Adobe InDesign

My answer would be: NO, InDesign is better by far!

But

I have a new collegue, they don’t have a background in graphic design, but a lot of their tasks include layout of flyers, roll ups and other publikations with larger amounts of texts.

This person has introduced our boss to Figma, and the boss loves the simplicity in everybody working in the same workspace, creating a strong overview of all campaigns. I see why.

However now I am that old hag, who on one side am all for evolving and learning new tools! BUT I JUST DON’T WANNA USE FIGMA FOR #everything :(

Is it me? Am I wrong in thinking Figma is not for heavy (and even basic) typography and print publications? I totally want to use it for SoMe photocontent and even storyboards for videos.

My boss listens to my new collegue more than she listens to my graphic design knowledge, telling me I need to change, and it is driving me crazy!

Thoughts?

I decided to do some looking at print shops around the state and independent design businesses, and I'd like to ask, why is InDesign often left out (Basically Unused). It's a valuable program for layouts, and I thought it would be used in those places.

Edit: I was referring to Print Shops and Small Design Businesses.

I am newish to graphic design and I’ll working on a design for a box for my job. We are ordering products from a factory in China and I am to send them the artwork for the boxes. A senior graphic designer told me indesign is best for this but the internet says illustrator?

*I should add this was A senior graphic designer, not MY senior graphic designer. I have no “team”, it’s just me. I report to a CEO and VP who don’t know Adobe, the senior graphic designer is a friend of the CEO who wasn’t given full information about the project.

**I went with Illustrator, though from everyone’s response there doesn’t seem to be a wrong answer, but Illustrator seems to be the norm.- THANK YOU FOR ALL THE ADVICE!

I am a production artist at an agency that specializes in tradeshow and environmental graphics. I make a lot of raster-heavy vinyl wall coverings and windows. I keep coming across large-format vendors that won't accept InDesign packages and are requesting I rebuild stuff in Illustrator. They also aren't providing the PDF specs they would prefer. I come from a sign shop background so I know my stuff when it comes to production. In my mind, a good PDF should be adequate coming from either program. Not being able to at least open Indesign seems like a red flag to me. Is this common?

It is rare to see something good on Creative Blog lately, but this article have some interesting takes on the past and the present with adobe's domination in the industry.

Im kinda struggling with choosing a right font that’s good readable with 10pt. Someone tips? What are most used ?

I'm aware this question has been asked numerous times in this subreddit but I feel like things could be different in 2023. I'm a graphic designer and illustrator but my passion truly lies with Adobe InDesign - Desktop Publishing, Layout Design, Print Design. In my work experience as a graphic designer I found myself to not be enjoying doing logos, assets and such at all. I felt my creativity doesn't shine as much as when I need to combine it with a methodical and analytical approach. I prefer leaving the graphics to others while I enjoy putting images and text together on a page. I've completed numerous advanced InDesign courses and consider myself quite proficient.

Knowing that, what career options do I have nowadays? I've read about typesetting and publishing but not sure how to go about it at all.

Hi guys
I published some one page RPG tools on DTRPG but I'm now aiming at publishing my own TTRPG.
I'm thinking about using a professional app to deal with stuff like bleed, crop marks, margins, layout templates etc...
I know many pro RPG authors are using InDesign and Photoshop but the subscription is expansive (600€/y maybe 400€/y on black friday).
Afinity is currently offering a lifetime licence for their Photo/Designer/Publisher pack at around 100€.
I was wondering if Publisher is a good alternative to Indesign or if it is just a waste of money ?

Hi Reddit legends! I'm reaching to to anyone on here who has used inDesign scripts and are keen to try out a GPT that creates them. I've done my own testing and had some good results but if I could get some feedback I think I could could get it working even better and create a really handy tool for designers. Here's a link, feel to jump in and give it go and please let me know what ya think.

Hello,

I am looking for some advice or recommendations for indesign training programs. (Namely paid courses but not udemy long story). They can be in person or online. I tried to see if adobe had an official program but I didn’t find anything.

For reference. I am a complete novice with the software, so handholding me thru the learning isn’t bad for me. I just want to learn as much as possible because I want to eventually get that indesign certification.

Would love to hear what people have tried and how they felt after the learning experience and if it was actually worth it.

Thank you!

With Photoshop, Lightroom CC, and Illustrator on the iPad, I've been very eager for InDesign to make its appearance there too. I know, linked files and so on make it impractical, and that's probably why it hasn't been available. But now, with InDesign Beta offering cloud document saving just like Illustrator and Photoshop, could this be a sign that InDesign for iPad is finally happening? With new iPad Pros launching this year, it would be an exciting announcement from the Apple stage.

I've been using ID quite a bit lately for lengthy reports and once in awhile, for one pagers and flyers. I'm really learning quite a bit and I'm disappointed I didn't begin using it earlier.

Simple question. I'm pretty sure I already know the answer. Should I be creating my major graphic in PS and then place into ID to add all my text? I know this sounds like a newb question, but I always used PS for the entire project. The only concern is that things may not "fit" and I'll have to go back and edit the .psd. Is this what good designers are doing?

Any glaring benefits or cons of using both platforms? They are designed to be used together, correct?

Thanks!

Hey, I've been freelancing for the past five years and have decided to get back in the field, to work in a more so "traditional" environment.

Im fortunate enough to have a few interviews lined up for next week, and a lot of places emphasize the use of Indesign for marketing collateral, I'm tryna brush up on the program so I'm able to handle copy and layouts more efficiently ( I even used inDesign to create my most recent resume). Places Im interviewing fall in line with corporate and real estate stuff.

Thank you

Does anyone have any advice for learning this software after coming from Quark? Any similarities or major differences that’ll help me streamline the process?

Some of the best to learn InDesign that I refer to frequently.

Hey all,

I teach Typography in college, often working in InDesign.

I encourage students to use as few text frames as possible. The reasons being speed of future edits and control over reflow.

To give you an idea of what I see - students will put every paragraph and every heading in its own text box unless I explain not too. This is on longer documents, like muti-page articles. Whereas I tend to have the entire body of the document in 1 frame per-page, each page linked.

But it seems like certain other instructors scoff at the approach.

Am I wrong?

So I'm a self taught guy, started up my own webdev business after taking some classes, trying to get into graphic design as well. In other words, I'm flying by the seat of my pants and don't really know what the professional way to do most of these things are - have just been doing what works for me, and I want to change that.

I've always done my design work in Photoshop / Illustrator, then finished up my designs in a separate Photoshop document, no matter what it was. Pamphlets, brochures, etc, all done in Photoshop. A friend recently said that I should be creating all my graphics as I was before but doing final assembly in InDesign, rather than working purely in Photoshop.

I get the power of InCopy, but as I'm a solo guy for the time being, is this really something that I should be looking into in terms of changing my design workflow? I assume it's a good skill as time goes on, but for any designers out there that regularly use it in their workflow, is it really necessary? Any downsides to including it in the workflow? Any major upsides that I'm missing by focusing on Photoshop? Really appreciate any insight or thoughts here. Cheers!

TL;DR

As such, it's the only reason I stick with CC.
It also explains why meaningful feature improvements and additions are virtually nonexistent or happen slower than... slow stuff.

While, of course, Adobe buys competitors and doesn't include them in CC, or, at least, doesn't make CC a la carte, which it should have been years ago.

/rant

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So, as we're stuck with it for now (or, at least, I am) - for those of you working on longer form books/catalogs/etc, including Book files - what plugins would you recommend that you use and find invaluable?

thanks