Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS Author:Kevin A. Siegel InDesign is one of the world?s most powerful and flexible desktop publishing programs. This book will have you using InDesign CS (version 3) like a professional--and you'll be able to finish in just a few short days. Once you have finished with this book, you will be able to produce a variety of projects including: newsletters, brochures, flyer... more »s, magazines, PDF documents and more. Here is a sampling of what you will learn: The InDesign Environment Start InDesign and Open a Document | Change Views by Zooming | Scroll by Dragging the Page | Show and Hide Palettes | View Multiple InDesign Documents | Create and Use Custom Workspaces | Create a New Document | Change Document Setup | Create a Text Frame | Create Graphics Frames | Resize and Move Page Elements | Customize Preferences Text Basics Create a Text Frame | Type Text Into a Text Frame | Work with Overset Text | Modify a Text Frame | Make Simple Edits | Select Text | Cut, Copy and Paste Text | Change Character Attributes Placing Text and Formatting Paragraphs Create a Document Preset | Place Text | Drag and Drop Text into a Layout | Align Paragraphs | Create Multiple Columns | Set a First Line Indent | Add Paragraph Space | Set Leading | Set Paragraph Rules Text Frames and Threads
Flow Text onto Multiple Pages | Navigate a Multi-Page Document | Insert and Delete Pages | Work with a Master Text Frame | Modify a Master Text Frame | Use Step and Repeat | Add Ruler Guides to the Page | Thread Text Tab Stops
Set and Move a Tab Stop | Add a Fill Character | Set a Decimal Tab Stop | Use the "Align to Other" Tab | Create a Hanging Indent | Apply Text Formatting Using the Eyedropper Tool Graphics Place an Image | Move and Resize an Image | Change the Scale of an Image | Rotate and Skew an Image | Create a Clipping Path Create a One-Page Flyer Create a Page Border | Create a Multiple Column Text Frame | Use Find/Change | Format Text and Paragraphs | Add Ruler Guides | Place a Graphic onto the Page | Create a Text Wrap around an Object | Spell Check | Preflight and Package a File | Create a PDF CMYK Colors, Master Pages and Libraries Work with Process Colors | Create and Use a Libraries | Create Master Pages | Add an Automatic Page Number | Duplicate and Rename Master Pages | Enable Layout Adjustment | Assign a Master Page | Wrap Text Around an Image | Edit a Text Wrap Styles Create Paragraph Styles | Use the Story Editor | Set Keep Options | Apply | Create a New Style Based on a Selection | Lock Text to a Paragraph Grid | Insert Drop Caps | Create and Nest a Character Style Tracking, Kerning, and Hyphenation Track Text | Kern Letter Pairs | Use Tracking as a Layout Tool | Adjust Hyphenation | Create User Dictionary Hyphenation Exceptions | Work with Discretionary Hyphens | Prevent Selected Text from Breaking | Outdent Punctuation Tables Draw a Table | Add Table Data, Columns and Rows | Combine Cells and Format Text | Format a Table | Change Text Rotation and Cell Stroke Weight | Place Graphics In Table Cells | Convert Text To a Table | Scale a Table and its Content Fonts, Links and Templates
Use Find Font to Replace a Font | Use the Links Palette to Update a Graphic | Create and Use a Template Layers Create and Modify Layers | Move Objects to Layers | Hide and Show Layers | Reorder Layers Long Documents Create a Book File | Add Documents to a Book File | Reorder and Remove Book Documents | Synchronize Selected Documents | Create a Table of Contents Style | Create a Table of Contents | Add Index Entries | Generate an Index | Change the Index Punctuation | Create Index Paragraph Styles | Create Second-Level Index Entries | Create a Cross-Reference« less