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InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) application produced by Adobe Systems. File extension for the native file format is .indd.

Launched as a direct competitor to QuarkXPress, it initially had difficulty in wooing users away from Quark's offering, but in 2002 it outsold QuarkXPress.  Also, InDesign CS and CS2 were bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in the Creative Suite. InDesign can export documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) and offers multilingual support that Quark users can get only by purchasing a much more expensive "Passport" version.

InDesign was positioned as a higher-end alternative and successor to Adobe's own PageMaker. InDesign's primary adopters are designers of periodical publications, posters, and other print media.