Product Description

You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction to everything InDesign. You'll learn about all aspects of the InDesign interface, including its tools and palettes, as well as how to create documents and master pages, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools,create interactive PDF elements, and work with color.  You'll also learn how to use the new Adobe Bridge file browser to locate, manage, and drag and drop assets easily into your InDesign layouts. You’ll find a new chapter on working with InCopy, complete coverage of more advanced topics (like preflighting and advanced text control) and a thorough introduction to all of InDesign's productivity-enhancing features and tools.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #266493 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

About the Author
Sandee Cohen is the graphics curriculum instructor for the New School Computer Instruction Center in New York City as well as a lively speaker at many conferences (including Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and Thunder Lizard events). She also has written Visual QuickStart Guides on Macromedia Fireworks and Macromedia FreeHand in addition to coauthoring other books on graphics and desktop publishing.

Customer Reviews

Great Concept for a Software book, written by a Master
InDesign is, of course, a major software package in use by the big design houses, publishers, ad agencies and the like use for desktop publishing and page layout. Surprising for a package that only came out in April of 2000. Almost annual revisions since then have updated the package far beyond what it was. And CS2 (Creative Suite 2) is its newest rendition.

Creative Suite 2 is Adobe's new integrated software package, of which InDesign is a major component. It is likely that the big companies will buy the full CS2 package rather than shopping for individual packages. As such, InDesign is likely to become even more popular as more people have it on their system.

This book is one of the Visual QuickStart Guides. They follow a unique format of having two columns on each page with a description of what's being done on the outside column and illustrations of what the screen should look like in the inside column. This is the most convenient form of explaining what software does that I've ever seen. You don't have to go looking for the illustration that goes with the text, it's right beside it.

The author has been in the computer graphics business for almost twenty years. She is the senior contributing editor for 'InDesign Magazine,' the semi-official journal of the software. She has taught at many private organizations and at events all over the world.

This is an excellent beginner/intermediate level book.

Not as good as it should be
I've used Visual Quickstart books for years, and until this one they've been extremely accurate. This one contains what seem to be screen caps of menus and options from some previous version of InDesign, so you have to look around for the options someplace else if they've moved.

That said, it's a good book overall and the "Tips" are a valuable part of understanding how InDesign functionality works.

Fine for the novice
Having newly come from Microsoft Publisher, In Design was a challenge. I used the Adobe manual in parallel with this one, got more out of the combination than the sum of each one by itself. Managed to produce a design in three weeks from start to finish. Friends who know the business find that a remarkably short time.