InDesign CS2 for Macintosh & Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author: Sandee Cohen
You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction to everything InDesign. You'll learn about all aspects of the InDesign interface, including its tools and palettes, as well as how to create documents and master pages, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools,create interactive PDF elements, and work with color. You'll also learn how to use the new Adobe Bridge file browser to locate, manage, and drag and drop assets easily into your InDesign layouts. You’ll find a new chapter on working with InCopy, complete coverage of more advanced topics (like preflighting and advanced text control) and a thorough introduction to all of InDesign's productivity-enhancing features and tools.
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | Getting started | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Document setup | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | Basic text | 49 |
| Ch. 4 | Working with objects | 81 |
| Ch. 5 | Working in color | 117 |
| Ch. 6 | Styling objects | 147 |
| Ch. 7 | Pen and beziers | 179 |
| Ch. 8 | Imported graphics | 193 |
| Ch. 9 | Text effects | 231 |
| Ch. 10 | Pages and books | 251 |
| Ch. 11 | Layers | 289 |
| Ch. 12 | Libraries and snippets | 297 |
| Ch. 13 | Tabs and tables | 305 |
| Ch. 14 | Automating your work | 341 |
| Ch. 15 | Text and object styles | 367 |
| Ch. 16 | Typography controls | 399 |
| Ch. 17 | Color management | 415 |
| Ch. 18 | Interactive PDF elements | 423 |
| Ch. 19 | Output | 459 |
| Ch. 20 | Exporting | 491 |
| Ch. 21 | Customizing inDesign | 519 |
Interesting book: Dishes of Africa or Slice of Life
Microsoft Works 2000 for Dummies
Author: David Kay
Congratulations! Instead of blowing several hundred bucks on the biggest and most muscle-bound word processor, database program, spreadsheet program, graphics, and communications software you can find, you're using Microsoft Works 2000 – a program that can do probably everything you need for a lot less trouble and money.
Now it's time to stretch out your fingers and get ready to put this software to work. This step-by-step guide is for those people who
• Want to learn about their software without being bored silly
• Feel as though there should be a manual to explain the software manual
• Actually want to get some work done. Soon. Like today.
• Don't want to wade through a lot of technical gibberish/
• Don't think the way computer software engineers seem to think.
This book describes how to use all the programs of Microsoft Works 2000, separately and together, plus some introductory things on Windows, disks, and other basics. In this book, you'll explore the following topics and more:
• Window basics (opening, closing, and painting them shut)
• Word processing (like food processing, only messier)
• Spreadsheets (for soft, comfortable naps on your spreadbed)
• Databases (for storing all your baseless data)
• Graphics (for charting uncharted waters and general doodling)
• Calendarification, Calendarizing? (Using a calendar program)
• Web browsing (for schmoozing the Internet's World Wide Web)
• Newsgroups (for ranting about your petpeeves)
• E-mail (for sending and receiving messages and files)
• "Mail merge" of letters, envelopes, and labels (for doing your very own junk mail)
Unlike software manuals, this book doesn't have to deliver a positive message about the software, so it doesn't breathlessly try to show you everything you could possibly do. Nor does it describe, as a manual does, every button and command. Instead, it focuses on the everyday things you have to do, gives you some background, points you toward shortcuts, and steers you around some of the stuff you probably don't need.
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