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First, let’s address the elephant in the room. There is one app that has come to dominate the world of desktop publishing, and that is Adobe InDesign. If you’re working for a company that uses InDesign, there’s no point having anything else. The same goes for QuarkXPress, the former leading light in the industry that has been somewhat eclipsed by the rise of Adobe’s app.
It’s the same argument that has been put forward for Photoshop or Premiere Pro. If the entire workflow for your project – which involves lots of other people collaborating – is built on Adobe software, then you need Adobe software. Substituting for something else will probably
