InDesign CS5 For Dummies

Get up to speed on InDesign CS5 and create great publicationsfor print or the Web
How do you design? Free–form, creating one–of–a–kind pieces? Or would you love a highly formatted template that you could modify as needed for regular periodicals? InDesign is the right tool for both approaches, and this is the right book to help you master the essentials. Learn to set up your documents, prepare them for output, and get creative!
Take a tour — navigate around InDesign′s menus, dialog boxes, panels, and panes, and customize preferences
Master the template — set up and modify templates, use master pages, build libraries, and work with color
The essential object — manipulate, organize, align, and arrange design objects
Terrific text — see how to import and thread text, edit and style it, and finesse characters to make your words look great
Must–have graphics — prepare graphics files, work with image layers, and create a clipping path
Get down to business — create manuals and annual reports with tables, footnotes, and indexes
Pretty in print — calibrate color and prepare your document for printing
Present your project — export your work to the Web or make it an interactive presentation with animation and sound
Open the book and find:
Tips on modifying defaults for views, colors, and styles
How pages and layers work
What you can do with color swatches
When to align objects and when to stack them
How to customize the spelling and hyphenation dictionaries
Import options for Word, Excel®, and RTF files
How to handle automatic text
Tips for cropping and positioning graphics
Learn to:
Navigate the interface and set up reusable master pages
Work c reatively with lines, text frames, and graphics frames
Manipulate text and spiff up your documents with graphics
Create PDFs, Web pages, and Flash files from InDesign

Nota biograficzna:

Galen Gruman is the principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and book production firm. He has designed and produced numerous publications. Galen has authored or coauthored more than 20 books on desktop publishing, and he is currently the Executive Editor for InfoWorld.

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Get up to speed on InDesign CS5 and create great publicationsfor print or the Web
How do you design? Free–form, creating one–of–a–kind pieces? Or would you love a highly formatted template that you could modify as needed for regular periodicals? InDesign is the right tool for both approaches, and this is the right book to help you master the essentials. Learn to set up your documents, prepare them for output, and get creative!
Take a tour — navigate around InDesign′s menus, dialog boxes, panels, and panes, and customize preferences
Master the template — set up and modify templates, use master pages, build libraries, and work with color
The essential object — manipulate, organize, align, and arrange design objects
Terrific text — see how to import and thread text, edit and style it, and finesse characters to make your words look great
Must–have graphics — prepare graphics files, work with image layers, and create a clipping path
Get down to business — create manuals and annual reports with tables, footnotes, and indexes
Pretty in print — calibrate color and prepare your document for printing
Present your project — export your work to the Web or make it an interactive presentation with animation and sound
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Tips on modifying defaults for views, colors, and styles
How pages and layers work
What you can do with color swatches
When to align objects and when to stack them
How to customize the spelling and hyphenation dictionaries
Import options for Word, Excel®, and RTF files
How to handle automatic text
Tips for cropping and positioning graphics
Learn to:
Navigate the interface and set up reusable master pages
Work creatively with lines, text frames, and graphics frames
Manipulate text and spiff up your documents with graphics
Create PDFs, Web pages, and Flash files from InDesign