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Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript

Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 05-APR-2009

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InDesign provides a powerful set of tools for producing beautiful documents. While you can certainly do all your work by hand through InDesign's graphical interface, there are many times when it's much easier to write a script. Once you've automated a task, you can run it over the whole document, ensuring consistency, or just when you need it, simplifying and speeding your layout process. All it takes is a bit of JavaScript knowledge and a willingness to explore InDesign's programming features. ...

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ADOBE® INDESIGN® CS3: CLASSROOM IN A BOOK®: Das offizielle Trainingsbuch von Adobe Systems

ADOBE® INDESIGN® CS3: CLASSROOM IN A BOOK®: Das offizielle Trainingsbuch von Adobe Systems

By: Adobe Creative Team

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Verlag

Publication Date: 31-AUG-2007

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Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book macht Sie in 13 Kapiteln mit den Grundlagen von InDesign vertraut. Kurze, in sich abgeschlossene Lektionen zeigen, wie Sie mit Rahmen und Absatzformaten arbeiten, Text importieren und bearbeiten, wie Sie sich im Arbeitsbereich zurechtfinden und mit Tabellen und Transparenzen umgehen. Sie lernen die aktuellen Funktionen von InDesign CS3 kennen und wie Sie damit Ihren Arbeitsablauf optimieren und Layouts einrichten. Zahlreiche Expertentipps und -techniken befördern Sie in die Profi-Liga! ...

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Real World Adobe InDesign CS4

Real World Adobe InDesign CS4

By: Olav Martin Kvern; David Blatner

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 19-FEB-2009

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Adobe InDesign is a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs in the Creative Suite. It's the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design. Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS4, 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...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts

Adobe® InDesign® CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 07-APR-2009

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Tap into the far-reaching potential of InDesign styles—from simple drop cap formatting to cross-media export to XHTML. Styles have the power to transform how design and production professionals approach and accomplish any project. Adopting a style-centric workflow can reduce tasks that would normally take days to mere hours, and tasks that would take hours to minutes or even seconds. Less time spent on repetitive tasks means more time for creating your best work. This book explores every InDesign style to reveal its full potential. Throughout each chapter, you’ll pick up many tips and...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS4 on Demand

Adobe® InDesign® CS4 on Demand

By: Steve Perspection, Inc. Johnson

Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 11-DEC-2008

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Adobe InDesign CS4 on Demand What you need, when you need it! Need answers quickly? Adobe InDesign CS4 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. Inside the Book • Improve publishing and productivity with the CS4 interface • Browse, organize, and process files using Adobe Bridge • Manage pages and books to keep track of your documents • Transform and reshape objects to create a new look • Create text and apply style to display artistic text •...

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InDesign CS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

InDesign CS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

By: Sandee Cohen

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 17-NOV-2008

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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...

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Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One

Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 12-NOV-2008

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The DVD videos are available on Safari. Please click here. Master the fundamentals of Adobe InDesign with One-on-One, Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Abode InDesign CS4 One-on-One includes step-by-step tutorials, more than four hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it's done first-hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. Whether you're new to InDesign or a creative professional interested in the groundbreaking features...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS4 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® InDesign® CS4 Classroom in a Book®

By: Adobe Creative Team

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 27-OCT-2008

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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...

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GREP in InDesign CS3/CS4

GREP in InDesign CS3/CS4

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 27-OCT-2008

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GREP (short for "General Regular-Expression Print") is a powerful tool that lets you use wildcards ("jokers") to search and replace text. InDesign's GREP implementation can be used for text and also for formatting codes, finding patterns in text as well as literal text. GREP moves beyond the restrictions that hampered earlier InDesign search features, but unfortunately it does have the reputation of being difficult to master. As with many things, it can be challenging to learn, but, fortunately, a lot can be done with surprisingly simple expressions. The aim of this Short Cut is to show...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe® InDesign® CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

By: John Cruise; Kelly Kordes Anton

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 25-NOV-2008

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InDesign CS4 is more than just a page layout tool; as part of Adobe's new Creative Suite 4, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. Work faster, create more is what Adobe wants users to do with InDesign, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the InDesign CS4 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn as they...

