Adobe InDesign CS4 How-Tos

Adobe InDesign CS4 How-Tos

Author: John Cruise

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0321637755

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InDesign CS4 is more than just a page layout tool; as part of Adobe's new Creative Suite 4, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. Work faster, create more is what Adobe wants users to do with InDesign, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the InDesign CS4 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn as they go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the Bridge to manage their files, object styles to format their images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse. Features new to InDesign CS4 that are covered include: live preflight, customizable Links panel, conditional text, cross references, interactive document capability with the new SWF file, animated page transitions, export to Flash CS4 functionality, Smart Guides and Smart Spacing, spread rotation, and smart text reflow.


InDesign CS3 For Dummies

InDesign CS3 For Dummies

Author: Galen Gruman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-04-18

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 0470168927

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This guide shows you how to master this electronic publishing tool, customise the interface, work with objects and graphics, calibrate colour, create PDF files, and more. From pages, panels and pictures to text, tabs, and tables, you'll design and output like a pro every time!


Adobe InDesign CS3

Adobe InDesign CS3

Author: Adobe Systems

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0321492013

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Provides video tutorials along with a reference guide to help readers master the techniques of Adobe InDesign CS3.


Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos

Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos

Author: John Cruise

Publisher: Adobe Press

Published: 2007-05-17

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0132701316

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Build your InDesign expertise,one technique at a time. In Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos, authors John Cruise and Kelly Kordes Anton bring you 100 carefully selected techniques to help you get right to work in InDesign, the world’s most powerful page layout program. Their strategy is to focus on those features you’re most likely to use, showcasing each in a clearly explained, well-illustrated, stand-alone technique—complete with a relevant hint or two. These bite-sized lessons offer a great way to learn just what you need to know when you need it, exploring the program in a way, and at a pace, that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you’ll master all these tools and techniques, and more: • Customize the interface [Tip #6] • Add metadata to documents [Tip #14] • I nsert variable text [Tip #29] • Add special effects to type [Tip #34] • Format tables with styles [Tip #45] • U se spot colors, process colors, and tints [Tip #74] • Paginate a book [Tip #86] • U se PDF presets for output [Tip #96].


Real World Adobe InDesign CS3

Real World Adobe InDesign CS3

Author: Olav Martin Kvern

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2007-10-09

Total Pages: 1437

ISBN-13: 0132712709

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Adobe InDesign is no longer the industry newcomer—it’s a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs. It’s the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design. With the release of InDesign CS3—part of Adobe’s perfectly synchronized, tightly integrated Creative Suite 3 (which now includes Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and Flash CS3 Professional in the Design Premium and Web Premium packages)—it takes its place in the design firmament! Real World Adobe InDesign CS3 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS3, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign’s advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently. They’ll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS3, including new gradient feather, directional feather, and bevel and emboss effects; improved transparency controls; improved long document support; expanded Find/Change; and an even more flexible and customizable user interface.


InDesign CS2 For Dummies

InDesign CS2 For Dummies

Author: Barbara Assadi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-05-27

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780764598746

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Over the last few years, Adobe InDesign has made significantinroads against QuarkXPress, with adoptions by major mediacompanies such as Meredith Corporation and Hearst Magazines; it isnow the only desktop publishing program taught at many artschools Shows graphic designers how to get up to speed quickly on thelatest InDesign release, make the most of program tools, creategreat page designs, add sparkle, and output to a variety ofmedia The authors, both Quark experts who've converted to InDesign,offer special tips and insights to Quark users who are making (orthinking of making) the switch to InDesign


Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Author: Adobe Team

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13:

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This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe InDesign CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this program, while readers who already have some experience with InDesign can use this book to familiarize themselves with InDesign CS3's newest features. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills learned in each lesson. The companion CD contains all the assets readers will need to work through each project in the book. Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe's page layout and design software, has been updated to accelerate user productivity with loads of new features: new Photoshop effects--including gradient feathering, inner shadows, and glows--that you can apply to objects on a page; finer transparency controls, which let you apply transparency settings independently to an object's fill, stroke, and content for more complex visual looks; numerous productivity enhancements; advanced find/change features; new table and cell styles; export to XHTML, and more. Educational instructor notes-created to help teachers plan, organize, and time their lessons-are available for this book (and for other Classroom in a Book titles) at www.peachpit.com/instructorresources. SPECIAL NOTE: Before starting the lessons in the book, visit www.peachpit.com/indesigncs3cib for important lesson and project file updates.


InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows

InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows

Author: Sandee Cohen

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2007-10-08

Total Pages: 1241

ISBN-13: 0132712431

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Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn! Users of Adobe InDesign will be impressed with the power, ease of use, and integration found in the new InDesign CS3, Adobe's page-design component of Creative Suite 3. Users will also find more robust file-placing capabilities, new Find features, and great new text and transparency effects, among other exciting features. Adobe InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickS tart Guid e will highlight the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign. Using the task-based, visual approach that readers count on in the Visual QuickStart Gui de s, this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS3. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of purposes, and Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through InDesign and show you what to do. Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time. Page for page, the best content and value around.much more.