Master Adobe InDesign CS4 Filled with full-color examples, this hands-on guide explains how to use the latest release of the industry-standard dynamic publishing solution. How to Do Everything: Adobe InDesign CS4 takes you step-by-step through the process of creating professional layouts for print and digital publishing. Written by graphic design professionals, this book explains how to use all of InDesign's powerful tools and settings to produce compelling documents optimized for a variety of output formats. Set up a new publication Add and format text, tables, images, and graphics Organize and manage your assets with Adobe Bridge Define a book file, create its component parts, and work with ancillary features Manage linked content Draw objects and include them in your documents Work with layers and effects Select and manage color, including gradients, swatches, spot colors, and mixed inks Preflight your files and prepare print output Export documents to PDF, SWF, XHTML pages, and Web-ready images Produce content in Flash-ready formats

InDesign CS4 is more than just a page layout tool; as part of Adobe's new Creative Suite 4, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. Work faster, create more is what Adobe wants users to do with InDesign, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the InDesign CS4 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn as they go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the Bridge to manage their files, object styles to format their images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse. Features new to InDesign CS4 that are covered include: live preflight, customizable Links panel, conditional text, cross references, interactive document capability with the new SWF file, animated page transitions, export to Flash CS4 functionality, Smart Guides and Smart Spacing, spread rotation, and smart text reflow.

Maximize the power of the number-one vector graphics program This full-color guide is perfect for designers and artists looking to master the most powerful graphics program available. Whether new to the software or upgrading from an earlier version, you will learn how to use the most important features of the latest version and create print, Web, and motion graphics. The examples in the book demonstrate how to develop logos, editorial and book illustrations, page layouts, magazine ads, business graphs and charts, and more. The book takes you step-by-step through the process of creating various types of illustrations, and demonstrates professional techniques, shortcuts, and solutions.

A guide to the desktop publishing and page layout program covers manipulation of text and graphics, adding effects, applying color, and digital publishing.

Learn the newest version of Adobe's premiere page design software—InDesign CC— with this complete package Written by a team of expert instructors, this complete book-and-DVD package teaches even the most inexperienced beginner how to design eye-popping layouts for brochures, magazines, e-books, and flyers. Step-by-step instructions in the full-color book are enhanced by video tutorials on the companion DVD. Thirteen self-paced lessons let you learn Adobe InDesign CC (Creative Cloud) at your own speed; it's like having your own personal tutor teaching you the hottest new version of this leading page layout software. • Includes 13 self-paced lessons that take you from InDesign basics through intermediate-level skills, allowing you to learn at your own speed • Explores the new features and capabilities of InDesign CC, the leading Adobe page design software • Features members of the AGI Creative Team who walk you through the latest version of Adobe InDesign • Contains step-by-step instructions in the full-color book and video tutorials on the DVD, which work together to provide a clear understanding of the topic InDesign CC Digital Classroom is the ideal book-and-DVD training package to get you up to speed on InDesign so you can create designs that dazzle. Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.

Over the last few years, Adobe InDesign has made significantinroads against QuarkXPress, with adoptions by major mediacompanies such as Meredith Corporation and Hearst Magazines; it isnow the only desktop publishing program taught at many artschools Shows graphic designers how to get up to speed quickly on thelatest InDesign release, make the most of program tools, creategreat page designs, add sparkle, and output to a variety ofmedia The authors, both Quark experts who've converted to InDesign,offer special tips and insights to Quark users who are making (orthinking of making) the switch to InDesign

Tap into the far-reaching potential of InDesign styles—from simple drop cap formatting to cross-media export to XHTML. Styles have the power to transform how design and production professionals approach and accomplish any project. Adopting a style-centric workflow can reduce tasks that would normally take days to mere hours, and tasks that would take hours to minutes or even seconds. Less time spent on repetitive tasks means more time for creating your best work. This book explores every InDesign style to reveal its full potential. Throughout each chapter, you’ll pick up many tips and best practices gleaned from real-world experience. Two bonus chapters, “Stroke Styles” and “Project Planning with Styles in Mind” are available for download. For “figure it out as I go” designers, embracing styles still allow you to work intuitively on the page. And this guide helps break preconceptions and bad habits transferred from less powerful page layout applications that keep new InDesign users from working in far more satisfying and productive ways. Where InDesign is concerned, styles truly do equal substance.

Updated: June 2015. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to cover InDesign CC. Several examples have been added, and most examples are now analysed in more detail. Updated: August 2010. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to cover InDesign CS5. Updated: November 2009. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to address typos and reader comments. GREP (short for "General Regular-Expression Print") is a powerful tool that lets you use wildcards ("jokers") to search and replace text. InDesign's GREP implementation can be used for text and also for formatting codes, finding patterns in text as well as literal text. GREP moves beyond the restrictions that hampered earlier InDesign search features, but unfortunately it does have the reputation of being difficult to master. As with many things, it can be challenging to learn, but, fortunately, a lot can be done with surprisingly simple expressions. The aim of this Short Cut is to show how to create simple but powerful regular expressions.

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe InDesign CS4 Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning page layout with Adobe InDesign and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. Explore typography and color, and learn more about creating tables and using styles. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Create layouts for magazines, newsletters, and brochures. Learn how to make Adobe PDF files and rich interactive documents. Prepare files for high-resolution printing and the Web. “Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book is the best way to learn hands-on with real-world examples. You'll gain exposure to good print design as well as efficient workflow techniques.” —Michael Witherell, Adobe Certified Expert, Publishing, Training, and Consulting Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. All of Peachpit's eBooks contain the same content as the print edition. You will find a link in the last few pages of your eBook that directs you to the media files. Helpful tips: If you are able to search the book, search for "Where are the lesson files?" Go to the very last page of the book and scroll backwards. You will need a web-enabled device or computer in order to access the media files that accompany this ebook. Entering the URL supplied into a computer with web access will allow you to get to the files. Depending on your device, it is possible that your display settings will cut off part of the URL. To make sure this is not the case, try reducing your font size and turning your device to a landscape view. This should cause the full URL to appear.

Maximize the power of your Palm Pre! This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to get the most out of the innovative smartphone built on the Palm webOS platform. How to Do Everything: Palm Pre helps you navigate the interface, load data from various sources, and use all the communication features--phone, email, and messaging. You'll surf the Web, snap photos, enjoy multimedia, download cool apps, and keep your Pre running at peak performance. This one-stop resource covers it all! Configure and customize your Pre Connect to data from multiple sources Make calls and send emails, texts, and instant messages Connect to wireless networks and access the Internet Load contacts, calendar items, memos, and tasks Navigate with GPS Listen to music, watch videos, and take photos Install and use third-party apps Secure, troubleshoot, and maintain your Pre About the Authors: Rick Broida is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books, including How to Do Everything with Your Zune. He writes for PC World, Popular Science, Wired, CNET's Cheapskate Blog, and BNET's Business Hacks. Dave Johnson is the author or coauthor of more than three dozen books, including How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera. He writes regularly for PC World and blogs daily for BNET's Business Hacks.