List of Sidebars
Introduction
- Dealing with computer-platform appearance issues
Chapter 1: What InDesign Can Do for You
- What makes InDesign special
- InDesign Vocabulary 101
Chapter 2: A Tour of InDesign
- Marrying and divorcing palette panes
Chapter 3: Getting InDesign Ready to Go
- To customize or not to customize
Chapter 5: Working with Pages
- Targeting versus selecting spreads
Chapter 6: Working with Layers
- When, where, and why to use layers
Chapter 7: Creating Layout Standards
- Library caveats
Chapter 8: Defining Colors and Gradients
- The evils of the Color pane's colors
Chapter 9: Book Publishing
- The pros and cons of books
- Creating other lists
- Nested or run-in index?
- Incorporating indexing into a workflow
Chapter 11: Manipulating Frames and Lines
- More about scaling frames
Chapter 14: Preparing Text Files for Import
- Working with files across platforms
- Using special characters
- Fixing Microsoft Word's bad dashes
Chapter 15: Working with Text
- Keep characters to a minimum
- Handling import options
Chapter 16: Flowing Text through a Document
- Other text-importing techniques
- Text frame anatomy
- Threading icons
Chapter 18: Specifying Paragraph Attributes
- How many characters?
- About word spacing
Chapter 19: Creating Special Text Formatting
- Spacing guidelines for indents and bullets
- Bullet character options
Chapter 21: Setting Up Tabs and Tables
- Preparing text files for setting tabs
Chapter 22: Preparing Picture Files for Import
- Working with files across platforms
Chapter 25: Special Effects for Pictures
- Creating clipping paths in Photoshop
Chapter 26: Drawing Free-Form Shapes and Curved Paths
- Drawing tools
Chapter 29: Preparing for Color Prepress
- Defining color models
- Understanding profiles
Chapter 31: Printing Techniques
- What "lpi" and "dpi" mean
Chapter 32: Creating Output Files
- Understanding imposition
- Understanding compression methods
- Settings for on-screen usage
Chapter 33: Interactive Document Setup
- What are eBooks?
Chapter 37: Using Scripts
- Getting more information on JavaScript
- Getting more information on AppleScript
- Getting more information on VBA
Chapter 38: The Publishing Environment
- Computer acronyms explained
- TrueType, OpenType, or PostScript?
Chapter 40: Typography Theory and Practice
- Understanding typeface formats
- Understanding typeface names
Chapter 41: Using Special Characters
- European languages and accented characters
Chapter 42: Color Fundamentals
- Using color swatchbooks
- Challenging the Unpredictable: Changeable Order Management Systems
- Distributed Data Warehouse for Geo-spatial Services
- Intrinsic and Contextual Data Quality: The Effect of Media and Personal Involvement
- Healthcare Information: From Administrative to Practice Databases
- Relevance and Micro-Relevance for the Professional as Determinants of IT-Diffusion and IT-Use in Healthcare