Adobe Indesign - 2020
While seemingly minor, the native QR Code tool in InDesign 2020 was a hit for marketing collateral. Previously, you needed external scripts or Illustrator. Now:
For event planners and retail packaging designers using Adobe InDesign 2020, this feature alone justified the upgrade. Adobe InDesign 2020
No release is perfect. InDesign 2020 was criticized for: While seemingly minor, the native QR Code tool
InDesign is notorious for its plethora of panels—Paragraph, Character, Stroke, Links, Pages—it’s easy for the workspace to become cluttered. InDesign 2020 leaned heavily into context sensitivity by refining the Properties Panel. For event planners and retail packaging designers using
The panel learned to be smarter. Instead of hunting through menus, the Properties Panel displays the most likely controls you need based on what you are currently doing. If you have text selected, you get character and paragraph controls. If you click on an image, you get fitting and link options.
In the 2020 update, this panel became even more robust, effectively reducing the need for multiple floating windows and giving designers a larger canvas to work with.
