How to do everything with Adobe InDesign CS / David Bergsland

Includes index.

Part I: Get Started with InDesign CS. Understand the InDesign Interface -- Control the Interface -- Open Documents, Old and New -- Customize the Interface. Part II: Add Typography -- Set Type Professionally -- Edit Type in Your Document -- Design Your Paragraphs -- Format Your Document Using Styles -- Add a Table. Part III: Add Graphics. Produce Graphics in or for Your Document -- Edit Graphics in Your Document -- Import and Export Graphics. Part IV: Add Color. Add Color to Your Pages -- Control Your Color. Part V: Design Web and Multimedia Documents. Add HTML, XML, and Multimedia Features. Part VI: Produce Finished Documents. Assemble Your Design -- Prepare Your Documents for Production -- Produce Your Documents.

Add your creativity to the exceptional production capabilities of Adobe InDesign CS and you'll get amazing results. Follow real-world examples to get started laying out professional-quality pages and printing with precision. Take advantage of the built-in support for publishing PDFs as eBooks, on the Web, and more. Learn all the latest features, including tables of contents, tables that flow from page to page, transparency, drag-and-drop color, the powerful Swatches palette, and the revival of the built-in word processor Story Editor. Convert Quark, PageMaker, and other existing documents; Customize your interface for efficient production; Set type with greater precision using OpenType support; Create print and PDF workflow output to the latest standards; Properly plan for page size, column width, and paragraph design; Work with color palettes, overprinting, spot color, duotones, CMYK, and much more; Import documents, tables, graphicsvirtually anything you can see on a screen, with full transparency available! Integrate tightly with other Adobe products; Use with Mac OS X and Windows XP; Prepare your documents with preflighting, separation previews, color paper, custom preview backgrounds, and more; Learn printing solutions from practical examples.