Book description
This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe
InDesign CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the
key features of this program, while readers who already have some
experience with InDesign can use this book to familiarize
themselves with InDesign CS3's newest features. Using step-by-step,
project-based lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds
upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review
questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important
skills learned in each lesson. The companion CD contains all the
assets readers will need to work through each project in the book.
Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe's page layout and design software, has
been updated to accelerate user productivity with loads of new
features: new Photoshop effects--including gradient feathering,
inner shadows, and glows--that you can apply to objects on a page;
finer transparency controls, which let you apply transparency
settings independently to an object's fill, stroke, and content for
more complex visual looks; numerous productivity enhancements;
advanced find/change features; new table and cell styles; export to
XHTML, and more.
Educational instructor notes—created to help teachers plan,
organize, and time their lessons—are available for this book
(and for other Classroom in a Book titles) at
www.peachpit.com/instructorresources.
SPECIAL NOTE: Before starting the lessons in the book, visit
www.peachpit.com/indesigncs3cib for important lesson and project
file updates.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- What’s on the CD*
- Getting Started
- What’s New in Adobe InDesign CS3
- A Quick Tour of Adobe InDesign CS3
- 1. Getting to Know the Work Area
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2. Setting Up Your Document
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Getting started
- Creating and saving custom page settings
- Creating a new document
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Working with master pages
- Adding guides to the master
- Dragging guides from rulers
- Creating a text frame on the master page
- Renaming the master page
- Creating additional master pages
- Creating a placeholder master
- Adding a title placeholder frame
- Adding placeholder frames for graphics
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Drawing colored shapes
- Creating text frames with columns
- Applying the masters to document pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Adding new pages
- Arranging and deleting pages
- Placing text and graphics on the document pages
- Overriding master page items on document pages
- Viewing the completed spread
- Exploring on your own
- Review
-
Getting started
- 3. Working with Frames
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4. Importing and Editing Text
- Getting started
- Creating and entering text
- Vertically aligning text
- Flowing text
- Working with styles
- Flowing text automatically
- Adding a jump line page number
- Using semi-autoflow to place text frames
- Changing the number of columns on a page
- Loading styles from another document
- Flowing text into an existing frame
- Finding and changing
- Checking the spelling of a story
- Adding words to a dictionary
- Checking spelling dynamically
- Automatically correcting misspelled words
- Drag and drop text editing
- Using the Story Editor
- Exploring on your own
- Review
- 5. Working with Typography
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6. Working with Color
- Getting started
- Defining printing requirements
- Adding colors to the Swatches panel
- Applying colors to objects
- Creating dashed strokes
- Working with gradients
- Creating a tint
- Creating a spot color
- Applying color to text
- Using advanced gradient techniques
- Ensuring consistent color
- An overview of color management
- Setting up color management in InDesign CS3
- A look at Adobe Bridge
- Color-managing imported graphics in InDesign CS3
- Assigning a profile after importing an image
- Embedding a profile in a Photoshop image
- Assigning a profile while importing a graphic
- Exploring on your own
- Review
- 7. Working with Styles
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8. Importing and Linking Graphics
- Getting started
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting view quality
- Working with clipping paths
- Importing a Photoshop file and alpha channels
- Placing native files
- Using a library to manage objects
- Creating a library
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Exploring on your own
- Review
- 9. Creating Tables
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10. Working with Transparency
- Getting started
- Importing and colorizing a black-and-white image
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Applying transparency settings
- About the Effects panel
- Changing the opacity of solid-color objects
- Applying a blending mode
- Adjusting the transparency settings for EPS images
- Adjusting transparency for Photoshop images
- Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
- Applying transparency settings to text
- Applying transparency settings to text frame fill
- Working with effects
- Exploring on your own
- Review
- 11. Working with Long Documents
- 12. Output and PDF Exporting
- 13. Using XML
- Production Notes
Product information
- Title: Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book®
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2007
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780321492012
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