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Welcome to InDesign CS3 Long Documents overview. In this movie I am going to be talking about
some of the things that we will be exploring throughout the movies
in this title. Firstly, the title begs the question, what
is a long document? For the purpose of these movies I'm going
to give the broadest answer possible. It's anything that involves a document of
more than a just a few pages. Regardless of the length of your document,
but more so when you all are working with particularly long documents,
using InDesign's global formatting features is going to save you loads and loads of time.
So the first thing that is going to come out is that
we want to think globally and we also want to act globally as well, taking advantage
of things like Paragraphs, Styles, Character Styles, Table and Cell Styles, Object
Styles and all these other global formatting features
that InDesign offers us. Secondly, InDesign was designed to be customizable
and extensible and this is one of the reasons for it's great success.
You can really make InDesign your own. You can download Templates from the Adobe
website, you can add plug-ins to make InDesign do things
that it otherwise is unable to do, very specific tasks that may be just the thing that you
happen to need to do. And you can also download Scripts, many of
them free, that will allow you to automate repetitive
tasks and really speed up your workflow. Thirdly, because no application is in island,
to get the most from InDesign where you're going to see how we can use InDesign
with applications such as Bridge, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Word, Dreamweaver and
FileMaker Pro. You don't need to be an expert in these programs.
Perhaps you don't even have these programs but watching these movies will give you an
appreciation of how you can expand the scope of InDesign by combining it with
other applications. So let's get started.