Books - Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a book

Product Description

This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe InDesign CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this program, while readers who already have some experience with InDesign can use this book to familiarize themselves with InDesign CS3's newest features.

Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills learned in each lesson. The companion CD contains all the assets readers will need to work through each project in the book.

Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe's page layout and design software, has been updated to accelerate user productivity with loads of new features: new Photoshop effects--including gradient feathering, inner shadows, and glows--that you can apply to objects on a page; finer transparency controls, which let you apply transparency settings independently to an object's fill, stroke, and content for more complex visual looks; numerous productivity enhancements; advanced find/change features; new table and cell styles; export to XHTML, and more.

SPECIAL NOTE: Before starting the lessons in the book, visit www.peachpit.com/indesigncs3cib for important lesson and project file updates.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• What’s New in Adobe InDesign CS3
• A Quick Tour of Adobe InDesign CS3
• 1. Getting to Know the Work Area
• 2. Setting Up Your Document
• 3. Working with Frames
• 4. Importing and Editing Text
• 5. Working with Typography
• 6. Working with Color
• 7. Working with Styles
• 8. Importing and Linking Graphics
• 9. Creating Tables
• 10. Working with Transparency
• 11. Working with Long Documents
• 12. Output and PDF Exporting
• 13. Using XML

Errata

Errata is Latin for 'Oops'.

Some of the Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book lesson files use fonts that are not installed with InDesign CS3, but can be found on the product DVD. Before you begin the book, make sure that all of the additional fonts are installed. For more information about installing fonts, see "Installing the Classroom in a Book fonts" on page 2.

The first printing of Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book included several print and disc errors that prevented readers from completing some of the lessons in the book. We've corrected these errors in a subsequent reprint, and we apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused some of our readers.

You may download the corrected book pages here. (3.4 MB PDF)

In addition, there are revised project files for the book's CD-ROM. Download replacement lesson folders for chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11 here (111 MB). You can also download individual chapter files:

• Lesson 5 (4 MB)
• Lesson 6 (12 MB)
• Lesson 7 (16.5 MB)
• Lesson 8 (9.76 MB)
• Lesson 11 (68 MB)

Note: These errors appear in the first printing of Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book only. If you're not sure if you have a first printing of this book, simply open to the first page. If the very first page displays a letter from Adobe, you have a first printing. Please contact errata@peachpit.com if you have additional questions.