Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

Preface

When I first started working with desktop publishing tools in the 1990s, everything was output for print, and a courier would collect your files on disk and physically deliver them to the printing company. The internet was in its early days, tablet devices didn’t yet exist, and mobile phones were a new thing (and the size of a brick).

Fast forward nearly 30 years and, more often than not, documents are being output for digital consumption, although print production is still a significant area. This opens up the possibility of including exciting new features in your documents, and the once clearly defined boundary between websites and other digital content has been all but removed.

Fortunately, tools such as InDesign have also evolved ...