InDesign: what do you use it for?

[RichieGoodtimes]

DCS EPS file placed in InDesign. I'd also do multiple pages with different files and rip them all at once, since typically all the art that was going out was usually 15 x 20 and the reg marks all went in the same place anyways.

[Barry Obama]

If you put a dab of it into your leftovers in tupperware they stay fresh for weeks.

[SkatRadioh]

You're kidding me? School'd. NXT +10 to FK fer teh lulz.

[Pfahlert Creative Labs]

I work on documents of 80+ pages. I don't think I'd want to manage a document of that size in Illustrator.

AMEN. I can't imagine using Illustrator for what I'm working on now: 112 page furniture catalog. KLERG!
It's pretty simple really... this thread has reached a THIRD page...wow.

[Chad]

Who remembers Quark?

Hell yeah I remember!

I second third and fourth the input on multi-page docs/separations/etc, but the fact that InDesign has the preview view mode, and pulls resources from a file structure rather than actually opening everything, it's great to use for large format stuff (large posters, trade show banner stuff, signs, etc) on slower computers so you're not having to open a 1.5 gig Photoshop or Illustrator file. Helps out a ton when using my archaic iBook...

[andydiesel]

DCS EPS file placed in InDesign.

yeah that's what i do. i love that i don't have to split channels anymore and indesign recognizes each channel color.

i hate how big those dcs files can be.

[RichieGoodtimes]

EPS files are huge, generally, compared to their multichannel PSD counterparts. I turn some options off and they're a little smaller than they would be otherwise. I'm not recalling what right now and I don't have PS in front of me at the moment.

[Fools Gold]

So you separate the file in PS, save as a DCS EPS file. then you can drop it into InDesign and output the channels from there? I assume it works the same if you have, say, 5 or 6 different designs ganged up on a screen; drop each DCS EPS into Indesign, then when you RIP the "Black" channel/separation, it prints the "Black" channel for everything on the page?

Will it allow you to place crop marks around each DCS EPS placed on the page?

[dumbcane]

Magazine layouts, some flyer designs, online ads, etc

[B-DROID]

I generally save DCS as tiff-8 bit; single file- no composite; ASCII. You'd probably get a smaller file size if you change the 8-bit part to 1-bit.