I remember the world before InDesign. I had PageMaker. FrameMaker was slowly making inroads in the book publishing industry. QuarkExpress commanded a major share of the market. When InDesign appeared on stage it introduced a highly extensible platform based on an object-oriented architecture. It made possible the creation of many custom solutions for publishing newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and other non-book literature. I did wonder why PageMaker, my favorite at the time, was being shunted aside. But I’ve found the change to not only be good, the change was revolutionary. It spawned many third party vendors and service providers. Talk about stimulating an economy.

Check out Rufus Deuchler’s blog 10 Years of InDesign and the original Adobe InDesign 1.0 and InDesign 2.0 press releases.

Some great blogs to read include:

• InDesign Secrets
• Adobe Education Technologies
• Adobe Education Leaders

French Creek Press uses Adobe InDesign and FrameMaker for documents and books of different lengths. Our book covers are laid out in InDesign. For the moment our books are laid out in either FrameMaker or InDesign. We are a new publishing house with very deep, old roots in Adobe products.

My faith in Adobe as a company has only been strengthened by their quality products and their response to a customer service problem. Much success Adobe! Looking forward to 2012 when you turn 30!