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InDesign Production Cookbook

By Alistair Dabbs, Anne-Marie Concepcion, Ken McMahon, Keith Martin
November 2005
Pages: 224
ISBN 10: 0-596-10048-5 | ISBN 13: 9780596100483
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)

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Whether you're an experienced designer or a desktop publisher new to InDesign CS2, you'll find InDesign Production Cookbook chock-full of useful information, with quick solutions to real-world layout challenges. From handling typography and applying color and transparency to building tables and multi-page documents, the unique combination of concise explanations, expert tips, and practical recipes makes this the ultimate, no-nonsense production guide for every InDesign user.
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Good for learning the technical stuff, but no design inspiration.,  March 11 2007
Submitted by Tom   [Respond | View]

I really like this book because I'm a beginner at InDesign and it covers many of the technical capabilities of the Application. This book is also well organized for quick refrence. This book does have a large shortcoming though, it does not get into the creative side of page layout. In fact the examples are just that, examples. They don't provide any design inspiration. You would not see any of the examples in a magazine or other publication.

If you are solid on design and just need the technical information on how to create what you are envisioning, then this is the book for you.


Superlative training,  January 19 2007
Submitted by ulo   [Respond | View]


Soon after getting CS2 and working through basic lessons in the manual, I came across this book in the store. A year later, I still refer to it for aspects of this fantastic design application that I need to brush up on or haven't needed to work with before.

However, I found this book to be superlative in quickly teaching me how to use InD's wide range of tools and capabilities to achieve the kinds of graphics effects we all see in magazines. It is jam-packed with well organized, thoughtfully presented, and beautifully ilustrated information, and includes step-by-step instruction in using some of the capabilites that you won't find adequately presented in Adobe's help files.

Best of all, the files used by the authors are available for download from O'reilly, so that you can see all the specs from the examples and understand how they were made even more specifically that from the book's descriptions.



Easy as 1-2-3.,  January 19 2007
Submitted by Anonymous Reader   [Respond | View]

This is a great book for visual learners. Clearly see the difference between what each option does without having to press every button. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to begin designing something and feel confident in what you are doing. Easy as 1-2-3.

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