Real World Adobe InDesign CS3 (Real World)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 912 pages
• Published by: Peachpit Press
• Edition: 1st Edition October 19, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 032149170X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0321491701
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches
• Weighs: 3.4 pounds

Book Description
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.


About The Author
Olav Martin Kvern is an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, software designer, and writer. He coauthored the ground-breaking Real World PageMaker. He has written for Macworld, Publish, and Adobe magazines. In addition, he has designed many books for Peachpit Press and is currently on the Adobe InDesign Developer Technologies team. David Blatner is an internationally respected author or co-author of more than 15 books, including Adobe InDesign Breakthroughs, Adobe Photoshop Breakthroughs, and Real World Adobe Photoshop. He also wrote the world’s best-selling book on QuarkXPress, Real World QuarkXPress. 

Reader Reviews
I can't say I enjoyed this book because all it did was confirm my suspicions that InDesign was still very seriously limited in many regards. Nevertheless, it is quite thorough in its description of all the application's various features as well as those features' various--often times baffling-- caveats and limitations. If I had one complaint about the content it would be that it jumps around a lot, making frequent references to sections the reader hasn't gotten to yet, but it's not that distracting. What bothered me most was the cheapo binding which isn't really strong enough for a tome of this size. I've had it for less than a week and have subjected it to no substantial abuse beyond simply reading it normally and the spine is already cracking apart, allowing pages to sluff off and rejoin the ground that bore them. It seems like Peachpit gets cheaper and cheaper every year, yet their prices never falter. Comment | | (Report this)