InDesign CS5 Bible- P9: InDesign is a powerful tool that serves as the standard program for professional layout and design. The latest version boasts a variety of updates and enhancements. Packed with real-world examples and written by industry expert Galen Gruman, this in-depth resource clearly explains how InDesign CS5 allows for better typography and transparency features, speedier performance, and more user control than any other layout program. | Part IV Graphics Fundamentals IN THIS PART Chapter 14 Importing Graphics Chapter 15 Fitting Graphics and Frames Together Chapter 16 Drawing Free-form Shapes and Curved Paths CHAPTER Importing Graphics You can import graphics of all sorts into your InDesign documents in several ways. InDesign is particularly adept at importing graphics created in popular Mac and Windows formats and through the Mac and Windows Clipboards copy and paste you can import file formats to a limited degree that InDesign doesn t directly support. Because InDesign has some built-in graphics features as described in Chapters 15 and 16 you may be tempted to use InDesign as your graphics program. Don t. Its tools are fine for some work such as creating shapes that text wraps around borders and gradations of color but InDesign is not meant to be a professional graphics-creation tool. In fact it s designed to work closely with such professional tools especially Adobe s Illustrator and Photoshop. Particularly for bitmap images such as scanned files and photographs InDesign has few capabilities to apply special effects or otherwise manipulate the image s content so you should do as much work as possible in your image editor before importing the file into InDesign. For example you can resize crop rotate and slant an imported image in InDesign but you can t convert it from a full-color image into a duotone or change its line screen or brightness and contrast. The bottom line is this Use your graphics program for creating and editing original images and photos. Use InDesign s graphics features to embellish your layout rather than create original artwork. InDesign lets you easily open a graphics program to edit placed images from within InDesign. You can select the images and choose Edit C Edit Original or you can press and hold Option or Alt and then double-click the images. InDesign launches the programs that created the graphics if you don t own IN THIS CHAPTER Preparing files for import from .
