Adobe InDesign CS Now Shipping; Professional Page Layout and Design Application Outpaces the Competition With Feature-Packed Full-Version Upgrade to InDesign 2.0.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2003

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today shipped InDesign(R) CS, a landmark release of its award-winning layout and design program. Available as a stand-alone software application, or as a key component of the Adobe Creative Suite (also now shipping) InDesign CS delivers powerful production capabilities, creative freedom and cross-media support -- enabling customers to design, lay out and print pages, as well as export content to the Web, more rapidly and reliably. Distancing itself from the competition, InDesign CS takes layout and design to a new level for creative professionals with a wealth of innovative new features.

Instead of traditional version numbers, Adobe is now using "CS" to identify new versions of its market-leading creative professional applications, in order to better reflect the deep level of integration across the products.

Assemble Pages Quickly, Output Confidently

Increased productivity, usability and overall faster performance are evident in every aspect of InDesign CS. Story Editor provides integrated word-processing functionality, making it faster to edit and copy fit text in a design layout. New features, such as the Separations Preview and Flattener Preview palettes enable users to check output on-screen, avoiding costly errors before they appear on film or press. Nested styles simplifies the tedious, error prone task of text formatting, while built-in Document Type Definition (DTD) support for XML validation helps publishers automate layout tasks and repurpose content more easily. Overall performance also takes a leap forward: zooming, navigating, importing Adobe Photoshop(R) files, and outputting print and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files are now significantly faster.

Enhance Creative Vision

InDesign CS is built with flexible tools to enable a more fluid design and creative process for designers. Improved workspace management allows designers to customize work areas to fit their own creative workflows through collapsible palettes, named workspaces and the new Control Palette. The new context-sensitive Control Palette efficiently formats text, edits objects and fine-tunes tables in one location on a workspace. A new Stroke Style Editor enables designers to design custom lines and apply them to any stroke. InDesign improves efficiency further with its ability to set up running headers and footers within tables.

Increase Productivity With Adobe Integration

InDesign turbo-charges design productivity through its tight integration with other components in the Adobe Creative Suite. With a common user interface, font handling, color management and keyboard shortcuts, InDesign CS has a familiar look and similar feel to Photoshop(R) CS, Illustrator(R) CS and Acrobat(R). InDesign also enables designers to easily import and export Adobe PDF files, including support for Acrobat 6.0. InDesign CS features enhanced support for Photoshop with the ability to place and print Photoshop files containing duotones or spot colors. Radically cutting down the time required to create integrated print and Web campaigns, the new Package for GoLive(R) command helps efficiently repurpose InDesign print assets for use on Web sites.

InDesign CS makes it easy to convert from other layout applications, with its ability to open QuarkXPress 3.3-4.1 documents and PageMaker(R) files.

Adobe Creative Suite

In addition to being a stand-alone product, InDesign CS is a component of the all-new Adobe Creative Suite. The Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition combines full, new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS with ImageReady(R) CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, Adobe GoLive CS, and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional and introduces the innovative new Version Cue(TM) file version manager, to easily track iterations and quickly locate files. The Adobe Creative Suite is a complete design solution that gives today's creative professionals everything they need to create and publish content to print and the Web faster, more easily, and more efficiently than ever.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe InDesign CS for Mac OS X version 10.2, Windows 2000, and Windows XP (Home and Professional Editions) is available today to customers in the United States and Canada through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at www.adobe.com/store, for an estimated street price of US$699 for all platforms. Registered users of any version of Adobe InDesign can upgrade to the new version for an estimated street price of US$169. For more detailed information about new features and upgrade policies for Adobe InDesign, please visit www.adobe.com/indesign. For more detailed information about the Adobe Creative Suite, please visit www.adobe.com/creativesuite.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe helps people and businesses communicate better through its world-leading digital imaging, design and document technology platforms for consumers, creative professionals and enterprises. Adobe's revenue in the last fiscal year exceeded $1 billion. For more information about Adobe, visit www.adobe.com.

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