IntroductionHey buddy, what's your problem? No, wait, we're not trying to be obnoxious; we really do want to know what your problem iswell, as long as it involves Adobe InDesign. After all, that is our job: listening to problems and coming up with breakthrough solutions. In fact, we've spent much of the past couple of years listening to seminar attendees talk about their problems, teaching new and advanced users, working with clients, reading online InDesign forums, and talking with other InDesign trainers. We discovered that there are certain questions that are asked over and over againquestions about importing Microsoft Word documents, putting guides on master pages, using transparency effects, printing and exporting PDF files . . . This book is a compendium of those commonly encountered problems, andmore importantlytheir solutions! Some solutions are simple, such as pointing out a feature that you might never have known about. Other solutions are complex, requiring multi-step procedures and waving witchbane around your head while standing on one foot. A few solutions involve problems with InDesign CS which were fixed in InDesign CS2, while some are more concerned with new problems that popped up in this most recent version. Most of the solutions in this book are applicable to both CS and CS2. Of course, with all this talk about problems and solutions, you might get the feeling that we think InDesign is buggy or causes headaches. No way: We love InDesign and it is among the most stable, functional pieces of software we own. But we've been around long enough to know that all software has bugsand they usually bite you just before a big deadline. And every major application can cause you to reach for the Ibuprofen at the end of a long day. InDesign is the best page-layout software we've ever used (and we've used a lot of them), but if you don't encounter any frustrations with it, then you're just not working hard enough. |