- Paperback: 840 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (Mar 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321592433
- ISBN-13: 978-0321592439
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.7 x 4.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #4 in Books > Computers & Internet > Graphic Design > Adobe InDesign
- #65 in Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Graphics & Multimedia
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Adobe InDesign is a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs in the Creative Suite. It's the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design.
Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS4, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign's advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently.
They'll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS4, including: 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.
Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS4, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign's advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently.
They'll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS4, including: 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.
About the Author
Olav Martin Kvern is an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, software designer, and writer. He coauthored the ground-breaking Real World PageMaker. He has written for Macworld, Publish, and Adobe magazines. In addition, he has designed many books for Peachpit Press and is currently on the Adobe InDesign Developer Technologies team. David Blatner is an internationally respected author or co-author of more than 15 books, including Adobe InDesign Breakthroughs, Adobe Photoshop Breakthroughs, and Real World Adobe Photoshop. He also wrote the world's best-selling book on QuarkXPress, Real World QuarkXPress.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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the InDesign book to get!,
By J. Kew "Vancouver-Indesign User Group" (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 (Paperback)
Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 by Olav Martin Kvern & David Blatner.This is the reference book to get if you're looking for just ONE book on InDesign. Actually, even if you buy more than one InDesign book, this should still be one of them. The CS3 version was a veritable cornucopia of InDesign factoids. This one is no different. This version is over 800 pages. It really is the go to book for how to do things in InDesign. You could try the Adobe InDesign User Guide, but why bother, this is the book that should've been packaged with the disks. I had the good fortune of meeting Oli Kvern and David Blatner at a conference recently. So reading the book and hearing their voices in my head as I read the book made the book even more interesting. They are both very interesting and very smart and savvy InDesign professionals. This book reflects that savvy knowledge base and it's easy to read and locate the info you need.
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This review is from: Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 (Paperback)
InDesign CS4Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner At 778 pages, this book packs a whopping amount of information and serves as an excellent resource to all things InDesign. A fan of Blatner's books since the days of Quark XPress 3, I've enjoyed his thoughtful and often humorous approach to explaining the software and this book is no exception. Over the course of 14 chapters, the book covers both the essentials and advanced features, making the book suitable for InDesign users of all levels. Of particular note is Chapter 11 on printing. The mysteries of flattener presets, transparency and applying these to every day print jobs are covered here. In addition, there are many useful tips and shortcuts throughout the book. They're not set in a tinted box or pulled to the side of the page as in other books. My suggestion is to dig in; the answer is likely to be revealed in that chapter. Both authors have worked with this software for years, so anything the reader has trouble with, they too have encountered, solved and answered in this book.
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the first reference I turn to when I need ID help,
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David Blatner and Olav Martin Kvern are two of the top InDesign educators and they know the software inside out and backwards. This book stays close at hand whenever I'm in an ID project. It has bailed me out many a time when I've been pounding my head against some issue where things aren't coming out as expected or I'm unsure of a way to accomplish what I need to get done. It's not a tutorial book with step by step projects, but it covers most everything you'll need to know in detail. Beginners might find it isn't basic enough to be the sole learning tool, but whatever level you're at, Real World InDesign CS4 is an essential reference.
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I bought this book for my wife who was beginning to use InDesign for work. All I hear is "Wow! This book is amazing" about five or six times a day. All the information you need is in here - very well structured and easy to find. It seems to anticipate the most common problems that users get stuck on too. If you are looking for an easy-to-use reference-while-you-work InDesign manual, then look no further.
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An Invaluable Reference Manual,
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If you have any plans to use InDesign CS4, get this book!The authors are masters of the subject. They're steeped in the programming. They bring longtime experience with the software and its earlier iterations, so they understand its many strengths and occasional limitations. It helps that they're also skilled writers. They use the software in the production of their own books. Therefore they have an unerring sense of the perspective of the actual user. This is a tremendous benefit. The index, which is vital to users of this kind of book, reflects a powerful user-focus. Fine book. Highly recommended. |
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