InDesign offers a strong set of features for professional publishers working on brochures, magazines, advertisements, and similar publications. Although it lacks specialized tools for database publishing (such as for catalogs), it offers many unique features such as a multilane composer, glyph scaling, and customer character strokes.InDesign's use of both the free-form and structured layout metaphors makes it very flexible, letting you pick the layout style that works best for you and for your document's specific needs.