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Scripting InDesign with JavaScript

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Scripting InDesign with JavaScript

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 25-AUG-2006

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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. (This version covers only InDesign CS2. For coverage of InDesign CS3 and CS4, see the version...

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InDesign Production Cookbook

InDesign Production Cookbook

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 28-NOV-2005

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Whether you're an experienced designer using InDesign at a fairly advanced level or a desktop publishing beginner new to InDesign-or making the transition from QuarkXPress-you'll find InDesign Production Cookbook chock-full of practical information, with quick solutions to real-world layout challenges. The book covers the very latest features in Adobe InDesign CS2 for Windows and Macintosh, including tips on using the program with Bridge within Adobe Creative Suite 2. Unlike the traditional "bible" approach to learning new software, InDesign Production Cookbook's unique combination of...

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How to Wow with InDesign CS2

How to Wow with InDesign CS2

By: Wayne Rankin; Mike McHugh

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 16-AUG-2005

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With InDesign CS2 quickly becoming the industry standard in desktop publishing, there's no shortage of books promising to get you up to speed on it. None, however, does so quite like this book, which keeps the focus right where you, as a designer, want it--on designing! Providing just enough of a conceptual framework to use the program effectively, but omitting the tech-heavy under-the-hood discussions that represent the core of other InDesign tomes, this full-color guide uses gorgeous real-world examples and simple step-by-step instructions to cover InDesign CS2's newest features. The book...

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Adobe® InDesign® cs: Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® InDesign® cs: Classroom in a Book®

By: Adobe Creative Team

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 31-OCT-2003

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With its ever tightening integration with Adobe's full suite of creative products and its own increasingly sophisticated feature set, InDesign is winning legions of Quark and Framemaker converts. If you're among them--or if you've decided to sidestep those programs altogether--you need this book! In these pages, the Adobe Creative Team uses a series of project-based lessons, tested in the company's own classrooms and labs, to provide a thorough grounding in the InDesign school of page design. You'll find step-by-step lessons in InDesign CS fundamentals plus plenty of the advanced tips and...

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InDesign CS for Macintosh and Windows: Visual Quickstart Guide

InDesign CS for Macintosh and Windows: Visual Quickstart Guide

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 24-NOV-2003

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Now that you've finally figured out that InDesign's increasingly tight integration with the rest of Adobe's creative products will enable you to work more creatively and efficiently, all you want to do is get up to speed on it--yesterday, if possible! Enter InDesign CS for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction to everything InDesign. You'll learn about all aspects of the InDesign interface, including its tools...

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InDesign® CS/CS2 Killer Tips

InDesign® CS/CS2 Killer Tips

By: Scott Kelby; Terry White

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 29-SEP-2005

Insert Date: 13-JUL-2006

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If you've wondered how the InDesign pros get twice the work done in half the time, here's the answer: They know every inside tip, every hidden keyboard shortcut, and every little trick that gives them the edge. They know the fastest, smartest, and most efficient way to do just about everything. In short, they know all the "tricks of the trade." And now, you can too. This book is packed cover-to-cover, wall-to-wall with nothing but those cool little inside tips that can make you faster, better, and have more fun using Adobe InDesign CS2. There are no detailed descriptions on working with...

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Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 24-APR-2006

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InDesign CS2 is more than just a powerful page layout tool: As part of Adobe’s new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and Acrobat), 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. This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on just the InDesign CS2 features you’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, you learn as you go, exploring the...

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InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2

InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2

By: Nigel French

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 16-MAR-2006

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It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers great tools-not least among them its sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show you how to take advantage of them is the first book devoted solely to that topic. Whether you're a graphics pros migrating from InDesign's long-entrenched competitor QuarkXPress or a hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, you'll appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic. Realizing that to take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, you must understand the...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS2: Official JavaScript Reference

Adobe® InDesign® CS2: Official JavaScript Reference

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 18-OCT-2005

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Do you spend too much time doing repetitive production tasks such as placing and replacing images, correcting errors in text, cutting and pasting, and preparing files for printing, instead of being creative? Do you use Adobe InDesign CS2 and have a strong working knowledge of JavaScript? Then you're in luck. Since Adobe Creative Suite 2 was created with built-in support for scripting, virtually every repetitive or time-consuming task that creative professionals have to do in InDesign can be streamlined or automated with the help of a script. This book describes how to use JavaScript to...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job

Adobe® InDesign® CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 30-AUG-2005

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Adobe InDesign CS2 is a powerful, but complicated, page layout technology. Sure, learning how to use the various tools and techniques is important, but what you really need and want to know is how to put those tools and techniques to use to complete projects at work. That's where Adobe InDesign CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job comes into play. The InDesign tools and basics are introduced to you in the first three chapters. After that, you will accomplish a variety of real-world job tasks with detailed instructions that allow for personalization. The projects you will learn to...

