InDesign CS

Pros
- Nested-styles feature eases complex text formatting
- Automatically manages table headers and footers across pages
- Better typographic and graphics capabilities than QuarkXPress offers
- Contextual Control palette
- Dozens of small enhancements
Cons
- No way to save files for use in InDesign 2
- Web export limited to XML format for use in Adobe GoLive
- Features too scattered
- Too many palettes
- Time-consuming text-flow process
Software Details
- Adobe
- Mac OS X
- $699; upgrade from previous versions, $169; upgrade from PageMaker, $299
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