"Galen’s industry experience has made him a reliable source of information, and he’s well respected and trusted. His books are lively, fun, and educational."
—Shellie L. Hall, Publishing Guru and Principal of the DuckType Consultancy
If Adobe InDesign cs can do it, you can do it too ...
InDesign CS brings dozens of exciting new features to an upstart layout program that is fast becoming a major powerhouse. This comprehensive reference helps you use them to create stunning catalogs, brochures, magazines, or interactive PDFs. Discover how to create and save assorted presets for easy access to proven formatting, and how to apply several levels of formatting intelligently using nested style sheets. Explore the enhanced behind-the-scenes capabilities that let InDesign make it easier than ever to produce cutting-edge documents. Everything you need to know is right here.
Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of Adobe InDesign cs
- Apply formatting to almost any object through the new Control palette
- Make InDesign work the way you do with customizable keyboard shortcuts, workspace arrangements, and other saved presets that can be switched easily in multiuser environments
- Increase your control over print output through new bleed and slug tools and the enhanced text-wrap tool
- Create custom colors and duotone effects with the new ink-mixing tool
- Integrate InDesign CS seamlessly into your production workflow with native support for Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and Acrobat®
- Get answers fast, with hundred of tips and a complete reference to shortcuts
- Switch to InDesign from QuarkXPress® or PageMaker®, painlessly
- Simplify workgroup operations with the InCopy add-on
- Use Mac OS® X and Windows® 2000/XP for the ultimate publishing environment
About the Author Galen Gruman is principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, a creative consultancy, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of
IT Wireless. He has also been editor of
Macworld and
M-Business, executive editor of
Upside, West Coast bureau chief of
Computerworld, and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com. He is coauthor of 13 other books on desktop publishing. Gruman led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly
InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986, and
Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991. Originally a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles, Gruman got bit by the production-technology bug in 1979 and hasn’t recovered.