Adobe InDesign is a well known software created by Adobe Systems that can be used for many designing works. InDesign can be used to create many thing such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books, ect. So thanks to its features many people use it but the main users of InDesign are graphic designers and production artists. InDesign has evolve over the years improving its features and uses, but now we’ll talk about InDesign history.

InDesign is the successor of Adobe PageMaker, wich was acquired with the purchase of Aldus in the late 1994. 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. Quark stated its intention to buy out Adobe and to divest the combined company of PageMaker to avoid anti-trust issues. Adobe rebuffed the offer and instead continued to work on a new page layout application. The project had been started by Aldus and was code-named "Shuksan". It was later code-named "K2" and was released as InDesign 1.0 in 1999.

In 2002, InDesign was the first Mac OS X-native desktop publishing (DTP) software. In version 3 (InDesign CS) it received a boost in distribution by being bundled with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in the Creative Suite. InDesign exports documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) and has multilingual support. 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.

Later versions of the software introduced new file formats. To support the new features, especially typographic, introduced with InDesign CS, both the program and its document format are not backward-compatible. Instead, InDesign CS2 has the backward-compatible .inx format, an XML-based document representation. InDesign CS versions updated with the 3.1 April 2005 update can read InDesign CS2-saved files exported to the .inx format. The InDesign Interchange format does not support versions earlier than InDesign CS.

Adobe developed InDesign CS3 (and Creative Suite 3) as universal binary software compatible with native Intel and PowerPC Mac machines in 2007, two years after the announced 2005 schedule, inconveniencing Intel-Mac early-adopters. Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen had announced that "Adobe will be first with a complete line of universal applications". The CS2 Mac version had code tightly integrated to the PPC architecture and not natively compatible with the Intel processors in Apple's new machines, so porting the products to another platform was more difficult than had been anticipated. Adobe developed the CS3 application integrating Macromedia products (2005), rather than recompiling CS2 and simultaneously developing CS3. nDesign CS3 initially had a serious compatibility issue with Leopard (Mac OS X v10.5), as Adobe stated: "InDesign CS3 may unexpectedly quit when using the Place, Save, Save As or Export commands using either the OS or Adobe dialog boxes. Unfortunately, there are no workarounds for these known issues." Apple fixed this with their OS X 10.5.4 update.

There have been many updates to fix and improve InDesign here’s a list:

InDesign 1.0 (codenamed Shuksan, then K2): August 31, 1999.
InDesign 1.0J (codenamed Hotaka): Japanese support
InDesign 1.5 (codenamed Sherpa): April 2001.
InDesign 2.0 (codenamed Annapurna): January 2002 (just days before QuarkXPress 5). First version to support Mac OS X and native transparencies & drop shadows.
InDesign CS (codenamed Dragontail) and InDesign CS Page Maker Edition (3.0): October 2003. InDesign CS (Oct. 2003) on Windows XP
InDesign CS2 (4.0) (codenamed Firedrake): shipped in May 2005.
InDesign Server (codenamed Bishop): released October 2005
InDesign CS3 (5.0) (codenamed Cobalt): April 2007. First Universal binary versions to natively support Intel-based Macs, Regular expression, Table styles, new interface
InDesign CS3 Server (codenamed Xenon): released May 2007
InDesign CS4 (6.0) (codenamed Basil): Introduced September 23, shipped in October 2008.
InDesign CS4 Server (codenamed Thyme)
InDesign CS5 (7.0) (codenamed Rocket) released April 2010
InDesign CS5.5 (7.5) (codenamed Odin) released April 2011
InDesign CS6 (8.0) (codenamed Athos) released 23. April 2012