Indesign cs5 for dummies
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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.
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 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
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 textInDesign CS5 For Dummies offers a straightforward but fun approach to discovering how to get the most from your desktop publishing experience when using InDesign.
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