Book description
You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction to everything InDesign. You'll learn about all aspects of the InDesign interface, including its tools and palettes, as well as how to create documents and master pages, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools,create interactive PDF elements, and work with color. You'll also learn how to use the new Adobe Bridge file browser to locate, manage, and drag and drop assets easily into your InDesign layouts. You’ll find a new chapter on working with InCopy, complete coverage of more advanced topics (like preflighting and advanced text control) and a thorough introduction to all of InDesign's productivity-enhancing features and tools.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Thanks To
- Introduction
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1. Getting Started
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Choosing Palettes
- Align palette
- Attributes palette
- Bookmarks palette
- Character palette
- Character Styles palette
- Color palette
- Control palette
- Flattener Preview palette
- Glyphs palette
- Gradient palette
- Hyperlinks palette
- Index palette
- Info palette
- Layers palette
- Library palette
- Links palette
- Navigator palette
- Object Styles palette
- Pages palette
- Paragraph palette
- Paragraph Styles palette
- Pathfinder palette
- Script Label palette
- Scripts palette
- Separations Preview palette
- Story palette
- Stroke palette
- Swatches palette
- Table palette
- Tabs palette
- Tags palette
- Text Wrap palette
- Transform palette
- Transparency palette
- Trap Presets palette
- Working with Palettes
- Using Workspaces
- Using the Toolbox
- Using Contextual Menus
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Choosing Palettes
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2. Document Setup
- Starting Documents
- Choosing Layout Options
- Changing Layout Options
- Using the Document Presets
- Using Document Rulers
- Working with Guides
- Working with Document Grids
- Changing the Magnification
- View and Pasteboard Controls
- Using the Zoom and Hand Tools
- Using the Navigator Palette
- Controlling Windows
- File Maintenance
- Working with Bridge
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3. Basic Text
- Creating Text Frames
- Typing Text
- Selecting Text
- Moving and Deleting Text
- Using the Character Palette
- Setting the Typeface and Point Size
- Styling Text
- Setting Line and Character Spacing
- Applying Text Distortions
- Setting the Language
- Applying Paragraph Formatting
- Setting Alignment and Indents
- Inserting a Manual Indent
- Setting Paragraph Effects
- Working with Hidden Characters
- Using the Glyphs Palette
- Working with Text Flow
- Setting Text Frame General Controls
- Using the Control Palette for Text
- Using Special Text Characters
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4. Working with Objects
- Types of Frames
- Creating Basic Shapes
- Selecting Objects
- Moving Objects
- Replicating Objects
- Resizing Objects
- Using the Transform Tools
- Using the Transform Palette
- Using the Transform Commands
- Using the Arrange Commands
- Aligning Objects
- Grouping and Pasting Into Objects
- Using the Control Palette for Objects
- Using the Measure Tool
- Using the Info Palette with Objects
- Locking Objects
- Selecting Frames
- 5. Working in Color
- 6. Styling Objects
- 7. Pen and Beziers
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8. Imported Graphics
- Placing Artwork
- Using Bridge to Place Artwork
- Specialty Frames
- Setting the Image Import Options
- Working with Images Inside Frames
- Using the Position Tool
- Fitting Graphics in Frames
- Nesting Graphic Elements
- Styling Placed Images
- Linking Graphics
- Embedding Graphics
- Setting Layer Visibility
- Using Clipping Paths
- Importing Transparent Images
- Viewing Images
- Applying Effects to Images
- 9. Text Effects
- 10. Pages And Books
- 11. Layers
- 12. Libraries and Snippets
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13. Tabs and Tables
- Inserting Tab Characters
- Setting Tab Stops
- Creating Tab Leaders
- Creating and Using Tables
- Navigating Through Tables
- Selecting Tables
- Working with Rows and Columns
- Adjusting Tables within a Text Frame
- Working with Headers and Footers
- Adding Images to Tables
- Customizing Cells
- Setting Borders, Strokes, and Fills
- Alternating Strokes and Fills
- Adding Diagonal Lines in Cells
- Using the Table or Control Palettes
- 14. Automating Your Work
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15. Text and Object Styles
- Defining Text Styles
- Text Style Categories
- Defining Text Styles (continued)
- Loading and Importing Styles
- Applying Styles and Style Overrides
- Clearing Style Overrides
- Redefining and Deleting Styles
- Automatic Drop Cap Styling
- Using Nested Styles
- Defining Object Styles
- Object Style Categories
- Defining Object Styles (continued)
- Working with Object Styles
- Using the Quick Apply Feature
- 16. Typography Controls
- 17. Color Management
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18. Interactive PDF Elements
- Types of Interactive Elements
- Defining Hyperlinks
- Working with Hyperlinks
- Working with Bookmarks
- Adding Sounds
- Adding Movies
- Movie Display Options
- Creating Buttons
- General Button Properties
- Setting the Button States
- Applying Behaviors
- Button Behaviors
- Applying Behaviors (continued)
- Deleting or Deactivating Behaviors
- Exporting Interactive PDFs
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19. Output
- Printing a Document
- Print Dialog Box Categories
- Setting the General Print Options
- Choosing the Setup Controls
- Tiling Pages
- Setting Marks and Bleed
- Setting the Output Controls
- Working with Separations Preview
- Separations Preview Plate Settings
- Working with Separations Preview (continued)
- Color Separations and Ink Manager
- Setting the Graphics Options
- Setting the Advanced Options
- Flattener Presets and Preview
- Working with Print Presets
- Creating a Print Summary
- Creating PostScript Files
- Creating a Preflight Report
- Packaging a Document
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20. Exporting
- Setting the Export File Options
- Creating PDF Files
- PDF Export Options
- General PDF Options
- Compression PDF Options
- Output PDF Options
- Advanced PDF Options
- Security PDF Options
- Working with PDF Presets
- Creating EPS Files
- InDesign Interchange Format
- JPEG Options
- Exporting SVG Files
- Exporting Text
- Packaging for GoLive
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21. Customizing InDesign
- Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts
- Setting the Preferences Categories
- The Preference Categories
- General Preferences Controls
- Type Preferences
- Advanced Type Preferences
- Composition Preferences
- Units & Increments Preferences
- Grids Preferences
- Guides & Pasteboard Preferences
- Dictionary Preferences
- Spelling Preferences
- Autocorrect Preferences
- Story Editor Display Preferences
- Display Performance Preferences
- Appearance of Black Preferences
- File Handling Preferences
- Trashing Preferences
- Configuring Plug-Ins
Product information
- Title: InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2005
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780321322012
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