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InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

By: Sandee Cohen

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 26-SEP-2005

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You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS2 Revealed

Adobe® InDesign® CS2 Revealed

By: Chris Botello

Publisher: Course Technology PTR

Publication Date: 01-JAN-2005

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Coverage includes— Written for beginner-to-intermediate level students and professionals who want to learn how to use the latest version of InDesign, Adobe's increasingly popular design layout software. Illustrates concepts and skills clearly with visually-stimulating graphics and a unique tutorial-based pedagogy. Allows readers to build their portfolio with multiple projects throughout the text such creating advertisements, brochures, and flyers, putting skills and concepts learned into a real-world context. Offers instruction on how...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS2 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® InDesign® CS2 Classroom in a Book®

By: Adobe Creative Team

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 18-JUL-2005

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With its ever-tightening integration with Adobe's full suite of creative products and its own increasingly sophisticated feature set, InDesign is winning legions of Quark and FrameMaker converts. If you’re among them–or if you've decided to sidestep those programs altogether–you need this book. In these pages, the Adobe Creative Team uses a series of project-based lessons to provide a thorough grounding in the InDesign school of page design. You'll find step-by-step lessons in InDesign CS2 fundamentals plus plenty of the advanced tips and techniques you need to take your page designs to the...

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Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs

Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs

By: David Blatner; Anne-Marie Concepcion

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 03-JUN-2005

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Adobe InDesign is taking the publishing world by storm and users are hungry for breakthrough solutions to their myriad concerns—from how best to manage the program's sometimes unwieldy interface to how to produce quality PDF files. Page-layout guru David Blatner and veteran trainer Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepción have scoured the online forums, interviewed Adobe engineers, and gathered together answers to over 200 of the most-commonly asked questions. Written in a sassy, fun-to-read style, this book tackles every major InDesign problem with a lay-it-on-the-line solution. Adobe InDesign...

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Real World Adobe InDesign CS

Real World Adobe InDesign CS

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 28-MAY-2004

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The decision was an easy one: With a feature set that equals or exceeds its competitors and an increasingly tight integration with the other Adobe tools that are key to your workflow, InDesign cs was a no-brainer when it came time to update your page layout capabilities. Problem is, you've still got to learn the thing, and learn it well: Your job, after all, depends on it. No one understands that better than the authors of this book, who draw on their own real-world professional knowledge to deliver all the industrial-strength production techniques and timesaving tips you need to start laying...

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Moving to InDesign

Moving to InDesign

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 17-SEP-2004

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Costs less. Does more. Is easier to use: If this is the conclusion you've reached when comparing InDesign CS with its two long-time rivals (QuarkXPress and PageMaker), you're ready to make the switch. This guide shows you how! Throughout this compact guide, the focus is on leveraging your skill in the other leading desktop publishing packages to get up to speed fast in the new leading publishing package! As the perfect companion to the more comprehensive Real World InDesign CS, this tightly focused guide details the most common tasks and techniques you need to know to get your job done in...

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InDesign for QuarkXPress Users

InDesign for QuarkXPress Users

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 15-APR-2003

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While QuarkXPress is the most-widely used page-layout program in the world, Adobe InDesign is rapidly gaining ground with better typography and transparency features, speedier performance, and more overall control. Plus, InDesign 2 is Mac OS X native, QuarkXPress 5 isn't. But if you're a QuarkXPress user thinking of making the switch to InDesign, you know you can't afford to lose time and productivity at the office while learning a new program. Thanks to InDesign for QuarkXPress Users, you don't have to. InDesign for QuarkXPress Users is the only book on the market that shows experienced...

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Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 Classroom in a Book®

By: Adobe Creative Team

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 03-APR-2002

Insert Date: 19-DEC-2002

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InDesign 2.0 takes Adobe's popular page-layout program to the nextlevel--there's no area that hasn't been improved, streamlined, redesigned,or stuffed with new features. Who better to show you the fastest, easiestway to get to work with InDesign 2.0 than the pros behind the software?Adobe InDesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book brings the company's officialtraining series to your desktop. Adobe InDesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book is a hands-on workbookstructured as a series of lessons--tested in Adobe's own classrooms andlabs--that you can follow on your own time, at your own pace. Forbeginners,...

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InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

By: Sandee Cohen

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 10-MAY-2000

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Everything you need to know to get up and running with AdobeÕs hot new page layout program, InDesign. This cross-platform guide introduces you to the InDesign interface, including the tools and palettes; how to create and navigate a document, work with text and objects, use pen tools, work with color, import and manipulate graphics, and work with long documents and styles. More advanced topics, such as advanced text control, color management, and preflighting are also covered. The last two chapters offer comparisons between InDesign, QuarkXPress and PageMaker....