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Format

Adobe InDesign Document

Summary

Name
Adobe InDesign Document
Version
1.0
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1628
Format type
Presentation
Description
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing application developed and produced by Adobe Inc., first released in 1999. It is the successor to PageMaker, software previously created by Aldus Corporation in 1985, which was subsequently acquired by Adobe. It can be used to produce a number of works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations and books. InDesign supports XML, stylesheets and other coding markup, providing functionality for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats.
Note
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/InDesign_INDD
File extensions
indd, ind
Source
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Relationships

Has lower priority than
Is previous version of

Internal signatures

Adobe InDesign Document 1.0

Note
BOF, Offset=92:'DOCUMENT' followed by either 0x01 (Start of Header) or 0x02 (Start of Text) followed by a fixed gap of 4 followed by either 0x00000000 (4 x Null) or 0x01000000 (Start of Header followed by 3 x Null) or 0x00000001 (3 x Null followed by Start of Header)

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
92
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
444F43554D454E54(01|02){4}(00000000|00000000|01000000|00000001)
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Updated in V115

    Release date
    15 November 2023

    Adobe InDesign Document 1.0: Max-offset modified for BOF signature to allow for more exact signature identification. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK).

  • Updated in V105

    Release date
    29 June 2022

    Adobe InDesign Document 1.0: Removed priority over x-fmt/450. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK).

  • Added in V103

    Release date
    11 March 2022

    Adobe InDesign Document 1.0: Signature researched and samples provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    Adobe InDesign Document 1.0: Full entry added. Submitted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.