Indesign Type: Professional Typography With Adobe Indesign Cs2 - Softcover

French, Nigel

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9780321385444: Indesign Type: Professional Typography With Adobe Indesign Cs2
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0321385446 ISBN 13: 9780321385444
Publisher: Adobe Pr, 2006

Synopsis

It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers great tools-not least among them its sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show you how to take advantage of them is the first book devoted solely to that topic. Whether you're a graphics pros migrating from InDesign's long-entrenched competitor QuarkXPress or a hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, you'll appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic. Realizing that to take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, you must understand the principles guiding their use, author Nigel French addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography. Using practical examples, and loads of tips, Nigel provides a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's type features, including the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning, and its support for OpenType fonts. Starting with character formats and then moving through parag

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About the Author

Graphics pro Nigel French currently works as a consultant for IPC Media in London. In addition, he has taught graphic design at several Bay Area colleges and is the author of one previous book, PageMaker 6.5 for Windows Bible (IDG).

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Publisher
Adobe Pr
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0321385446
ISBN 13 
9780321385444
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
270
Rating
  • 4.43 out of 5 stars
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