Major Upgrade Sets New Standards for Professional Layout and Design Includes Hundreds of New Features and Performance Improvements SAN JOSE, Calif.--Jan. 21, 2002--Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe InDesign 2.0 software, Adobe's professional layout and design program. Version 2.0 introduces editable transparency effects such as drop shadows, table creation, long document support, extensible markup language (XML) import/export support and a greatly enhanced printing interface. "InDesign 2.0 offers so many incredible new features,'' said Sandee Cohen, author and graphics applications instructor. "From transparency and drop shadows to tables, InDesign 2.0 delivers exciting creativity tools, plus tons of features for increasing productivity. The tight integration between InDesign and Photoshop lets me import native Photoshop files without flattening them, and all of the silhouettes I create in Photoshop are recognized in InDesign.'' Trainers and book publishers are now gearing up for this powerful new release with updated materials to help customers make the switch. Third-party developers are producing an array of new plug-ins to support designers' specialized needs. Service providers worldwide helped to define requirements for the refined new printing interface and are now preparing to accept InDesign files. Customers can visit www.adobe.com/products/partnerfinder to locate the InDesign support services they need. "There are many features within InDesign 2.0 that can benefit our clients,'' said Randy Wright, director of prepress at Anderson Lithograph. "InDesign offers built-in preflight functions and easy conversion of documents to Adobe PDF, which can solve many prepress problems upfront. By alerting us early to potential problems with a file handoff, InDesign has the potential to result in significant time and money savings.'' InDesign 2.0 also enables creative professionals to more effectively create, manage and deliver visually rich content to multiple channels including print, Web, eBooks and PDAs. In addition, this upgrade supports Adobe's XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) technology, an XML-based framework for embedding, tracking and exchanging metadata so that content can be deployed more efficiently across different media. "Designers are accustomed to occasional product upgrades with a few new features, but never before have their needs and recommendations been considered so comprehensively as in the release of InDesign 2.0,'' said Susan Altman Prescott, vice president of cross-media publishing at Adobe. "With hundreds of new features important to designers, InDesign 2.0 is more than an upgrade, it represents a revolution in professional page layout and design that will dramatically change cross-media publishing.'' Performance enhancements have made InDesign 2.0 significantly faster. In addition, InDesign 2.0 provides native support for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows XP and tighter integration with other Adobe products including Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Graphic designers, production artists, and prepress professionals in advertising agencies, magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and book publishers are adopting InDesign 2.0 worldwide to exercise creative freedom and true design innovation while improving productivity. Pricing and Availability Adobe InDesign 2.0 is available immediately to customers in the United States and Canada through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at www.adobe.com. Estimated street price in the United States is US$699 for the full product with a special 90-day upgrade offer in the United States and Canada of US$99 (US$149 thereafter). For more detailed information about new features and upgrade policies for Adobe InDesign, please visit: www.adobe.com/products/indesign.