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Summary: Great overview
Review: As someone new to InDesign, but familiar with older versions of PageMaker, this book served as a great guide to the software. Not only does it cover realistic (real-world) tutorial projects, but it spends considerable time filling in the reasoning for certain design decisions or indicates alternate methods whenever possible.Most importantly, though, this book helped me immensely in providing a background to general back-end issues and the entire printing process. This is an area that I have no familiarity with, and the introductory material provided within this book was a great addition. This material could have easily been left out, but I am very thankful to see it. My only criticisms are: 1) lack of CD-ROM -- nowadays, these sort of project texts often come with CDs or at least a publisher-supplied donwload website. It's omission is too bad, but liveable considering the quality of the text in general. 2) repetition of material -- often, certain text is repeated several times, but this is probably due to way the book is organized. Even though I have InDesign CS, I am still happy to have purchased this text for all that is has provided (in background). For someone with more backend / 3rd-party printing experience, the book may have too much background material for their liking.
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Summary: In Design guide is Great!
Review: I am a design instructor from Boston interested in teaching Adobe's new In Design software. I was very pleased with my purchase of the Adobe InDesign Guide. I found it different from typical software guides because of its visual approach to learning. Plus, it's filled with practical information, tips, "crash courses," and more. I especially liked the "In a Hurry" section for quick references and getting started right away. This guide will be required reading for my future students, and I highly recommend it to other In Design users, from beginner to advanced.
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Summary: No tutorial files for book
Review: When I first opened this book I was excited by the way it was set up, with real-world tutorials. Half the book is tutorials. However, the publisher decided to cheap out and not include a CD ROM with the files that the tutorials refer to. As a designer on a tight schedule I don't have the time to waste looking for (or making) files to use with the tutorials. This made half the book useless. It was very disappointing. Don't make a $31 mistake, look for something better.
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