(Besides that, they don‘t even think about building sleek and perfance oriented apps.) Jack of all trades, blown up to the max with ever increasing functionalities. Adobe did with Indesign and Illustrator what Microsoft did with Office – they created monsters. That Adobe doesn‘t offer apps yet stems purely from strategic decisions and does not reflect the resourcefulness of the devices or their operating sytems. Great to go over designs with a customer or to do a quick change on the go. But it is a possiblity to see your files on mobile and even edit content. Which is by itself something that even an old iPad is capable of in terms of ressources and OS capabillities! Of course, this app is not a full fledged Indesign with all its bells and whistles. While you‘ve been right until recently that there is no solution from Adobe itself and no way to run the desktop applications on iOS or Android, I highly disagree with you regarding the power and capabilities of recent tablet generations.Ī developer by the name BacDev offers an app called «Design Touch» which can natively open and edit Indesign files. While researching the topic INDD on iOS, I found most topics answered by you.

I personally can't see myself trying to use InDesign on an iPad with a remote-viewer method given that so many of the controls are keyboard-related, but if there was ever a release of InDesign for iPad that could easily be controlled with an apple pencil, I'd be curious to see how it would work.

While I agree with Steve's comment that making fine edits on an iPad would be difficult, I don't agree that iPads are not capable of running professional graphics applications given that there are several on the market for the iPad at the moment, and one look at games such as Mortal Kombat X on the iPad shows an iPad can certainly handle graphics.

Still, that doesn't mean that this won't happen in the future. However, it's not a true install of InDesign or Photoshop, as they are not made for the iOS 11. Won't post the link here as it isn't really related to InDesign, but if you want to control a Mac via the iPad, google the words 'control mac from ipad' and the first answer by Tech Radar goes through a step by step on how to do this.

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