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Chapter 2. Introducing InDesign CS4

In This Chapter

• Opening InDesign

• Creating new documents

• Looking at and setting up the workspace

• Creating your first publication

InDesign is one of the most sophisticated page layout programs available on the market. Not only can you create professional-looking documents, such as newsletters, books, and magazines, but you can integrate your documents with other Adobe applications. For example, you can create a document that includes hyperlinks and video and export it to PDF, or you can export XML (Extensible Markup Language) from InDesign and import the XML into Dreamweaver to create Web pages. You can even import (or place) an InDesign document into an InDesign document!

As powerful of an application InDesign is, you'd think it'd be difficult to use, but it really isn't. This minibook shows you how to use InDesign to make creative page layouts. In this chapter, you discover the InDesign interface and start your first publication.

Getting Started with InDesign CS4

InDesign creates multiple page layouts that include type, graphics (such as fills and strokes), and images. The InDesign document you see in Figure 2-1 includes elements from Adobe Illustrator (logos) and Photoshop (images). If this file was to be exported as a PDF, it could include video and even Flash files.

In the following sections, you get familiar with creating and opening documents in InDesign. Through Chapters 3–9 in this minibook, you discover how to add various elements to your pages. ...