Ready to celebrate? Adobe InDesign turns 20!
On August 31st 1999, Adobe launched InDesign and changed the world of publishing forever!
Adobe InDesign was the successor to PageMaker (maybe some of you remember it). By 1998, a majority of the professional market had turned to QuarkXPress. Quark even had its eyes on acquiring Adobe. Luckily, Adobe did not take the offer and continued to strive towards developing a new page layout application. The project had been started by Aldus and was code-named “Shuksan”. It was later code-named “K2” and was released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999.
InDesign was the first Mac OS X-native desktop publishing software and unlocked the power of desktop publishing and design for the masses. Since then, InDesign has spawned over 86 user groups in 36 countries with a total membership of over 51,000.
20 years later, InDesign is still the go-to software for print and digital page layout design and is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud tool kit. Over 91 million unique InDesign PDFs are generated annually, proving that Adobe continues to rock the design world.
Celebrate InDesign’s 20th birthday with the following links:
History of InDesign Splash Screens
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