Comments on: Adobe InDesign Server CS2 Debuts Today

by: steve

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:31:14 +0000

I’ve searched for hours trying to find how IDS CS2 is licenses. Your article mentions that the server is scalable through multiple cpu and instance configurations.
I have found that IDS CS3 is licensed by CPU though it is still unclear.

Can anyone break this down for me.

1 license = 1 instance (unlimited cpu)
or
1 license = 1 cpu (unlimited instance)
or
1 license = 1 instance, 1 cpu

I would be very greatful

by: casie

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:25:17 +0000

So does anyone know how this compares to the quark server?
Does the server allow full document creation is is it still just for editing still?

by: Samuel John Klein

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:33:53 +0000

Adobe’s web page seems to say that your cost depends on how you deploy it; either you’ll come up with your own solution or get a solution from a third-party provider. The only pricing information they seem to have is a phone number for sales. So it looks like you have to talk to someone at Adobe.

Even the solution providers (such as Woodwing) want you contact them for pricing on enterprise level purchasing.

by: ian millar

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:57:22 +0000

Does anyone have any idea how much this product costs? either CS2 or CS3 servers?

by: Paul Russ

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:13:19 +0000

hi, i have seen the InDesign Server Application iBrams from Peter Schmidt Group it is impressing what you can do with the indesign server. it woul be grate to have it on linux but it is already VERY fast. we have tried automatic gereation of documents from komplex templates. ist a grat thing .

by: Pariah S. Burke

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:52:19 +0000

Hi, Brady.

Well the idea is that InDesign Server is a backend application, which allows an infinite variety of web-based applications to be built atop it.

by: Brady J. Frey

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:23:54 +0000

Ah, thank you, that makes much more sense, and understandable why there isn’t a linux variant, then. Is there a reason why it’s not a mounted web based application? The technology is there to support it on an internal system — it seems like a server driven application that could have been built as a web based application.

by: Pariah S. Burke

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:49:49 +0000

It does natively work with XML—import and export—so it can be fed content from a database, or output content to any XML-compliant source.

InDesign Server itself doesn’t run on Apache, no. It’s the InDesign desktop application without a UI, and with script control. It’s not a Web server; the SI’s are creating Web-based technologies primarily in so far as building browser-based UIs to InD Server.

Porting that to Linux would be a major issue. Not only would they have to recompile the application, but they’d need Linux versions of other applications (e.g. InCopy) and services. It was disappointing to hear that InD Server wouldn’t run on Linux, but it’s understandable.

by: Brady J. Frey

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:24:12 +0000

So, it runs on a mac server, good… but not a linux server? That’s just silly… does it work natively with XML, as the application entails? Why would they not support linux, when they’re probably hosting this on an Apache base anyway in the Mac system! I have the feeling this is great, but the web based area is built on outdated technology then, I’d be interested to see what real structure they have under there. It sounds promising, but could also be trash.