InDesign CS4 For Dummies 1st Edition by Galen Gruman (PDF)

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InDesign is the preferred graphic design software, and InDesign CS4 is loaded with cool new desktop publishing features. InDesign CS4 For Dummies shows you how to use every one! Whether you’re an experienced designer or just want to create a cool newsletter for the school soccer team, you’ll benefit from Galen Gruman’s guidance. This desktop publishing expert shows you how to navigate InDesign menus, dialog boxes, panels, and panes; streamline your work with templates; prepare your creations for printing or online publication, and more.Explore the new tools, work with the application frame, and set preferences for the way you workLearn to open and save documents and export contentGet familiar with the Pages panel, apply Master Pages, and work with LayersMake the most of color with color libraries, multi-ink colors, spot versus process color, and gradientsCreate layout guidelines and use color swatches for consistencyStreamline text formatting by using styles and treat text as a graphic elementDesign for the Web with hyperlinks, multimedia elements, and Flash filesSee how InDesign CS4 works seamlessly with other applications in the Adobe Creative SuiteDiscover why good design is part science and part art and learn to manipulate, organize, and align design objectsTake advantage of tips for cropping and positioning graphicsPrepare for printing or other output with enhanced preflighting toolsInDesign CS4 For Dummies also offers great advice for designing pages that do their job perfectly. Start creating today!

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Have designs on better-looking publications? Here’s how to make them happen!Whether you’re an experienced designer or just want tocreate a cool newsletter for the school soccer team, InDesignis the gold standard for desktop publishing programs. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with tips and techniques for making the most of InDesign’s features, along with some wise advice on designing pages that do their job perfectly.Make it work for you — explore the new tools, take advantage of personal workspaces, and set preferences for the way you workMaster the details — take advantage of precise typography, layout, and graphics tools to get exactly the document you wantAdd color — use color libraries, multi-ink colors, and gradients to make your document sparklePlay well with others — learn how InDesign works seamlessly with other applications in the Adobe Creative SuiteGet in style — take text and object formatting up a notch by using styles and InDesign’s many special effectsBe Web savvy — use hyperlinks, multimedia elements, and more for Web, PDF, and Flash filesPack it up — prepare for printing or other output with enhanced preflighting and service-bureau toolsOpen the book and find:Steps for designing and producing professional page layoutsHow to open and save documents and export document contentThe ins and outs of working with textSteps for managing chapters and booksSecrets for setting up great master pagesThe dangers of unnamed colorsHow to manipulate, organize, and align design objectsTips for cropping and positioning graphics From the Back Cover Have designs on better-looking publications? Here’s how to make them happen!Whether you’re an experienced designer or just want tocreate a cool newsletter for the school soccer team, InDesignis the gold standard for desktop publishing programs. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with tips and techniques for making the most of InDesign’s features, along with some wise advice on designing pages that do their job perfectly.Make it work for you — explore the new tools, take advantage of personal workspaces, and set preferences for the way you workMaster the details — take advantage of precise typography, layout, and graphics tools to get exactly the document you wantAdd color — use color libraries, multi-ink colors, and gradients to make your document sparklePlay well with others — learn how InDesign works seamlessly with other applications in the Adobe Creative SuiteGet in style — take text and object formatting up a notch by using styles and InDesign’s many special effectsBe Web savvy — use hyperlinks, multimedia elements, and more for Web, PDF, and Flash filesPack it up — prepare for printing or other output with enhanced preflighting and service-bureau toolsOpen the book and find:Steps for designing and producing professional page layoutsHow to open and save documents and export document contentThe ins and outs of working with textSteps for managing chapters and booksSecrets for setting up great master pagesThe dangers of unnamed colorsHow to manipulate, organize, and align design objectsTips for cropping and positioning graphics About the Author Galen Gruman is the principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and book production firm. He has designed and produced numerous publications and is a regular contributor to Macworld and CIO. Galen is author or coauthor of 22 books on desktop publishing, and he is currently the executive editor for InfoWorld. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐In Design for Dummies was just the resource I needed when I suddenly needed to learn the program. It doesn’t presume too much knowledge of Adobe software and covers the basics to get you started. Then it gets into many of the more sophisticated features of this awesome program. I needed to get a corporate newsletter on the street in less than a month and this book took me from complete tyro to turning out a professional-looking product. It’s a life-saver. Easy to use, easy to understand, easy to reference.

⭐Most products are better-learned when self taught through trial and error – with a great reference book. I passed this book along to associates who needed to learn the product but had no budget to take a class. They utilized the book and became more than functional – so I call it a success.

⭐I could find few books that covered Adobe’s InDesign CS4 & a DVD tutorial costs more than the program. I am not all that familiar with Adobe products, including Photoshop, but I needed a program that could handle complex graphics, etc in a book format. I found that even the best Word Processing programs froze once I got a chapter to a certain length. Due to the topic, the format of my writing style is complicated, very note heavy with maps, sidebars, photos, as well as varying levels of indentation, bullets, etc.Unfortunately, this book is way over my head. I struggled through Chapter 1, wondering why a beginner with the program needed to know about the changes made from CS3 before anything else. Finally, when I got to Chapter 3, it began to explain how to create a document, but if you are a beginner/dummy, you don’t already know what various Icons mean… nor do you understand the jargon & techniques used in the printing & publishing industry. Frankly, I despair.What I really needed, before progressing to this book, was “Teach Yourself InDesign CS4 Visually.” The Teach Yourself Visually series is the absolute best for the absolute beginner. Unfortunately, there is no such book for this program.

⭐Easy to follow – Only weekness is quality of actual illustrations. Images could be clearer or easier to read if the paper was of better quality allowing for image detail.

⭐helped a lot!

⭐[…] has a great online course for InDesign versions CS3 and 4. But if your new to this arena as I was, you must read this book thoroughly first! These “Dummies” book are simply the needed ABCs you need for any subject you’re interested in.

⭐This book for “dummies” is WAY too technical for me – both in language and content. Finally gave up and just used it for reference.

⭐Well worth the cost of the book. Great for getting off the ground for someone who is used to using Pagemaker 7.0!

⭐The `Dummies’ series of books can be a bit hit and miss depending on the subject, but this is one instance where they’ve got it just right.It’s pitched at exactly the right level in my opinion. The structure is superb, so that depending on your familiarity with a particular part of the software, you can dip in and out as required, without having to read the whole book from start to finish.All the essential bits of InDesign are covered, and the index is also great for clarifying things as you work through the actual software. Just don’t expect it to make you a graphic designer – no handbook in the world will do that, but what it will do is break down all the elements of this powerful tool to make your first steps into layout just that little bit easier.Of course, there is no substitute for a proper training course and the experience acquired from many hours in front of a monitor, but this is still an indispensible book for any beginner.Highly recommended!

⭐This book has been brilliant for dipping into when I need it. It is written very clearly and has the brilliant icons as the side of the pages so that you know the main points where to take extra note.As an experienced designer it has still been a valuable source book.

⭐as a dummy it was only ok

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