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Are you part of the Adobe InDesign team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! A professional page layout application for print and digital publishing, InDesign lets you design, preflight, and publish a broad range of content for print, web, and tablet apps. It offers precise control over typography, built-in creative tools, an intuitive design environment, and tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. InDesign is built for designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers who work for magazines, design firms, advertising agencies, newspapers, book publishers, and retail/catalog companies, as well as in corporate design, commercial printing, and other leading-edge publishing environments. 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AB Alex B. Program Administrator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/13/2022 "Too intimidating for anyone but dedicated design pros" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? It's got the most comprehensive set of design tools and capabilities of any product on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? That said, those tools are very intimidating to new users and, at least in my experience, Adobe doesn't do much to tutor new users. It's sink or swim. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? I have the option to use it for designing posters, posts, and other design products for the academic program I administer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") UM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/6/2019 "InDesign is Great for Any Graphic Designer" 2/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? I like how InDesign allows for easy story-telling for any business, or even personal usage. Graphic design isn't easy, but InDesign allows for a great way to navigate and learn the program as you go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? I dislike how sometimes it freezes. Sometimes it crashes on me, but when I re-open the program, usually it recovers my work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Adobe InDesign: I would recommend this software to any marketing department. It's crucial to have a design team for any professional company. I would make sure that employees understand how to use Adobe InDesign or ensure they have some sort of graphic design background. It's super important to have a background in design to be able to understand and use this program efficiently and effectively. I love it! I have used this program for a while now at the place that I work at. Sometimes I go look up tutorials if I forget how to do a certain task, and it's an easy thing to do. There are so many great tutorials out there for anyone who wants to learn more! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? The problems I am solving with Adobe InDesign are basic design techniques and creating amazing graphics for the company that I currently work for. It definitely helps to have some experience in graphic design to be able to know what you're doing on this program. I would recommend watching tutorials on basic how-to's to work this software, because it can be kind of overwhelming sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Architecture & Planning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Architecture & Planning") UA Verified User in Architecture & Planning Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/24/2019 "Adobe InDesign is Great for Graphic Designers" 2/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? This program is so great! I absolutely love how Adobe InDesign is so user-friendly. This software is great for creating anything you can imagine. I personally use this software at my workplace, JLG Architects. We create proposals for potential clients every day. This program is a life-saver for all of us here in the Marketing department that use it! It helps us create beautiful work to send out to clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? I dislike how sometimes Adobe InDesign freezes in the middle of working on a project. I've had this happen to me a couple of times, and I had to force the program to shut down since it wouldn't budge. Luckily, it saved my work when I re-opened Adobe InDesign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Adobe InDesign: I recommend any marketing department (specifically graphic designers) to use this program. This program is very well known among graphic designers and is the core of graphic design in the design world. I am so glad the company I work for has this program so I can create amazing proposal work every single day! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? I am solving problems in terms of creating beautiful work with this program! Our marketing team at my workplace uses this to create all kinds of things - from proposals to business cards to flyers and mailers - we do it all with this program, Adobe InDesign. I don't know what our team would do without it! We always get complimented on our work and the amazing results that we produce by using this program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Online Media](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Online Media") UO Verified User in Online Media Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/25/2019 "Okay" 2/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? Integrates well with other Adobe design apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? Scaling and cropping features can be difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Adobe InDesign: There are better options but InDesign is widely used in design and publishing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? Very standard app for the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/29/2019 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AP Alexandra P. Proofreader Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/4/2019 "good product as an alt to illustrator" 2/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? offers different layouts for necessary docs in our business (brochures, business cards, cards, etc) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? was not intuitive and felt like a lot of times my coworkers were not using it so it made it difficult to pick up/help/create files to collaborate together Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Adobe InDesign: ensure coworkers use same program/are trained/have same comfort level with indesign Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? creating options and sales materials for clients that set us apart; clients always seemed to be happy with designs/layouts i created in program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/3/2018 "Not the most intuitive or quickly responsive tool to get a glance at formatting." 2/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? Can handle a lot of pages at a time and detects changes in updated files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? The program is slow and has difficulty processing all the files that it seems like it can handle. It is also a program initially intended for print purposes so capabilities are limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Adobe InDesign: It's a program designed for print work. If you are doing something digital, I'd recommend a different product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? Putting together clear documentation to pass on to other teams. It is beneficial to use indesign because it is easy to update things that have been updated via pdf can keep everything in order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Performing Arts](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Performing Arts") UP Verified User in Performing Arts Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/15/2018 "Clunky and over crowded" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? I like being able to move my fields anywhere on the page without being limited to pre-existing fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? Everything else. It is not user friendly without watching multiple instructional videos online. Fields will get buried among one another, becoming impossible to select/move/adjust. Frequently, an image will look great on my screen but when I print it there are fields missing or bleeding off the page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Adobe InDesign: InDesign is certainly a useful product for those who have a high level of skill and spend a LOT of time in it. For an occasional user like myself, it is far too much to handle and counter-intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? I have honestly moved most of our uses for InDesign into Google Drawings and Word. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") UM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/16/2018 "Very average compared to other Adobe softwares" 2/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? I like the concept of the software, what it tries to help me achieve, it's a much needed software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? It's not all that efficient to use...There are 2 levels of "frames" around images that are inserted on a page, which means that every time someone wants to move an image, rescale it etc..., they have to take into consideration 2 levels of "frames". Why not just simplify that to 1 level and let the user use clipping masks whenever they need them? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Adobe InDesign: I wouldn't recommend it unless they really want to make a proper book or magazine with lots of content that needs to be visually appealing. I wouldn't recommend it as a PowerPoint replacement for instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? It does help makes book-like documents, design description projects and things like that, which can be 20 to 100+ pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Leigh Ann J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Leigh Ann J.") LJ Leigh Ann J. Lead Designer - Marketing & Innovation Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/27/2018 "Adobe Indesign CC" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? Indesign is a great program for desktop publishing, catalogs, and printed literature. Program auto saves when it crashes. It packages files for you with ease when sending to a print company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? I absolutely hate using Indesign. Out of all adobe software, this is my least favorite. The keyboard shortcuts are clunky. Vector graphics placed must be opened in illustrator for editing, so I’d rather just work in illustrator the whole time, although I understand the pros of this program. I simply hate using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? Catalog creation for small and large printed booklets. Creating stock guide sell sheets for sales teams to use when securing new account orders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Photography](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Photography") UP Verified User in Photography Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/10/2018 "InDesign is powerful but difficult to master" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Adobe InDesign? I like the control that InDesign gives over every element on a printed page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Adobe InDesign? I like the control that InDesign gives, but it can be frustrating to begin working with the program cold. There are so many settings and controls that learning the menus and options can be challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Adobe InDesign: Make sure that users are well trained on this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Adobe InDesign solving and how is that benefiting you? I created a print magazine from scratch, using InDesign, and felt that it was a professional tool for the job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Adobe InDesign? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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