InDesign CS2 at your fingertips / Ted LoCascio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LoCascio, Ted.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desktop publishing.

Adobe InDesign (Electronic resource).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco ; London : SYBEX, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you're making the switch from QuarkXPress or PageMaker to Adobe InDesign or just starting out with page layout and design, InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips is your ultimate reference. Its award-winning format gives you easy and instant access to all the tasks you'll want to perform. Author Ted LoCascio is a highly qualified instructor--he's the former senior designer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and an InDesign expert. With clear, accessible information and a full color section, this is the best value on the market.

Contents:

INDESIGN CS2 at Your Fingertips; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Interface Overview; The Macintosh Interface; The Windows Interface; The Document Window; Interface Objects; Chapter 2: Menus; Menu Overview; InDesign Menu (Mac Only); File Menu; Edit Menu; Layout Menu; Type Menu; Object Menu; Table Menu; View Menu; Window Menu; Help Menu; Chapter 3: InDesign Tools; Toolbox; Control Bar; Selection Tool; Direct Selection and Position Tools; Pen Tools; Type Tools; Pencil Tools; Line Tool; Frame Tools; Shape Tools; Rotate Tool; Scale Tool; Shear Tool

Free Transform ToolEyedropper Tool; Measure Tool; Gradient Tool; Button Tool; Scissors Tool; Hand Tool; Zoom Tool; Other Toolbox Functions; Chapter 4: InDesign Palettes; Organizing Palettes; Customizing Your Workspace; Attributes Palette; Automation Palettes; Color Palette; Gradient Palette; Info Palette; Interactive Palettes; Layers Palette; Links Palette; Object & Layout Palettes; Object Styles Palette; Output Palettes; PageMaker Toolbar; Pages Palette; Stroke Palette; Swatches Palette; Tags Palette; Text Wrap Palette; Transparency Palette; Type and Tables Palettes

Book and Library PalettesChapter 5: Preferences and Presets; General Preferences; Type Preferences; Advanced Type Preferences; Composition Preferences; Units & Increments Preferences; Grids Preferences; Guides & Pasteboard Preferences; Dictionary Preferences; Spelling Preferences; Autocorrect Preferences; Story Editor Display Preferences; Display Performance Preferences; Appearance of Black Preferences; File Handling Preferences; Document Presets; Print Presets; Adobe PDF Presets; Configure Plug-ins; Keyboard Shortcuts; Chapter 6: Creating and Managing Documents; Starting a New Document

Saving Document PresetsOpening InDesign Documents; Opening PageMaker and QuarkXPress Documents; Save vs. Save As; Saving Backward with INX Export; Saving Files for Use with InCopy; Adding, Arranging, and Deleting Pages; Creating Multipage Spreads and Master Pages; Targeting vs. Selecting Pages; Creating Master Pages; Converting Document Pages to Master Pages; Applying Master Pages; Deleting Master Pages; Creating and Applying Parent/Child Master Pages; Overriding Master Page Items; Adding Page Numbers to Sections; Adjusting Ruler Guides; Adjusting Margin and Column Guides

Aligning to Baseline GridSnapping to Document Grid; Chapter 7: Frames and Shapes; Frame/Shape Overview; Selection Tool vs. Direct Selection Tool; Selecting Multiple Objects; Selecting Type; Drawing Rectangles, Ellipses, and Polygons; Drawing Custom Shapes; Drawing Freeform Shapes; Modifying Paths and Frames; Nesting Objects; Filling with Solid and Transparent Colors; Filling with Gradients; Filling Text; Stroking Frames, Shapes, and Paths; Stroking Text; Aligning Strokes; Applying Stroked Path Start and End Styles; Saving and Applying Custom Strokes; Applying Gap Color to Open Stroke Styles

Applying Corner Effects

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-280-27964-8

9786610279647

0-471-77979-2

OCLC:

183266203