Real World Adobe InDesign CS6

by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner, Bob Bringhurst

Sharpen your InDesign skills with this definitive resource created specifically for design professionals who need to layout out, proof, export, and publish pages with Adobe InDesign CS6.

Complete coverage of InDesign CS6's new features and enhancements includes: Liquid Layouts and creating alternate layouts, copying and linking objects with the Content Collector (Conveyor) tool, creating Acrobat PDF form fields and placing HTML and Edge Animation in digital documents, exporting HTML, and creating EPUB documents.

Real World Adobe InDesign is brimming with insightful advice, illustrations, and shortcuts that will have you quickly and professionally producing your work in no time. This is the book that experts open to find real answers to their questions about InDesign. It's written in a friendly, visual style that offers accurate information and creative inspiration for intermediate to expert users.

Genres: Design

828 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2012

Reviews

[G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good! Not really the best book for sitting by a warm fire and reading straight through. It's massive and is a great reference book for refreshing any hard-won memories that may have been betrayed by Father Time, the bastard..

[Mouldy Squid · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you work with InDesign, then this is the reference for you. Chock full of helpful hints and practical knowledge, this book never stays on the shelf long. I am almost constantly looking something up, and then finding about twenty other things that I didn't know but make my life so much easier. If you are new to InDesign, this book is also for you. There are clear examples, instructions and explanations for all things and will bring you up to speed with the industry standard software for publishing. Perhaps not as beginner specific as Visual Quickstart or For Dummies Real World Adobe InDesign CS6 might seem daunting but there is nothing here that the novice won't be able to understand.

This is a must have for anyone working with Adobe InDesign.

[Georg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Real World Adobe InDesign CS6 is a wonderful book, very useful for, yes, real world DTP.

Most of the time, the authors explain the functions very well and list the steps necessary to complete a task. The downside of this approach is the many repetitions. Perhaps it would be better to buy a shorter introduction and then use this indispensable book as a tutorial/reference work. Or to simply read the introductory sections and leave the rest until later.

By the way, I really like their humor!

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes, I know that Adobe InDesign CC is out now (in fact, I use it) but as a student of QuarkXPress my primary goal was to get caught up on the differences between the programs - and the CS6 book was half the price of the CC book so there you go. This book is quite thorough. I liked that the authors pointed out differences between InDesign and other programs, and I liked their little humorous comments thrown in from time to time.

[William Gortowski]

Actually enjoyed reading all this, been a long time since I plowed through a software manual. Now if only I had something to do in InDesign CS6 or CC.