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Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application produced by Adobe Systems which can be used to create anything from posters, flyers, and brochures to full magazines or books.

InDesign is the successor and alternative to Adobe's own PageMaker. 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.

Versions

•           InDesign 1.0 (codenamed K2): August 16, 1999.

•           InDesign 1.5 (codenamed Sherpa): April 2001.

•           InDesign 2.0 (codenamed Annapurna): January 2002. 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 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 released : May 2007

•           InDesign CS4 (6.0): Introduced September 23, shipped in October 2008.