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With its ever-tightening integration with Adobe's full suite of creative products and its own increasingly sophisticated feature set, InDesign is winning legions of Quark and FrameMaker converts. If you’re among them–or if you've decided to sidestep those programs altogether–you need this book. In these pages, the Adobe Creative Team uses a series of project-based lessons to provide a thorough grounding in the InDesign school of page design. You'll find step-by-step lessons in InDesign CS2 fundamentals plus plenty of the advanced tips and techniques you need to take your page designs to the next level. The workbook-style format includes self-paced lessons followed by review questions to reinforce the knowledge and a CD with all of the files required to complete the book's projects. Throughout, special focus is given to the features new to InDesign CS: the new Adobe Bridge file browser; object styles, snippets, smarter text handling, the ability to hide or show layers in Photoshop and PDF files, and much more. more...

Price: $44.00

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. more...

Price: $24.99

A knowledge of Styles is essential for InDesign users who need to improve their workflow, eliminate repetitive tasks, and produce more efficient and consistent work. InDesign Styles have evolved to become the core of the application when it comes to automating text, object and table formatting. Styles also reach out to influence and enable dozens of other features from small scale features like Bulleted and Numbered Lists all the way through cross-media export to XHTML. A true understanding of the far-reaching potential of styles can transform how design and production professionals approach and accomplish every project, small or large. Adopting a style-centric workflow can reduce tasks that would take days to mere hours, and tasks that would take hours to minutes or even seconds. In the only book exclusively focused on Styles, Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles, takes a detailed, step-by-step look at the creation and implementation of styles, and then provides a big-picture perspective for combining styles with other features for increased efficiency, accuracy and flexibility. more...

Price: $35.99

Increase your productivity with Acrobat, one technique at a time. Now that PDF has become the ubiquitous electronic document format, it’s important to recognize that there’s much more to Adobe Acrobat than just managing your documents and improving workflow. more...

Price: $19.99

Do you spend too much time doing repetitive production tasks such as placing and replacing images, correcting errors in text, cutting and pasting, and preparing files for printing, instead of being creative? Do you use Adobe InDesign CS2 and have a strong working knowledge of JavaScript? Then you're in luck. more...

Price: $39.99