Adobe InDesign CS2 at work Projects You Can Use on the Job Aug 2005

Adobe InDesign CS2 at work Projects You Can Use on the Job Aug 2005
by Cate Brosseau Indiano

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Book Description

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 tackle include:

Business Collateral
Marketing Materials
Newspaper/Magazine Ads and Posters
Brochures
Interactive Reports/Presentations
Monthly Newsletters
Product Catalogues
Order Forms
Annual Reports

Tips, tricks and notes provide you with the information that you need to carry over what you learn in Adobe InDesign CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job to your job. Put your knowledge and talents to work!

"I'm really impressed with Adobe InDesign @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job. Cate Indiano found just the right balance of easy step-by-step instructions and pertinent background information, including workflow, project management, and production issues. The example layouts and files are well-designed and provide real-world context for the entire book. You won't find any fluff here - just a combination of clear and purposeful text and screenshots."

Adam Pratt, Application Engineer, Adobe Systems, Inc.

"Cate Indiano has produced a thorough, well thought out book. She's an excellent instructor and her focus on making sure her readers learn what they need to know to produce work efficiently in the real world is very evident in this book."

Sterling Ledet, Sterling Ledet & Associates

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Business Collateral
Marketing Materials
Newspaper/Magazine Ads and Posters
Brochures
Interactive Reports/Presentations
Monthly Newsletters
Product Catalogues
Order Forms
Annual Reports

Adam Pratt, Application Engineer, Adobe Systems, Inc.

Sterling Ledet, Sterling Ledet & Associates

About the Author
Cate Brosseau Indiano is the principal at DeskTop Media, a well-respected training company that specializes in the Adobe product line. She specializes in InDesign and the Creative Suite. She has earned certifications as a trainer, which required her to demonstrate excellence in instructional design as she taught her classes.

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Introduction

Introduction

When we first started discussing this series, I kept thinking of it as curriculum and then I adjusted my thinking to "self-taught" curriculum. Remember, I'm a trainer—hands-on, onsite, instructor-led is our mantra. Throughout the years, I can't remember finding a published work I felt contained exercises geared to our customer base. They either were too basic or taught features that would be infrequently used.

So, in developing the outline for the book, it was important that I kept in mind you, the reader. Who are you? I imagine you are in some form of marketing, communications, publishing, or graphic arts. Your educational background might be in design, but odds are it's not. You might have hired into this job or your job might have evolved into this position. You might have some minimal page layout experience; you might not.

But one thing's for sure: You need a practical guide to step you through common layouts and publications using the features of an application you barely know, if at all. In addition, you probably have little or no experience with regard to media production and distribution. So, in addition to InDesign skills, you are going to get a healthy dose of practical production advice from me.

Organization of This Book

This book is divided into two parts:

Part I, "Getting Started," takes you on a tour of InDesign CS2, the newest version from Adobe. It was important not to make assumptions about what you do and do not know about InDesign, so we've made sure that all the tools, palettes, and basic conventions of InDesign are covered, as well as how it integrates with other Adobe products.
Part II, "Projects," contains a variety of projects you'll likely be asked to complete on the job. The projects start from the common, but fairly simple, assignment of developing business collateral and move through progressively more complex projects like preparing advertisements, product sheets, brochures, interactive presentations, newsletters, catalogs, order forms, and even annual reports. This portion of the book will prepare you for almost any marketing requirement you may be asked to fulfill.
If you have your own resource files, fonts, logos, and images, feel free to use them as you work through each project. But if you don't have those assets readily available, we've provided them for you on the publisher's website.
In Part III, "Appendixes," you'll find Appendix A, "Glossary," which lists and defines the key terms used throughout the book. Appendix B, "Resources," provides additional information on popular plug-ins you might want to get, links where you can find user groups and associations, training information, and a list of web and print publications.

Downloading the Book's Project Files

The chapter-by-chapter project and media files are available at the publisher's website via Zip files.

To download the book's project files, go to http://www.samspublishing.com. Enter this book's ISBN (without the hyphens) in the Search box and click Search. When the book's title is displayed, click the title to go to a page where you can download the project Zip files.

Caution - Be sure you extract all the files from each Zip file with the option (for PC users) Use Folder Names selected so you can get the same folders on your computer as included in each Zip file. Mac users can simply double-click the downloaded Zip file and the folder structure should appear intact, as named.

Conventions Used in This Book

This book uses the following conventions:

Italic is used to denote key terms when they first appear in the book.

Tip - Tips provide shortcuts to make your job easier or better ways to accomplish certain tasks.

Note - Notes provide additional information related to the surrounding topics.

Caution - Cautions alert you to potential problems and help you steer clear of disaster.

The end result is a book that should sit on your desk as a reference for you to use. It should contain the majority of projects you will ever execute. I hope it's useful to you—I wrote it as if you were my student.

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