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I’m just getting my feet wet with Adobe. As an author what file extension is best with Adobe? Is InDesign able to address the numerous requirements that are bound to crop up during a book’s layout i.e. footers, headers, page numbering, separator lines for footnotes, Drop Caps, a combination of Roman numerals and modernized numbers, Borders, formatting, highlighting, text and font issues, superscripting, etc. Is InDesign a professional, reliable program that can be structured and once laid-out will remain reliant? Can anyone verify this program, and if not is there something more reliable?
Thanx in advance,
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Hello Mr. Michael,
Welcome to the world of Adobe InDesign. I’m working on layouts since 1996. To me InDesign is the best application to handle all the above listed requirements so far. Though the Tables are not so flexible as of Microsoft Word but still they provide a wide range of options to play with.
Have fun with it. Happy InDesigning…
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Are you planning to write your text in InDesign, or are you using it to format text you’ve already written?
The answer to your question is yes, in my opinion – although I haven’t used Quark (formerly a big player in the desktop publishing world, still available, but not as widely used as it once was)in 15 years or more. INDD will do all of those things you mentioned and more, and if you utilize all of the resources available, your learning curve with the software doesn’t have to be painful.
MS Word gives me headaches to try to lay out pages in (and unfortunately I have had to use it for that purpose a few times based on requests from management).
Good luck and I hope you enjoy learning the program. This site is a gold mine for tips and how-tos, and Adobe’s site has very good step-by-step instructions as well.
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You’ll be a lot happier with InDesign for those purposes than, say, Word. I’d say that ID is more of a high end program for professionals, and is much more geared towards users who need to publish actual books rather than office reports or something. ID handles footers, TOC formatting, footnotes, drop caps, captions, etc very well.
I also find the ability to position things, handle fonts, and apply styling is 1000 times more painless in InDesign. It’s got some really useful features to handle large documents… for example, if you made a book where every chapter header is black Times New Roman, but you wanted to change them all to Requiem Italic, color them blue, and make them 2 sizes smaller, you could do it with a single search-and-replace or by redefining a grep style.
But then again, you’re asking on a site for InDesign fans, so what did you figure people would say? “Nah, it’s crappy, I mostly use Publisher for that stuff” :)
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Here’s a good comparison between Word and InDesign:
https://creativepro.com/why-use-indesign-instead-of-ms-word.php
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