Trusted format and a master teacher make this guide the choice for becoming a page layout pro using InDesign CS2 - quickly and easily!; Best-selling author Sandee Cohen's lively and engaging teaching style has made her a favorite at conferences and seminars.; Completely revised volume gets readers up to speed fast on most of InDesign CS2's features.; Step-by-step instructions, loads of tips and visual aids make learning more like playing as readers make their way through this friendly, information-packed volume. In a perfect world, InDesign-produced print documents would be effortlessly convertible to Web pages, files could be imported from Photoshop with text and layers editable and intact, and all of Adobe's design, graphics, and publishing programs would play well together. Well, the world may not be perfect, but the above-described scenario is precisely what users will find in Adobe's brand-new InDesign CS2 (USD699; upgrade, USD169), the page design anchor of that company's rightly integrated Creative Suite 2 due to ship in the later part of April 2005. Here to get readers up to speed on it is Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS2. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, and work with color. They'll also find complete coverage of all of InDesign CS2's new features: Object Styles, Snippets, working with layered Photoshop files, browsing with Adobe's new Bridge, and more.

If you're making the switch from QuarkXPress or PageMaker to Adobe InDesign or just starting out with page layout and design, InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips is your ultimate reference. Its award-winning format gives you easy and instant access to all the tasks you'll want to perform. Author Ted LoCascio is a highly qualified instructor--he's the former senior designer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and an InDesign expert. With clear, accessible information and a full color section, this is the best value on the market.

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

You've mastered page design and can easily work your Quark magic. Now you are ready to take the plunge and switch to Adobe InDesign CS2 and you need to learn and start successfully using the award-winning software, immediately! Real World Adobe InDesign CS2 has all the industrial-strength techniques and time-saving tips you need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS2, without missing a beat or a deadline! You'll find everything you need here to master InDesign's advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, use the Bridge effectively, and more. You'll also find complete coverage of InDesign CS2's new features: Object Styles, Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support, using InCopy, Smarter text handling, flexible XML support, and much more. Written by pros for design pros, this book has all the real-world, industrial-strength InDesign CS2 techniques that will make all the difference in your fast-paced production environment!

InDesign CS2 is more than just a powerful page layout tool: As part of Adobe's new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and Acrobat), 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. This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on just the InDesign CS2 features you'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, you learn as you go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you'll be using the Bridge to manage your files, object styles to format your images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse and much, much more!

InDesign CS2 in Easy Steps shows you how to harness the creative potential and power in both the existing features and the exciting new features such as Object Styles, Snippets and image controls as well as the extensive file management capabilities of the Adobe Bridge. The book brings a clear, logical and informative learning sequence to the software, using, step by step instructions and an abundance of screenshots that clarify and explain features with the minimum of fuss and the maximum impact.

This guide shows you how to master this electronic publishing tool, customise the interface, work with objects and graphics, calibrate colour, create PDF files, and more. From pages, panels and pictures to text, tabs, and tables, you'll design and output like a pro every time!

Whether you're an experienced designer using InDesign at a fairly advanced level or a desktop publishing beginner new to InDesign-or making the transition from QuarkXPress-you'll find InDesign Production Cookbook chock-full of practical information, with quick solutions to real-world layout challenges. The book covers the very latest features in Adobe InDesign CS2 for Windows and Macintosh, including tips on using the program with Bridge within Adobe Creative Suite 2. Unlike the traditional "bible" approach to learning new software, InDesign Production Cookbook's unique combination of concise explanations, expert tips, and practical recipes will bring new users up to speed quickly, while providing more seasoned professionals with the information they need to complete specific tasks on the run. The book covers: handling typography, including customization and special effects working with photographs and illustrations using InDesign's art tools to create illustrations formatting tables applying color and transparency effects building multi-page documents creating indexes and tables of contents making interactive multimedia eBooks InDesign style tagging There's even a chapter specifically for QuarkXPress users making the switch to Adobe InDesign, showing where you will find familiar tools and commands in the new program. Packed with step-by-step instructions, hundreds of full-color examples, and authoritative information and advice, InDesign Cookbook is the ultimate, no-nonsense production guide for every InDesign user.

From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. What in the (real) world could you do with XML if you understood how it works in InDesign? Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes, and building chunks of content that can be reused in multiple publications. In this Short Cut, we'll play with the contents of a college course catalog and see how we can use XML for course descriptions, tables, and other content. Underlying principles of XML structure, DTDs, and the InDesign namespace will help you develop your own XML processes. The Advanced Topics section gives tips on using XSLT to manipulate XML in InDesign.