InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

By Sandee Cohen

Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn! Users of Adobe InDesign will be impressed with the power, ease of use, and integration found in the new InDesign CS3, Adobe's page-design component of Creative Suite 3. Users will also find more robust file-placing capabilities, new Find features, and great new text and transparency effects, among other exciting features. Adobe InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickS tart Guid e will highlight the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign. Using the task-based, visual approach that readers count on in the Visual QuickStart Gui de s , this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS3. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of purposes, and Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through InDesign and show you what to do. Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time. Page for page, the best content and value around.much more. ? This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321503066
• ISBN13: 9780321503060
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 579 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book for Learning

I teach many different computer courses and I have to testify here that this book is great for someone who already uses in design to reference just how to do a specific function or action in InDesign. I am so very pleased with this manual that I will be most likely to get more from this series. The author is right on in this book with a little humor to remind you to take things easy. Highly recommend to anyone wanting to broaden...

Helpful

This book is very helpful for the novice, and for those well-versed with the computer program.

Great resource book for students and professionals

Having bought this book as a requirement for my Page Layout class, I was surprised to see that I actually used the book. Like the QuickStart book for Quark, it offers invaluable information clearly, and is laid out in a streamlined and clean fashion. I have used InDesign CS2 in the past, but CS3 had new tools and shortcuts. This book defines InDesign CS3 effortlessly which is wonderful for students. I have come back time and...

Recommended Noob Book

With zero experience with layout programs, this book did a very credible job of walking me through and making me not only knowledgable, but competent. A couple of spots in the book I thought could have been better arranged...different order of teaching, but that is really a minor detail. A number of software books just take you through the keyboard strokes without detailed explanations of the tools, their properties, and...

Best All Around Book on ID CS3

Okay, I know I rated Blatner and Kvern's RWIDCS3 book 5 stars, but when you're on deadline and looking for a quick, concise answer on how to do something fast this one's the book to reach for. Frankly, do yourself a huge favor and keep both titles close at hand. They make a powerful duo.