Product Description
Adobe InDesign is a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs in the Creative Suite. It's the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design.

Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS4, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign's advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently.

They'll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS4, including: 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.

About the Author
Olav Martin Kvern is an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, software designer, and writer. He coauthored the ground-breaking Real World PageMaker. He has written for Macworld, Publish, and Adobe magazines. In addition, he has designed many books for Peachpit Press and is currently on the Adobe InDesign Developer Technologies team. David Blatner is an internationally respected author or co-author of more than 15 books, including Adobe InDesign Breakthroughs, Adobe Photoshop Breakthroughs, and Real World Adobe Photoshop. He also wrote the world's best-selling book on QuarkXPress, Real World QuarkXPress.
Product Details

* Paperback: 840 pages
* Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 Pap/Onl edition (March 1, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0321592433
* ISBN-13: 978-0321592439
* Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches

InDesign CS4 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) (Paperback)

Review
"...explains everything in easily understood, bit-sized chunks (excellent)...It'll take you from a standing start to a position of relative confidence..." (Mac User, February 27th 2009)

Product Description
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 work
* Learn to open and save documents and export content
* Get familiar with the Pages panel, apply Master Pages, and work with Layers
* Make the most of color with color libraries, multi-ink colors, spot versus process color, and gradients
* Create layout guidelines and use color swatches for consistency
* Streamline text formatting by using styles and treat text as a graphic element
* Design for the Web with hyperlinks, multimedia elements, and Flash files
* See how InDesign CS4 works seamlessly with other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite
* Discover why good design is part science and part art and learn to manipulate, organize, and align design objects
* Take advantage of tips for cropping and positioning graphics
* Prepare for printing or other output with enhanced preflighting tools

InDesign CS4 For Dummies also offers great advice for designing pages that do their job perfectly. Start creating today!