Two Great Resources for Adobe InDesign: Book Design Made Simple [PDF] & Professional Typography epub

Book Design Made Simple: A Step-By-Step Guide to Designing and Typesetting Your Own Book Using Adobe Indesign [2nd Edition]
by Fiona Raven (Author), Glenna Collett (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Design-Simple-step-step/dp/0994096909

Uploader Note: This is not a retail PDF. My library has this ebook but it isn't downloadable and has to be read on App. So I took screenshots and compiled them into a PDF. It should still be very readable.



Book Design Made Simple gives DIY authors, small presses, and graphic designers—novices and professionals alike—the power to design their own books. It’s the only book of its kind, explaining every step from installing Adobe® InDesign® right through to sending the files to press.

Book Design Made Simple explains WHAT book design is, and HOW to do it. It guides the novice designer through the process of leasing and installing Adobe® InDesign® and then shows how to place the author’s text into real book pages right away. From there, the look of the text is refined, one element at a time, until it develops into a coherent design that complements the text. Every imaginable kind of text is shown, and meticulous instructions are given. Examples include chapter openings, part openings, headings, lists, poetry, tables, math, extracts, table of contents, and index. Multiple choices are offered for each design element so that the reader can decide on a look and learn how to achieve it.

Stressing their conviction that a front book cover attracts but it’s the back cover that sells, the authors devote an entire section to cover design—front, back, and spine—for paperbacks, dust jackets, and hard covers. With examples and illustrations, the reader is guided through decisions about typefaces, images, colors, and layout, and is given many choices as to what to include on the back cover. Setting up an Adobe® InDesign® document to meet printers’ specifications is explained in detail. The result is a cover that will look professional in the marketplace and attract readers.

Although print books are emphasized, ebooks are also considered throughout. Some design features that work well in print might not translate in an ebook, so cautions and instructions are given in each instance.

Together with thorough design instruction, all kinds of publishing advice is offered along the way, guiding the reader through some of the tough decisions that self-publishers face concerning trim size, what printing method to use, and how and why to get an ISBN and copyright, to name a few.

In short, Book Design Made Simple is a semester of book design instruction plus a publishing class, all rolled into one. Let two experts guide you through the process with easy step-by-step instructions, resulting in a professional-looking top-quality book.

DOUBLE GOLD MEDAL WINNER—Independent Publisher Book Awards and Next Generation Indie Book Awards. WINNER—New England Book Show.

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InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe Indesign, 3rd edition
by Nigel French

https://www.amazon.com/InDesign-Type-Professional-Typography-Adobe/dp/0321966953



Typography is the foundation of graphic design, and the most effective way to be a better designer is to understand type and use it confidently and creatively.

This fully updated third edition is a comprehensive guide to creating professional type with Adobe InDesign. It covers micro and macro typography concepts, from understanding the nuance of a single spacing width to efficiently creating long and complex documents. Packed with visual examples, InDesign expert and acclaimed design instructor Nigel French shows not just how to use InDesign’s extensive type features, but why certain approaches are preferable to others, and how to avoid common mistakes.

Whether you’re creating a single-page flyer or a thousand-page catalog, whether your documents will be printed or viewed on screen, InDesign Type is an invaluable resource for getting the most out of InDesign’s typographic toolset.

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