InDesign: what do you use it for?

[Thug Gipsy]

Like with print, you could always use Illustrator so i dont understand the use for it. what do you use it for? someone school me.

[lil_tuffy]

books. annual reports. magazines. catalogs. multi-page projects.

[B-DROID]

I can do all that shit in photoshop, yo! TYPE TOOOOOOOOL

[andydiesel]

all my sticker layouts and film output.

[Jacobv]

multi-page projects.

has web design capabilities as well.

[27designco]

Multi-page layouts, spreads... It's been so long since I've used it, and with Illustrator having multiple artboards, I'd have to be laying out a pretty good size book to clear the dust off InDesign.

[maul67]

InDesign is an everyday application around here. Building mulit-page documents, like catalogs, that require master page templates is so easy with InDesign. When 60%-80% of the pages are built from one template and the remainder are custom InDesign allows you to build multiple master page templates to pull from. Also it is a much better at handling and editing large amounts of text by allowing you set up track changes, as well as character, paragraph, and table styles. It is easy to export files and the design features that are used more commonly in Illustrator and Photoshop have been integrate well into InDesign.

[Unitus]

Books, ads, cds, packaging, booklets, billboards, workbooks.

While I could use Illustrator for some of those, InDesign makes more sense to me.

[40ozGraphics]

It's a completely different tool than Illustrator. I use it every day for brochures, catalogs and any other multi-page documents. I'll use Illustrator for flyers, posters, logo design and illustration.

[johnny_on_the_spot]

I haven't touched it since they added multi-page artboards to ai.