Adobe InDesign CS2 Upgrade (Mac)

List Price: $169.00

Features:

• InDesign CS2 sets a new standard in professional layout and design. It delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment. Design professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography. The improved text and graphics control combined with greater integration with other Adobe software, allowing you to output your files with complete confidence. Join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe
• Object styles apply a wide range of graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as object styles to create more consistent designs and speed up production tasks
• Export InDesign objects as snippets, to share with colleagues or reuse in other documents
• Selectively display layers and layer comps in PDF files
• Easily Anchor callouts, pull quotes, margin notes, and graphics to text - control anchored objects, apply text wrap settings, and more

Accessories:

Logitech NuLOOQ Navigator (965162-0403)

Customer Reviews:

Adobe InDesign CS2 [Posted on 2005-08-06]
This product brings several features that I find useful in my work. The upgrade was added without a problem.

Worthy, just suprisingly slow [Posted on 2006-03-04]
Overall, this is another solid Adobe update that's worth the expense. This is an improved version of what I think is the best professional layout app. However it's not perfect. I have been suprised with how slow certain things are, even launching. And dissapointed that you cannot save back to even CS1. I have gotten inconsistent results with saving it back through their InDesgin exchange format. It hasn't always worked. Also wish my custom PDF and Workspace settings could be carried over in the upgrade. I had to manually resave them on the fly - and it always seems to come at the I'm already late-for-a-deadline times. Overall, solid stuff from a company that I've come to expect a lot from. Hopefully we won't have to wait for CS3 and Intel Mac compatability for another 12 months like they are predicting...

What you buy by the Suite, you can only upgrade by the Suite.  [Posted on 2006-03-23]
Heads up, if you bought Adobe Creative Suite 1 Package and then buy an upgrade like this one planning to upgrade just part of it, you're in for a rude awakening.

In others words, "Adobe don't play that." What you buy in a suite collected package, can only be upgraded the same way, which makes little sense, but hey they're the ones who wrote the code.

It's all or nothing, when it comes to collected-package product upgrades.

On a side note - the one star is based on this policy, which limits the usefulness of this upgrade product, not the product quality which is probably up to Adobe's normally outstanding standard of excellence.

I'm sure it probably works great, which makes this policy even more frustrating and irritating.

New Version of InDesign Almost Out [Posted on 2007-03-27]
Unless your needs are pressing, you might want to delay buying InDesign. InDesign CS3 will be announced tomorrow (March 27, 2007) and it'll ship toward the end of April. And yes, if you buy just before a new product is released, Adobe will usually give you an upgrade for the cost of shipping and handling. I just confirmed that this morning with a customer service rep. But you avoid a bit of hassle if you wait. And the new version has quite a few new features including a much improved user interface. Some graphics features of Photoshop have also been ported to InDesign.

Mike Perry, author of Untangling Tolkien: A Chronology and Commentary for The Lord of the Rings

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