InDesign is used to lay out books, magazines, catalogues, reports and any document where text plays a major role. It overtook QuarkXPress, which dominated desktop publishing in the 1990s.
Publisher and date
Publisher: Adobe, United States.
Date: 1999, succeeding PageMaker.
Type of tool: Page layout software.
Strengths
Very fine typographic control: paragraph and character styles, baseline grids, hyphenation, justification, OpenType features and a composition engine that adjusts spacing across the whole paragraph, not just line by line.
Who it is for
Editorial designers, layout artists, publishers and studios producing print or digital documents.
Pricing model
Included in Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions.