Book description
The soup-to-nuts guide on everything InDesign users need to know about the much-anticipated CS4 release!
Packed with more than one thousand pages of real-world insight and valuable guidance, this authoritative resource describes the power and potential of InDesign—whose popularity as a page-layout program is growing stronger and gaining new converts every day
No matter what your skill level, you will get everything you need to know in order to make the most of this software and take advantage of InDesign CS4’s innovative architecture, functionality, and many ingenious features
Learn how to edit Photoshop, Illustrator, and PDF files from within InDesign; export documents in HTML for publication on CD-ROM or the Web; tap the power of multiple layers and master pages; optimize InDesign for efficient project workflow; take advantage of dynamic spell-checking; and more
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Credits
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
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Introduction
- What This Book Offers
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How to Read This Book
- InDesign QuickStart
- Part I: Welcome to InDesign
- Part II: Document Fundamentals
- Part III: Object Fundamentals
- Part IV: Text Fundamentals
- Part V: Business Document Fundamentals
- Part VI: Graphics Fundamentals
- Part VII: Output Fundamentals
- Part VIII: Electronic Publishing Techniques
- Part IX: Workgroup Publishing Techniques
- Part X: Extending InDesign
- Part XI: Appendixes
- The companion Web site
- Conventions Used in This Book
- QS. Quick Start: Building a Document from Start to Finish
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I. Welcome to InDesign
- 1. What InDesign Can Do for You
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2. Inside the InDesign Interface
- 2.1. Exploring the InDesign Application Folder
- 2.2. Exploring the Document Window
- 2.3. Working with Multiple Document Windows
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2.4. Using Tools
- 2.4.1. Selecting tools
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2.4.2. Understanding what the tools do
- 2.4.2.1. Selection tool
- 2.4.2.2. Direct Selection tool
- 2.4.2.3. Position tool
- 2.4.2.4. Pen tool
- 2.4.2.5. Anchor and direction point tools
- 2.4.2.6. Type tool
- 2.4.2.7. Type on a Path tool
- 2.4.2.8. Pencil tool
- 2.4.2.9. Smooth tool
- 2.4.2.10. Erase tool
- 2.4.2.11. Line tool
- 2.4.2.12. Frame tools
- 2.4.2.13. Shape tools
- 2.4.2.14. Scissors tool
- 2.4.2.15. Rotate tool
- 2.4.2.16. Scale tool
- 2.4.2.17. Shear tool
- 2.4.2.18. Gradient Swatch tool
- 2.4.2.19. Gradient Feather tool
- 2.4.2.20. Free Transform tool
- 2.4.2.21. Note tool
- 2.4.2.22. Eyedropper tool
- 2.4.2.23. Measure tool
- 2.4.2.24. Hand tool
- 2.4.2.25. Zoom tool
- 2.4.3. Color buttons
- 2.4.4. View buttons
- 2.4.5. Using Tool Tips and keyboard shortcuts
- 2.4.6. Opening and closing the Tools panel
- 2.5. Working with Panels and Docks
- 2.6. Reviewing Menu Commands
- 2.7. Undoing What You've Just Done
- 2.8. Summary
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3. Getting InDesign Ready to Go
- 3.1. Working with Preferences Files
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3.2. Using the Preferences Dialog Box
- 3.2.1. General preferences
- 3.2.2. Interface preferences
- 3.2.3. Type preferences
- 3.2.4. Advanced Type preferences
- 3.2.5. Composition preferences
- 3.2.6. Units & Increments preferences
- 3.2.7. Grids preferences
- 3.2.8. Guides & Pasteboard preferences
- 3.2.9. Dictionary preferences
- 3.2.10. Spelling preferences
- 3.2.11. Autocorrect preferences
- 3.2.12. Notes preferences
- 3.2.13. Story Editor Display preferences
- 3.2.14. Display Performance preferences
- 3.2.15. Appearance of Black preferences
- 3.2.16. File Handling preferences
- 3.2.17. Clipboard Handling pane
- 3.3. Setting Other Global Preferences
- 3.4. Modifying Defaults for Documents, Text, and Objects
- 3.5. Modifying Defaults for Views
- 3.6. Setting Color and Style Defaults
- 3.7. Reverting Preferences and Defaults
- 3.8. Changing Views
- 3.9. Summary
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II. Document Fundamentals
- 4. Creating, Opening, and Saving Documents
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5. Working with Pages and Layers
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5.1. Working with Multipages Documents
- 5.1.1. Adding pages
- 5.1.2. Deleting pages
- 5.1.3. Copying and moving pages
- 5.1.4. Starting documents on a left page
- 5.1.5. Controlling page shuffling
- 5.1.6. Creating gatefold spreads
- 5.1.7. Working with page numbers
- 5.1.8. Dividing a document into sections
- 5.1.9. Navigating pages
- 5.1.10. Navigating by page number
- 5.1.11. Working with specialty page controls
- 5.1.12. Adjusting page layouts
- 5.2. Working with Layers
- 5.3. Summary
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5.1. Working with Multipages Documents
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6. Creating Layout Standards
- 6.1. Creating and Applying Master Pages
- 6.2. Using Templates
- 6.3. Storing Objects in Libraries
- 6.4. Using Ruler Guides and Grids
- 6.5. Summary
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7. Defining Colors, Tints, and Gradients
- 7.1. Defining Color Terms
- 7.2. Understanding Process and Spot Color
- 7.3. Working with Color Models
- 7.4. Understanding Paper Variation Models
