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The InDesignSecrets Guide to What’s New in InDesign CS6


The InDesign Secrets Guide to What’s New in InDesign CS6 (PDF, 56pp, $9.95) by Keith Gilbert puts you on the fast track to using and applying the new features not just in CS6, but also CS5.5, to the projects you’re working on today. Clear, down-to-earth writing and a generous number of detailed screen shots, tips, and step-by-step how-to’s streamline your mastery of the new tools and techniques. Author Keith Gilbert is an Adobe Certified Instructor, contributor to InDesignSecrets.com, the leader of Minnesota’s InDesign User Group, and an in-demand publishing consultant and trainer. You’re in good hands!

Inside the eBook you’ll find that the new features are logically organized into 5 chapters: What’s New for Repurposing Content (alternate layouts, liquid layouts, linked content, more); What’s new with Feature Improvements (drag and drop anchored objects, fit to frame, align to key object, more); What’s new with User Interface (split window, 100% view fix, recently used fonts, more); What’s new with Export Options (EPUB2 and EPUB3, grayscale preview, export to PNG, more); and a strong final chapter, “Assorted Goodies”including creating interactive forms, using the new Articles panel, and features for Digital Publishing Suite users.

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The InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects

The InDesign Secrets Guide to Graphic FX eBook (PDF, 150 pp, $9.95) will thrill you with all the ways you can make InDesign do things your mama never told you about. In this 150-page PDF, InDesign guru Mike Rankin takes you through dozens of ways to spice up your type and artwork using familiar InDesign tools found in versions CS3 and later.

Chapters include drawing realistic drips, creating 3D and woodcarving effects, building repeating patterns, making shiny objects (like buttons), creating punch-throughs, stickers, and rips; making banners and ribbons, putting images on a stroke, and creating cool image frames such as Polaroid and matte frames. You’ve never seen InDesign pushed to these limits before!

Note: Step-by-steps are great, but sometimes it helps to start at the end and work backwards. If you’d like access to the actual InDesign artwork that Mike shows as the “final” effect in each chapter, check out this eBook’s companion download, “Guide to GraphicFX_Samples.zip.” It’s a collection of each effect saved as an individual IDML and INX file, suitable for opening and fiddling with in InDesign CS3, CS4, or CS5. (The book and companion sample files are also available as a bundle purchase, which costs less than buying them separately.)

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InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips

InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips eBook (PDF, 104 pp, $9.95) Are you new to InDesignSecrets.com, or just want to read what the editors consider the “best of the best” articles ever written on the InDesignSecrets.com blog? Then you’ll love the InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips eBook!

Flip through the 100+ pages and you’ll find must-read after must-read post, complete with original screenshots, including “Multi-level Automatic Numbering,” “Why are there Parentheses in My Text Sizes?” “Deep Clean with INX & IDML,” “More Free and Commercial Scripts,” and other reader favorites. Links to the original posts are included with every story. Many of the articles also reprint the two or three most useful comments that readers posted to the story on the blog. Read this PDF and you’ll be completely caught up with the most important and useful InDesign information that we’ve published since 2005!

  • Only $9.95 for each copy of the full e-book (104 pp); download it immediately after purchase.

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The InDesignSecrets Guide to the New Features in InDesign CS5

The InDesign Secrets Guide toWhat’s New in InDesign CS5 eBook (PDF, 106 pp, $9.95) is your secret weapon in discovering how to use and best apply CS5’s new features to the projects you’re working on today. With contributions from Pariah S. Burke, Anne-Marie Concepcion, and David Blatner, this ebook is sure to help you master the newest version of InDesign.

Dozens of new features are logically organized into 7 chapters: What’s New: with Text & Typography (span/split columns, document fonts, balance columns, more); What’s New: with Pages (mixed page sizes, more); What’s New: with Documents (track changes, presentation mode, CS Review, more); What’s New: with Objects (autofit, gridify, Gap tool, Layers panel, more); What’s New: with Images (content grabber, Mini Bridge, live captions, more); What’s New: with Interactive PDFs & EPUBS (Preview panel, EPUB export, more); and What’s New: with Animation (animating, object states, multimedia import, more).

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The InDesignSecrets Guide to the InDesign CS5 ACE Exam

The InDesign Secrets Guide to the InDesign CS5 ACE Exam eBook (PDF, 155 pp, $9.95) is the most thorough resource available for anyone interested in becoming an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in InDesign. More than a simple study guide, it offers you a comprehensive plan for preparing for and passing the exam.

The Guide breaks down every one of the dozens InDesign CS5 testing objectives (as published by Adobe) and shows exactly what you need to practice and study. Objectives are illustrated with screenshots from InDesign and are hyperlinked to the relevant information in InDesign?s online help, so you can get immediate answers to your questions. Each chapter ends with sample test questions (and their answers) to help you gauge your progress as you go.

Additional chapters detail the testing process, self-assessment, personalized study plans, study tips, test-taking strategies, and re-certification objectives. With The InDesign Secrets Guide to the InDesign CS5 ACE Exam you can accelerate and focus your preparation so you walk into the testing center with confidence, and walk out an ACE.

  • Download a Sample Chapter (13 pp, a 800 Kb PDF) to see how Mike breaks down the test objectives (in this case, graphics) into clear, concise, and generously illustrated explanations. The Sample Chapter also includes the full Table of Contents.
  • Only $9.95 for each copy of the full e-book (155 pp); download it immediately after purchase.

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