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xii, 900 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
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Introduction -- Chapter 1: Workspace -- Layout and story windows -- Managing multiple windows -- InDesign's panels -- Using the tools panel -- Other panels -- Context menus -- Keyboard shortcuts -- Customizing menus -- Customizing the control panel -- Saving and loading workspaces -- Setting preferences -- Setting defaults -- Publication navigation -- Place icons -- Managing InDesign's plug-ins -- On with the tour -- Chapter 2: Page Layout -- Creating a new publication -- Opening publications -- Saving publications -- Crash recovery -- Setting basic layout options -- Pages and spreads -- Adding pages -- Arranging pages -- Defining sections -- Numbering pages -- Adding section marker text -- Working with master spreads -- Applying master pages and master spreads -- Overriding master items -- Layers and master pages -- Adjusting layouts -- Selecting and deselecting -- Guides -- Grids -- Stacking objects -- Layers -- Grouping objects -- Locking object positions -- Deleting objects -- Finding and changing objects -- Good foundation -- Chapter 3: Text -- Creating text frames -- Setting text frame options -- Linking and unlinking text frames -- Flowing text -- Entering text -- Text variables -- Importing text -- Text files and file linking -- Exporting text -- Editing text -- Story editor -- Notes -- Using Adobe InCopy -- Checking spelling -- Footnotes -- Find and change -- Working with InDesign tagged text -- After words -- Chapter 4: Type -- Character formatting -- OpenType fonts -- Find font -- Filling and stroking characters -- Paragraph formatting -- Bullets and numbering -- Styles -- Copying styles from other publications -- Optical margin alignment -- Old typesetter never -- Chapter 5: Drawing -- Drawing basic shapes -- Points and paths -- Drawing paths with the pencil tool -- Drawing paths with the pen tool -- Drawing techniques -- Compound paths -- Smoothing paths -- Erasing paths -- Path operations -- Corner options -- Strokes -- Stroke styles -- Fills -- Gradients -- Transparency -- Transparency effects -- Drawing conclusions -- Chapter 6: Where Text Meets Graphics -- Paragraph rules -- Tables -- Creating a table -- Editing tables -- Table shortcuts -- Formatting tables -- Table and cell styles -- Text wrap -- Converting text to outlines -- Inline frames and anchored objects -- Object styles -- Placing text on a path -- Quick apply -- Alternate reality -- Chapter 7: Importing And Exporting -- Importing -- Placing anything -- About graphic file formats -- Graphic display properties -- Image import options -- Linking and embedding -- Working with images -- Working with graphic frames -- File info and metadata -- Object layer options -- Working with clipping paths -- Applying color to an imported graphic -- Exporting documents -- Exporting JPEG -- Exporting EPS -- Exporting PDF -- Data merge -- InDesign interchange format (INX) -- Exporting HTML -- Exporting SVG -- Best of all possible worlds -- |
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Chapter 8: Long Documents -- Books -- Table of contents -- Indexes (or indices) -- Putting it together -- Chapter 9: Transforming -- Transformation basics -- Numbers are your friends -- Moving objects -- Scaling -- Rotating objects -- Reflecting objects -- Shearing objects -- Repeating transformations -- Locking object positions -- Aligning and distributing objects -- Transform your life! -- Chapter 10: Color -- Seeing color, printing color -- Color in InDesign -- InDesign's color controls -- Color panel and the color picker -- Applying colors and gradients -- Ink manager -- Trapping -- Color management -- InDesign's color management controls -- Color "done" -- Chapter 11: Printing -- InDesign print dialog box -- General -- Setup -- Marks and bleeds -- Output -- Graphics -- Color management -- Advanced -- Summary -- Print presets -- Custom printer marks -- Printing booklets -- Separations preview -- Printing transparency -- Preparing an InDesign file for imagesetting -- Preflight and package -- All the news that prints to fit -- Chapter 12: Scripting -- Be not afraid -- System requirements -- Learning about InDesign scripting -- Thinking about scripting -- Using the scripts panel and the script label panel -- Getting started -- Using the extendscript toolkit -- More fun with scripting -- Mystic rose -- Monitoring events -- Menu scripting -- Startup scripts -- End script -- Chapter 13: Interactive PDF -- Hyperlinks -- Bookmarks -- Buttons -- Rollovers and states -- Audio and video -- eBooks -- Chapter 14: XML -- Inside the structure view -- XML tags and the tags panel -- Tagging objects -- Importing and exporting XML -- Creating placeholders for repeating content -- Working with DTDs -- Transforming XML and XSLT -- InDesign interchange format (INX) -- About XML rules -- Stay tuned -- Index. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Adobe InDesign is no longer the industry newcomer-it's a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs. It's the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design. With the release of InDesign CS3-part of Adobe's perfectly synchronized, tightly integrated Creative Suite 3 (which now includes Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and Flash CS3 Professional in the Design Premium and Web Premium packages)-it takes its place in the design firmament! Real World Adobe InDesign CS3 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS3, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign's advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently. They'll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS3, including new gradient feather, directional feather, and bevel and emboss effects; improved transparency controls; improved long document support; expanded Find/Change; and an even more flexible and customizable user interface. |
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Adobe InDesign (Electronic resource)
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Desktop publishing.
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Adobe InDesign (Computer software)
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Desktop publishing.
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| Added Author |
Blatner, David.
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| ISBN |
9780321491701 (pbk.) |
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032149170X (pbk.) |
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