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    Well... here's something to think about.

    Indesign is a program that has been created to generate output for print-based documents. It has secondary functions to output files into screenspace but it does not always do so gracefully. More importantly, indesign does not in any way/shape/form account for pixel-based measurements. 1 pt != 1 px and so on.

    Photoshop and Illustrator, however, do take pixels into consideration. Photoshop by nature is pixel-based software while illustrator can be made to output on a pixel-perfect level. By creating a pixel-to-pixel representation of your web designs you not only give a developer much stricter guidelines to follow you also give a client the benefit of a more accurate, if not absolute, representation of the design.

    I think the most basic fact that anyone misses here is that indesign is not pixel-based software. Plain and simple.

    Now, whether or not is is a good tool for webdesign could be opined. I am of the opinion that any web designer worth their salt wouldn't be using indesign to generate web designs - and vice versa for print.

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    • The designer (not the web designer) would use InDesign, though. The web guy rarely copies/pastes art anyway!monospaced
    • NO designer should use InD except for long copy-based print documents. It's not a design program, it's a layout program.Bargels
    • that's a seriously ignorant statement, Bargels. You must be new to this industry.monospaced
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