Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign CC is a page design and layout app used by graphic designers and businesses in creating, preflighting, and publishing documents for print and digital media. It is a desktop publishing software which allows them to design stationery, flyers, posters, brochures, annual reports, magazines, and books with rich graphics, images, tables; and professional layouts. The software also enables them to create interactive PDFs, eBooks, digital magazines, and other online documents  that are enhanced by audio, video, slideshows, and animations.

In addition, Adobe InDesign CC is equipped with tools which helps users collaborate with their writers and editors. As a result, they will be able to create and design their documents faster and smarter. The app supports integration with Adobe Copy CC, a word processor built by Adobe Systems. Users can also share texts, colors, shapes, and graphics as the app allows them to access their Creative Cloud Libraries. The latest version of Adobe InDesign CC offers features which include endnotes, paragraph borders, object height and width styles, fonts, PDF accessibility enhancements, and HTML export improvements.

Adobe InDesign CC provides features which help users enhance the accessibility and reuse of the documents they are exporting as PDF files using the app. Before they export their documents to PDF, they will be able to apply tags to page items so they can be accurately and conveniently viewed or read on a full-sized monitor, handheld device, or through a web browser. They can tag page items as stories, headlines, or figures.

Furthermore, they will be able to add alternative texts to graphics or objects that they are tagging as figures. Alternative texts are words or phrases that are used to describe images. Viewers or readers who are visually impaired rely on alternative texts so they can recognize and understand the information and meaning conveyed by images. Through the aid of a screen-reading software the alternative texts are read aloud.

Additionally, users can also add tags to footnotes, anchored text frames, keyword indexes, captions, and table of contents that contain hyperlinks. If they want to hide unimportant objects, or printing texts or images; they can apply artifact tags. Artifact tags allow them to hide page items when they reflow their exported PDFs in Adobe Acrobat or for viewing on handheld devices.

Adobe InDesign CC also enables users to insert endnotes into their documents. Because of this, their readers will be able to access references directly from the annotations they added to their texts.

Meanwhile, the publishing software offers an HTML export feature which allows web developers to export simple and clean codes as they implement the layout designs of their website. It has the capability to remove redundant div tags in the HTML and unnecessary grouping of content.

To easily reposition objects and modify their sizes at once across their documents, Adobe InDesign CC include options in its Object Style dialog box which were not available in the earlier versions of the software. Now, users will be able to resize multiple objects; changing their widths, heights, or both. They can set values for X and Y coordinates to change the positions of objects. Also, using its Eyedropper tool, they can instantly apply the size or position of an object to another object within their documents.