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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Learning feature names
- Top 10 differences you need to understand
- Opening QuarkXPress files
- Creating a new document
- Navigating documents
- Importing text and graphics
- Using native file formats
- Working with tables
- Using creative effects
- Preflight and proofing
- Important techniques
- Exporting PDF files
- Rich, interactive documents
- Supercharging your workflow
- InDesign CS5 resources
- Index
I
f you’re reading this guide, it’s because you’ve
joined—or are thinking of joining—a growing group
of QuarkXPress users who have discovered the many
benets of using Adobe® InDesign® CS5 soware. InDesign
is an immensely powerful page layout program, with
extraordinary typographic capabilities, innovative graphics
handling and page layout features, extensive productivity
tools, versatile long document and printing features,
support for creating interactive documents, and expansive
automation capabilities.
is booklet was created speci-
cally to help users of QuarkXPress
version 3, 4, 5, or 6 make the
switch to InDesign as quickly and
smoothly as possible.
If you’re a long-time QuarkXPress
user, you’ll nd that there are
many similarities between the
two programsfor example, they
both make use of text and graphic
frames, pasteboards around
spreads, and master pages.
However, there are some important
dierences between QuarkXPress
and InDesign to adjust to. Don’t
worrythis booklet explains the
key dierences between these two
programs, and it also introduces
you to powerful features available
only in InDesign.
If you need more step-by-step
information, refer to InDesign
Help, which is accessible from
within the application. Additionally,
there are many Adobe and third-
party resources to help you learn
InDesign. See “InDesign CS5
resources” on page 56.
If you’re familiar with other Adobe
graphics applications, such as
Adobe Photoshop® or Adobe
Illustrator®, your switch to InDesign
will be even easier. All Adobe
Creative Suite® applications share
common commands, panels, and
keyboard shortcuts, so if you’re
familiar with one program, learning
the others is easy.
Top 10 reasons InDesign is
beer than QuarkXPress
Before we get into the dierences
between the two programs, let’s
take a quick look at 10 reasons why
InDesign is the beer program.
1. Creative Suite integration:
Eortlessly work with Photoshop
and Illustrator les in your layouts,
including 3D or layered Photoshop
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