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If Adobe InDesign CS can do it, you can do it too ‚

InDesign CS brings dozens of exciting new features to an upstart layout program that is fast becoming a major powerhouse. This comprehensive reference helps you use them to create stunning catalogs, brochures , magazines, or interactive PDFs. Discover how to create and save assorted presents for easy access to proven formatting, and how to apply several levels of formatting intelligently using nested style sheets. Explore the enhanced behind-the-scenes capabilities that let InDesign make it easier than ever to produce cutting-edge documents. Everything you need to know is right here.

Inside, you ‚ ll find complete coverage of Adobe InDesign CS

• Apply formatting to almost any object through the new Control palette
• Make InDesign work the way you do with customizable keyboard shortcuts, workspace arrangements, and other saved presents that can be switched easily in multiuser environments
• Increase your control over print output through new bleed and slug tools and the enhanced text-wrap tool
• Create custom colors and duotone effects with the new ink-mixing tool
• Integrate InDesign CS seamlessly into your production workflow with native support for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat
• Get answers fast, with hundreds of tips and a complete reference to shortcuts
• Switch to InDesign from QuarkXPress or PageMaker, painlessly
• Simplify workgroup operations with the InCopy add-on
• Use Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP for the ultimate publishing environment

About the Authors

Galen Gruman is principal at The Zango Group , an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, a creative consultancy, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of IT Wireless . He has also been editor of Macworld and M-Business , executive editor of Upside , West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld , and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com. He is coauthor of 13 other books on desktop publishing. Gruman led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications , including the trade weekly InfoWorld , for which he began writing in 1986, and Macworld , whose staff he joined in 1991.