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Developer(s)	Adobe Systems
Initial release	August 31, 1999 (1999-08-31)
Stable release	CC 2020 (15.1.2) / August 2020; 1 month ago (2020-08)
Written in	C++[1]
Operating system	Windows, macOS
Available in	24 languages[2]
Type	Desktop publishing
License	Trialware
Website	adobe.com/products/indesign/

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and typesetting software application produced by Adobe Systems. 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, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets, and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats. The Adobe InCopy word processor uses the same formatting engine as InDesign.

History[edit]

InDesign is the successor to Adobe PageMaker, which was acquired by Adobe with the purchase of Aldus in late 1994. (Freehand, a competitor to Adobe Illustrator and also made by Aldus, was sold to Altsys, the maker of Fontographer.) By 1998 Page Maker had lost almost the entire professional market to the comparatively feature-richQuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe^[3] and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe rebuffed the Quark offer and instead continued to work on a new page layout application. The project had been started by Aldus and was code-named "Shuksan". It was later code-named "K2" and was released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999.

The new InDesign software was initially launched in the UK through a series of promotional hotel meetings. The marketing concentrated on mention of new software architecture — a small central software kernel (about 2Mb) to which add-ons would be bolted as the program's functionality expanded in later versions. This sounded impressive. However, the PS Printer Driver for InDesign 1.0 was an external app that tended to acquire frequent corruption problems, requiring periodic re-instals of this item. Copies of InDesign 1.5 were usually given away when it was found that a host of bugs had to be corrected. By InDesign 2.0 the temperamental Printer Driver became embedded within the main software. The celebrated 'kernel' architecture was never mentioned again.

InDesign was the first Mac OS X-native desktop publishing (DTP) software. In version 3 (InDesign CS) it received a boost in distribution by being bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in Creative Suite.

InDesign exports documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) and has multilingual support. It was the first DTP application to support Unicode for text processing, advanced typography with OpenTypefonts, advanced transparency features, layout styles, optical margin alignment, and cross-platform scripting using JavaScript.

Later versions of the software introduced new file formats. To support the new features, especially typographic, introduced with InDesign CS, both the program and its document format are not backward-compatible. Instead, InDesign CS2 introduced the INX (.inx) format, an XML-based document representation, to allow backwards compatibility with future versions. InDesign CS versions updated with the 3.1 April 2005 update can read InDesign CS2-saved files exported to the .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.^[4]

Adobe worked on the provision of a 'Drag and Drop' feature and this became available after 2004 but was restricted to dropping graphics and images, not text. Adobe developed InDesign CS3 (and Creative Suite 3) as universal binary software compatible with native Intel and PowerPCMacs in 2007, two years after the announced 2005 schedule, inconveniencing early adopters of Intel-based Macs. Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen had announced that "Adobe will be first with a complete line of universal applications".^[5] The CS2 Mac version had code tightly integrated to the PPC architecture, and not natively compatible with the Intel processors in Apple's new machines, so porting the products to another platform was more difficult than had been anticipated. Adobe developed the CS3 application integrating Macromedia products (2005), rather than recompiling CS2 and simultaneously developing CS3. By this time 'Drag and Drop' of type was made available.

InDesign and Leopard[edit]

InDesign CS3 initially had a serious compatibility issue with Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), as Adobe stated: "InDesign CS3 may unexpectedly quit when using the Place, Save, Save As or Export commands using either the OS or Adobe dialog boxes. Unfortunately, there are no workarounds for these known issues."^[6] Apple fixed this with their OS X 10.5.4 update.^[7]

Server version[edit]

In October 2005, Adobe released InDesign Server CS2, a modified version of InDesign (without a user interface) for Windows and Macintosh server platforms. It does not provide any editing client; rather, it is for use by developers in creating client–server solutions with the InDesign plug-in technology.^[8] In March 2007 Adobe officially announced Adobe InDesign CS3 Server as part of the Adobe InDesign family.

File format[edit]

The MIME type is not official

• File Open formats: indd, indl, indt, indb, inx, idml, pmd, xqx
• New File formats: indd, indl, indb
• File Save As formats: indd, indt
• Save file format for InCopy:
  1. icma (Assignment file)
  2. icml (Content file, Exported file)
  3. icap (Package for InCopy)
  4. idap (Package for InDesign)^[9]

Versions[edit]

• InDesign 1.0 (codenamed Shuksan, then K2): August 31, 1999;
• InDesign 1.0J (codenamed Hotaka): Japanese support;
• InDesign 1.5 (codenamed Sherpa): April 2001;
• InDesign 2.0 (codenamed Annapurna): January 2002 (just days before QuarkXPress 5). First version to support Mac OS X, native transparencies and drop shadows;
• InDesign CS (codenamed Dragontail) and InDesign CS Page Maker Edition (3.0): October 2003;
• InDesign CS2 (4.0) (codenamed Firedrake): May 2005;
• InDesign Server (codenamed Bishop): October 2005;
• InDesign CS3 (5.0) (codenamed Cobalt): April 2007. First version to support Intel-based Macs, regular expression and table styles;
• InDesign CS3 Server (codenamed Xenon): May 2007;
• InDesign CS4 (6.0) (codenamed Basil): October 2008;
• InDesign CS4 Server (codenamed Thyme);
• InDesign CS5 (7.0) (codenamed Rocket): April 2010;
• InDesign CS6 (8.0) (codenamed Athos): April 23, 2012; (Last 32-bit version, last perpetually licensed version)
• InDesign CC (9.2) (codenamed Citius): January 15, 2014;
• InDesign CC 2014 (10) (codenamed Sirius): June 18, 2014;
• InDesign CC 2014.1 (10.1): October 6, 2014;
• InDesign CC 2014.2 (10.2): February 11, 2015;
• InDesign CC 2015 (11.0): June 15, 2015;
• InDesign CC 2015.1 (11.1): August 11, 2015;
• InDesign CC 2015.2 (11.2): November 30, 2015;
• InDesign CC 2015.4 (11.4): June 20, 2016;
• InDesign CC 2017 (12.0): November 2, 2016;
• InDesign CC 2017.1 (12.1): April 14, 2017;
• InDesign CC 2018 (13.0): October 18, 2017;
• InDesign CC 2018 (13.0.1): November 2017;
• InDesign CC 2018.1 (13.1): March 2018.
• InDesign CC 2018.2 (13.2): March 2018.
• InDesign CC 2019 (14.0.1): November 2018.
• InDesign CC 2019 (14.0.2): April 2019.
• InDesign CC 2019 (14.0.3.433): September 2019.
• InDesign CC 2020 (15.0): November 2019.^[10]
• InDesign CC 2020 (15.0.1): December 2019.
• InDesign CC 2020 (15.1 and 15.1.1 a few days later): June 2020. Introduces “Share for Review” feature enabling nonusers to add comments in a way similar to a PDF.^[11]

Newer versions can, as a rule, open files created by older versions, but the reverse is not true. Current versions can export the InDesign file as an IDML file (InDesign Markup Language), which can be opened by InDesign versions from CS4 upwards; older versions from CS4 down can export to an INX file (InDesign Interchange format).^[12][13]

Internationalization and localization[edit]

InDesign Middle Eastern editions come with special settings for laying out Arabic or Hebrew text. They feature:

• Text settings: Special settings for laying out Arabic or Hebrew text, such as:
  1. Ability to use Arabic, Persian or Hindi digits;
  2. Use kashidas for letter spacing and full justification;
  3. Ligature option;
  4. Adjust the position of diacritics, such as vowels of the Arabic script;
  5. Justify text in three possible ways: Standard, Arabic, Naskh^{[further explanation needed]};
  6. Option to insert special characters, including Geresh, Gershayim, Maqaf for Hebrew and Kashida for Arabic texts;
  7. Apply standard, Arabic or Hebrew styles for page, paragraph and footnote numbering.
• Bi-directional text flow: The notion of right-to-left behavior applies to several objects: Story, paragraph, character and table. It allows mixing right-to-left and left-to-right words, paragraphs and stories in a document. It is possible to change the direction of neutral characters (e.g. / or ?) according to the user's keyboard language.^[14]
• Table of contents: Provides a set of table of contents titles, one for each supported language. This table is sorted according to the chosen language. InDesign CS4 Middle Eastern versions allows users to choose the language of the index title and cross-references.
• Indices: Allows creating of a simple keyword index or a somewhat more detailed index of the information in the text using embedded indexing codes. Unlike more sophisticated programs, InDesign is incapable of inserting character style information as part of an index entry (e.g., when indexing book, journal or movie titles). Indices are limited to four levels (top level and three sub-levels). Like tables of contents, indices can be sorted according to the selected language.
• Importing and exporting: Can import QuarkXPress files up to version 4.1 (1999), even using Arabic XT, Arabic Phonyx or Hebrew XPressWay fonts, retaining the layout and content. Includes 50 import/export filters, including a Microsoft Word 97-98-2000 import filter and a plain text import filter. Exports IDML files which can be read by QuarkXPress 2017.
• Reverse layout: Include a reverse layout feature to reverse the layout of a document, when converting a left-to-right document to a right-to-left one or vice versa.
• Complex script rendering: InDesign supports Unicode character encoding, with Middle East editions supporting complex text layout for Arabic and Hebrew types of complex script. The underlying Arabic and Hebrew support is present in the Western editions of InDesign CS4, CS5, CS5.5 and CS6, but the user interface is not exposed, so it is difficult to access.

User groups[edit]

InDesign has spawned 86 user groups in 36 countries with a total membership of over 51,000.^[15]

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Every now and again, I’ll spot a post on the User to User Forum from someone who’s misplaced the cases that his/her software came in and now want to install on a new machine or just got a laptop for travel and wants to take advantage of the two allowed concurrent activations.

