Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I: Starting at the Beginning 7

Chapter 1: Finding Out How InDesign Works 9

Chapter 2: Taking a Quick Lap around the Track 19

Chapter 3: Understanding InDesign Ingredients 37

Chapter 4: Making It Work Your Way 53

Part II: Document Essentials 67

Chapter 5: Opening, Viewing, and Saving Your Work 69

Chapter 6: Discovering How Pages Work 83

Chapter 7: Layers and Layers 97

Chapter 8: Creating Layouts Right the First Time 109

Chapter 9: Working with Books 121

Part III: Object Essentials 137

Chapter 10: Adding Frames, Lines, and Colors 139

Chapter 11: Aligning Objects with Grids and Guidelines 157

Chapter 12: Manipulating Objects 165

Chapter 13: Organizing Objects 183

Part IV: Text Essentials 201

Chapter 14: The Ins and Outs of Text 203

Chapter 15: The Text Frame Tango 221

Chapter 16: Handling Character Details 235

Chapter 17: Handling Paragraph Details 249

Chapter 18: Tricks with Text 265

Part V: Graphics Essentials 283

Chapter 19: Importing Pictures 285

Chapter 20: Special Effects with Graphics 299

Chapter 21: Creating Complex Shapes 311

Part VI: Printing and Output Essentials 327

Chapter 22: Setting Up for Output 329

Chapter 23: Printing and Other Output Techniques 337

Part VII: The Part of Tens 355

Chapter 24: Top Ten Resources for InDesign Users 357

Chapter 25: Top Ten Must-Knows for QuarkXPress Refugees 361

Chapter 26: Top Ten Must-Knows for PageMaker Orphans 365

Index 369

About the Author

Barbara Assadi is the co-founder and principal of BayCreative, a researchbased advertising and marketing services firm in San Francisco. In that capacity, she manages marketing and creative content for client companies. Previously, she was marketing programs manager and editor-in-chief of Oracle Corporation’s Web site and managing editor at Quark, Inc. Barbara has collaborated with coauthor Galen Gruman on several other books on publishing software and has been a contributor to Oracle Magazine, Macworld, Publish, and InfoWorld. She has edited software books for Adobe Systems and Peachpit Press and has taught university-level courses on publishing topics.

Galen Gruman is the principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of IT Wireless. Currently a frequent contributor to SBS Digital Design, CIO, and InfoWorld, he has also been editor of Macworld and M-Business, executive editor of Upside, West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld, and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com. He is coauthor of 18 other books on desktop publishing, most with Barbara Assadi. Gruman led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986, Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991, and most recently SBS Digital Design.