Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Chapter Five. Working with InDesign

Among the main applications that make up the Creative Suite, InDesign could be considered the new kid on the block, with its initial version released in 1999. But that doesn’t equate to it being any less feature-rich or powerful than the 18-year-old applications in the suite. InDesign was born out of a need to create a modern page layout application that could lead the industry and handle today’s demands for multiple types of output. Regardless if the final destination is print, an Acrobat file, a Web site, or a combination of these formats, InDesign is up to the task.

With the release of InDesign CS2, Adobe has taken an already versatile page layout tool and made it even more convenient and flexible to work ...