Adobe InDesign cs Bible

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 984 pages
• Published by: Visual; First edition November 17, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764542273
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764542275
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 2.3 inches
• Weighs: 3.2 pounds

Book Description
* Completely updated to cover the latest version of InDesign, Adobe's professional, next-generation page-layout application, which is rapidly gaining significant market share
* Fully compatible with Mac OS X, InDesign integrates tightly with Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, delivering intuitive features that reduce elaborate design tasks to a few quick steps and providing built-in support for publishing pages in print or electronically, including seamless PDF export
* Cross-platform coverage treats both Mac and Windows versions

Book Info
Guide to creating high-impact documents using advanced, easy-to-use graphics and text features. Covers InDesign's new interface enhancements and template features; showing how to be more creative with new text formatting, custom dash, and color mixing capabilities. Softcover.

Reader Reviews
Anything having to do with computers, I'm entirely self-taught (having done graduate work in the social sciences at a time when universities owned only mainframes that required punchcards . . .), but I'm also thoroughly autodidactic. So when I get involved with new software of any kind, I immediately go looking for the best big, fat reference book I can find. I've been using PageMaker for about eight years to produce the quarterly journal I edit for a learned society, but decided it was time to jump to a newer program. But the series of manual-replacements published by Osborne-McGraw-Hill and Hayden, with which I've been very pleased in the past, don't seem to include a volume for InDesign, so I asked around and Gruman's past work was heavily recommended. They were still right, I'm happy to say. The opening chapters provide the clearest description I've found yet of the differences between the PageMaker approach and the QuarkXpress approach, the chapter on styles is excellent, and the whole section on prepress and packaging is now filled with Post-It bookmarks. And so is Appendix D, "Switching from PageMaker." Gruman manages to clearly explain things on several levels at once, so both the muddler-through like me and the experienced graphics designer will be satisfied. And after I've taught myself the essential differences between the old and the new, the huge amount of pure reference material will keep this volume close at hand. Comment | | (Report this)