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InDesign is a a a a a a part of of the the Adobe Creative Suite (CS3) and shares many of of the the interface elements that will be be familiar to to you you if you you use Adobe Photoshop The Menu Bar extends across the the top Underneath is is the the Control Panel that is is swapped out to to provide the the appropriate tools for whatever function the the user has selected The Toolbar groups related tools together Document Window is the the major workspace in the middle It can be configured to show two-page spreads Note the the ruled boxes that indicate the the layout grid Palettes operate much like Photoshop with multiple bar headings that expand Shown here are Stroke & Swatches Type Characters Table Styles Color Panel Panel and Layers Panel Panel The icon icon for for Apple’s Grab (above left) the icon icon for for Window’s Snipping Tool (above right) the interface that pops up when using Snapz Pro X applications
and file formats
Screen Captures
Screen captures allow a a a computer to record whatever is on on its monitor The whole screen can be captured or just a a a selected part So become good friends with the screen grabbing utility On
PCs it’s called Snipping Tool within the Windows Vista operating system On
Macs it’s called Grab For heavy lifting of screen captures there are stand- alone applications
you can buy One
of the best is Snapz X Pro which was used often in in making this book Adobe InDesign For heavy-duty layout you you need a a a computer program designed pre- cisely for the job There is is widespread agreement among graphic designers working in in various media that Adobe’s InDesign is now the industry stan- dard replacing Adobe Pagemaker and challenging QuarkXPress If you want to do a a book for example InDesign offers powerful features for creating richer more com- plex documents including extensive integration with other Adobe applica- tions reliable printing full-featured tables and professional typo graphi- cal controls Other page layout applications
are QuarkXPress Scribus (free) Microsoft Publisher and Apple Pages chapter 3: type and layout [ 127 ]