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Instead, InDesign CS2 has the backward-compatible. To support the new features, especially typographic, introduced with InDesign CS, both the program and its document format are not backward-compatible. Later versions of the software introduced new file formats. It was the first DTP application to support Unicode for text processing, advanced typography with OpenType fonts, advanced transparency features, layout styles, optical margin alignment, and cross-platform scripting using JavaScript. InDesign exports documents in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) and has multilingual support. In version 3 (InDesign CS) it received a boost in distribution by being bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in the Creative Suite. In 2002, InDesign was the first Mac OS X-native desktop publishing (DTP) software. It was later code-named “K2” and was released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999. The project had been started by Aldus and was code-named “Shuksan”. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues.Īdobe rebuffed the offer and instead continued to work on a new app for page layout. By 1998 PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996. InDesign is the successor to Adobe’s own PageMaker, which was acquired with the purchase of Aldus in late 1994.