Real World Adobe InDesign CS4

Introduction

We’re desktop publishers—just like you. We’ve been through the long shifts (some of them longer than 70 hours), entering and editing text, setting type, drawing paths, importing images, and trying to get files to print. On most of those late nights and early mornings, we could have been home in bed if we had known just one key piece of information. But we weren’t. There was no one there to tell us.

We’re here to tell you.

If some piece of information in this book saves you one late night, one early morning, or gets your document to print on the first pass through the imagesetter instead of the second or third, we will have succeeded in our purpose.

InDesign is a watershed of important, new technologies that have, until recently, ...