RE: Books to learn Adobe InDesign

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

I've got McClelland's Photoshop for Dummies and one he co-authored with
Sandee Cohen on Real World Adobe Illustrator. I'd vouch for his work and
the likelihood this one would be a good reference, too.

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Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:57 AM
To: Jessica Weissman
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Subject: Re: Books to learn Adobe InDesign

Hi Jessica,

I really liked Deke McClelland's One-on-One Photoshop from O'Reilly and
I see that his One-on-One InDesign is just being published.

I plan to get it.

Cheers,

Bob.
____________________
Here is the press announcement out today from O'Reilly
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*Sebastopol, CA*-If you're getting ready to learn something new, nothing
beats having a trainer by your side. And if you want to learn InDesign
CS3, nothing comes closer to a personal coach than Deke
McClelland's<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1367>unique and effective
multimedia package, Adobe InDesign CS3
One-on-One<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529765/index.html>(O'Re
illy,
$54.99 US).

Indeed, Michael Ninness, Adobe InDesign's senior product manager
heartily agrees. He recommends Deke's new book and companion video to
anyone who needs immediate results. "Deke really gets it. He understands
what it takes to pick up InDesign CS3 for the first time and make it
work for you."

Deke--who has written more than 85 books on computer graphics and design
books and logged hundreds of hours of tutorial-style video training for
industry leader lynda.com--says his new book was designed for visual
learners. "I tried to devise creative ways to weave the graphics into
the text. Throughout the book, every step is clearly illustrated as well
as explained."

Aimed at students, teachers, and anyone working in electronic design,
Deke's important new guide to InDesign CS3 serves as an all-in-one
training package. It comes packed with many exciting new projects, 900
full color images, diagrams, and screenshots, and more than three hours
of lynda.comvideo instruction to show you how to do the work in real
time.

"All the video instructions were created for my new book. We provide a
video for each lesson along with an overview of what's going on in a
design program and how it differs from text editors," explains Deke.

Throughout his new book and video system, Deke encourages you to proceed
at your own pace. Under Deke's seasoned guidance, through twelve
step-by-step lessons and relevant, real-world projects, you learn both
fundamental and advanced concepts, theories, techniques, and best
practices for making the most out of InDesign.

Deke's comprehensive multimedia training solution teaches you how to:

   - Create professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text
   and graphic tools
   - Import text from a word processor, move and scale existing text
   frames, and check spelling
   - Use the line, pen, and geometric shape tools to draw complex
graphic
   objects
   - Apply fill and stroke, specify process and spot colors, and design
   custom rules
   - Use Adobe Bridge to organize and manage your digital assets
   - Import and modify layered artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator
   - Create inline graphics and anchored objects that move automatically
   with your text from one page to the next
   - Create, edit, and link paragraph styles, complete with nested
   character styles
   - Apply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in
one
   operation
   - Build object styles with embedded paragraph styles in order to
   format entire frames at a time
   - Use master pages to automate repeating page features
   - Automatically generate a table of contents
   - Compose a fully interactive document--with bookmarks, hyperlinks,
   buttons, sounds, and movies--and export your creation to a PDF file
that can
   be played on most computers

"By the time you're finished with my book, you'll be ready to take on
any design challenge that comes your way," adds Deke. "You aren't going
to waste time and you aren't going to need any other guides."

*Advance Praise for Adobe InDesign CS3
One-on-One<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529765/index.html>
*
"Deke McClelland is a joy to watch present and in many ways more of a
joy to read. Deke is best known for his work in Photoshop; however, one
of Deke's best-kept secrets is his understanding of Adobe InDesign.
Adobe InDesign CS3 has tons of little nuances and hidden features. Deke
helps you uncover them all. Having used InDesign since version 1.0, I'm
often surprised when I can learn a tip or trick that I hadn't seen
before. When I read Deke's books, I always learn something new."
--Terry White
Director, Creative Pro Sales, Adobe Systems, Inc.

"Deke McClelland's "'Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One' is an effective and
thorough way to learn how to get the most out of Adobe InDesign in a
step-by-step, hands-on fashion. There's no substitute for learning by
doing, and if you're looking for a hands-on tutorial to learn how to tap
into all the power of InDesign, this is the book for you."
--Tim Cole
Senior InDesign Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc.

"This book is not only enjoyable and approachable, it's a valuable
reference for just about anybody. Whether you're going through lessons
step by step or merely skipping from one 'Pearl of Wisdom' to the next,
you'll find it well worth the price."
--Terri Stone
Editor in Chief of InDesign Magazine and
Creativepro.com<http://creativepro.com/>

*For a review copy or more information please email peyton -at- oreilly -dot- com -dot- 
Please include your delivery address and contact information.*

Deke McClelland <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1367> is a popular
lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and the larger realm of computer graphics
and design. He has hosted the interactive "Video Workshop" CD that
shipped with Photoshop Versions 7, CS, and CS2, as well as hundreds of
hours of tutorial-style video training for industry leaders lynda.com
and Total Training. In addition to his video work, Deke has written 84
books translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in
print. One of the most award-winning writers in the technology market,
Deke received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book in
1989. Since then, he has garnered more than 20 honors, including seven
independent citations from the Computer Press Association. In 2002, he
was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.


On 12/7/07, Jessica Weissman <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Good morning, Whirlers.
>
>
>
> Because I was a very bad beetle in a former life I am now responsible 
> for maintaining and updating a document created in Adobe InDesign CS2.
> Long story, but making what the developers insist are small changes is

> falling to me as the company doesn't want to pay for getting more time

> from the expensive outsourced graphic designer who put my perfectly 
> good Word document into InDesign.
>
>
>
> Some things are actually simple, but others would cause page rolls and

> other disasters that I can't figure out how to handle by banging 
> around in the help files and inspecting the menus.
>
>
>
> So can anyone recommend a good utter beginner book for Adobe InDesign?
> And a good next step up from that one?  Extra points if the book is 
> directed at someone with little visual sense, though I suspect there 
> isn't an "Adobe InDesign for the Extremely Reluctant" out there.
>
>
>
> I'd be more eager to learn the program if we were ever going to use it

> again or if my time were not fully taken up with tasks that can be 
> accomplished with tools I already know, not to mention tasks such as 
> analysis that require no tools beyond a mind and a pencil.  If we get 
> into layout tools seriously I'm going for FrameMaker.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jessica
>
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