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Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe's page-design component of Creative Suite 4, offers exciting new enhancements to its already powerful tools. Among the exciting features users will find are new Live Preflighting capabilities and seamless integration with Adobe Flash, including direct translation of InDesign pages into SWF files. Adobe InDesignCS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide will highlight the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign.

Using the task-based, visual approach that readers count on in the Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS4. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of purposes, and much more.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 4 Ratings

Dismal - 2009-04-26
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This book is dismal. It does little more than walk you through each menu option field by field. Here's a sample: "Include Text on Hidden Layers: Uses text that is on layers that are not visible." (p. 301) Wow. That was helpful. I just ordered two other InDesign books looking for the right one. This sure isn't it.

Easy way to get up to speed on InDesign - 2009-09-01
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This book offers probably the quickest way to get your head around what is basically the best DTP packages out there. It covers all of the major productivity tips that are not obvious from the interface or the help system. While some readers may not like the methodical style that essentially walks you through every single feature, I personally found this provided the most effective way of understanding functionality.

I've read other books that take the approach of employing features to achieve a task - and while this is useful, I've found it leaves you short when trying to find some arcane button or menu to get something done. In this book, you get to thoroughly understand every single menu option, keyboard shortcut and panel, so there's really no mystery at all. If you are relatively comfortable with Microsoft Word, you should find that 10-20 hours of study will make you a highly proficient user of InDesign.

QuickStart Guide InDesign - 2009-03-19
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These QuickStart Guides look like a great idea. Was told about them by a friend who said they start you off just like you don't know anything about the product and walk you through the whole product bit by bit.

Wonderful idea. Will buy more of these to get myself caught up on Adobe's line.

Superb Reference - 2009-05-05
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As the title implies, this is a QUICK REFERENCE Guide, not a structured instructional tool. I require it (and have for years) for all my InDesign students to supplement other learning tools and to keep at hand beyond the classroom for the lifetime of the version release. In one page or two, any task they might have forgotten how to do or not covered during class due to time constraints is explained in step-by-step simplicity and clarity.

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