Product Description

Item #: 65002F. Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using Adobe InDesign CS3 page layout software. Built for demanding workflows, InDesign integrates smoothly with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy, and Dreamweaver software; offers powerful features for creating richer, more complex documents; and reliably outputs pages to multiple media. With its sophisticated design features and enhanced productivity tools for streamlining repetitive tasks, InDesign CS3 lets you work faster and better than ever.

Product Description
Adobe InDesign CS3 - ( v. 5 ) - complete package
Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - desktop publishing
Version: 5
License Type: Complete package
License Qty: 1 user
License Pricing: Standard
Language(s): Universal English
Platform: Windows
Distribution Media: DVD-ROM
Package Type: Retail
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4783 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 27510927
• Released on: 2007-04-20
• Platforms: Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 6.00" w x 2.00" l, .70 pounds

Features

• The ideal solution for designing professional page layouts using rich creative options
• Boost efficiency through productivity enhancements and tight integration
• Automate workflows and processes, including long-document publishing
• Flexible XML import and export controls and robust scripting support
• Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and gradient feathers

Customer Reviews

Don't buy. Wait for CS4
At this point, I'd strongly suggest that you not buy this version and instead wait for the CS4 version of InDesign, which should be coming out in October 2008. Here's a review of the new features it offers.

INDESIGN CS4

What's great about this upgrade is that no particularly category of user is slighted. Those who deal with graphics rich documents get Smart Guides and an improved Links panel. Those who work with long, complex documents get cross-references and Smart Text Reflow. Those who do catalogs get conditional text and direct-to-PDF output. Those into multimedia get Flash output two ways. For everyone there's an improve user interface that includes tabbed windows for those have more windows open than they have display space. Finally, almost everyone seems delighted by a surprise new feature, GREP styles, which is great for taking care of all the niggling little formatting chores inside a paragraph. All these features save time and make the work go smoother.

It is true that Adobe might have done more. ID still won't let a paragraph style define a heading spanning multiple columns. One Adobe programmer told me that required hard work, text in columns has to be organized to end in a nice row before the heading. That may be true, but other products do it, including the two-decade old FrameMaker, and the alternative is clumsy fiddling with frames that get out of kilter in the text or formatting is changed. As it stands now, Smart Text Reflow and Conditional Text can't be used with multi-column plus heading text.

And in the timesaving department, linking frames is still the Nuisance of Nuisances. ID needs Named Frames, which would allow users to attach a name to all frames in the same sequence, something particularly useful for magazines and newspapers Add another feature called Smart Frames, which would automatically link all frames in a specific order--top to bottom, right to left, lower to higher page--and linking frames would become easy. Those who want something unusual could still do things the old way.

In short this is a solid and useful upgrade for almost anyone who uses ID more than occasionally. It'll save you time and let you produce more complex, better looking documents with less effort. If you use ID more than a few hours a week, this is a must-have upgrade.

--Michael W. Perry, Untangling Tolkien: A Chronology and Commentary for The Lord of the Rings

Not worth upgrading from CS2
I have been using this program for the last 4 months and I have to say that I cannot find any reason to upgrade from CS2 to CS3.

First there are a few annoying bugs, the one that affects me the most is that when switching between Adobe products and other windows, eventually InDesign CS3 will simply vanish. It will not be in my taskbar, and it will not show up in the Applications tab of the taskmanager. You have to search for the Process Indesign.exe in the processes tab and kill it before you can restart InDesign CS3 to continue using it.

Also the new palette system is much, much worse than what was used in CS2. In CS2 you could dock the palettes to the side of the application, and when you were not using them you could click on the palettes and they would fold into the side of the program, with just tabs with text labels visible, but easy enough to find an open with a click. You could dock palettes to the left and right of the program, which I did since I use a lot of palettes all the time.

In CS3 the palettes can be docked to the sides, but you cannot dock a palette directly beneath the toolbar. The toolbar has its own "drawer" and any palettes docked on the same side as the toolbar push the toolbar out and make a second drawer, which defeats the purpose of of docking things to the side. Also the nice tabs with text labels have been replaced with little icons, which are just a pain to learn. The toolbar has enough icons, I don't need more palettes with little pictures on them when all I want to to adjust the transparecny of an element. Also another annoying thing is that they changed the "Transparency" palette, which adjusts transparency, into the "Effects" palette. For the first 3 days I thought they had simply removed the ability to adjust transparency since I could not find the transparency palette (which is what this similar palette is called in ALL other Adobe programs.. so much for keeping your interfaces uniform..)


All in all this program is not worth the upgrade. It is buggy, has no new features that are worth anything, and the new palettes are a step backwards in terms of useability.

Lots of Potential ... but Lethally "Buggy"
I purchased Adobe InDesign after using Adobe GoLive and being extremely satisfied with the latter's sleek GUI, compatability with Adobe Illustrator and overall ease-of-use. I suspect that Adobe InDesign boasts the same qualities ... if you're actually capable of installing it. I carefully spec'ed the product before buying it to ensure my PC met the requirements and found out that it exceeded the requirements in every way. When I went to install the product, it initialized but would never install ... worse yet, the installer just disappeared and never displayed an error. When I looked on Adobe's website, it stated that "Adobe is aware of the issue and is currently researching the causes." The website proposed some possible fixes; none of which worked in my case.

The folks at Adobe, despite some valiant attempts, could not determine what caused the installation problem and had me attempting to do everything from installing additional RAM (above and beyond the requirements on the packaging specs)to uninstalling and reinstalling Internet Explorer, the whole Adobe suite, and my operating system. After 2 days of back-and-forth support conversations, I finally gave up and returned the product. It seemed incredible that the software did not have a proper installation logging and debugging program. There was a lot of whispering among the tech support representatives that many of the issues were related to Adobe's change in installation procedures with the new installer versions requiring Adobe Flash.

I am a huge Adobe fan ... I have been using Adobe Illustrator and GoLive for several years now and have only positive comments about them. However, if you're going to purchase Adobe InDesign, I recommend you buy the CS2 version until Adobe debugs the CS3 version. Once Adobe straightens out the CS3 version, you could always upgrade ... and the extra cost would certainly be justified by the time savings of trying to debug this quirkly little version.