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InDesign
2.0 
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Adobe |
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[pc
and mac] InDesign
2.0 is all about creative page layout. A high-end
desktop publishing product, it is aimed squarely
at professional designers who need maximum flexibility
alongside strong document management and support
for industry standards. |
System
Requirements
PC
Pentium II or faster processor
Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP
128 MB RAM
75 MB hard disk space
CD-ROM drive
Video card with 256-colors and display with 1024
x 768 resolution (24-bit, high-resolution display
recommended)
Internet access recommended
For Adobe PostScript printers PostScript Level 2
or later required
Mac
PowerPC G3 or faster processor (PowerPC G4 recommended)
Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, or Mac OS X version 10.1
128 MB RAM
120 MB hard disk space
CD-ROM drive
256-color display with 1024 x 768 resolution (24-bit,
high-resolution display recommended)
Internet access recommended
For PostScript printing Adobe PostScript Level 2
or later required
Detailed
Description
Manufacturer's Description
Adobe InDesign 2.0 page-layout software has the
tools to inspire your creativity and simplify elaborate
design tasks. Version 2.0 offers object transparency,
long-document management options, one-step table
creation, XML import and export, improved performance,
and more. InDesign 2.0 delivers tight integration
with other Adobe graphics applications, easy-to-use
tools that reduce elaborate design tasks to a few
steps, and built-in support for publishing pages
anywhere--in print, on the Web, to Adobe PDF, as
e-books, and more.
Capture inspiration with the ability to apply drop
shadows, feathering, and other editable transparency
settings to any object. Use Overprint Preview for
proofing spot-colour effects and overprint settings.
Flexible table creation tools let you turn tab-delimited
text into tables in one step. Plus, get faster performance
when opening, saving, and closing documents and
placing high-resolution images.
InDesign's integration with other Adobe products
allows you to work more efficiently. You can directly
export Adobe PDF files in Acrobat 4.0 or Acrobat
5.0 format. You'll have the ability to place native
Photoshop and Illustrator files with the transparency
preserved. InDesign 2.0 also features support for
importing and exporting well-formed XML and easier
tracking, management, and retrieval of InDesign
documents through Adobe's new XML-based metadata
framework.
Adobe
Review
InDesign 2.0 is all about creative page layout.
A high-end desktop publishing product, it is aimed
squarely at professional designers who need maximum
flexibility alongside strong document management
and support for industry standards. Eye-catching
features like transparency and blending are combined
with more mundane, but important, abilities such
as table of contents and index generation, to make
this a more complete and rounded product than earlier
versions. It also benefits from integration with
other Adobe products such as Photoshop, Illustrator,
GoLive and Acrobat. Adobe maintains a consistent
user interface across the range, easing the learning
process.
The heart of a DTP product is typography, for which
InDesign is second to none. There is fine control
over drop capitals, kerning, tracking, justification
and scaling. OpenType fonts offer advanced features
like contextual alternative characters, which automatically
inserts ligatures or other special glyphs according
to their place within a word. The Paragraph composer
optimises spacing and hyphenation for an entire
paragraph, retrospectively re-formatting earlier
lines as you type. A great feature is that imported
graphics remain editable. For example, InDesign
has its own excellent tools for drawing shapes and
paths, so you can take in an Illustrator drawing
and continue to work on it. The transparency options
not only lets you control opacity but also offers
special effects like drop shadows, feathering, and
multiple blending modes such as soft or hard light.
InDesign has complete support for professional printing
standards, but Adobe also provides on cross-media
choices, such as PDF, HTML and SVG, which is an
emerging standard for Web graphics. There is also
an option to import, export and edit XML, with exciting
possibilities for repurposing content.
InDesign 2.0 is ideal for magazines, advertisements
and brochures. For books or manuals, something like
Adobe FrameMaker is a better choice. It is strong
competition for the market-leading Quark XPress,
and the fact that its system requirements are heavier
is perhaps balanced by the fact InDesign is half
the price of Quark. Convenience features like multiple
undo and redo make InDesign a pleasure to use. Creativity
in print has never been easier.
Tim Anderson, Amazon
InDesign gets five stars based on industry and customer
feedback. We are yet to review InDesign before we
consider it for our own five star award.
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