Comments on: Adobe Launches Happy Birthday InDesign Site and Book!

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:17:51 +0000

It’s a good, historical read — all hats off to Pamela Piffner! Her book on Adobe is a great read, too — highly recommended.

I have reasons to celebrate these days, too: in the spring of 1990 I began using QuarkXPress. I became reasonably adpet at it (I always viewed PageMaker as a school-and-office tool) — and stayed on that rocky XPressway until the spring of 2000, when I took a sharp right turn and sidegraded (for $300, I think) to InDesign 1.5. It was a bit rough in places, yes, but I loved it from the start nevertheless. I have upgraded to *every* new version since then. And here we are ten years later, with a new version due out this spring — and I’m looking mightily forward to learning more about it. And yes, chances are good I will once again be lured into upgrading.

Happy Birthday, InDesign!

By: Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie Concepcion — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:56 +0000

Personally I’d like to get my hands on the original ID file and fix some text composition and layout issues, then re-export to PDF. Some strangeness going on in that thing. (Did anyone else notice some pages have no hyphenation, others do?)

It’s curious to me how this version of the book could have been signed off as final. Ah well. The actual content is wonderful, another great job by Pamela!

By: Leigh

Leigh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:29:35 +0000

According to this Adobe blog, there will be a limited edition print run of the book in April!

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/03/adobe_indesign_celebrates_its.html

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:56:48 +0000

@azabache and @scott and @Leigh: I figured the resolution was: a) to keep file size down; b) perhaps for permissions reasons?; c) because they want people to buy the printed book — assuming there will be a printed book. I hope so! I want one! Although it’s not in 8-pg sigs… so perhaps they won’t? Hm.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:37:01 +0000

Love the new book but agree there should be an option to download a higher-res version.

By: Scott Citron

Scott Citron — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:24:41 +0000

I’m pleased to have several pieces displayed in the book, but disappointed by the image quality. Guess they decided to down sample all bitmaps to conserve file size. Or to encourage book sales?

By: abckaj

abckaj — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:41:15 +0000

thanks to Jochen F. Uebel…….

I just happen to love this stuff.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:29:34 +0000

No problem, Jochen! Vielen dank!

By: Jochen F. Uebel

Jochen F. Uebel — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:52 +0000

A free german translation of your post, David, is published here: http://blog.smi.ch/2010/03/10/adobe-indesign-wurde-zehn : Hope, this is ok! It’s for the birthday child!

By: Werner Berghofer

Werner Berghofer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:53:28 +0000

The page break between page 11 and page 12 in the paragraph titled “Modern Architecture” is a pain in the rear

However, it was a pleasure to read the book and think about the big changes in the publishing business within the last ten years.

I’ve been using and loving Adobe InDesign since version 1.0.