What is InDesign?
Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing
Adobe® InDesign® CS5 software provides precise control over typography and built-in creative tools for designing, preflighting, and publishing documents for print, online, or to mobile devices. Include interactivity, animation, video, and sound in page layouts to fully engage readers. Streamline creative reviews using CS Review, part of CS Live online services*, complimentary for a limited time.
CREATE RICH INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTS
Design a rich array of interactive documents from digital brochures, to eBooks to interactive magazines. Add interactivity, animation and rich media such as video and sound. Export your documents as SWF for playback in the Flash player or interactive PDF.
PRINT MORE EFFICIENTLY
Quickly create stunning print work using a variety of productivity and production tools including simplified object selection and editing, Live Preflight, PDF export in the background, custom print presets and more.
BUILD INTERACTIVE PRESENTATIONS
Lay out presentation pages in InDesign, including graphics, text, video, audio, and motion. Add navigation features. Export as a SWF file for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime.
Hand off your page layouts to Adobe Flash® Professional CS5 with even greater fidelity. Animations created in InDesign and placed audio and video files remain intact when pages are opened in Flash Professional. Text is fully editable so you can make-last minute changes in Flash.
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Speed up reviews of creative materials, including page layouts, using new Adobe CS Review, part of Adobe CS Live online services. CS Review lets you create and share documents for review online while working in InDesign. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Do more with CS Live online services
Create compelling eBooks for reading on handheld devices such as Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble nook, and Apple iPad, as well as on cell phones and personal computers. With the enhanced EPUB support in InDesign you can even include interactivity, animation, sound, and video on your computer with Adobe Digital Editions software installed.
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Highlights
Critical update — InDesign CS5 7.0.3
Download an important update that corrects positioning issues when AI and PDF files are placed in InDesign, resolves issues when working with master pages, addresses kerning issues, and more.
Windows | Macintosh
From InDesign to the Apple iBookstore
Learn how to convert your InDesign files to the EPUB format and start selling your eBooks for viewing on the Apple iPad.
Read the white paper (PDF, 2.5MB)
Using InDesign and InCopy together
Learn how tight integration between InCopy CS5 and InDesign CS5 provides a collaborative design and editorial workflow that can help you bring publications to market faster.
Read the workflow guide (PDF, 3.3MB)
Free utility to add color to Creative Suite projects
Download the free new installer from Pantone that allows you to integrate the PANTONE PLUS Color Libraries quickly and easily into Creative Suite.
Digital Publishing Suite
Create, distribute, optimize, and sell digital publications across
desktops, tablet devices, and mobile marketplaces with this set of hosted
services and viewer technology.
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Adobe Museum of Digital Media
Visit this modern museum committed exclusively to the exploration and preservation of digital work.
Adobe MAX Online
Watch Adobe MAX 2010 sessions and keynotes on demand; then mark your calendar to join us in Los Angeles, October 1-5, 2011.
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Layer Tennis, anyone?
Watch this series of live online digital matches in which creative pros swap files back and forth, building upon their designs, while a guest commentator provides play-by-play updates.
Interactive storytelling
View this digital publication celebrating 14 years of Born Magazine and explore the interactive elements created exclusively in InDesign CS5.
EPUB file export
Learn how new and enhanced features offer you improved production and greater control for creating compelling eBooks in InDesign CS5.
Read the white paper (PDF, 656K)
Staying connected
Get great tips, tricks, and insights from Adobe and your InDesign peers on the official InDesign Facebook page. Or, follow the InDesign team on Twitter and never miss the latest news.
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Authoring eBooks
Create engaging digital books in InDesign for reading on laptops, wireless reading devices, and smartphones. Export your InDesign layouts to the industry-standard EPUB file format using these helpful resources.
InDesign User Group
Learn about upcoming chapter meetings and find news and online discussions about InDesign.
Live eSeminars for designers
Discover how Creative Suite 5 Design Premium helps you deliver innovative ideas in print, web, interactive, and mobile design in a free online eSeminar.
InDesign CS5 feature tour
Explore all of the top new InDesign CS5 features in this new video series on Adobe TV.
The InDesign story
Get an in-depth look at milestones in InDesign history and learn about its promising future with this commemorative 10th anniversary book, "Page by Page."
Read the book (PDF, 8.5MB)