As long as the software is available, installing is easy, but activating it without a serial number isn’t going to happen.

Before I get into a little trick to find the serial number on a machine that’s already running allow me to step up on soapbox and point out that the best way to avoid problems is to register your software online IMMEDIATELY after installing. You’ll need a free account with Adobe but this will assure you of access at any time to your records.

If you didn’t do that, here’s a little trick originally posted by forum contributor Peter Spier to use when you’re in a pinch. Just deactivate the software. You’ll find the deactivate command under the help menu. (note: it may take a minute or two to become available) When you begin the deactivation process you’ll get a window that will contain a check box to remove your serial number. DON’T CHECK IT.

Once you deactivate, the application will automatically close. Upon relaunching, you’ll be greeted with the activation wizard with your full serial number already filled in.

And to repeat my earlier advice, once you have this taken care of please register your software with Adobe. You’ve invested a lot of money in it and registering the product is the best way to protect that investment.

One final note, this will use up one of your twenty activation/deactivation choices which I wrote about here.

Bob Levine is a graphic designer and a consultant focused on providing InDesign training and guidance in developing efficient, collaborative workflows to those moving from QuarkXPress or PageMaker. An Adobe Certified Expert in both InDesign and InCopy, Bob has written articles for InDesign Magazine and is an Adobe User to User forums host. He has more than 15 years of industry experience and has been using InDesign since version 1.0. For more background, visit his website, www.theindesignguy.com or his blog, BobLevine.us.

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Associated Product: MathTools 2.0

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Quick Steps to get MathTools ready to use:

Checkout below details, if any of these steps fail or you end up with an "Invalid License"...

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MathTools Installation requires the following individual steps which are walked through in more detail below

1. Download MathTools
2. MathTools Plug-In Installation
3. STIX-General Font Installation (optional)
4. Licensing

Step 1: Getting your MathTools installation package

You either received download links by email after placing an order in our online shop or by downloading it from our download area. In either case, the installation package is a ZIP archive named matching the following pattern:

MathTools-2xx[build number]-[InDesign version]-[platform].zip

with the following possible settings for the parameters

• [build number]: number between 100 and 999
• [InDesign version]: CS6, CC, CC 2014, ...
• [platform]: MAC, WIN32, WIN64

This installation package contains a root folder named movemen and a few sub-folders that will come into play during the actual installation steps. You should not rename or move around or even delete any folder in this package.

Note for MAC packages: extracting the package to a file system (or share) that does not support MacOS X resource forks will damage the files. Typically this happens when burning CDs, using FAT formatted devices or network shares.

Step 2: Installing MathTools Plug-Ins

MathTools is made available as a set of Plug-Ins for the Adobe InDesign product family and needs to be installed into the Plug-Ins folder of the related product (Adobe InDesign, InCopy and InDesign Server). The Plug-Ins folder is located inside the product installation folder.

To install MathTools, extract the entire package into the related product's Plug-Ins folder. You should end up with a folder structure outlined in the following screenshot:

Step 3: Installing STIX-General fonts(optional)

MathTools is currently relying on this font family in its default configuration to provide multi-segment braces, brackets, arrows, etc.

Latest Apple and Microsoft operating systems come with the free STIX General fonts already installed; these include MacOS X.9 (and newer) and Windows 8 (and newer).

If you do have STIX General fonts already installed, you can skip this step.

Otherwise you need to install them right now using the package found in the fonts sub-folder of movemen (see screenshot above):

STIX-General-v1.1.0.zip

Note: if you fail to install STIX General fonts, MathTools will likely be crashing when scrolling the MathStyles Panel, for example.

Step 4: Installing the MergeMath Extension

The MergeMath Extension is used for post-processing Adobe InDesign's native HTML and EPUB exports.

If you do not need to export HTML+MathML or EPUB+MathML, there's no need to install this extension.

To install the extension, launch the Adobe Extension Manager related to the product you installed the plug-ins to. So, if you installed MathTools for InDesign CC or CC 2014, you'll need to launch the latest Adobe Extension Manager CC.

Steps using the Adobe Extension Manager CC to install MTMergeMath extension:

Step 5: Licensing

MathTools requires an activated license to unlock its functionality. Without such license it will operate in READER mode.

To request a license file you need to

1. purchase a MathTools license from our online shop and get a order number
2. follow the installation steps above
3. launch InDesign (or InCopy)
4. perform Math > Licensing > Create License Report
5. send license report to license-support@movemen.com together with the order number from the purchase
6. await reply by email with the license file placed into an archive
7. install the license - extract the license file into the lic folder inside movemen
8. activate MathTools by (re-)launching InDesign (or InCopy)

For the product activation, internet access is required. If activation fails, you'll find "Invalid License" as second last entry in the Math menu. In this case, create a new license report as described above and send a new license request mentioning that activation failed. You might need to follow steps outlined in the document MathTools V2 Activation Issues.pdf, found in the docs folder in movemen.