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Book Description

Build your InDesign expertise,one technique at a time. In Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos, authors John Cruise and Kelly Kordes Anton bring you 100 carefully selected techniques to help you get right to work in InDesign, the world’s most powerful page layout program. Their strategy is to focus on those features you’re most likely to use, showcasing each in a clearly explained, well-illustrated, stand-alone technique—complete with a relevant hint or two. These bite-sized lessons offer a great way to learn just what you need to know when you need it, exploring the program in a way, and at a pace, that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you’ll master all these tools and techniques, and more:

• Customize the interface [Tip #6]
• Add metadata to documents [Tip #14]
• I nsert variable text [Tip #29]
• Add special effects to type [Tip #34]
• Format tables with styles [Tip #45]
• U se spot colors, process colors, and tints [Tip #74]
• Paginate a book [Tip #86]
• U se PDF presets for output [Tip #96].

Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter One Getting Started with InDesign
  7. Chapter Two Working with Documents
  8. Chapter Three Working with Text
  9. Chapter Four Typography and Tables
  10. Chapter Five Drawing Lines and Shapes
  11. Chapter Six Working with Graphics
  12. Chapter Seven Working with Objects
  13. Chapter Eight Working with Color
  14. Chapter Nine Laying Out Pages and Creating Long Documents
  15. Chapter Ten Creating Media-Rich PDFs
  16. Chapter Eleven Preflight and Output
  17. Index
  18. Media
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