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Product:
InDesign 1.5
Company: Adobe Systems
Website: http://www.adobe.com
Estimated Street Price: $699.00
Upgrade Price from InDesign 1: $99.00
Review By: Julien JAY
Final Results and Overall Mark
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Table Of Contents |
Well we have reached the end of the review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for Adobe InDesign 1.5.
Final Comments
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Installation:
90% Manual: 80% Performance: 90% Features: 90% GUI: 75% Ease of use: 85% Interoperability: 93% Price: 70% Overall: 84% |
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In conclusion, Adobe InDesign 1.5 is really good software that'll fit the needs of every prepress professional or graphic artist. The new features of InDesign 1.5 are focused on creativity and the software is really easy to use. However the export features that offer InDesign 1.5 are still few and it's really a great handicap since a lot of printers doesn't use yet InDesign, so it's an incredible hassle to share files with them. Adobe Marketing knocked a great blow with such an aggressive upgrade price politic, unknown until now for Adobe software, in order to beat the Quark X Press supremacy. There's still a lot of work to do as X press is widely used. We really found InDesign 1.5 very pleasant to use, creative and powerful enough to design beautiful and exceptional layouts in a few mouse clicks. So why wait?
| Specs & Package | |
| Overall Score | 84% |
| Version Reviewed | Adobe InDesign 1.5 |
| Release Date | Out Now |
| In The Box? | Adobe
InDesign 1.5 Software CD InDesign 1 Users' guide InDesign 1.5 updated guidebook Registration card Quick Reference Card |
| The Good Points | Ease
of use Features that bring creativity Tighter integration with other Adobe software |
| The Bad Points | Price Color management Faultly EPS engine No PSD export feature |
| Reviewers PC Setup |
Pentium III 1Ghz EB |
| PC Required | Minimum
System
Windows 95, 98, 2000 or Windows
NT 4.0 with SP-4 or greater |
| <-- Advanced Features |
