InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows

Book excerpt: Trusted format and a master teacher make this guide the choice for becoming a page layout pro using InDesign CS2 - quickly and easily!; Best-selling author Sandee Cohen's lively and engaging teaching style has made her a favorite at conferences and seminars.; Completely revised volume gets readers up to speed fast on most of InDesign CS2's features.; Step-by-step instructions, loads of tips and visual aids make learning more like playing as readers make their way through this friendly, information-packed volume. In a perfect world, InDesign-produced print documents would be effortlessly convertible to Web pages, files could be imported from Photoshop with text and layers editable and intact, and all of Adobe's design, graphics, and publishing programs would play well together. Well, the world may not be perfect, but the above-described scenario is precisely what users will find in Adobe's brand-new InDesign CS2 (USD699; upgrade, USD169), the page design anchor of that company's rightly integrated Creative Suite 2 due to ship in the later part of April 2005. Here to get readers up to speed on it is Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS2. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, and work with color. They'll also find complete coverage of all of InDesign CS2's new features: Object Styles, Snippets, working with layered Photoshop files, browsing with Adobe's new Bridge, and more.