Adobe InDesign CS3 for Mac

Design and produce professional page layouts



Adobe InDesign CS3 for Mac software delivers powerful new features that allow you to explore more creative possibilities, experience greater productivity, and streamline repetitive tasks.  Explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity using Adobe InDesign CS3 page layout software.  Built for demanding workflows, InDesign integrates smoothly with the Adobe tools you use every day, streamlines repetitive tasks, reliably outputs pages, and offers powerful features for creating richer, more complex documents.

Discover a world of design possibilities and freely experiment with creative effects and finer transparency controls.  Achieve great efficiency through productivity features that make it easier to lay out, export, and print your pages.  Save time and money by automating workflows using robust long-document features and flexible XML support and by attaching scripts to menu commands.

Explore new creative possibility, be more productive, and automate routine tasks with Adobe InDesign CS3!

Extensive Integration
Work smoothly with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy, and Dreamweaver software; enjoy consistency by using shared presets and color settings; work more efficiently with native file format support; and easily publish to multiple media.

Creative Effects and Controls
Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and gradient feathers. Since effects are live and nondestructive, you can experiment with ease. Apply effects independently to an object's stroke, fill, or content.

Reliable Prepress and Printing
Have confidence in your output. Get accurate, consistent results every time you print using sophisticated preview capabilities, exporting reliable Adobe PDF files, and sharing custom presets.

Productivity Enhancements
Perform a variety of tasks more efficiently using new and enhanced productivity features, including Multi-file Place, Quick Apply, faster frame fitting, and the visual Pages panel.

XHTML Export
Enable multiformat publishing, including print-to-web workflows, by exporting InDesign content as XHTML. Edit the exported content in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software (available separately) and automatically format it using cascading style sheets.

Professional Typographical Controls
Compose beautiful typography using professional controls including the Paragraph Composer, OpenType fonts, drop caps, glyphs, and optical kerning and margin alignment.

Full-Featured Tables
Create richly formatted tables. Import tab-delimited text files and styled Microsoft Word or Excel tables, or build tables in InDesign. Apply a wide variety of formatting options manually or using table and cell styles.

Robust Long-Document Support
Maintain consistency and streamline the production of long documents using advanced bullets and numbering, running headers and footers, and synchronized master pages.

Smart Text Handling
Control your text with intelligent text-handling features including the ability to import styled text from Microsoft Word files, apply complex text wraps around objects, and comprehensively replace fonts.

Scripting and Extensibility
Accelerate and simplify workflows by automating processes using scripts and extending the capabilities of InDesign using the ExtendScript toolkit.

• Mac OS X v10.4.8–10.5 (Leopard)
• PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
• 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended) for PowerPC based system; 512MB (1GB recommended) for Intel based system
• 1.6GB of available Hard Disk space (additional free space required during installation)
• 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit Video Card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
• Internet or phone connection required for product activation
• Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

* Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe Stock Photos and Acrobat Connect, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees.