Get up to speed on the latest features and enhancements to InDesign CS5
As the industry standard in professional layout and design, InDesign delivers powerful publishing solutions for magazine, newspaper, and other publishing fields. This introductory book is an easy-to-understand reference for anyone migrating from another software application or those with little-to-no desktop publishing experience. You’ll explore InDesign basics and examine the enhancements to InDesign CS5, while you also discover how pages work, build templates, create frames and shapes, manage styles, and much more.
InDesign is proving to be an increasingly popular layout and design application; InDesign CS5 includes new functionality and enhanced tools Teaches all the basics for first-time users, including how to open and save your work, arrange objects, work with color, edit text, manage styles, finesse character details, add special type, import and size graphics, set paths, work with tabs, create indices, and more Demonstrates how to calibrate colors, export PDF files, fine-tune paragraph details, create frames and shapes, manipulate objects, and work with automated text
InDesign CS5 For Dummies offers a straightforward but fun approach to discovering how to get the most from your desktop publishing experience when using InDesign.
By:
Galen Gruman (The Zango Group San Francisco CA)
Imprint: Wiley
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 188mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780470614495
ISBN 10: 0470614498
Pages: 460
Publication Date: 23 April 2010
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1 Part I: Before You Begin 7 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients 9 Chapter 2: Making InDesign Work Your Way 33 Part II: Document Essentials 47 Chapter 3: Opening and Saving Your Work 49 Chapter 4: Discovering How Pages and Layers Work 59 Chapter 5: The Joys of Reuse 85 Chapter 6: Working with Color 99 Part III: Object Essentials 117 Chapter 7: Adding Essential Elements 119 Chapter 8: Manipulating Objects 137 Chapter 9: Organizing Objects 157 Chapter 10: Aligning and Arranging Objects 173 Part IV: Text Essentials 197 Chapter 11: Putting Words on the Page 199 Chapter 12: The Ins and Outs of Text Editing 219 Chapter 13: The Styles of Text 237 Chapter 14: Fine-Tuning Paragraph Details 247 Chapter 15: Finessing Character Details 263 Part V: Graphics Essentials 277 Chapter 16: Importing Graphics 279 Chapter 17: Fitting Graphics and Setting Paths 291 Part VI: Getting Down to Business 301 Chapter 18: Working with Tabs and Tables 303 Chapter 19: Working with Footnotes, Indexes, and TOCs 315 Chapter 20: Working with Automatic Text 327 Chapter 21: Publishing Books 337 Part VII: Printing, Presentation, and Web Essentials 345 Chapter 22: Printing and PDF’ing Your Work 347 Chapter 23: Web Project Basics 371 Chapter 24: Presentation Project Basics 383 Part VIII: The Part of Tens 405 Chapter 25: Top Ten New Features in InDesign CS5 407 Chapter 26: Top Ten Resources for InDesign Users 411 Index 415
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.
