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Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing

Adobe® InDesign® CS5.5 software lets you design and preflight engaging page layouts for print or digital distribution with built-in creative tools and precise control over typography. Integrate interactivity, video, and audio for playback on tablets, smartphones, and computers.

What is InDesign?

Adobe® InDesign® CS5.5 software lets you design and preflight engaging page layouts for print or digital distribution with built-in creative tools and precise control over typography. Integrate interactivity, video, and audio for playback on tablets, smartphones, and computers.

Features:

Create powerful, innovative digital documents

Engage, inform, and attract readers with documents you create in Adobe® InDesign® CS5.5 software, which integrate interactivity, video, and sound. Develop stronger, more compelling messages with rich interactive publications.

Folio Producer tools
Create and preview digital magazines, newspapers, and catalogs with engaging elements such as 360° object rotation and image panoramas for a wide variety of tablets. Upload to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite1 for further production and distribution.

Access to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
Access the hosted services of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite from within InDesign to publish engaging digital documents for a range of tablet devices.

Enhanced eBook authoring
Create more engaging eBooks, with less need for developers. Use a smoother workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize to fit virtually any screen. Even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that support HTML5 video and audio tags.

Articles panel
Control the sequence of text, images, and graphics when you export to EPUB or HTML without changing your InDesign layout. Organize your content by dragging it into the new Articles panel to define the export order.

Create better eBooks with ePUB export enhancements

Design compelling eBooks while reducing your dependence on developers. Include video and audio in your eBooks, as well as images that resize to fit virtually any screen. Retain greater control of content and typography when exporting documents to the EPUB format.

Enhanced eBook authoring
Create more engaging eBooks, with less need for developers. Use a smoother workflow as you include refined typography and images that resize to fit virtually any screen. Even add video and audio for eBook reader applications that support HTML5 video and audio tags.

Embedded video and audio in eBooks
Include video and audio in InDesign layouts you export to EPUB format to create more engaging digital books. Embedded audio and video play on mobile devices that support HTML5, like the iPad.

Articles panel
Control the sequence of text, images, and graphics when you export to EPUB or HTML without changing your InDesign layout. Organize your content by dragging it into the new Articles panel to define the export order.

Styles mapped to tags in EPUB export

More easily create standards-compliant digital documents with improved basic typography — with no manual code changes required. Map paragraph and character styles directly to HTML, EPUB, and PDF tags so they export using appropriate specifications.

Dynamic image resizing
Design and publish an EPUB eBook whose imagery will look good on virtually any size screen on which it is played — from a desktop monitor to a smartphone — making the content accessible and enjoyable on any device.

Do more in less time

Create, edit, and publish documents faster. New productivity features make page layout simpler and speedier, even when creating PDF documents that meet federal accessibility requirements.