Synopses & Reviews
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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 QuickStart Guide 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 Guides, 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.
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Book News Annotation:
Cohen (graphics, New School University Computer Instruction Center)
offers step-by-step instructions, illustrated with b&w screen shots,
for using InDesign. Each chapter is divided into sections on specific
tools and commands, and each section contains exercises for
performing a specific technique. Sidebars give history or background
information for specific features, and offer humorous stories about
desktop publishing. Unfortunately, the book's two-column format, on a
7x9" page, squeezes screen shots and illustrations into one column,
and many of the screen shots are too small to read easily.
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
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 QuickStart Guide 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 Guides, 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 much more.
About the Author
'Sandee Cohen is the graphics curriculum instructor for the New School Computer Instruction Center in New York City, senior contributing editor to InDesign Magazine, and a popular speaker at many conferences (including Macworld Conference and Expo, the InDesign Conference, the Creative Suite Conference and other events). She has also written Visual QuickStart Guides on Macromedia Fireworks and Macromedia FreeHand in addition to coauthoring other books on graphics and desktop publishing.'
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Document Setup
Chapter 3 Basic Text
Chapter 4 Working with Objects
Chapter 5 Working in Color
Chapter 6 Fills, Strokes, and Effects
Chapter 7 Points and Paths
Chapter 8 Imported Graphics
Chapter 9 Text Effects
Chapter 10 Pages And Books
Chapter 11 Layers
Chapter 12 Libraries and Snippets
Chapter 13 Tabs and Tables
Chapter 14 Automating Your Work
Chapter 15 Text and Object Styles
Chapter 16 Typography Controls
Chapter 17 Color Management
Chapter 18 Interactive PDF Elements
Chapter 19 Output
Chapter 20 Exporting
Chapter 21 Customizing InDesign
Index.
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