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InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows : Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: Sandee Cohen
ReleaseDate: 26 September, 2005
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Rating:

Not as good as it should be
This one contains what seem to be screen caps of menus and options from some previous version of InDesign, so you have to look around for the options someplace else if they've moved. I've used Visual Quickstart books for years, and until this one they've been extremely accurate.

That said, it's a good book overall and the "Tips" are a valuable part of understanding how InDesign functionality works.

Great Concept for a Software book, written by a Master
Surprising for a package that only came out in April of 2000. InDesign is, of course, a major software package in use by the big design houses, publishers, ad agencies and the like use for desktop publishing and page layout. Almost annual revisions since then have updated the package far beyond what it was. And CS2 (Creative Suite 2) is its newest rendition.

Creative Suite 2 is Adobe's new integrated software package, of which InDesign is a major component. It is likely that the big companies will buy the full CS2 package rather than shopping for individual packages. As such, InDesign is likely to become even more popular as more people have it on their system.

This book is one of the Visual QuickStart Guides. They follow a unique format of having two columns on each page with a description of what's being done on the outside column and illustrations of what the screen should look like in the inside column. This is the most convenient form of explaining what software does that I've ever seen. You don't have to go looking for the illustration that goes with the text, it's right beside it.

The author has been in the computer graphics business for almost twenty years. She is the senior contributing editor for 'InDesign Magazine,' the semi-official journal of the software. She has taught at many private organizations and at events all over the world.

This is an excellent beginner/intermediate level book.