Adobe InDesign CS3 Bible

Galen Gruman is principal of the content and consulting firm The Zango Group and is a veteran desktop-publishing guru. He has written two dozen books on InDesign, QuarkXPress, and PageMaker, including QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face. A former editor of Macworld, Gruman regularly contributes tips and publishing techniques to Macworld, Layers Magazine, and other publications.

About the Author. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Quick Start: Building a Document from Start to Finish. Part I: Welcome to InDesign. Chapter 1: What InDesign Can Do for You. Chapter 2: Inside the InDesign Interface. 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, Tints, and Gradients. Part III: Object Fundamentals. Chapter 9: Adding Frames and Lines. Chapter 10: Manipulating Objects. Chapter 11: Transforming Objects. Chapter 12: Applying Effects to Objects. Chapter 13: Orchestrating Objects. Part IV: Text Fundamentals. Chapter 14: Importing Text Files. Chapter 15: Flowing Text through a Document. Chapter 16: Editing and Formatting Text. Chapter 17: Specifying Character Attributes. Chapter 18: Specifying Paragraph Attributes. Chapter 19: Creating Special Text Formatting. Chapter 20: Setting Up Styles. Chapter 21: Using Special Characters. Part V: Business Document Fundamentals. Chapter 22: Setting Up Tabs and Tables. Chapter 23: Automating Text. Chapter 24: Working with Footnotes, Indexes, and TOCs. Chapter 25: Creating Multi-Document Projects. Part VI: Graphics Fundamentals. Chapter 26: Importing Graphics. Chapter 27: Fitting Graphics and Frames Together. Chapter 28: Drawing Free-Form Shapes and Curved Paths. Part VII: Output Fundamentals. Chapter 29: Preparing for Color Prepress. Chapter 30: Preparing for Printing. Chapter 31: Printing Techniques. Chapter 32: Creating Prepress Files. Part VIII: Electronic Publishing Techniques. Chapter 33: Creating Electronic Documents. Chapter 34: Working with XML. Part IX: Workgroup Publishing Techniques. Chapter 35: Working with Others. Chapter 36: Workgroup Editing with InCopy. Part X: Extending InDesign. Chapter 37: Using Plug-Ins. Chapter 38: Using Scripts. Part XI: Appendixes. Appendix A: Installing or Upgrading InDesign. Appendix B: What's New in InDesign CS3. Appendix C: Switching from QuarkXPress. Appendix D: Switching from PageMaker. Appendix E: More Resources. Appendix F: Shortcuts Cheat Sheet. Index.