Real World Adobe(R) InDesign(R) 2
by David Blatner, Olav Martin Kvern

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Book Review: In Depth coverage of InDesign
Summary: 5 Stars

But it's the depth at which they are able to cover each area that is astounding. Anyone who has used InDesign 2 knows it has a zillion palettes and tools. This book covers them all in great detail. I venture to say that you would be hard pressed to come up with a question about InDesign 2 that this book doesn't cover.

And they put their money where their collective mouth is. They laid out the entire 650 page book using InDesign 2. One of them used a Titanium Powerbook running OS X and the other used Windows. A nice demo of its true cross-platform capabilities.

I was particularly impressed by how they showed the differences in results you get when performing a task (such as transforming the contents within a path), depending on which options are selected. This is the best reference book on InDesign I've seen. I like the Adobe Classroom in a Book, but wouldn't use it as my handy reference on how to do some little obscure thing.

I didn't realize how powerful the drawing tools in InDesign are until I read this book. And I didn't understand the difference between downsampling and subsampling (for exporting as a PDF), but they explain it well.

There is a nice section on managing long documents, their tables of contents and indices.

Summary of Real World Adobe(R) InDesign(R) 2

Between the covers of this comprehensive reference guide, authors Olav Kvern and David Blatner cover everything you need to know to successfully lay out, proof, and print your pages in record time: how to master InDesign's advanced page-layout tools; manage color; create, link, and unlink text frames; and run your own custom InDesign scripts. Because they are working professionals themselves, Kvern and Blatner know the challenges you face--and the best ways to overcome them. The book's industrial-strength production techniques and timesaving tips were designed to help you avoid costly snags so you can focus on the creative process.

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• Subjects > Computers & Technology > Graphic Design > Adobe InDesign
• Programming > Graphics & Multimedia
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