Sandee Cohen is the graphics curriculum instructor for the New School Computer Instruction Center in New York City, senior contributing editor to InDesign Magazine, and a popular speaker at many conferences (including Macworld Conference and Expo, the InDesign Conference, the Creative Suite Conference and other events). She has also written Visual QuickStart Guides on Macromedia Fireworks and Macromedia FreeHand in addition to coauthoring other books on graphics and desktop publishing.

Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe's page-design component of Creative Suite 4, offers exciting new enhancements to its already powerful tools. Among the exciting features users will find are new Live Preflighting capabilities and seamless integration with Adobe Flash, including direct translation of InDesign pages into SWF files. Adobe InDesignCS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide will highlight the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign.

Using the task-based, visual approach that readers count on in the Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS4. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of purposes, and much more.

Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Document Setup
Chapter 3 Basic Text
Chapter 4 Working with Objects
Chapter 5 Working in Color
Chapter 6 Fills, Strokes, and Effects
Chapter 7 Points and Paths
Chapter 8 Imported Graphics
Chapter 9 Text Effects
Chapter 10 Pages and Books
Chapter 11 Layers
Chapter 12 Libraries and Snippets
Chapter 13 Tabs and Tables
Chapter 14 Automating Your Work
Chapter 15 Styles
Chapter 16 Typography
Chapter 17 Color Management
Chapter 18 Interactive & Multimedia
Chapter 19 Output
Chapter 20 Exporting
Chapter 21 Customizing

Publisher: Pearson Education
Distributor: Pearson Education
Publication Date: 11-17-2008
Pages: 576
Measurements: 9in X 7in X 1.132in X 866gr