InDesign CS5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

8. Imported Graphics

In This Chapter:

Placing Artwork 204

Using Bridge and Mini Bridge 208

Specialty Frames 209

Setting the Image Import Options 212

Working with Images Inside Frames 216

Fitting Graphics in Frames 218

Nesting Graphic Elements 222

Styling Placed Images 223

Linking Graphics 224

Embedding Graphics 228

Setting Layer Visibility 229

Importing Transparent Images 230

Using Clipping Paths 231

Viewing Images 233

One reason desktop publishing became so popular is how easy it made combining graphics such as photographs and illustrations with type for layouts.

In the years before designers began using personal computers, specialized workers, toiling under the exotic name of strippers, manually trimmed away the blank areas around graphics ...