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A Designer’s Guide to Adobe® InDesign® and XML: Harness the Power of XML to Automate your Print and Web Workflows

A Designer’s Guide to Adobe® InDesign® and XML: Harness the Power of XML to Automate your Print and Web Workflows

By: James J. Maivald; Cathy Palmer

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 04-DEC-2007

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Is this book for programmers?  Written specifically for graphic designers and production artists already comfortable working with Adobe InDesign, this book teaches you how to automate publishing without learning a lot of scary code. XML simplifies the process of moving content in and out of your layouts and can speed up any print or Web assignment. Why should I care about XML? If you’re managing data-intensive layout projects, and you want to keep that data consistent, accurate, and up-to-date, then incorporating XML can help. You can also use XML to automate processes like...

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Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One

Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 14-DEC-2007

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Click here for the complete DVD content that accompanies this title. Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. With Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One, you get the equivalent of private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. Deke offers you DVD video with more than two hours of professional instruction and advice to accompany the book's easy-to-follow text. The book itself includes 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step. This highly popularly learning approach is quite simple:...

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Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout

Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout

By: Gabriel Powell

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 29-NOV-2007

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Instant InDesign is the first comprehensive guide to Adobe InDesign that focuses exclusively on the art of template design and production. You’ll learn everything you need to know—from key design principles and basic template architecture to advanced automation techniques. With practical tips and real-world examples, you’ll discover how to translate your great ideas into industrial-strength templates. Magazine, newspaper, book, and catalog publishers, as well as ad agencies, graphic design firms, and independent designers can all use this guide to boost productivity and enhance their creative...

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Real World Adobe InDesign CS3

Real World Adobe InDesign CS3

By: Olav Martin Kvern; David Blatner

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 09-OCT-2007

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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...

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InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

By: Sandee Cohen

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 08-OCT-2007

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Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn! Users of Adobe InDesign will be impressed with the power, ease of use, and integration found in the new InDesign CS3, Adobe's page-design component of Creative Suite 3. Users will also find more robust file-placing capabilities, new Find features, and great new text and transparency effects, among other exciting features. Adobe InDesign CS3 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...

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GREP in InDesign CS3

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GREP in InDesign CS3

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 15-OCT-2007

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GREP (short for "General Regular-Expression Print") is a powerful tool that lets you use wildcards ("jokers") to search and replace text. InDesign CS3's GREP implementation can be used for text and also for formatting codes, finding patterns in text as well as literal text. GREP moves beyond the restrictions that hampered earlier InDesign search features, but unfortunately, it does have the reputation of being difficult to master. As with many things, it can be challenging to learn, but, fortunately, a lot can be done with surprisingly simple expressions. The aim of this Short Cut is...

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XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+

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XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 19-JUN-2007

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Adobe InDesign's user documentation provides some examples of importing and formatting XML. But if you need to wrangle XML that comes from a database or website and make it look good inside an InDesign document, you'll want to dive deeper. (Note: while Adobe made significant changes to the underlying format of InDesign in CS4, the processes for consuming XML content remain similar to CS3.) Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes, and building chunks...

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Adobe® InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe® InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2007

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Build your InDesign expertise,one technique at a time. In Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos, authors John Cruise and Kelly Kordes Anton bring you 100 carefully selected techniques to help you get right to work in InDesign, the world’s most powerful page layout program. Their strategy is to focus on those features you’re most likely to use, showcasing each in a clearly explained, well-illustrated, stand-alone technique—complete with a relevant hint or two. These bite-sized lessons offer a great way to learn just what you need to know when you need it, exploring the program in a way, and at a pace,...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 23-APR-2007

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This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe InDesign CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this program, while readers who already have some experience with InDesign can use this book to familiarize themselves with InDesign CS3's newest features. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills learned in each lesson. The companion CD contains all the assets readers will need to work...

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Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions

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Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 01-NOV-2006

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<div><p> If you need to make automated changes to InDesign documents beyond what basic search and replace can handle, you need regular expressions, and a bit of scripting to make them work. This Short Cut explains both how to write regular expressions, so you can find and replace the right things, and how to use them in InDesign specifically. </p></div>...