Adobe Illustrator and InDesign for the iPad coming soon? Adobe asks for feedback
I have been monitoring the Adobe blogs for a while and never have a seen a post generate so many comments and excitement than this one from Jack Nack:
If Adobe made an iPad app…
“…or apps for other tablets and/or smartphones, for that matter, what would you want it to be?”
Source: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/
We reported last week that we should not count out the iPad just yet (iPad iFail). The iPhone should have provided us with a good lesson. And if I see these enthusiastic comments, then surely the iPad has an interesting future amongst creatives, a market many see as key for a launch of any Apple product:
“…Adobe Creative Suite is another app I would like to see (on the Apple iPad), but only Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and InDesign. These four application makes mobile print production absolutely possible on the go, and provides the ability for company and clients to make print production on the fly, on the go...”
Kento Ito — 7:01 PM on January 29, 2010 Reply to this comment
Source: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/01/if_adobe_did_an_ipad_app.html
Jack is quick to note, no promises, but from the feedback he received, I would imagine there will be a few meetings at ADBE soon! So printers, what iPad apps would you like to see? It is looking more and more like a great opportunity for both printers and print-buyers this iPad.
Can I preflight and package Adobe Illustrator files? <<<----- Yes, click hyper link!
Just as Apple with their Macintosh computers were the foundations of DTP or desktop publishing, now 25 years in the running; those very type of users, the creatives of today, may very well be the key to the iPad’s success. iSaidso or better said, iThink. (That whole “i” thing is a whole other post!) Remember to use FlightCheck to preflight your desktop publishing files for quality print output.
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If Adobe wants to gain a lead in the ebook market they needs to get upstream with the creation of the product. The iPad is going to be HUGE!!! The list of naysayers when the first iPod was released was long and distinguished. Now that they have all eaten plenty of helpings of crow, its time for them to learn from their mistakes and understand that the iPad is going to take text book publishers and the entire publishing industry into a direction they couldn’t go on their own.
Adobe needs to start leading again. If they were to take a leadership stance on this, they would have had a demo of illustrator or photoshop on the iPad at the launch, but they blew that. They need to step up and start innovating again!
I have a comment posted on the printoolz web site: http://www.printoolz.com.
I agree this thing is going to sell well, although it may take Adobe some time to come around.
SB
http://www.printoolz.com
As a web designer, I WANT ILLUSTRATOR ON THE iPAD!!!
I’m having a hard time trying to think of something cooler than Adobe Illustrator on a mobile device, preferably with some sort of a stylus.
Oh wait, a T-Rex eating a terradactyl while fighting a giant robot made of ninjas, surrounded by cheer-leaders, a dance squad, and lazers would be cooler.
That is the only thing cooler.
As a graphic designer who is always on the go, having Adobe’s Creative Suite on the iPad would be perfect! I would buy both in a nano second. While I’m away at college, I maintain the job 4 hours away–being able to take out my iPad to revise something or e-mail the business whenever I wanted without dragging around my laptop would be ideal.
I would love to see an ipad app that worked as a common interface to existing adobe products. You would have tools and a drawing surface/ canvas on the ipad but it would essentially be an interface/ drawing tablet. By default it could store and version copies of the illustrations on the ipad and if you were near a desktop it could sync the files and make them available to continue the work. This gets into some minority report kind of stuff where you are flinging your files from one machine to another and working on them ad-hoc.
Alternatively, a light version of the apps for sketching or illustration in remote places would be great assuming the file types didn’t have to be converted.
I could also see this working as a control surface for audio/video editing and scoring- much cheaper than the alternatives out there like the wacom cintiq (I know it’s smaller etc… but i can’t lug my cintiq around).
I agree with my fellow graphic designers, Carrying an ipad around is much easier than carrying a laptop. I would also buy both in a millisecond. And for that matter, why stop with Indesign and illustrator? I wouln’t mind seeing After Effects or Dreamweaver for the ipad either! Like Tommy said, this thing is in fact huge!
hell yeah!!!
I am a graphic designer, all I use are macs, and adobe products. They must learn to get along, and the iPad is here to stay, Adobe has to cooperate and make a simple illustator app. This is a must.
Adobe photoshop, Illustrator and indesign are a must before I even consider IPad. I don’t need a huge phone that isn’t a phone.
