InDesign CS versions updated with the 3. 1 April 2005 update can read InDesign CS2-saved files exported to the. inx format.

These applications make their broad spectrum of features available for extension and integration with vertical solutions, that can be developed either internally, through some form of scripting ( e. g. JavaScript or AppleScript for InDesign ), or externally, through some API and corresponding Developer Kits.

QPS now supports Mac, Web and Windows Clients, editors can use QuarkXPress and InDesign for page layouting, QuarkCopyDesk, InCopy and an Internet Browser for editing, copyfitting and reviewing text and Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word etc.

* activate and deactivate fonts ( users can do this manually ; sometimes programs will do this in conjunction with specific software, such as Adobe's InDesign )

Although InCopy can be used as a word processor ( with full printing and exporting functions ), it is primarily used to integrate with the Adobe Systems InDesign desktop publishing software application.

With InCopy integrated with InDesign, writers, editors, and designers can simultaneously work on the same page ; the designer creates the page layout with InDesign, while editors simultaneously edit different stories with InCopy, via the Adobe LiveEdit rights management system.

Vector editors are closely related to desktop publishing software such as Adobe InDesign or Scribus, which also usually include some vector drawing tools ( usually less powerful than those in standalone vector editors ).

Older versions of QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign also came with the Hexachrome system already installed and enabled.

The Middle Eastern versions are also available for Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Creative Suite ( Design Standard, Design Premium, Web Premium ).

They are Adobe Photoshop ( a raster-based program for photo editing ), Adobe Illustrator ( a vector-based program for drawing ), Adobe InDesign ( a page layout program ), and Adobe Dreamweaver ( for Web page design ).

* The ( unnamed ) scripting language of Em Software's Xdata and InData, data-publishing plug-ins for QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.

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.

InDesign supports Unicode character encoding and there is a special Middle East version supporting complex text layout for Arabic and Hebrew types of complex script.

This tool is available for CS2 / CS3 / CS4 / CS5 / CS5. 5 versions of InDesign, for both Windows and Macintosh platforms and adds the much needed complex script based languages support in InDesign.

* MathMagic-Mathematical Equation Editor plug-in for InDesign CS ~ CSx

This includes presentation programs, such as Microsoft Powerpoint and LibreOffice Impress, add-ons to print layout programs such as Quark Immedia, and tools to include hyperlinks in PDF documents such as Adobe InDesign for creating and Adobe Acrobat for editing.

Sing Tao San Francisco now uses page layout, ad production, tracking and classified pagination applications from SCS of Nazareth, Pa. Adobe InDesign and Quark are used for news pagination.

Examples include automatically re-folioing pages, digital dummies for soft proofs, live linking with Adobe InDesign and pre-flight checking.

Desktop publishing software, such as QuarkXPress, InDesign, or PageMaker is specifically designed for such tasks.

* Adobe InDesign – desktop publishing software used for layout and design manipulation

Publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress represent pica measurements with whole-number picas left of a lower-case " p ", followed by the points-number, for example: 5p6, represents 5 picas and 6 points, or 5½ picas.

Most word processing software, such as StarWriter / OpenOffice. org Writer, Microsoft Word, and WordPerfect, as well as some desktop publishing software ( for example, FrameMaker and InDesign ), as well as other tools ( MadCap Software's Flare )) have some facility for embedded indexing as well.

The main layout applications for this workflow are: Datalogics Pager, Adobe FrameMaker / InDesign, QuarkXPress, Xyvision and Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher ( formerly 3B2 ).

The release of QuarkXPress version 5 in 2002 led to a conflict with Apple's user base, as QuarkXPress did not support Mac OS X, while InDesign 2. 0, launched in the same week, did.

Having arrived late with a Mac OS X version, Quark took a different approach to porting to Intel-native applications on Mac ( Universal Binary ), and released its Universal Binary version 10 months before Adobe ported InDesign.

Conversion tools with InDesign:

As an application with strengths in more structured documents, its main competitors are FrameMaker, InDesign and QuarkXPress.

InDesign is the successor to Adobe's own PageMaker, which was acquired with the purchase of Aldus in late 1994.

In version 3 ( InDesign CS ) it received a boost in distribution by being bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in the Creative Suite.

To support the new features, especially typographic, introduced with InDesign CS, both the program and its document format are not backward-compatible.

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.

InDesign CS3 initially had a serious compatibility issue with Leopard ( Mac OS X v10. 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.

There is a third party tool, IndicPlus from a custom plug-in development company named MetaDesign Solutions, that adds capability to render Indic and other complex scripts with InDesign.

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

It has a number of page layout features and competes with leading commercial applications such as Adobe PageMaker, PagePlus, QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.

* vjoon K4 Publishing System, a paperless editorial workflow system, used in tandem with Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy ( used by newspapers, magazines, book and corporate publishers ).

* For documents requiring a complex or flexible layout, or with strict typography demands, the two most common packages are QuarkXpress and InDesign.

Designers today still used column grid layouts only with layout software, such as Adobe InDesign or Quark.

Both QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign are often used in the final stage of the electronic design process.

* Adobe InDesign

The contemporary typefaces used by computers, from simple word processing programs like Microsoft Word or Apple Pages to professional designers ' software packages like Adobe InDesign, owe a considerable debt to the past and to a small number of professional typeface designers today ( Zapf 2007 ; Mediavilla 2006 ; Henning 2002 ).

* Adobe InDesign

While one publisher estimates that share has fallen to below 25 % and Adobe InDesign is now the market leader, QuarkXPress still has significant marketshare.

Since then Adobe has implemented a similar feature in InDesign CS4.

* Adobe InDesign

* Adobe InDesign

Today, Adobe's competition to QuarkXPress is Adobe InDesign.

Such engines include RenderX's XEP, Datalogics Pager, Penta, Miles 33's OASYS, Xyvision's XML Professional Publisher ( XPP ), FrameMaker, Arbortext, YesLogic's Prince, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.

Adobe InDesign is a software application produced by Adobe Systems.

The Adobe InCopy word processor uses the same formatting engine as InDesign.