4. Getting Your Feet Wet with InDesign CS3 Templates

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A SEASONED DESIGNER TO CREATE HIGH-QUALITY WORK. With InDesign’s sizeable collection of predesigned templates, great things are possible. They provide a convenient starting point for typical documents, because they are preset with a layout that includes layout grids, master pages, style sheets, and text and graphics placeholders. Simply open the templates and use them as a basis to build and inspire your own template design—saving countless hours of labor.

This chapter is designed to give you a complete overview of the template design process. By learning how to modify the predesigned templates that ship with InDesign, you’ll learn to apply the process taught in Chapter ...

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