Adobe InDesign Pricing Overview

In my opinion, this software is the "Quark-killer." I know of no one that still uses the over-priced Quark and their layout/publishing software. For all of the issues I have with Adobe's pricing structure, it is a bargain compared to what Quark is still trying to charge end-users.

While I love the integration of the CC libraries for colors, character/paragraph styles, and images, the libraries need room for improvement. Ideally, it would be great if you were able to export an entire library of images to a particular file format, i.e. convert a library to PNG. In addition, it would be great if the swatches could be exported to a file that not only contained the original color values, but also the RGB and Hex values as well. Both of these would be a huge time-saver on my end.

I pretty much spend 90% of my day in this application and design everything from web ads to e-books to full reports. InDesign has been a total game-changer for me and frankly, I couldn't do my job without it. It has a tendency to crash every now and again, but the auto-recovery makes up for it.

Easy software to get started with, but also has a high ceiling for mastery. There is almost always something new to learn and your designs can be everchanging with the amount of unique tools and features available. Not to mention, the Adobe ecosystem makes it easy to import and export files with coworkers for review or alteration.

My main gripe is price. Unfortunately for this software, and every other Creative Cloud software, you must pay for a subscription service. It's unfortunately that you have to be looking into a subscription for a lifetime and can't pay a flat fee anymore. Also, with new updates, there's sometimes additions that may add a new learning curve to the software.

New, unique, and engaging digital designs that help elevate our social following to new heights. Ever since we started using InDesign, I feel like our engagement rates on social media has been so much better. I think people value quality images and graphics, and that's what InDesign provides [to a basic or intermediate level designer].

InDesign is a program with a variety of users in mind. It is robust enough to design eye-catching, professional projects but can be used by individuals with only intermediate design skill. The projects themselves turn out as if an impressive marketing company created them; paired with the right material for printing, the value appears to be much higher than actual cost.

The layout of tools is more difficult for a novice like myeslf. You also need a well-equipped computer because the program often freezes on older or less equipped machines

Rather than having to incur the cost of an outside print shop doing our designing, as well as the back and forth to realize an idea and make adjustments, we have been able to keep design in-house and pay only for printing costs.

InDesign gives the ability to bring together graphics and produce a print-ready document within one platform. The functionality to create custom sizes is fantastic. There are a large range of presets available to be edited.

The only thing I could possibly dislike about this programme is that sometimes the CC Library drops out and doesn't allow you to feed over images easily. There is very little else that I can say about InDesign that I don't like.

We are solving our issue of being able to produce high quality content in house rather than outsource to external companies. By doing this, a major benefit is the cost. The cost of package compared to the charges for external agencies is large.

Flyer design is easy to do, InDesign has all the features that our business needs, specially to do the print marketing our business needs in order to grow. Using the software is intuitive and fast, so we are done in a few hours and we can move on to the next task at hand. Subscription model helps to keep our cost low by paying on the go as we use instead of a big payment.

Pricing is not cheap, We only use the software a few times a month, less that 40 hours a month so we'll prefer to pay on the go as with Amazon Web Services instead of paying a monthly fee.

Flyer design for our marketing and print content design.

Pretty much everything. It has all the tools for graphic layouts and book design. It's very easy to use. I used it for the first time a few years ago and the interface allowed me to learn it quickly. And there are a lot of tools I probably haven't used yet. Any graphic designer not using Id needs to come to terms with how much of a handicap they are giving themselves by not using it.

The only issues I had with Id, was the page breaks and how they relate to the different sections of the book. Creating sections is not very intuitive, but the master page feature is eons ahead of Microsoft Word's master pages feature. I also think Id needs to figure out how to "apply changes" better, instead of opening a bunch of menus, it should be able to be used as a tool, which you may be able to do with creating Windows somehow. Apple needs to figure out its pricing as well. The whole suite through a monthly payment is robbery. I prefer the whole sum up front, and then they can charge a small fee to update to the latest versions. I think that's reasonable. Apple, your greed will devour you, and push your customers away.

I don't have business problems, since I'm currently in business with myself.

I first learned Adobe InDesign by self-teaching. It was easy to do through Adobe's online forums. I took a short, half-day course through a community organization and feel equipped to use Adobe InDesign's basic functions...but still have detailed resources at my fingertips online to customize my experience.

I need to make documents that are accessible (Section 508 compliant). I would like to see Adobe improve the ease of creating accessible documents in InDesign. It feels like a complex maze of different settings and pop-up windows to access all the necessary settings to export an accessible PDF. If Adobe is unable to make these improvements (which I would gladly pay more for), introducing more forum topics and resources online would be very helpful. Any document that is created for government needs to be Section 508 compliant. As more and more materials are posted online, this is a critical step. The current steps can be onerous and time-consuming...thus very costly.

I work a lot with data visualization, helping showcase complex technical information in graphically-rich ways. Adobe InDesign is key to this. The customization of the software allows for visual representation of complicated ideas.

Ever since CC launched as a subscription service I've been with them, really happy with how the pricing now works gaining access to all of the adobe products, not just some. Adobe is the industry standard and for that reason there are other other options; however so far they're not as good.

The price can be expensive at first in comparison to something like Canva - however there is really nothing quite the same and for that reason the pricing is attainable. If anything it would be awesome if it were slightly cheaper.

High-end production of design and creative solitions for an array of tasks. Where other products simply offer templated solutions or allow it to be an open canvas without great UI - Adobe makes it really simple and easy to work out great ways to design things.