adobe indesign

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quick (n00b) question: how does indesign fit into the adobe suite?

i currently use photoshop for image manipulation (duh) and illustrator for all of my graphic representations (chiefly posters, but also trademarks, brochures, etc.)..

- just wondering how indesign fits into the scheme of things? what is it used for? is it worth learning for poster generation or is illustrator the best program for this?

ta.

edit: most of my stuff revolves around architectural drawings/images (CAD or otherwise), 2D and 3D..

[Frutiger]

Indesign is what you should be using for producing print artwork, it's pretty much Adobe's version of QuarkXPress.

I'm a desingner & I use photoshop for all images, Illustrator for drawing, building cutter guides etc & indesign/Quark for making lookbooks, adverts, catalogues: any print work basically.

Yes it's well worth learning how to use it & you wont regret learing it if you want to get more into graphic design in general.

The way you could use it is to produce all of your drawings in Illustartor & then import them into indesign to set the pages (if you're making a brochure for instance).

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Indesign is what you should be using for producing print artwork, it's pretty much Adobe's version of QuarkXPress.

I'm a desingner & I use photoshop for all images, Illustrator for drawing, building cutter guides etc & indesign/Quark for making lookbooks, adverts, catalogues: any print work basically.

Yes it's well worth learning how to use it & you wont regret learing it if you want to get more into graphic design in general.

The way you could use it is to produce all of your drawings in Illustartor & then import them into indesign to set the pages (if you're making a brochure for instance).

Yeah, thought it was something along those lines.

I typically produce my drawings in a CAD program, then I've been importing them into Illustrator for presentation purposes (as previously mentioned: A1/2/3 poster layouts, smaller flyers, etc.)

So, Indesign may be a better program to undertake such works?

[Frutiger]

Yeah, thought it was something along those lines.

I typically produce my drawings in a CAD program, then I've been importing them into Illustrator for presentation purposes (as previously mentioned: A1/2/3 poster layouts, smaller flyers, etc.)

So, Indesign may be a better program to undertake such works?

In that respect you might actually be better off importing into illustrator as it's better at importing & handling files from CAD sorftware.

In all honesty I don't use any kind of CAD software so I don't have any first hand experience with which to help you. With regard to the posters you're probably doing things in the simplist way there is already.

Indesign really comes into its own with multi page documents, that's really its main purpose, so if you were going to produce a large document for a pitch (for example) then instead of having to have lots of seperate illustrator files, you could have one multi-page indesign document.

[phen3N]

the way my type teacher put it was:

photoshop = photos

illustrator = drawing

indesign = typography

[Appleseed]

I only switch to InDesign for multi-page layout stuff. For posters/presentation boards, I stick with Illustrator.

For what you're looking at, Home, I wouldn't bother with InDesign.

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Thanks guys, answered all my q's!