Mastering InDesign CS5 for Print Design and Production

by Pariah Burke

Comprehensive reference and tutorial on Adobe InDesign CS5 If you want to thoroughly master InDesign from the basics through advanced topics, Mastering InDesign CS5 for Print Design and Production is the book you need. Written by the former InDesign technical lead for Adobe, this book helps you achieve professional results through efficient production workflows and advanced techniques. You'll learn how to collaborate within workgroups; work efficiently with text, objects, and variable text; perfect your printed output; get the most out of InDesign's transparency and effects tools, and much more. Above all, you'll see how to handle prepress to get the results you want. Whether you're just starting with InDesign or a professional using it every day, this comprehensive guide will take your skills to a new level.

736 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2007

About the author

Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world (http://workflowCreative.com). Pariah has over 20 years’ experience as a graphic and publication designer, is an Adobe Community Professional, and was the trainer and technical lead for Adobe’s technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Photoshop. A prolific author, Pariah literally wrote the book and the curriculum for learning and teaching digital publishing from InDesign, ePublishing with InDesign (http://iamPariah.com/books), wrote the first book for experienced InDesign users, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, has authored and co-authored other books on epublishing, Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXPress, and has published more than 450 tutorials and articles (http://iamPariah.com/articles). He is the co-author of InDesign, InCopy, and Illustrator Adobe Certified Expert exams, the tests Adobe administers to gauge the skill levels of InDesign and Illustrator instructors and experts. Pariah is also the host of a series of digital publishing, epublishing, and the business of design webinars (http://iamPariah.com/webinars) and the publisher of a network of websites for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network (http://workflownetwork.com). When not traveling, Pariah lives in the greater Boston area where he writes (a lot) and creates (many) projects and publications Empowering and Informing Creative Professionals™.