Typesetting tool InDesign

I. Overview

For domestic MAC and PC ordinary users, the most widely used typesetting software in the prepress design professional field is Adobe's PageMaker, but this does not mean that PageMaker is the best. Quark's QuarkXPress (used in most European countries and regions) and FOUNDER's FIT are better than PageMaker in terms of professional performance, but due to various factors, these two kinds of software are not widely used. . For example, Quark's focus has not always been on China, so the Simplified Chinese MAC version upgrade is slow, and the PC version is rare; while Founder Feiteng (FIT) is mainly used in conjunction with other software developed by Peking University Founder Group, newspaper publishers, etc. Coherent and systematic large objects. In addition, the back-end output of FIT has limitations. That is, FIT's PS file can only be output on the expensive Founder RIP, etc., so ordinary users have to use fast upgrades and convenient output. But PageMaker, which doesn't make the professional happy.

Because PageMaker was originally inherited from Adobe company Aldus, its core technology is relatively old and there are many shortcomings. It is obviously impossible for PageMaker to defeat QuarkXPress for a long period of time in the prepress design professional field. Therefore, Adobe Company has taken another path in 1999. A more powerful typesetting software was released on September 1st of this year. As a counterattack that has been suppressed by Quark in the field of typesetting for 10 years, and it has completely achieved its position as the leader of the desktop publishing system, this innovative typesetting software is InDesign.

Second, InDesign introduction

Adobe's InDesign is a brand-new software that is positioned in the field of professional typography. Although its debut is relatively late, it is more perfect and mature in function.

InDesign is a long-standing company that extracts the essence from a variety of desktop publishing technologies, such as the combination of highly structured program methods such as QuarkXPress and Corel-Ventura (a famous typesetting software from Corel Corp.) and the more natural PageMaker approach. Provides a series of more sophisticated typesetting functions for magazines, books, advertisements and other flexible and complex design work. In particular, this software is based on an innovative, object-oriented open system (allows third parties to carry out secondary development and expansion ), greatly increased the ability of professional designers to express ideas and viewpoints using typesetting tool software. The function is not less powerful than QuarkXPress, and is even more excellent than PageMaker. In addition, Adobe and Gaoxu Group and Kaixuan Technology cooperate to jointly develop Chinese InDesign. The full expansion of InDesign to adapt to the requirements of Chinese typesetting habits, the function of the Founder Group (FOUNDER)'s integrated publishing software Feiteng (FIT), visible, InDesign is indeed unusual.