Adobe InDesign
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
7warn against
Dec 7, 2025first mention
Oct 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“shifted the entire project to InDesign”
switched from QuarkXPresson “Software may be getting worse, but it used to be hor…”
“you most likely will need something like InDesign”
Caveats and dissent
“working around InDesign's many defects”
“Lots of problems in Adobe Creative Cloud on Win 11 (primarily Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)”
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“it's still better than InDesign or Word where changing the page size will probably break the layout.”
“InDesign -> Affinity Layout or Scribus or VivaDesigner”
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All comments 15
“shifted the entire project to InDesign”
“Adobe InDesign driven over COM from a dedicated worker”
“InDesign itself gradually leaks memory and becomes more bloated the longer you use it in a single session.”
“as I remove unwanted characters with grep before layout in InDesign”
“working around InDesign's many defects”
“Lots of problems in Adobe Creative Cloud on Win 11 (primarily Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)”
“it's still better than InDesign or Word where changing the page size will probably break the layout.”
“InDesign”
There is a bit of manual tweaking required in LaTeX that I haven't figured out how to automate yet. It's mainly related to chapter endings: if there are only 2 or 3 lines on the last page, I can subtly tighten the tracking from a paragraph on the second to last page and eliminate an almost-empty page. Also, I have PNG maps that currently need some one-off LaTeX directives to lay them out how I want. I could probably
“InDesign -> Affinity Layout or Scribus or VivaDesigner”
“We used Adobe InDesign at my last work, which I believe is an industry standard.”
“you most likely will need something like InDesign”
“other products (InDesign and one other) will not run.”
“Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, InDesign 2 were so much more memorable and recognizable than the lazy minimalist slop we have now”
“an AppleScript for InDesign”