| Design professional layouts for print or digital publication. Adobe InDesign CS5.5 software provides precise control over typography as well as built-in creative tools for designing, preflighting, and delivering documents. Integration with leading industry tools and Adobe CS Live online services* make page layout simpler and faster. Enhanced EPUB export and integration with the new Adobe Digital Publishing Suite? help you create dynamic, professional publications for mobile devices, including leading tablets and smartphones. Efficiently create and export Adobe PDF documents that help you meet federal requirements for accessibility.
- Engage, inform, and attract readers with documents that integrate interactivity,video, and sound
- Develop stronger, more compelling messages with rich, interactive documents
- Create, edit, and publish documents faster
- Make page layout simpler, easier, and speedier
- Design more engaging rich media documents with images that resize automatically to fit virtually any screen
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Digital publishing
Create engaging interactive documents for virtually any screen or device. Design compelling eBooks, create cutting-edge content for tablets using tools that integrate with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite,* or export your interactive layouts as SWF files or PDF documents. |
Access to online services
Build engaging interactive documents for tablets and improve the efficiency of critical design processes using essential services from Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and Adobe CS Live online services, both directly accessible from InDesign. CS Live online services are complimentary until April 12 2012. Visit www.adobe.com/go/cslive for more details. |
Ability to integrate with other Adobe solutions
Move projects smoothly from design to print or digital output thanks to tight integration with industry-leading Adobe software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Flash Professional, and Adobe Digital Editions. |
Preflighting, production, and printing
Speed up production, increase print reliability, and deliver virtually error-free documents with live preflighting, document-installed fonts, JDF technology, background PDF export, presets, onscreen controls, and enhanced support for PDF/X standards. |
Productivity tools
Produce sophisticated page layouts using customer-inspired productivity features such as Smart Guides, rapid table creation, multiple-file placement, on-object controls, and the ability to create pages of different sizes in a single file. |
Robust text composition
Create beautiful, sophisticated text for virtually any medium with professional typography features, including styles, text wrap, the Paragraph Composer, OpenType support, drop caps, and enhanced HTML and CSS support in EPUB export. |
Built-in creative tools
Explore creative possibilities directly within InDesign using integrated drawing tools, nondestructive effects, built-in Adobe Photoshop effects, finer transparency controls, and support for 3D artwork designed using Photoshop. |
Automation
Create powerful automated workflows using standards-based XML features to lay out pages with text and images. Incorporate database-driven content for greater efficiency when publishing across channels. |
Extensibility
Rapidly build unique workflows and software solutions for custom publishing using InDesign Markup Language (IDML), an XML-based file format that enables developers to create or modify files using standard XML tools. |
Collaboration in editorial workflows
Improve collaboration between design and editorial teams with tight integration between InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe InCopy CS5.5 software. |
Macintosh
Multicore Intel processor
Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6
1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
2.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files
Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basic. |
Windows
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
1.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files
Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis |
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