- 7.5. Defining Colors and Tints
- 7.6. Working with Gradients
- 7.7. Managing Swatches
- 7.8. Applying Colors, Tints, and Gradients
- 7.9. Summary
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III. Object Fundamentals
- 8. Adding Frames, Shapes, and Lines
- 9. Manipulating Objects
- 10. Transforming Objects
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11. Applying Effects to Objects
- 11.1. Working with Strokes
- 11.2. Adding Corner Options
- 11.3. Applying Lighting Effects
- 11.4. Summary
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12. Orchestrating Objects
- 12.1. Stacking Objects
- 12.2. Combining Objects into a Group
- 12.3. Locking Objects
- 12.4. Creating Inline Frames
- 12.5. Setting Up "Follow Me" Anchored Frames
- 12.6. Wrapping Text around Objects
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12.7. Defining and Applying Object Styles
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12.7.1. Creating object styles
- 12.7.1.1. The General pane
- 12.7.1.2. The Fill pane
- 12.7.1.3. The Stroke pane
- 12.7.1.4. The Stroke & Corner Options pane
- 12.7.1.5. The Paragraph Styles pane
- 12.7.1.6. The Text Frame General Options pane
- 12.7.1.7. The Text Frame Baseline Options pane
- 12.7.1.8. The Story Options pane
- 12.7.1.9. The Text Wrap & Other pane
- 12.7.1.10. The Anchored Object Options pane
- 12.7.1.11. The Frame Fitting Options pane
- 12.7.2. Managing object styles
- 12.7.3. Using style groups
- 12.7.4. Understanding predefined styles
- 12.7.5. Applying object styles
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12.7.1. Creating object styles
- 12.8. Managing Links
- 12.9. Summary
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IV. Text Fundamentals
- 13. Importing Text Files
- 14. Flowing Text through a Document
- 15. Editing and Formatting Text
- 16. Specifying Character Attributes
- 17. Specifying Paragraph Attributes
- 18. Creating Special Text Formatting
- 19. Setting Up Styles
- 20. Using Special Characters
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V. Business Document Fundamentals
- 21. Setting Up Tabs and Tables
- 22. Using Automatic and Custom Text
- 23. Working with Footnotes, Indexes, and TOCs
- 24. Creating Multidocument Projects
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VI. Graphics Fundamentals
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25. Importing Graphics
- 25.1. Preparing Graphics Files
- 25.2. Identifying Color Issues
- 25.3. Exploring Methods for Importing Graphics
- 25.4. Summary
- 26. Fitting Graphics and Frames Together
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27. Drawing Free-Form Shapes and Curved Paths
- 27.1. Finding Out All about Paths
- 27.2. Drawing Lines with the Pen Tool
- 27.3. Drawing Free-Form Shapes
- 27.4. Editing Free-form Lines and Shapes
- 27.5. Joining Paths
- 27.6. Working with Compound Paths
- 27.7. Using Other Path Effects
- 27.8. Summary
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25. Importing Graphics
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VII. Output Fundamentals
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28. Preparing for Color Prepress
- 28.1. Managing Color Management
- 28.2. Working with Color Traps
- 28.3. Summary
- 29. Preparing for Printing
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30. Printing Documents
- 30.1. Selecting InDesign Printing Options
- 30.2. Working with Spot Colors and Separations
- 30.3. Working with Transparency
- 30.4. Summary
- 31. Creating Prepress Files
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28. Preparing for Color Prepress
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VIII. Electronic Publishing Techniques
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32. Creating Web, Interactive PDF, and Flash Documents
- 32.1. Using Hyperlinks
- 32.2. Creating Bookmarks
- 32.3. Creating Buttons and Page Actions
- 32.4. Embedding Movies and Sound
- 32.5. Exporting to the Web
- 32.6. Exporting to Flash Files
- 32.7. Exporting to Interactive PDFs and eBooks
- 32.8. Summary
- 33. Working with XML
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32. Creating Web, Interactive PDF, and Flash Documents
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IX. Workgroup Publishing Techniques
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34. Working with Others
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34.1. Sharing Elements with Other Users
- 34.1.1. Where InDesign stores what
- 34.1.2. Preference files
- 34.1.3. Color definitions
- 34.1.4. Paragraph, character, table, cell, and object styles
- 34.1.5. Spelling dictionaries
- 34.1.6. Graphics and text files
- 34.1.7. Libraries
- 34.1.8. Snippets
- 34.1.9. Templates
- 34.1.10. Output settings
- 34.1.11. Master pages
- 34.1.12. InDesign documents
- 34.1.13. Interface preferences
- 34.2. Mixing Mac and Windows Environments
- 34.3. Working with Other Creative Suite Applications
- 34.4. Summary
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34.1. Sharing Elements with Other Users
- 35. Workgroup Editing with InCopy
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34. Working with Others
- X. Extending InDesign
- XI. Appendixes
Product information
- Title: InDesign® CS4 Bible
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2009
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470405116
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