Product Description

Packed with the latest InDesign tips and techniques

The secrets of InDesign page layout – explained in plain English!

New to InDesign? Making the switch from QuarkXPress®? No worries – this easy–to–follow guide shows you how to master this electronic publishing tool, customize the interface, work with objects and graphics, calibrate color, create PDF files, and more. From pages, panels, and pictures to text, tabs, and tables, you′ll design and output like a pro every time!

• Set up a new publication
• Create and use master pages
• Add frames, lines, and colors
• Manage chapters and books
• Output your files
• Import and place pictures

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91588 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

From the Back Cover
Packed with the latest InDesign tips and techniques

The secrets of InDesign page layout — explained in plain English!

New to InDesign? Making the switch from QuarkXPress®? No worries — this easy–to–follow guide shows you how to master this electronic publishing tool, customize the interface, work with objects and graphics, calibrate color, create PDF files, and more. From pages, panels, and pictures to text, tabs, and tables, you′ll design and output like a pro every time!

• Set up a new publication

• Create and use master pages

• Add frames, lines, and colors

• Manage chapters and books

• Output your files

• Import and place pictures

About the Author
Galen Gruman is the principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm. Currently a regular contributor to Macworld, Layers Magazine, 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 20 other books on desktop publishing. 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, Layers Magazine.

Customer Reviews

Not really for Dummies
I came to this book as a Pagemaker user of some 10 years, forced to upgrade to Indesign as we upgraded all our other software and none of it works with Pagemaker any more. Contrary to its title, I found this book assumes a pretty high level of knowledge of graphic design software and that it wasn't for beginners at all. Like many books of its kind, it teaches you how to do specific things but not how to troubleshoot and find out why something isn't working as it should. I had several fairly basic problems and had to resort to searching for them on Google as they weren't covered in this book. I wouldn't recommend it for beginners or those who need just the basic features that enable you to publish books with this software - which is what I do.

Does what it says on the cover!!
This is a great introduction to In design. In my experience none of the 'for dummies' series are targeted at Dummies. There is an assumption of a certain basic knowledge and common sense so it is not too irritating for myself who is intermediate. The tips and tricks inserts in the marging are very useful. A great starting point, or also usful to confirm what you know and build on it.