Early History Adobe Illustrator
InDesign is the successor and alternative to Adobe's own PageMaker, which was acquired with the purchase of Aldus in late 1994. By 1998 PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe rebuffed the offer and instead worked on a project built independently of PageMaker, code-named "K2", and released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999.
In 2002, 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 the 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 OpenType fonts, 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 has the backward-compatible .inx format, an XML-based document representation. 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.
Adobe developed InDesign CS3 (and Creative Suite 3) as universal binary software compatible with native Intel and PowerPC Mac machines in 2007, two years after the announced 2005 schedule. Inconveniencing Intel-Mac early-adopters, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen announced that "Adobe will be first with a complete line of universal applications."[1] 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.
According to analysts, CS4, released in 2008, seems not to be selling well.[2]
InDesign and Leopard InDesign CS3 had a serious compatibility issue with Leopard (Mac OS X v10.5), as Adobe states: "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." [3] However, Apple's OS X 10.5.4 update addressed this problem.[4] In forums this workaround has been reported to work. This and other workarounds, along with the solution of upgrading to 10.5.4, are documented in this Adobe Knowledgebase article. There was also an issue which would cause InDesign and/or Adobe Illustrator to fail to respond to Hide, or Unhide commands. This could prevent users from completing work without forcing the application to quit. This issue was resolved in the OS X 10.5.6 update.[5] More recently, an issue which caused clipping paths applied in placed EPS files on mounted AFP volumes to fail when printing or exporting to PDF from InDesign CS4. This issue has been addressed in the Mac OS X 10.5.7 update.[6] Currently, there are no known issues specifically affecting InDesign when working on the current version of Leopard, 10.5.7.
| Server Version In October 2005, Adobe released "InDesign Server CS2", a modified version of InDesign (without 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.[7] In March 2007 Adobe officially announced Adobe InDesign CS3 Server as part of the Adobe InDesign family.
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Versions
- InDesign 1.0 (codenamed K2): August 31, 1999.
- 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 and native transparencies & drop shadows.
- InDesign CS (codenamed Dragontail) and InDesign CS PageMaker Edition (3.0): October 2003.
- InDesign CS2 (4.0) (codenamed Firedrake): shipped in May 2005.
- InDesign Server (codenamed Bishop): released October 2005
- InDesign CS3 (5.0) (codenamed Cobalt): April 2007. First Universal binary versions to natively support Intel-based Macs, Regular expression, Table styles, new interface
- InDesign CS3 Server (codenamed Xenon): released May 2007
- InDesign CS4 (6.0) (codenamed Basil): Introduced September 23, shipped in October 2008.
- InDesign CS4 Server (codenamed Thyme)
