Adobe InDesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book

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Features

• NEW - Fully updated to reflect Adobe InDesign 2.0.

  • Shows students how to take advantage of the major creativity and productivity improvements built into the newest version of Adobe InDesign.

• NEW - Covers Adobe InDesign 2.0's key features for large scale publication projects—Includes XML import/export and long document support.

  • Helps students succeed with InDesign in a wider range of environments, including business and technical publishing.

• Official Adobe training—The only InDesign book containing the official training course created by Adobe's own creative team.

  • Students benefit from a course that reflects Adobe's own expertise and has been extensively pre-tested and refined to improve its clarity and educational effectiveness.

• Systematic, step-by-step coverage—Covers all key facets of Adobe InDesign 2.0, including the revamped InDesign interface; working with text, colors, and graphics; designing tables; printing; and more.

  • Gives students a single source for mastering the entire Adobe InDesign 2.0 package, from the basics through InDesign's most advanced techniques and capabilities.

• All source files on CD-ROM—An accompanying CD-ROM contains all the customized files and images students need to perform the book's exercises.

  • Lets students to perform the course's projects hands-on.

• End-of-chapter review questions—Every chapter contains several review questions.

  • Lets students immediately check their knowledge and revisit any part of the chapter they haven't mastered.

• Integration with other Adobe products—Shows how to use Adobe LiveMotion, Photoshop, and Illustrator effectively together.

  • Helps students leverage their existing skills with other Adobe tools to create graphics-intensive documents more effectively and efficiently.

Description

InDesign 2.0 takes Adobe's popular page-layout program to the nextlevel--there's no area that hasn't been improved, streamlined, redesigned,or stuffed with new features. Who better to show you the fastest, easiestway to get to work with InDesign 2.0 than the pros behind the software?Adobe InDesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book brings the company's officialtraining series to your desktop.

Adobe InDesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book is a hands-on workbookstructured as a series of lessons--tested in Adobe's own classrooms andlabs--that you can follow on your own time, at your own pace. Forbeginners, there are step-by-step lessons that cover the fundamentalconcepts and features you need to master the program. If you've been usingInDesign, you can skip straight to the many sections on advanced features.Every chapter is sprinkled with professional tips and techniques and endswith a review section that reinforces what you've just put into practice; aCD full of project files provides everything you need to complete thelessons. Adobe InDesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book covers what's newand improved in InDesign 2.0: XML import and export, transparency, tablecreation, long document support, a superior printing interface, native MacOS X support, and tighter integration with Adobe LiveMotion, Photoshop,Illustrator, and more.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

Getting Started.


A Quick Tour of Adobe InDesign.


Lesson 1: Getting to Know the Work Area.


Lesson 2: Setting Up Your Document.


Lesson 3: Working with Frames.


Lesson 4: Creating and Applying Colors, Tints, and Gradients.


Lesson 5: Importing and Linking Graphics.


Lesson 6: Drawing Vector Graphics.


Lesson 7: Working with Transparency.


Lesson 8: Importing and Editing Text.


Lesson 9: Working with Typography.


Lesson 10: Creating Tables.


Lesson 11: Publishing with XML.


Lesson 12: Combining Files into Books.


Lesson 13: Setting Up Your Monitor for Color Management.


Lesson 14: Ensuring Consistent Color.


Index.

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