Real World Adobe InDesign CS4

April 10, 2010 | By In Software |

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5 Comments so far

  1. Michael W. Konrad on April 10th, 2010

    This is a very solid manual for InDesign. I also have the Adobe “Classroom In a Book” for CS4 InDesign. The Adobe book is good to get started, but not so good when you actually start using InDesign to create documents.

    I recommend “Real World Adobe InDesign CS4″ highly for a day to day manual.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  2. Jennie L. Rounsley on April 10th, 2010

    As a desk reference and InDesign “users manual” this is the book to have. With great humor and utter professionalism, David Blatner and Olav Kvern have written another great book.

    The book is full of info of the “oh, I remember that now,” “that’s sooooo cool,” “I didn’t know that,” and “that is a great new feature!” variety. Any ID user can benefit from this book.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  3. Charles F. Tutt on April 10th, 2010

    One of the better books I’ve purchased. While another review stated that this book was somewhat advanced, I found it to be the most practical and well written at all levels from beginner to advanced of any that I’ve purchased. I especially appreciated the explanations of why one would want to use a particular feature.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  4. Bill Eger on April 11th, 2010

    Adobe’s InDesign CS4 is far and away the best text and graphics to print software. It is moving Quark off its well-deserved pinnacle in this category for professional use.

    The trouble is, there is so much power with the endless well of commands necessary, it is very difficult to use. And, of course, Adobe continues to avoid really good help for its customers. In this case Adobe Press has joined with Peachpit Press for the 827-page Real World InDesign CS4 by Olav Martin Evers and David Blatner. The only failing — and it is major — is the total lack of color which, for a work in this subject, is unforgivable at the $55 price — less with Amazon but still should have color.

    Adobe must find some way to re-categorize their huge and growing encyclopedia of commands for all their software. At the very least they should have the same commands for the same effects in their other fine software. The full design suite should function more fully together even though some elements can be read by InDesign, it can be tricky.

    This book is late in arriving. CS4 is likely to be renewed as CS5 fairly soon and, with Adobe, you’ll be waiting for the update for commands. But, meanwhile, the best quality of this book measured against others for the same purpose, is being able to find the obscure commands necessary for that skill, trick or set of strokes you need for a book, poster, whatever.

    And, for that, the Evers.Blatner work can’t be beat.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  5. Perry J. Handy on April 11th, 2010

    I live by indexes and glossaries, probably the Google age, but this book has a large index, and at anytime I need to find something, I can go to it, grab what I need and be on to finishing my project. I went to the regular bookstores to flip through all the various manual by hand, then ordered this one at Amazon.
    Rating: 4 / 5

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