InDesign CS5 For Dummies by Galen Gruman (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE InDesign CS5 For Dummies by Galen Gruman 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Youll 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 toolsTeaches 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 moreDemonstrates 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. Back Cover 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 InDesigns 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 Flap 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 InDesigns 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 Author Biography 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. Table of Contents 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 PDFing 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 Long Description 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 InDesigns 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 Details ISBN0470614498 Author Galen Gruman Year 2010 ISBN-10 0470614498 ISBN-13 9780470614495 Format Paperback Short Title INDESIGN CS5 FOR DUMMIES Language English Media Book Tag 2012dummiespromo Residence San Francisco, CA, US Affiliation San Francisco, CA, author San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA, author Series For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback) Edition 1st UK Release Date 2010-05-11 NZ Release Date 2010-05-11 US Release Date 2010-05-11 Place of Publication Chichester Pages 464 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Publication Date 2010-05-11 Imprint For Dummies Country of Publication United States DEWEY 005.52 Illustrations Photos: 0 B&W, 0 Color; Drawings: 0 B&W, 0 Color; Screen captures: 175 B&W, 0 Color Audience General AU Release Date 2010-04-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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