The new InDesign software was initially launched in the UK through a series of promotional hotel meetings. It was later code-named “K2” and was released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999. The project had been started by Aldus and was code-named “Shuksan”. Adobe rebuffed the Quark offer and instead continued to work on a new page layout application. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues. ( Freehand, a competitor to Adobe Illustrator and also made by Aldus, was sold to Altsys, the maker of Fontographer.) By 1998 PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996. InDesign is the successor to Adobe PageMaker, which was acquired by Adobe with the purchase of Aldus in late 1994. The Adobe InCopy word processor uses the same formatting engine as InDesign. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets, and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books and ebooks. Adobe InDesign 2022 is a desktop publishing and typesetting software application produced by Adobe Systems.

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