InDesign CS2 For Dummies
Chapter One
Finding Out How InDesign Works
In This Chapter
Understanding what InDesign can do for you
Finding out how InDesign works
Defining InDesign terms
Page layout programs have been around for the past couple of decades,
so you'd think that software in this category is mature and past its innovative
prime. But that's not true: Adobe InDesign has revitalized the category
with a raft of powerful, unique capabilities. Yet Adobe InDesign, the new kid
on the block, actually has a history that goes back way before its appearance
on the scene. InDesign is the modern-day successor to PageMaker. PageMaker
was an early - and popular - page layout program created by a no-longer-existing
company by the name of Aldus, which was acquired by Adobe in
1994. To its credit, InDesign is also taking over market share from a market-leading
competing product: QuarkXPress.
Why mention this history? Because if you're reading this, there's a good chance
that you are already using a page layout program - perhaps QuarkXPress or
PageMaker. If so, you'll find some features of InDesign to be familiar, others to
be fairly easy to assimilate, and still ... read full excerpt from InDesign CS2 For Dummies ebook
