Galen Gruman Author of InDesign CS5 Bible Learn to: • Navigate the interface and set up reusable master pages • Work creatively with lines, text frames, and graphic s frames • Manipulate tex t and spiff up your documen ts with gr aphics • Create PDFs, Web pages, and Flash f iles from InDesign InDesign ® CS5 Making Everything Easier! ™ Open the book and find: • Tips on modifying defaults for views, colors, and styles • How pages and layers work • What you can do with color swatches • When to align objects and when to stack them • How to customize the spelling and hyphenation dictionaries • Import options for Word, Excel®, and RTF files • How to handle automatic text • Tips for cropping and positioning graphics Galen Gruman is the principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and book production firm. He has designed and produced numerous publications. Galen has authored or coauthored more than 20 books on desktop publishing, and he is currently the Executive Editor for InfoWorld. $24.99 US / $29.99 CN / £17.99 UK ISBN 978-0-470-61449-5 Computers/Desktop Publishing Go to Dummies.com ® for videos, step-by-step examples, how-to articles, or to shop! Get up to speed on InDesign CS5 and create great publications for print or the Web How do you design? Free-form, creating one-of-a-kind pieces? Or would you love a highly formatted template that you could modify as needed for regular periodicals? InDesign is the right tool for both approaches, and this is the right book to help you master the essentials. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2010925693 ISBN: 978-0-470-61449-5 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 01_614495-ffirs.indd iv01_614495-ffirs.indd iv 4/2/10 1:22 PM4/2/10 1:22 PM www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Galen Gruman is the principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and book production  rm. As such, he has produced several books for Wiley Publishing and is a regular contributor to Macworld. He is author or coauthor of 24 other books on desktop publishing. Gruman led one of the  rst successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including Layers Magazine; the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986 and of which he is now execu- tive editor; and Macworld, whose staff he was a member of from 1991 to 1998. 01_614495-ffirs.indd v01_614495-ffirs.indd v 4/2/10 1:22 PM4/2/10 1:22 PM www.it-ebooks.info 01_614495-ffirs.indd vi01_614495-ffirs.indd vi 4/2/10 1:22 PM4/2/10 1:22 PM www.it-ebooks.info Dedication To Ingall, who gives me the space as needed to write books such as this. Author’s Acknowledgments Thanks are due to several people for making this book the best guide pos- sible for InDesign beginners and those wanting a quick tour of the program: Jonathan Woolson was tech reviewer on previous versions of this book, and several how-to suggestions based on his production savvy also remain for your bene t. 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Corder, Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher Composition Services Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services 01_614495-ffirs.indd viii01_614495-ffirs.indd viii 4/2/10 1:22 PM4/2/10 1:22 PM www.it-ebooks.info [...]... typing 2 inch are the same as far as InDesign is concerned: ✓ xi or x inch or x" (for inches) ✓ xp (for picas) ✓ xpt or 0px (for points) ✓ xpx (for pixels) ✓ xc (for ciceros, a European newspaper measurement) ✓ xag (for agates, an American newspaper measurement) ✓ xcm (for centimeters) ✓ xmm (for millimeters) What to do when you make a mistake InDesign is a very forgiving program If you make a mistake,... Two Annoying Bugs No More 410 www.it-ebooks.info xix xx InDesign CS5 For Dummies Chapter 26: Top Ten Resources for InDesign Users .411 Web Sites 411 InDesignCentral 411 The Adobe Web site 412 InDesign User Group 412 Creativepro 413 Magazine Resources 413 InDesign Magazine 413 Layers magazine 413 Macworld... pointing out a feature that’s new to InDesign CS5 www.it-ebooks.info 5 6 InDesign CS5 For Dummies If you see this icon, it means that I’m mentioning some really nifty point or idea that you may want to keep in mind as you use the program This icon lets you know something you’ll want to keep in mind If you forget it later, that’s fine; but if you remember it, it will make your InDesign life a little easier... program with a strong following among the ranks of professional publishers — and the latest InDesign CS5 version is certain to reinforce that position given its many refinements, including its newfound animation capabilities and other features that make working with objects www.it-ebooks.info 2 InDesign CS5 For Dummies easier Part of its success is due to the fact that its interface is like that of its... www.it-ebooks.info xii InDesign CS5 For Dummies Chapter 2: Making InDesign Work Your Way 33 Setting Document Preferences 33 Type preferences 34 Composition preferences 36 Measurement preferences 37 Document defaults 40 Modifying Defaults for Text and Objects 41 Text defaults 42 Object defaults 42 Modifying Defaults for Views... you have used InDesign before, peruse them in any order you want, to see what’s changed As you gain comfort with InDesign, you’ll be surprised how much you can do with it And when you’re ready to discover more, take advantage of the wealth of resources out there to go the next level The InDesignCentral Web site (www.InDesignCentral.com) can help you do that www.it-ebooks.info Part I Before You Begin... look in InDesign for the features and capabilities you need to master (For a quick look at what’s new to version CS5, check out Chapter 26.) I introduce you to the process that InDesign assumes you use when laying out documents, describe the unique interface elements www.it-ebooks.info 10 Part I: Before You Begin in the document window, survey the most commonly used tools, and explain how InDesign. .. makes it a good choice for newspapers, newsletters, and books InDesign is also a good choice for corporate publishing tasks, such as proposals and annual reports In all cases, you can design for printing on paper or electronic distribution as Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files Plug-in software from other vendors adds extra capabilities Plus, you can use InDesign for interactive PDF and... geeky information that you don’t need to know to use InDesign I just couldn’t help giving you a little extra-credit information in case you were a budding geek like me Where to Go from Here If you’re a complete beginner, I suggest you read the book’s parts in the order I present them If you haven’t used InDesign before but you have used other layout programs, do read Part I first to get in the InDesign. .. book, and use text variables and cross-references to make InDesign update text as needed based on the document’s current context www.it-ebooks.info 3 4 InDesign CS5 For Dummies Part VII: Printing, Presentation, and Web Essentials Publishing is no longer about just the printed page Now you can create PDF files, Web pages, and Flash files from InDesign — and each supports different kinds of interactive . 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