Dewey Decimal686.22544536
SynopsisTrusted format and a master teacher make this guide the choice for becoming a page layout pro using InDesign CS2 - quickly and easily ; Best-selling author Sandee Cohen's lively and engaging teaching style has made her a favorite at conferences and seminars.; Completely revised volume gets readers up to speed fast on most of InDesign CS2's features.; Step-by-step instructions, loads of tips and visual aids make learning more like playing as readers make their way through this friendly, information-packed volume. In a perfect world, InDesign-produced print documents would be effortlessly convertible to Web pages, files could be imported from Photoshop with text and layers editable and intact, and all of Adobe's design, graphics, and publishing programs would play well together. Well, the world may not be perfect, but the above-described scenario is precisely what users will find in Adobe's brand-new InDesign CS2 (USD699; upgrade, USD169), the page design anchor of that company's rightly integrated Creative Suite 2 due to ship in the later part of April 2005. Here to get readers up to speed on it is Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS2. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, and work with color. They'll also find complete coverage of all of InDesign CS2's new features: Object Styles, Snippets, working with layered Photoshop files, browsing with Adobe's new Bridge, and more., You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of 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 documents and master pages, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools,create interactive PDF elements, and work with color. You'll also learn how to use the new Adobe Bridge file browser to locate, manage, and drag and drop assets easily into your InDesign layouts. You'll find a new chapter on working with InCopy, complete coverage of more advanced topics (like preflighting and advanced text control) and a thorough introduction to all of InDesign's productivity-enhancing features and tools., You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of 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 documents and master pages, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools, create interactive PDF elements, and work with color. You'll also learn how to use the new Adobe Bridge file browser to locate, manage, and drag and drop assets easily into your InDesign layouts. You'll find a new chapter on working with InCopy, complete coverage of more advanced topics (like preflighting and advanced text control) and a thorough introduction to all of InDesign's productivity-enhancing features and tools.