InDesign CS4 For Dummies

* Make it work for you — explore the new tools, take advantage of personal workspaces, and set preferences for the way you work

* Master the details — take advantage of precise typography, layout, and graphics tools to get exactly the document you want

* Add color — use color libraries, multi-ink colors, and gradients to make your document sparkle

* Play well with others — learn how InDesign works seamlessly with other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite

* Get in style — take text and object formatting up a notch by using styles and InDesign’s many special effects

* Be Web savvy — use hyperlinks, multimedia elements, and more for Web, PDF, and Flash files

* Pack it up — prepare for printing or other output with enhanced preflighting and service-bureau tools

* Steps for designing and producing professional page layouts

* How to open and save documents and export document content

* The ins and outs of working with text

* Steps for managing chapters and books

* Secrets for setting up great master pages

* The dangers of unnamed colors

* How to manipulate, organize, and align design objects

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• How to get familiar with the menus, panels, and tools that are similar throughout the suite

• Tips for getting creative with Illustrator's cool new vector tracing feature

• Ways to use the annotation capabilities in Acrobat 9.0 and the improved CSS capabilities in Dreamweaver

• What Fireworks CS4, the newest addition to the suite, can add to Web sites

• Which extensions and filters are common to all programs

• Hard-to-find keyboard shortcuts in Illustrator

• How to enhance and manipulate photos with Photoshop

• Secrets for smoothing out your workflow

• How to use the Adobe Bridge

• Steps for using each program

To help you quickly find what you need, Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies is divided into eight minibooks:

• Adobe Creative Suite Basics

• InDesign CS4

• Illustrator CS4

• Photoshop CS4

• Acrobat CS4

• Dreamweaver CS4

• Flash CS4

• Fireworks CS4

Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies is your one-stop guide to all the parts of Adobe's ultimate toolkit for today's designer.

Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner
Publisher: Peachpit Press | 2009 | 840 Pages | ISBN: 0321592433 | PDF | 26.07 Mb

Adobe InDesign is a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs in the Creative Suite. It's the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design.

Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS4, 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 CS4, including: live preflight, customizable Links panel, conditional text, cross references, interactive document capability with the new SWF file, animated page transitions, export to Flash CS4 functionality, Smart Guides and Smart Spacing, spread rotation, and smart text reflow.

Product Description

InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 12 paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe InDesign CS4. Every lesson is presented in full color with stepâ by step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. This training package shows how to design, produce and develop a streamlined workflow for page layout. Jam packed with information, this book and DVD takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner.InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom contains a DVD with both lesson files and video tutorials. The authors are constantly working to improve the lesson files so that you have the greatest experience with the Digital Classroom books, lesson files, and video tutorials.

Paperback: 400 pages

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Language English

ISBN-10: 0470410949

ISBN-13: 978-0470410943

418 pages | Sybex (September 2, 2005) | ISBN: 0782144209 | PDF | 12.2 MB

Its award-winning format gives you easy and instant access to all the tasks you'll want to perform. Author Ted LoCascio is a highly qualified instructor--he's the former senior designer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and an InDesign expert. With clear, accessible information and a full color section, this is the best value on the market.

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Essential Techniques for Adobe InDesign