Re: Books to learn Adobe InDesign

[Jacque Foreman <foremangraphics -at- juno -dot- com>]

Jessica -

Maybe I can help you figure things out. I know PageMaker and Quark. As I
understand it, InDesign is a combination of the two. Feel free to call
me. If I am not here, I will return your call.

fyi: a few years ago, when InDesign first came out I tried it. The first
version was pretty bad -- even Adobe agrees to that. Soon I will be
upgrading all my Adobe stuff to CS3, but for now, I might be able to give
you some hints.

I'm on Pacific time. 626-794-9620.

Oh, yes, Adobe has a set of books I believe are called "Classroom in a
Book" that I understand are very good. They tend to be on the expensive
side, but you might be able to pick up a used one.

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On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:28:50 -0500 "Jessica Weissman"
<Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> writes:
> Good morning, Whirlers.
> 
>  
> 
> Because I was a very bad beetle in a former life I am now 
> responsible
> for maintaining and updating a document created in Adobe InDesign 
> CS2.
> Long story, but making what the developers insist are small changes 
> is
> falling to me as the company doesn't want to pay for getting more 
> time
> from the expensive outsourced graphic designer who put my perfectly 
> good
> Word document into InDesign.
> 
>  
> 
> Some things are actually simple, but others would cause page rolls 
> and
> other disasters that I can't figure out how to handle by banging 
> around
> in the help files and inspecting the menus.
> 
>  
> 
> So can anyone recommend a good utter beginner book for Adobe 
> InDesign?
> And a good next step up from that one?  Extra points if the book is
> directed at someone with little visual sense, though I suspect 
> there
> isn't an "Adobe InDesign for the Extremely Reluctant" out there.
> 
>  
> 
> I'd be more eager to learn the program if we were ever going to use 
> it
> again or if my time were not fully taken up with tasks that can be
> accomplished with tools I already know, not to mention tasks such 
> as
> analysis that require no tools beyond a mind and a pencil.  If we 
> get
> into layout tools seriously I'm going for FrameMaker.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Jessica
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