Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production

by Pariah Burke

Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production shows how experienced professionals with deadlines and billable hours use InDesign efficiently and effectively. Through the case studies and interviews, readers will find inspired to look beyond the over-emphasized basic features and into the depths of InDesign's utility for real-world print design. Most InDesign books are written for beginners, and experienced users are frustrated by them. When you already know how to make, fill, and thread a text box, the entire first half of most InDesign books is useless. But this one doesn't dwell on the basics. Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production fulfills the promise of the Mastering series, to provide real-world skills to professionals and students. Like all Mastering books, this one

512 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2007

About the author

Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world (http://workflowCreative.com). Pariah has over 20 years’ experience as a graphic and publication designer, is an Adobe Community Professional, and was the trainer and technical lead for Adobe’s technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Photoshop. A prolific author, Pariah literally wrote the book and the curriculum for learning and teaching digital publishing from InDesign, ePublishing with InDesign (http://iamPariah.com/books), wrote the first book for experienced InDesign users, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, has authored and co-authored other books on epublishing, Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXPress, and has published more than 450 tutorials and articles (http://iamPariah.com/articles). He is the co-author of InDesign, InCopy, and Illustrator Adobe Certified Expert exams, the tests Adobe administers to gauge the skill levels of InDesign and Illustrator instructors and experts. Pariah is also the host of a series of digital publishing, epublishing, and the business of design webinars (http://iamPariah.com/webinars) and the publisher of a network of websites for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network (http://workflownetwork.com). When not traveling, Pariah lives in the greater Boston area where he writes (a lot) and creates (many) projects and publications Empowering and Informing Creative Professionals™.