home. I enjoy the versatility of being able to use it for a multitude of work tasks, but also being able to use it for simple, personal things such as resume building or design. I have used InDesign to create a number of different documents, with a wide range of purposes. Everything from promotional materials like posters and pamphlets, to creating a number of different chapbooks, including one that was sent to the printers and published--all of which I wolud not have been able to do without InDesign software.

Like many products, it comes with occasional crashing. This doesn't happen too often, but when it does, it can becomes really daunting to recreate everything that was lost in the original crash.

Adobe is helping solve business problems that mostly deal with a lack of visual representation that is attention grabbing. By using InDesign for creating posters, flyers, brochures, etc., it makes business more streamlined and more appealing to the eye.

the ability to crop photos in the design process.

sometimes the page spread preview is hard to understand

I do all my tear sheets for my clients in this program

I liked that I could do basic design work on my own without needing to watch videos to instruct me. I then used youtube to start learning how to make the designs more creative and learn how to layer. A beginner can definitely use this and learn slowly how to design themselves.

For a beginner, there are a million features that I would never use. I wish they had a more basic InDesign program for beginners that was a different price point.

We used this to design our own newspaper and menu for a small business. We could really put our own spin and feel of design into our work.

I love all of the possibilities with InDesign. You can accomplish so much. I like to use it for designing magazine spreads and laying out pages.

It's not intuitive software to use. I had to watch tutorials and attend seminars before I felt like I was using it effectively, and there are still so many things to learn.

Designing attractive magazine spreads for my subscribers

It is great for books and layouts, uses gridlines and templates that help align materials

There isn't much I don't like, it is easy to use and increases productivity

Marketing books and posters, starting to use it instead of powerpoint

Adobe InDesign, like most of the rest of Adobe suite, has become an indispensable part of our workflow. Integrations across the rest of the suite, native support for vector graphics, and its ability to handle very large documents while remaining very stable is fantastic.

I'm not a huge fan of the fact that the keyboard shortcuts and toolset in InDesign are different than that of Photoshop and Illustrator. I think it would be to the user's ultimate benefit to have consistent keyboard shortcuts, especially for things like undo and redo

Adobe InDesign is how we publish our quarterly magazine, design our print material, and create virtually every item that is printed. Our operation would come to a halt without InDesign.

I like the user friendly interface and how you're able to see your document as a spread if you're working on multiple pages. I use InDesign to create booklets and it helps being able to design the folds together.

I sometimes dislike the "Links" aspect of it where you can lose clarity of a photo if you move it from one place to another on your computer while it's being used within the document.

I create a monthly newsletter for my company as well as other flyers/handouts/presentations.

Recently used InDesign to publish my own book without much formal training. Powerful program but super easy to use.

Needs more plugins to help format for Amazon/Kindle and other sellers.

Able to run my own freelance publishing projects.

I like the ease at which you can layout a book in Indesign and that page numbers can be automatically added or not in place at all. I also like how you can scroll through a book quickly on the side bar.

I don't like how some of the commands in Illustrator are not the same as in Indesign. Such as command D or Command V or Command F.

We have a lot of customers that don't know the ease of using Indesign so when we suggest using it or trying it they come back to us and realize what they've been missing out on. Using Indesign makes it easy to print jobs from.

I love that now they have templates for books so that you don’t have to manually set up the bleed and margins for correct printing

I dislike that you can’t merge layouts more effectively

Laying out images and text in a universal way

With indesign you can do everything you can do with photoshop and much much more. My job lays out our million dollar proposals with indesign and it is our go to when compiling graphics and visually appealing resumes and documents. There is so much freedom to create and get your artistic vision on screen and finally on paper which allows us to create stunning proposals!

It is not the most intuitive and so to become a power user you will have to take some sort of online tutorials or classroom instruction

Documents come out clean and aesthetically pleasing. It can interface with all sorts of printing outputs. Makes it easier to create beautiful templates.

It's a clean way to view layouts, and I appreciate that.

The software can be slow to open at times.

Seeing magazine spreads come to life.

Intuitive layout for publishing a combination of elements from multiple adobe apps

Biggest complaint would be it lagging while using full quality previews of graphics

Sending packaged documents to clients without worrying about compatibility issues

I was shown this product a few years ago for presentation boards within school projects. My life has changed. When working within indesign, illustrator, photoshop, etc. the possibilities are endless!

I was the tools were a bit more intelligent instead of having to switch back and forth between multiple adobe programs. Although with adobe bridge its pretty seamless.

More efficient and designed work. I have realized the program can be used based on what you want out of it, indesign id very flexible between different fields. As well as easily communicable.