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Adobe InDesign is a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs in the Creative Suite. It’s the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design.
Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS4, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign’s advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently.
They’ll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS4, including: live preflight, customizable Links panel, conditional text, cross references, interactive document capability with the new SWF file, animated page transitions, export to Flash CS4 functionality, Smart Guides and Smart Spacing, spread rotation, and smart text reflow.
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As a desk reference and InDesign “users manual” this is the book to have. With great humor and utter professionalism, David Blatner and Olav Kvern have written another great book.
The book is full of info of the “oh, I remember that now,” “that’s sooooo cool,” “I didn’t know that,” and “that is a great new feature!” variety. Any ID user can benefit from this book.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This is a very solid manual for InDesign. I also have the Adobe “Classroom In a Book” for CS4 InDesign. The Adobe book is good to get started, but not so good when you actually start using InDesign to create documents.
I recommend “Real World Adobe InDesign CS4″ highly for a day to day manual.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Adobe’s InDesign CS4 is far and away the best text and graphics to print software. It is moving Quark off its well-deserved pinnacle in this category for professional use.
The trouble is, there is so much power with the endless well of commands necessary, it is very difficult to use. And, of course, Adobe continues to avoid really good help for its customers. In this case Adobe Press has joined with Peachpit Press for the 827-page Real World InDesign CS4 by Olav Martin Evers and David Blatner. The only failing — and it is major — is the total lack of color which, for a work in this subject, is unforgivable at the $55 price — less with Amazon but still should have color.
Adobe must find some way to re-categorize their huge and growing encyclopedia of commands for all their software. At the very least they should have the same commands for the same effects in their other fine software. The full design suite should function more fully together even though some elements can be read by InDesign, it can be tricky.
This book is late in arriving. CS4 is likely to be renewed as CS5 fairly soon and, with Adobe, you’ll be waiting for the update for commands. But, meanwhile, the best quality of this book measured against others for the same purpose, is being able to find the obscure commands necessary for that skill, trick or set of strokes you need for a book, poster, whatever.
And, for that, the Evers.Blatner work can’t be beat.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
One of the better books I’ve purchased. While another review stated that this book was somewhat advanced, I found it to be the most practical and well written at all levels from beginner to advanced of any that I’ve purchased. I especially appreciated the explanations of why one would want to use a particular feature.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
InDesign CS4
Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner
At 778 pages, this book packs a whopping amount of information and serves as an excellent resource to all things InDesign. A fan of Blatner’s books since the days of Quark XPress 3, I’ve enjoyed his thoughtful and often humorous approach to explaining the programs and this book is no exception.
Over the course of 14 chapters, the book covers both the essentials and advanced features, making the book suitable for InDesign users of all levels. Of particular note is Chapter 11 on printing. The mysteries of flattener presets, transparency and applying these to every day print jobs are covered here.
In addition, there are many useful tips and shortcuts throughout the book. They’re not set in a tinted box or pulled to the side of the page as in other books. My suggestion is to dig in; the answer is likely to be revealed in that chapter. Both authors have worked with this software for years, so anything the reader has trouble with, they too have encountered, solved and answered in this book.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5