The Adobe Creative Suite Productivity Benchmark

Pfeiffer Report • Benchmark OverviewThe Adobe InDesign CS Productivity BenchmarkReal-world Productivity Measures in Design and PublishingMomentous changes Major FindingsThe publishing world is undergoing a phase of intense change. From an operat-• InDesign CS allows a streamlined and tightly ing system perspective, the maturation of Mac OS X has made a conversion integrated creative workflow, which can yield of the creative environment to Apple’s new operating system unavoidable for significant productivity benefits over traditional any Macintosh-based publishing site, creating a intricate set of challenges.design and publishing workflows.As far as the publishing environment is concerned, the successive releases of InDesign, culminating so far with InDesign CS have attracted a significant fol- • Assignment-based productivity benchmarks lowing, while the arrival of a Mac OS X savvy version of QuarkXPress has given show increased productivity in real world publishers an alternative to InDesign (which has supported Apple’s new OS publishing assignments.for several years). In addition, Adobe has recently released the Adobe Creative • InDesign increases productivity by offering Suite, which combines Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat in built-in features, such as drop shadows, an integrated design environment.that eliminate the need to switch programs to Increasingly, publishing professionals are looking at updating their existing produce common ...