Adobe InDesign CS Bible

Galen Gruman is principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, a creative consultancy, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of IT Wireless. He has also been editor of Macworld and M-Business, executive editor of Upside, West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld, and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com. He is coauthor of 13 other books on desktop publishing. Gruman led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986, and Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991. Originally a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles, Gruman got bit by the production-technology bug in 1979 and hasn't recovered.

Foreword: InDesign's Impact. Foreword: The InDesign Mission. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. InDesign QuickStart. Part I: Welcome to InDesign. Chapter 1: What InDesign Can Do for You. Chapter 2: A Tour of InDesign. Chapter 3: Getting InDesign Ready to Go. Part II: Document Fundamentals. Chapter 4: Creating, Opening, and Saving Documents. Chapter 5: Working with Pages. Chapter 6: Working with Layers. Chapter 7: Creating Layout Standards. Chapter 8: Defining Colors and Gradients. Chapter 9: Book Publishing. Part III: Object Fundamentals. Chapter 10: Adding Text Frames, Picture Frames, and Lines. Chapter 11: Manipulating Frames and Lines. Chapter 12: Orchestrating Objects. Chapter 13: Timesaving Techniques. Part IV: Text Fundamentals. Chapter 14: Preparing Text Files for Import. Chapter 15: Working with Text. Chapter 16: Flowing Text through a Document. Chapter 17: Specifying Character Attributes. Chapter 18: Specifying Paragraph Attributes. Chapter 19: Creating Special Text Formatting. Chapter 20: Setting Up Style Sheets. Chapter 21: Setting Up Tabs and Tables. Part V: Graphics Fundamentals. Chapter 22: Preparing Picture Files for Import. Chapter 23: Importing Pictures. Chapter 24: Modifying Imported Pictures. Chapter 25: Special Effects for Pictures. Chapter 26: Drawing Free-Form Shapes and Curved Paths. Chapter 27: Modifying Shapes and Paths. Chapter 28: Treating Text as Artwork. Part VI: Output Fundamentals. Chapter 29: Preparing for Color Prepress. Chapter 30: Preparing for Printing. Chapter 31: Printing Techniques. Chapter 32: Creating Output Files. Part VII: Cross-Media Fundamentals. Chapter 33: Interactive Document Setup. Chapter 34: Working with XML. Part VIII: Going Beyond the Program. Chapter 35: Working with Others. Chapter 36: Using Plug-Ins. Chapter 37: Using Scripts. Part IX: Introduction to Publishing. Chapter 38: The Publishing Environment. Chapter 39: Layout Theory and Practice. Chapter 40: Typography Theory and Practice. Chapter 41: Using Special Characters. Chapter 42: Color Fundamentals. Part X: Appendixes. Appendix A: Installing or Upgrading InDesign. Appendix B: What's New in InDesign CS. Appendix C: Switching from QuarkXPress. Appendix D: Switching from PageMaker. Appendix E: Switching to Mac OS X. Appendix F: Using Adobe InCopy. Appendix G: The InDesign Central Web Site. Appendix H: Shortcuts Cheat Sheet. Index.