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• Adobe InDesign is positioned as the high-end alternative and successor to Adobe's PageMaker program. The program was first released by Adobe in 1999.

• Fast Facts

  1. Current Version: CS3
  2. OS: Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
  3. Developed by: Adobe
  4. First released in 1999
  5. Code Named: "K2"
  6. The current version, CS3, was released in April 2007
  7. CS3 is a universal binary providing native Intel and PowerPC Mac compatibility

• History

  By 1998 Adobe had lost most of the professional desktop publishing market to its competitor Quark Express. Their once popular application PageMaker, was no longer the leading application in the field. They begin working on Indesign and released version 1.0 in 1999. In 2002, it was the first desktop publishing application that could run naively in Mac OS X. As new versions were released and functional expanded, InDesign has begun to increase market share once again. The latest version CS3, was released on April 2007.

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