Moving to InDesign

Introduction

Have you ever bought a new cell phone—or a washing machine, or a power tool—and muddled through the instruction manual? The people who write the manual assume that we’ve never had a cell phone before—or a washing machine or a power tool—so they start from the beginning. Don’t forget to plug it in, they remind us, as though we thought electricity comes from the air.

Granted, there is a place for instruction manuals that start from the very beginning (a very good place to start, as Julie Andrews would tell us), but what we often need is a manual that knows what we already understand and just tells us what’s different and what’s the same. That’s what this book is all about. We know you already know how to use QuarkXPress or PageMaker. ...