Let me go out on a limb here and say “never gonna happen.”
1) The current code is not portable. As far as I know InDesign or Illustrator were not developed and compiled using Xcode, which is required for iPhone and iPad apps. That would require extensive rewriting—basically they would need to be written from scratch.
2) The interface would need to be drastically different. Fingers are different than keyboards and mice. An application written for one will not necessarily translate to the other. Ever try using a Classic application without a mouse? Same thing.
3) The App store is a hostile environment to developers. Adobe knows this better than anyone. After spending as much money as they did developing Flash CS5 and being told to get lost by Apple, it’s doubtful they would try something like this again.
What we might see?
From Adobe we might see half-assed attempt at something like an Illustrator Lite for Google’s iPad competitor. But that’s not the future.
What we will see are dozens of apps that will allow people to do innovative creative things. Instead of one or five apps to take care of all your web, print, and video needs, you’ll use a handful that do the specific tasks you want very well.
Maybe at some point someone will figure out a way to package these new tasks into new mega apps and become the next Adobe, the same way it happened the last time. Will it be Adobe this time? Only time will tell.
Indesign goes on here — I will buy it immediately.
I would really like a mini Adobe design suite on the iPad, that would be best. Not sure how files would be stores away but it would be an interesting series of on-the-go apps.
A ‘lite’ version of CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign is what I really want to see) would be so cool on the iPad – I’d definitely buy them!
I would use an Ipad equipped with indesign EVERY Day ALL day long. I am in the art department of a direct mail company and this would make viewing and showing files simple and portable.
2 stipulations:
1. Must use actual indesign file. (not a converted dumbed down file)
2. Must sinc or drag and drop files from my Mac in the blink of an eye.
My manager and I have pushed the idea around a few times. He says it will never happen. I say just wait.
Please Please Please. Adobe Illustrator on iPad a MUST. :)
I do hope Adobe put an app like Indesign and Photoshop on the iPad as this would open a new market for them regarding designing on the go, it will be good for students, teachers, journalists, graphic people etc etc.
To have illustrator and indesign for my iPad is what it’s missing for me as a designer and who only uses apples and adobe for a business … Please please hurry
Many thanks
I’m waiting until either, A. Illustrator and Photoshop are available for iPad, or B. the price drops and memory rises on the macbook air. Whichever happens first, I’m buying…
Why bother chasing tiny apps all over the place..just buy a macbook.
As a graphic designer, iNEED: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign… and they have got to be professional!
With those on iPad, i’m getting one!
Hi
I am a scientist and thus I read a lot of scientific journal articles. They usually come in a PDF format. I love to read them on screen and add comment right on the document. I would love to have that feature on a Adobe acrobat for ipad.
Remember the first time a print house said “we now accept your art files via email?” That’s about what I thought when I read this post. Imagine designing tomorrow’s publication sitting at your kid’s soccer practice or editing corrections on the fly and reloading today’s digital mag… Adobe, please make it happen. InDesign and Distiller for ipad are my personal requests. I would also suggest taking cues from http://www.kickapps.com on interface.
A true artist never stops imagining what could be…
Let the light shine brighter for all designers everywhere!
As a member on a yearbook staff, I would love to see InDesign on the iPad.
oh mannn i would love to have the entire cs5 suite on my ipad.
I would think that there should be a collaboration with the usage of AutoDesk Sketchbook Pro, Brushes, and Adobe on getting part of the creative Suite on the iPad. I use Sketchbook to scribble my ideas, and Brushes to see what the solid colour looks like. The only think I am missing is somthing to take some of my ideas out to a vector basis.
Please give us illustrator & other professional grade software for the iPad, then it would be a truly useful tool for the design community.
Thank you.
Michael.
Will buy it in a second.
Please let there be tons of brushes on illustrator!
This will really contribute to my business.
If iPad had Illustrator and Photoshop and I could hook up a tablet to it, I would buy it immediately.
Recently bought my iPad and am returning it for a Macbook Pro because InDesign remains unavailable.
The entire beauty of the iPad is to design as you do on a napkin. At an instant.
Adobe please help us!
Interesting point Sandra about InDesign and the iPad-
Have you tried Apple Pages for the iPad? Looks quite interesting and would be curious if anyone reading this has any feedback on how Pages works for a quick layout tool on the iPad.