March 10 2009 • 6:03 AM
By:
David Blatner
New Adobe Guide to Help QuarkXPress Users Convert to InDesign
John Nack just noted that Adobe has released a new version of the free eBook Adobe InDesign Conversion Guide: A hands-on resource for switching from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS4. It’s a 6.6 Mb PDF download, available here. One nice thing: It is full of hyperlinks, bookmarks, cross-references, an index, navigation buttons, and other features that show it was clearly made with InDesign CS4.
It assumes that the reader was using QX (version 3, 4, 5, or 6) and wants to get up to speed in InDesign quickly. So sections include a comparison of “Feature Names” (similar features with different names), the “Top 10 Features You Need to Understand,” and “The Top 25 Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know.”
Joe Bob says check it out.
Some good stuff in there. If not just for someone to pick up a bit of indesign – I had a good glance over it.
I must print it out and have a good read of it.
Very nice, but I wish they would name these things better for the people downloading them. “indcs4_qxp” isn’t what I call descriptive.
Hey, this has good, useful content, also for non-Quark folks! And, thankfully, it’s a properly typeset Adobe document, for a change, with an eye-friendly column measure — instead of those 90-character horror documents they usually publish. So this is documentation progress at Adobe — although I sure could have wished it was designed as a 3:4 screen formatted document, for who bothers to print out these things? Adobe is still too print-oriented in their documentation — despite all their web & Flash stuff. I think it took InDesign magazine about THREE years to start publishing a proper screen-designed 3:4 version. (Yes, this issue is a particular pet peeve of mine!)
Yeh I think I am equally annoyed that Adobe docs don’t come in document friendly print sizes. Almost all my print stuff is resized and repurposed for the web versions.