Product Description

With its ever-tightening integration with Adobe's full suite of creative products and its own increasingly sophisticated feature set, InDesign is winning legions of Quark and FrameMaker converts. If you’re among them–or if you've decided to sidestep those programs altogether–you need this book. In these pages, the Adobe Creative Team uses a series of project-based lessons to provide a thorough grounding in the InDesign school of page design. You'll find step-by-step lessons in InDesign CS2 fundamentals plus plenty of the advanced tips and techniques you need to take your page designs to the next level. The workbook-style format includes self-paced lessons followed by review questions to reinforce the knowledge and a CD with all of the files required to complete the book's projects. Throughout, special focus is given to the features new to InDesign CS: the new Adobe Bridge file browser; object styles, snippets, smarter text handling, the ability to hide or show layers in Photoshop and PDF files, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #174304 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

From the Back Cover

With its ever-tightening integration with Adobe's full suite of creative products and its own increasingly sophisticated feature set, InDesign is winning legions of Quark and FrameMaker converts. If you’re among them–or if you've decided to sidestep those programs altogether–you need this book. In these pages, the Adobe Creative Team uses a series of project-based lessons to provide a thorough grounding in the InDesign school of page design. You'll find step-by-step lessons in InDesign CS2 fundamentals plus plenty of the advanced tips and techniques you need to take your page designs to the next level. The workbook-style format includes self-paced lessons followed by review questions to reinforce the knowledge and a CD with all of the files required to complete the book's projects. Throughout, special focus is given to the features new to InDesign CS: the new Adobe Bridge file browser; object styles, snippets, smarter text handling, the ability to hide or show layers in Photoshop and PDF files, and much more.

About the Author
The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Customer Reviews

Does what it says on the tin
I bought this book to create a brochure for the business. The book walks through the basics and then onto more the advanced interesting things.
Within a week, I had what I thought was a great brochure. Be aware you need to have photoshop too. This is really pagemaker underneath and is great for page layout. You will learn about printing and layout terminology but if you know it already it makes some of the lesson go quickly.

I've had it now about a month and rejigged the brochures which traditionally would have been so tedious I would have left well alone. Now it took an hour to change the layout and tranfer (drag and drop) the images and text from one design to the other.

HAs some really brilliant ideas, if you paste text into a box and the area is too small, you can create another text box, link it to the first and the "missing" text continues. If you change the font size so it takes less or more room, it automatically adjusts it.

It is also good as a reference, when the "I have forgotten how to do..." happens.

It can export the document in the usual formats required by printers (the press not the laser). It handles printing to the printer really well too, with all kinds of options (cutlines, bleed etc etc)

If you want to make and update a brochure/document/book it is fab.

Good luck...

Good Introduction
Read this book through three times and with a little extra knowledge provided by the on-line help and documentation managed a creditable 92% in the Adobe ACE exam. Consider this to be a worthwhile introduction to a good bit of software.

A great help
I knew I wanted to do a bit of web site design but had only worked with Publisher and FrontPage and really unhappy with the results. I bought GoLive but then realized I had no idea what to do with it now that I had it. Got this book along with a couple of others, this has been a great resource. I am building my webpage and it is really looking good. With the help of this book I am learning how to use the Adobe CS2 Suite to real advantage. This book walks you through the steps of working in the environment all the way to putting it on the ftp site to be a working webpage. I am really pleased with the results so far and know that as I work through this the second time my skills will only improve. As a beginner it is a great help and as I have learned I have gone back to pick up the things I missed the first time around. Well worth the investment.