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Adobe InDesign is no longer the industry newcomer—it’s a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs. It’s the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design. With the release of InDesign CS3—part of Adobe’s perfectly synchronized, tightly integrated Creative Suite 3 (which now includes Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and Flash CS3 Professional in the Design Premium and Web Premium packages)—it takes its place in the design firmament! Real World Adobe InDesign CS3 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS3, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign’s advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently. They’ll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS3, including new gradient feather, directional feather, and bevel and emboss effects; improved transparency controls; improved long document support; expanded Find/Change; and an even more flexible and customizable user interface.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 19 Ratings

If you're using InDesign, get THIS book - 2009-07-26
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Better than any "bible" book, everything you need to master InDesign.
Most technical how-to manuals are dense, uncomfortable reads. They excel if, at least, their information is complete. Sometimes you find a book that has in-depth information presented clearly. It's a miracle when complete, in-depth, information from a software/programming-language manual is simplified to make sense AND presented with useful examples.
This is it.
It's organized, *very well indexed*, and includes very much appreciated references when one set of material is related to another that may be at a different section of the book.
What is really special about this book. The authors, D. Blatner and O. Martin, have a sense of humor. I will make a bold statement, it's not offered lightly: this book is so well written, it reads like a novel. Well, it reads as much like a novel as a geek-speak-technical-software-manual can.

A complex program - 2009-08-21
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The InDesign CS3 program is intended for people who lay out advertisements, write books, and do similar complex word processing. The book provides detailed, clear instructions on how to use the program and would be useful for people who are experienced in doing this kind of work. The book and the program are too complex for the ordinary computer user.

Real World InDesign CS3 - 2009-08-10
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Everything was fine. The product is good and was delivered without a problem and I am abroad, not in the US.

love this book - 2009-05-20
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mr.kvern has been writing great references for desktop publishing software for over a decade (i started with his Realworld Freehand 8 which is a better guide to the intricacies of freehand than many Freehand 9, 10 and MX books). mr.blatner is also a skilled technical writer (see his invaluable Realworld Scanning and Halftones); together they are unmatched.

i used quark as a magazine editor (at Mondo 2000), hated quark and swore to never use it again. i used Macromedia Freehand for my layout and design needs for periodicals and books after that (1997-2007) and became highly proficient with it. meanwhile, Pagemaker became InDesign, and kept getting better and better. finally in 2008, for a 3-400 page book, i became convinced of the need for InDesign, and got it.

InDesign has features 5 layers deep. i first got Deke McClelland's book, with DVD video tutorials, in order to get an overview. It was helpful in showing me, rapidly, many features i would have taken months to uncover. cool. but deke mcclelland, bless him, is like a spider monkey on crack: his voice and mannerism in the video is stressful just to listen to. the guy needs some good opiates, or at least a little loving THC. anyway, the book, InDesign CS4 One-on-One, does not balance the practical and the metaconceptual well enough for me. the exercises are directive but do not tell why we are doing what we are doing (just do this, then that, then this, and see, we have a cake!); i need more integration.

i got kvern and blatner's book, and it is the one i use easily and joyfully to plumb the depths of InDesign. it sits on my desk. and because of their knowledge (and wry humor), i enjoy it every time i open it.

get it, and discover this wonderful software and all it can do.

Outstanding reference, rough to teach or learn from - 2009-04-25
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This is the definitive reference book on InDesign CS3. However, like all of these Real World books, they are very difficult to teach from and not easy to use for new users of the application. They are actually quite difficult to read. My students do not like this as a textbook (we tend to focus on Nigel French's book on InDesign typography), but they agree that it is an essential reference.

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