
The collaborative workflow is a huge boon to designers enabling us to share work using a weblink instead of emailing a stream jpeg or pdf previews.

The new interactive design features and the ‘publish online’ collaborative workflow are two of our favourite recent enhancements. The closer integration of the nearly 40 applications that make up Creative Cloud together with the development of e-publishing, online tools and, particularly, mobile functionalities has seen a step change in the development of InDesign. While InDesign version 2.0 (launched in 2002) saw the introduction of transparency and drop shadow effects alongside tables, XML support, hyperlinks and improved OpenType support, by 2007 – with the launch of InDesign version 5.0 and Creative Suite 3 – InDesign users could use the Photoshop visual effects including opacity, bevel and emboss, blending modes from within InDesign.

Over the course of InDesign’s takeover of the desktop publishing space, its features have enjoyed a rapid evolution.
