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Over the last few years, Adobe InDesign has made significant inroads against QuarkXPress, with adoptions by major media companies such as Meredith Corporation and Hearst Magazines; it is now the only desktop publishing program taught at many art schools Shows graphic designers how to get up to speed quickly on the latest InDesign release, make the most of program tools, create great page designs, add sparkle, and output to a variety of media The authors, both Quark experts who've converted to InDesign, offer special tips and insights to Quark users who are making (or thinking of making) the switch to InDesign

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Part I: Starting at the Beginning 7 Chapter 1: Finding Out How InDesign Works 9 Chapter 2: Taking a Quick Lap around the Track 19 Chapter 3: Understanding InDesign Ingredients 37 Chapter 4: Making It Work Your Way 53 Part II: Document Essentials 67 Chapter 5: Opening, Viewing, and Saving Your Work 69 Chapter 6: Discovering How Pages Work 83 Chapter 7: Layers and Layers 97 Chapter 8: Creating Layouts Right the First Time 109 Chapter 9: Working with Books 121 Part III: Object Essentials 137 Chapter 10: Adding Frames, Lines, and Colors 139 Chapter 11: Aligning Objects with Grids and Guidelines 157 Chapter 12: Manipulating Objects 165 Chapter 13: Organizing Objects 183 Part IV: Text Essentials 201 Chapter 14: The Ins and Outs of Text 203 Chapter 15: The Text Frame Tango 221 Chapter 16: Handling Character Details 235 Chapter 17: Handling Paragraph Details 249 Chapter 18: Tricks with Text 265 Part V: Graphics Essentials 283 Chapter 19: Importing Pictures 285 Chapter 20: Special Effects with Graphics 299 Chapter 21: Creating Complex Shapes 311 Part VI: Printing and Output Essentials 327 Chapter 22: Setting Up for Output 329 Chapter 23: Printing and Other Output Techniques 337 Part VII: The Part of Tens 355 Chapter 24: Top Ten Resources for InDesign Users 357 Chapter 25: Top Ten Must-Knows for QuarkXPress Refugees 361 Chapter 26: Top Ten Must-Knows for PageMaker Orphans 365 Index 369

About the Author :
Barbara Assadi is the co-founder and principal of BayCreative, a researchbased advertising and marketing services firm in San Francisco. In that capacity, she manages marketing and creative content for client companies. Previously, she was marketing programs manager and editor-in-chief of Oracle Corporation’s Web site and managing editor at Quark, Inc. Barbara has collaborated with coauthor Galen Gruman on several other books on publishing software and has been a contributor to Oracle Magazine, Macworld, Publish, and InfoWorld. She has edited software books for Adobe Systems and Peachpit Press and has taught university-level courses on publishing topics. Galen Gruman is the principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of IT Wireless. Currently a frequent contributor to SBS Digital Design, CIO, and InfoWorld, he has also been editor of Macworld and M-Business, executive editor of Upside, West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld, and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com. He is coauthor of 18 other books on desktop publishing, most with Barbara Assadi. Gruman led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986, Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991, and most recently SBS Digital Design.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470199381
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: For Dummies
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470199385
  • Publisher Date: 29 May 2007
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 416


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