Adobe® InDesign® CS5 Bible

Introduction

Welcome to Adobe InDesign CS5 Bible—your personal guide to a powerful, full-featured publishing program that offers precise but flexible control over all aspects of page design for print and electronic documents. My goal is to guide you each step of the way through the publishing process, showing you how to make Adobe's InDesign CS5 work for you.

InDesign lets you take advantage of modern electronic publishing's full range of possibilities. Not only can you produce high-quality, lively flyers, newsletters, magazines, and similar publications in InDesign, you can also create rich, colorful documents that can be viewed on the Web, distributed by CD, or sent directly to a printing press for faithful print reproduction. And you can create interactive documents, where the content changes based on what users click.

In a nutshell, InDesign is meant to help those who educate, inform, and document today's world. Join me in learning how to use this powerful program.

What This Book Offers

So, because InDesign comes with good documentation that is full of examples, why do you need this book? To see the bigger picture.

Publishing design involves much more than understanding a particular program's tools; it involves knowing when, how, and, most importantly, why to use them. In this book, I help you realize the potential of InDesign by applying its tools to real-world publishing design needs. I also identify any weaknesses and explain how to overcome them—something that vendor manuals ...