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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe InDesign CS4

Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning page layout with Adobe InDesign and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. Explore typography and color, and learn more about creating tables and using styles. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Create layouts for magazines, newsletters, and brochures. Learn how to make Adobe PDF files and rich interactive documents. Prepare files for high-resolution printing and the Web.

“Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book is the best way to learn hands-on with real-world examples. You'll gain exposure to good print design as well as efficient workflow techniques.” —Michael Witherell, Adobe Certified Expert, Publishing, Training, and Consulting

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 7 Ratings

definitely not a reference book - 2009-02-17
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If you are looking to go page by page through this book to learn InDesign, I suppose it's good for that (I don't know--I didn't try using it that way). But if you want to be able to look up how to do something when you're in a bind, absolutely, positively do not buy this book. Even the premise of creating "someone else's" project so you can learn InDesign is so old school. Who has the time to waste creating a "practice" project? I certainly don't.

Errors in Most Lessons - 2009-10-19
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My school uses this as a textbook. When we go through our homework in class, we would bring up the problems we had in the exercises. Week after week, we would discover errors in almost all the lessons, and how the results differ than those specified in the book. It just made the learning progress very confusing and frustrating. For me, this book was not useful at all.

Excellent! - 2009-02-16
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I've always found the "classroom in a book" series to be really well written and logically laid out. This Adobe Indesign CS4 version is easy to read, has an excellent index and really fills the gap that is Adobe's online help. It is an invaluable tool when learning the program and an essential "go to" when you are more experienced. Excellent!

A frustrating waste of time - 2009-11-04
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Using this book for school, as assigned by my prof.

Most of the lessons have unclear explanations or outright errors that make them impossible to complete as instructed. It's incredibly frustrating, and completely inexcusable, since Adobe makes the software and publishes the book.

I might give it a pass if I actually felt like I was learning something instead of following a list of instructions. But I don't feel any more knowledgable in InDesign than when I started the book, and I'm on Lesson 10 of 14. That's quite depressing.

I would recommend any Graphic Design professors avoid assigning this book. You are doing your students a huge disservice.

Adobe INdesign - 2009-09-23
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I haven't had a chance to really use it yet, but I have used other books in this format by Adobe and they all proved to be a good buy.

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