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InDesign CS for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
- By Sandee Cohen
- Published Nov 24, 2003 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Visual QuickStart Guide series.
- Copyright 2004
- Dimensions: 7 X 9
- Pages: 576
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-21348-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-21348-8
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Now that you've finally figured out that InDesign's increasingly tight integration with the rest of Adobe's creative products will enable you to work more creatively and efficiently, all you want to do is get up to speed on it--yesterday, if possible! Enter InDesign CS for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction to everything InDesign. You'll learn about all aspects of the InDesign interface, including its tools and palettes, as well as how to create and navigate documents, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools, and work with color. You'll also find complete coverage of more advanced topics (like preflighting and advanced text control) and a thorough introduction to all of InDesign CS' new features: an updated Story Editor, nested styles, separation previews, and the Package for GoLive command.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Complete, Easy to Read, and FUNNY,
By A Customer
This review is from: InDesign CS for Macintosh and Windows (Paperback)
Some of the visual quickstart books are better than the others. This one is one of the best in the whole bunch!The author really knows her stuff. She covers every important aspect of the program in a fun, easy to read style. The step-by-step lessons are incredibly easy to follow. You don't need any special files to learn the program. Just open the book to any page and learn the specific task you need to know. The book is organized not just by the program's features, but by the type of projects you'd be working on. For instance, the chapter on Long Documents has all the exercises you'd want for those type of files. The author also has some very good background stories about working in advertising and design. So you learn not just InDesign, but about things like spot color, preparing files for printing, and working with PDFs. There are plenty of books that cost twice the price of this one. But you can't find anything as good for this price.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Inexpensive, comprehensive, and easy to navigate and reference,, By Margaret (Kansas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: InDesign CS for Macintosh and Windows (Paperback)
I've only bought a few computer manuals in my life [and never ended doing much with them but setting them on a shelf] before this, so perhaps I am not the best person to review one. Furthermore, I have never used a desktop publisher program of any kind (beyond WORD) before picking this book up - so I am about as clueless going into this as I can be. But, I had to learn In Design (along with Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat) fast. A design instructor recommended this book.With just a little time, reading, and playing with direction - I feel like I can use In Design to do my publishing tasks. And that is saying a lot for a computer dummy like me. There were personal forwards to the chapters that made the chapters easy to understand and that relate the software to technical/design concepts that even someone with no art and little design background can catch onto. This books works well as a walk-through tortorial AND as a comprehensive reference book. But,... Read more
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Best book on InDesign out there, By DST (Kea'au, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: InDesign CS for Macintosh and Windows (Paperback)
Everything in this book is done well. Ms. Cohen knows how to show things visually, and packs a lot into this volume. I also had bought "InDesign for QuarkXPress Users" and never use it because this book is all I need. Its well-organized, easy-to-use format makes looking up how to do something a breeze. The only downside is that it would do better with color, but if B&W keeps the price down, I'm all for it.You want to divide your page into rows and columns, boom, there it is, page 30. You want to know all the ways you can wrap text, boom, there it is, pages 216-220. Copy and apply text attributes on-the-fly with the eyedropper? Copy and paste in place, change case, fake an italic (skew), and all other good stuff QuarkXPress can't do. These goodies go on and on -- lots of stuff you'd go into Illustrator or Photoshop to do, but don't have to. Want totally controllable drop shadows on text or a placed object? It's in there. Want to set a giant headline, create outlines of the... Read more |
Table of Contents
Introduction.
1: Getting Started.
2: Document Setup.
3: Basic Text.
4: Working with Objects.
5: Working in Color.
6: Styling Objects.
7: Pen and Bezier Tools.
8: Imported Graphics.
9: Text Effects.
10: Pages And Books.
11: Layers.
12: Libraries.
13: Tabs and Tables.
14: Automating Text.
15: Typography Controls.
16: Color Management.
17: Interactive PDF Elements.
18: Output.
19: Exporting.
20: Customizing InDesign.
Appendix.
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