- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: XML
- Sep 14, 2009
- XML is as simple or complicated as you care to make it. Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to keep it simple, at least at first.
|
- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Interactive Documents
- Sep 10, 2009
- Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner explain InDesign's features for the “rich media” producer. Many of these tools don’t produce any visible effect on your InDesign pages, but change the behavior of PDF or Flash SWF files that you export.
|
- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Text Wrap
- Sep 8, 2009
- Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to apply a text wrap to any independent object in InDesign.
|
- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Placing Text on a Path
- Aug 21, 2009
- Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how InDesign can place text on a path, as well as place text inside a path.
|
- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Tables
- Aug 21, 2009
- InDesign can create and edit tables, or import tables from Word, Excel, or XML. This feature isn’t perfect, but it’s more than good enough to alleviate most of the pain of working with tables in a layout.
|
- Running Header Text Variables in Adobe InDesign CS4
- Jun 9, 2009
- Michael Murphy tells you everything you need to know about running text header variables in Adobe InDesign CS4.
|
- Working With Styles, CSS, and XML in Adobe InDesign CS4
- Jun 8, 2009
- InDesign was originally built to create print-based documents, but it now has the ability to export and import XML and export XHTML. But it isn't foolproof. As you'll see in this chapter, InDesign styles are a crucial component of this capability.
|
- Object Styles in Adobe InDesign CS4
- May 11, 2009
- Text isn’t the only element that makes up an InDesign layout, nor is it the only asset in a project to which you can assign multiple attributes. Frames, shapes, and strokes—collectively known as objects—potentially have at least as many attributes as text.
|
- Working with Long Documents in Adobe InDesign CS4
- Apr 28, 2009
- Learn how to work with long documents in Adobe InDesign CS4, including combining multiple InDesign documents into a book file, adding footnotes, and generating an index file and sort entries.
|
- Getting Started with Adobe InDesign CS4
- Apr 27, 2009
- Get an overview of the key features of InDesign CS4 including using Adobe Bridge to access files, checking on potential production issues with the Preflight panel and viewing and navigating your document.
|
- Type in Real World Adobe InDesign CS4
- Mar 24, 2009
- InDesign offers a number of improvements and surprises in the area of typesetting. It’s an evolutionary product, not a revolutionary one, but, on its release, InDesign became the best desktop typesetting program, and raised the bar for its competition.
|
- Bullets and Numbering in Adobe InDesign CS3
- Feb 24, 2009
- Sven Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to apply bullets and numbering in Adobe CS3. Applying a bullet is fairly straightforward; numbering is a bit more complicated.
|
- Working with Long Documents in Adobe InDesign CS3: Table of Contents
- Feb 23, 2009
- Anything you can tag with a paragraph style, you can build into a “table of contents,” which all depends entirely on your using styles. Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how.
|
- Working with Long Documents in Adobe InDesign CS3: Indexes (or Indices)
- Feb 22, 2009
- Indexing a book is almost always painful and until recently, also required a large stack of note cards, highlighter pens, Post-It notes, and serious medication. Fortunately, InDesign has a built-in indexing feature, which, while it won’t make the index for you, does remove the note card and highlighter requirements.
|
- Working with Long Documents in Adobe InDesign CS3: Books
- Feb 21, 2009
- If you break up your project into small documents, how can you ensure style consistency and proper page numbering among them? The answer is InDesign’s Book feature.
|
- Exporting PDF in Adobe InDesign CS3
- Feb 20, 2009
- InDesign can export PDFs for just about any purpose, onscreen or on-press. It all depends on how you set up the export options. Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to do it.
|
- Trapping in Adobe InDesign CS3
- Feb 19, 2009
- Learn everything you need to know about trapping, a method of overlapping abutting colored objects to compensate for the imperfect registration of printing presses.
|
- Working with Master Spreads in Adobe InDesign CS3
- Feb 18, 2009
- Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner explain how to use Master spreads (also called master pages), which are the background on which you lay out your publication’s pages.
|
- Text Variables in Adobe InDesign CS3
- Feb 17, 2009
- Text variables in InDesign provide a way for you to insert text that can change depending on various factors, such as times, dates, and page references. Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner discuss them here in this excerpt from their book.
|
- Inline Frames and Anchored Objects in Adobe InDesign CS3
- Feb 16, 2009
- One typically embeds graphics in lines of text whenever the graphics have a defined relationship to the text.Learn how to work with inline frames and anchored objects in Adobe InDesign CS3 to achieve this result.
|