Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout - Gabriel Powell

Instant InDesign is a comprehensive guide to Adobe InDesign, focusing on template design and production. It covers key design principles, basic template architecture, and advanced automation techniques. This resource is valuable for magazine, newspaper, book, and catalog publishers, as well as ad agencies, graphic design firms, and independent designers.

With practical tips and real-world examples, you'll learn to translate ideas into industrial-strength templates. This guide is suitable for both professional mechanics and DIY enthusiasts.

This comprehensive guide shows you step by step how to:

• Use the powerful new features in InDesign CS3—text variables, frame fitting options, and table styles—to create templates for ads, brochures, books, magazines, catalogs, and more.
• Make the most of master pages, paragraph and character styles, nested styles, object styles, and table styles to automate formatting.
• Optimize the use of typography, graphics and images, color, object libraries, and layers in your templates.
• Work with the new transparency options and nondestructive effects in InDesign CS3.
• Set up Data Merge and XML-based templates to automate page production.
• Utilize and modify the templates that ship with InDesign CS3.
• Use Adobe Bridge to manage your text, image assets, and templates.

Author: Powell, Gabriel

Publisher: Adobe Press

Illustration: n

Language: ENG

Title: Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout

Pages: 00336 (Encrypted) / 00000 (Encrypted)

On Sale: 2007-11-29

SKU-13/ISBN: 9780321495716

Category: Computers : Media - Desktop Publishing