InDesign CS5 For Dummies

I LOVE IT!!!!

Not having the funds or opportunity to attend a seminar, we are finding this book extremely helpful in discovering the vocabulary and capabilities of the Indesign program.

Tips and instructions to help climb the steep learning curve that is InDesign. Good layout and easy to find topics. And of course, a bonus is the ever present humor of books for "Dummies". I can recommend this book.

Unlike many users, I"m not a designer, but a scientist who must make plates for taxonomic monographs. This is a good thorough introduction but assumes you are a designer. Although I only need a few of the enormous capabilities of InDesign, I was not able to answer all my questions with this book.

As I have found in the past, this "Dummies" book is wonderful and very explanatory. For those who know nothing about InDesign or for those with some knowledge who want to learn more quickly, this is the way to do it!

Thorough, for those familiar with it. Not for beginners, by any means. Written like a math text for undergrads: definitions, by-ways, and complications first. Examples later. Those who learn by deducing procedure from observing practical examples will find it uncomfortable or inefficient. Index misses some important initial recurring problems, although the text does mention them.

Very helpful and worth getting

Needed this for a new job. The company supplied the entire package for Adobe CS5, but I really use InDesign and Photoshop most of the time. I had purchased the Photoshop Dummies book because help was useless. The Photoshop book is much easier to understand. Just look up what you need to do, follow the directions and it's done.With InDesign I was having problems with page numbering. There were at least 6 different places listed in the back index. The frustration set in when I tried to do what the book stated and the program told me it had already been done! I went back and forth with different suggestions in the book. Nothing worked. Finally went online for InDesign for Dummies and got the answer, which was not in any area of the book I found.Other items I've looked up have been much easier explained, but the problem noted above was annoying.Would I buy a Dummies guide again? Yes, for the most part they are very helpful

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You've got to be pretty desperate to buy a 'For Dummies" book, & I only bought it to make up the dollars to qualify for free shipping on my other (better) book. But now it's here, & I've looked it over. The first thing that struck me was how very cheap is the production of the book itself. The paper is just a small step above newsprint, with a similar, coarse texture, & the illustrations are abominable! Of course, they're just black & white - read murky grey in reality - with low contrast & dismal resolution. Some of them, such as the screenshots, are just unreadable.I suppose the text is better'n nothing, but it's without flair or much value, being plodding in tone & uncreative in organisation. I guess I'm a real "dummy" for buying it, but perhaps I'll cover it in brown paper before putting it on the bookshelf, so no-one will know of my mistake when they browse my library!

I must be a real dummy because I still don't get it although I will keep persevering. I am sure it is a good book and a real help for people of the IT persuasion but that is just not me I am afraid.