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InDesign in Detail
1652A-7
* Make a smooth, fast transition from your current layout software
* Integrate InDesign into your digital workflow environment
* Step-by-step coverage of InDesign functions
* Covers all output media, including the Web
The graphic arts professional's expert guide to InDesign!
* Transition smoothly
from QuarkXPress? or PageMaker?!
* Learn sophisticated layout and perfect output-print, PDF, or Web!
* Professional-level coverage of prepress and printing issues
* Integrate InDesign into your digital workflow processes
* Make the most of InDesign's revolutionary plug-in architecture
* Expert color coverage! Color matching, color models, swatches, trapping, and color management
* Cross-platform coverage: Macintosh and Windows
You'll find step-by-step explanations and insider's tips for every InDesign technique needed to build sophisticated page layouts: frames, objects, graphics, type, text, and much more. Best of all, Romano and Broudy deliver unparalleled insight into the real issues designers face-including how to create printing and HTML files; import QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents successfully; even integrate InDesign into your digital workflow!
CONTENTS:
1. Introduction.
What's InDesign? A Little History. InDesign and Other Adobe Applications.
2. Getting Started.
System Requirements. Recommended System Configuration for the Serious InDesign User. Working Across Platforms. File-Naming Conventions. New Font Technologies. What's in the InDesign Folder?
3. InDesign Tour.
InDesign's Tools. More About InDesign's Selection Tools. InDesign Panels and Palettes. The Swatch, Paragraph Style, and Character Style Panels. Swatches. The Pages, Layers, and Navigation Panels. Working with Panels. InDesign Shortcuts. Opening, Placing, Saving, and Autorecovering. Converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker Files. Saving Files. Autorecovery. Placing Files. InDesign Preferences.
4. Page Setup and Layout.
Creating a New InDesign Document. Document Settings. Spreads and Pages. Page Numbering and Running Heads. Sections and Section Starts. Master Pages. Rulers, Guides, and Grids. Layers. Autolayout Adjustment.
5. Illustrating and Drawing.
Basic Concepts. Elementary Shapes.
6. Working with Objects.
Transforming Objects. Cautions About Tranformations. The Transformation Tools. Moving and Arranging Objects. Stacking Order. Align and Distribute. Image Cropping and Clipping Paths.
7. Type and Typography.
Hyphenation and Justification (H&J). Hyphenation Overview. Justification Overview. Setting Hyphenation. Setting Justification (or Not). Composition. Multilingual Publishing. Character Formatting. Drop Caps. Kerning and Tracking. Glyphs. Design Effects with Type. Type Standards.
8. All about Text.
9. Color.
Color Models. Additive and Subtractive Color. Color in InDesign. Trapping. Color Management. Color Management in InDesign.
10. Import and Export.
Image Import. Placing Images in InDesign. Linked Images. File Export. PDF Export.
11. Printing.
Printing Basics. Little Dotty Things. Printing from InDesign. Preflight and Package. Macintosh vs Windows Printing. Printing (Macintosh and Windows).
12. Odds and Ends.
InDesign Libraries. Tagging Text. Plug-ins for InDesign.
Appendix.
Index.
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