Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts

by Murphy, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780321606068
• ISBN10: 032160606X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-07
• Publisher: Adobe Press
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Summary

The only book to focus on Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles.- Styles are key to helping InDesign users improve their workflow, eliminate repetitive tasks, and produce more efficient and consistent work.- Offers a step-by-step exploration of every type of InDesign style, as well as realworld examples of style-based design.- Perfect for InDesign users looking to take their skills up to 'power user'. A knowledge of Styles is essential for InDesign users who need to improve their workflow, eliminate repetitive tasks, and produce more efficient and consistent work. InDesign Styles have evolved to become the core of the application when it comes to automating text, object and table formatting. Styles also reach out to influence and enable dozens of other features from small scale features like Bulleted and Numbered Lists all the way through crossmedia export to XHTML. A true understanding of the far-reaching potential of styles can transform how design and production professionals approach and accomplish every project, small or large. Adopting a style-centric workflow can reduce tasks that would take days to mere hours, and tasks that would take hours to minutes or even seconds. In the only book exclusively focused on Styles, Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles, takes a detailed, step-by-step look at the creation and implementation of styles, and then provides a big-picture perspective for combining styles with other features for increased efficiency, accuracy and flexibility.

Author Biography

Michael Murphy is the creator and host of The InDesigner, an InDesign video podcast voted one of .net magazine's Top 40 Tech Podcasts (2007). An award-winning designer with more than 20 years of hands-on experience, Michael is the creative director of Inbound Logistics magazine and a contributing writer for InDesign Magazine. He is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, a classroom and on-site instructor, and a popular speaker at InDesign conferences and user groups. Watch his video podcasts and read his blog at www.theindesigner.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Text Styles
The Fundamentals: Paragraph and Character Styles	p. 1
Character Style Attributes	p. 3
Paragraph Style Attributes	p. 8
Working with Paragraph and Character Styles	p. 26
Nesting and Sequencing Styles	p. 39
Nested Styles	p. 40
Advanced Nesting Techniques	p. 48
Nested Line Styles	p. 54
Paragraph Styles in Sequence: The Next Style Option	p. 56
Establishing Relationships: Based-on Styles	p. 61
Automatic Styling with GREP	p. 67
GREP Styles vs. Nested Styles	p. 68
Metacharacters	p. 69
Creating a GREP Style	p. 79
Defining Expressions for GREP Styles	p. 80
Auto-Styling Imported Word and Excel Files	p. 89
Working with Word Files	p. 90
Working with Excel Files	p. 99
Styles Beyond Text
Object Styles	p. 101
One-stop Shopping for Attributes	p. 102
Default Object Styles	p. 105
Similarities Between Object Styles and Text Styles	p. 107
Differences Between Object Styles and Text Styles	p. 107
Combining Paragraph Styles and Object Styles	p. 112
Flexible Object Styles Every InDesign User Should Have	p. 114
Table and Cell Styles	p. 119
Table Styling	p. 120
Table Styles vs. Cell Styles	p. 120
Working with Table Style Limitations	p. 133
Maintaining Links and Updating Tables	p. 135
Combining Styles with Other Features
Drop Caps, Bullets, and Numbering	p. 139
Drop Caps	p. 140
Bullets and Numbering	p. 145
Advanced Find/Change with Styles	p. 159
Finding and Changing Text Styles	p. 160
GREP Find/Change vs. GREP Styles	p. 164
Saving Queries	p. 166
Advanced Style-based Search Techniques	p. 167
Find/Change for Objects	p. 172
Generating Dynamic Content with Styles	p. 175
Tables of Contents	p. 176
Running Header Text Variables	p. 183
Cross-references	p. 190
Styles, CSS, and XML	p. 201
Export for Dreamweaver	p. 202
Styles and XML	p. 216
Importing XML	p. 221
XSLT: Styles on Steroids	p. 223
Style Management	p. 225
Style Organization Basics	p. 226
Style Groups	p. 227
Quick Apply	p. 231
Managing Styles Across Documents	p. 233
Index	p. 237
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