Advantages And Disadvantages Of Adobe Indesign Software For Visual Design

Now it is very easy for a designer to be creative because it is supported by various software that can be used to create interesting visual works and sell. One of them is Adobe Indesign which is software made by Adobe System which is widely used by designers to make posters, brochures, even magazines and books. In Indonesia itself Adobe Indesign is widely used to create newspaper and magazine layouts.
Adobe Indesign you can use in Windows or Apple OS with the most stable version is CS4 which was released on June 23, 2009 ago. Differences with Adobe Photoshop is more focused in editing an image, for Adobe Indesign is a regeneration of Pagemaker which has some advantages to create a print media layout. Here is a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages of Adobe Indesign to create print media layouts
In terms of operation, Adobe Indesign has a way to use a better and easier than with similar software. Even for the designers who are new to using this software can adapt easily because in addition to many tutorials, also toolsnya easy to use. One of the advantages of the tools contained in Adobe Indesign is that it has some image editing that can give the same effect as that of Adobe Photoshop such as shadow, bevel, glow, and so forth.

Besides having the ability to image editing almost the same as Photoshop, other advantages of Adobe Indesign is as follows:

1. Have tools to make the image into blur so useful for censorship or other artistic effects.
2. Can import and make images perfectly transparent.
   You are not satisfied with the logo or finished image can be repeated again and produce a more satisfactory design than before with the command undo or ctrl + z more than once.
3. There are facilities for creating tables.
4. Able to open the pmd file.
5. It's easy to convert images into pdf format that can be printed or locked as document security.

A. Lack of Adobe Indesign as media layouter

Although claimed as the best software to design magazines, newspapers, and other print media, Adobe Indesign still has some weaknesses, especially when compared with its predecessor the Pagemaker. Here are some of the disadvantages:

1. In terms of math type, for Pagemaker still easy to move the math type to Pagemaker. While in Adobe Indesign you have to place it outside the work area, then copied, and pasted in the work area again. Any editing is even more difficult.
2. If you choose either left-right or justify text format, often the distance between text looks unnatural either too far or too close so it takes a little effort to balance it
3. Can only be used to create layouts or master formats for magazines or books. So if you want a more detailed and detailed design, Adobe Indesign does not have enough tools. To design a logo or symbol that is more detailed and freely you can use Adobe Illustrator.
   Adobe indesign is one of the materials and software that is in use in graphic design course mataweb. Those are some of the advantages and disadvantages of Adobe Indesign that are more widely used by book publishers to create layouts or used to create presentations in .pdf format. Adobe Indesign is easier to use to set the layout of print media because toolsnya are designed for it. But if you are looking for software that can be used to create graphic design with more flexibility and detail then Adobe Indesign is not suitable for you.