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InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 12 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe InDesign CS4. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. This training package shows how to design, produce and develop a streamlined workflow for page layout. Jam-packed with information, this book and DVD takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner. InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom contains a DVD with both lesson files and video tutorials. The authors are constantly working to improve the lesson files so that you have the greatest experience with the Digital Classroom books, lesson files, and video tutorials. The most recent lesson files for the book are available at the Digital Classroom Books web site at: http://www.digitalclassroombooks.com/idcs4-update. zip Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
| ISBN | 0470410949 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780470410943
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 954 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Published in | Chichester | | Imprint | John Wiley & Sons Ltd | | Series title | Coursesmart | | Format | Multimedia Item | | Height (mm) | 233 | | Publication date | 31 Oct 2008 | | Width (mm) | 189 | | DEWEY | 005.52 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 400 | |
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Starting Up. About InDesign Digital Classroom. Prerequisites. System requirements. Starting Adobe InDesign CS4. Fonts used in this book. Resetting the InDesign workspace and preferences. Loading lesson files. Working with the video tutorials. Setting up for viewing the video tutorials. Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player. Additional resources. Lesson 1: InDesign CS4 Essential Skills. Starting up. InDesign tools. The InDesign workspace. The document window. Using guides. Viewing modes. Working with panels. The Tools panel. Managing panels. Working with the Control panel. Saving your workspace. Navigating through an InDesign document. Using the Pages panel. Changing the magnifi cation of your document. Working with type. Entering and formatting type. Placing and formatting type. Flowing type. Using styles. Applying paragraph styles. Applying character styles. Apply styles using Find/Change. Working with graphics. Positioning graphics within a frame. Applying text wrap. Understanding layers. Applying effects. Resources for additional help. In-product help. On-line help. Forums. Conferences, seminars, and training. Lesson 2: Building Documents with Master Pages. Starting up. Planning your document. Creating custom page sizes. Creating a new custom-sized document. Creating and formatting master pages. Formatting master pages. Adding automatic page numbering. Using text variables. Basing master pages on other master pages. Overriding master page items. Adding layout pages. Placing formatted text. Creating the classified page. Adding images and text to the master frames. Applying master pages to multiple pages. Lesson 3: Working with Text and Type. Starting up. Adding text to your document. Creating a text frame. Changing character attributes. Changing font and type styles. Adjusting size. Adjusting line spacing. Adjusting character spacing: kerning and tracking. Using a baseline shift. Changing paragraph attributes. Horizontally aligning text. Changing the spacing before and after paragraphs. Using tabs. Adding rules above or below paragraphs. Changing text color. Creating drop caps. Checking and correcting spelling. Finding and changing text and text attributes. Checking spelling. Adding words to the dictionary. Checking spelling as you type. Automatically correcting spelling. Editing text using the Story Editor. Drag-and-drop text editing. Special characters and glyphs. Using the Glyphs panel and glyph sets. Text frame options. Adjusting text inset. Vertically aligning text. Importing text. Flowing text manually. Threading text between frames. Using semi-autoflow to link several text frames. Changing the number of columns in a text frame. Baseline grid. Viewing and changing the baseline grid. Adding story jumps. Using styles to format text. Creating a headline and applying a style. Importing styles from other documents. Redefi ning styles. Type on a path. Importing text from Microsoft Word. Missing fonts. Finding and fixing missing fonts. Lesson 4: Working with Styles. Starting up. Style types. Applying a paragraph style. Character styles. Defi ning a character style. Applying a character style. Using nested styles. Globally updating styles. Loading styles from another document. Quick Apply. Organizing styles into groups. Object styles. Defining an object style. Applying an object style. Changing an object style. Finishing up. Lesson 5: Working with Graphics. Starting up. Understanding how InDesign handles graphics. Locating missing images. Working with the Links panel. Customizing the Links panel. Adding graphics to your layout. Fitting an image within an existing frame. Auto Fitting. Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics. Placing multiple graphics. Using object styles for images. Wrapping text around images. Wrapping text around the bounding box. Using graphics with clipping paths and alpha channels. Removing an image background using InDesign. Using anchored objects. Advanced importing. Importing layered Pho
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