Customer Reviews

InDesign CS5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training)

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When it was time to tweak up my skills on InDesign CS5 I found this book to be invaluable. It offers a happy combination of readability and commitment to detail and the video tutorials matched my learning pace very well. Good value.

Great book highly recommended. Check the website for corrections on the disk. I have experience with adobe but not with InDesign

Great product. Book cover was cut in half on the back, but nothing a little tape can't fix, other than that it was perfect..

If you have lots of time, like a real, real lot of time, maybe this set of disc and book would help. But if you have some product knowledge (I've run PageMaker from infancy, and this was an upgrade from InDesign 2); or if you use the manual just when you are looking for the specifics of how to do something (and not starting learning the product from scratch) you'll be as sorry as I am if you buy this.

Now, maybe it's just me - but I only read the manual when I can't find something in onscreen help, or when I have a few moments of free time and I'm trying to figure out something particular. So here's what I found out -- you just can't do that with this set. You need to play the tutorial disc starting at the beginning, and follow along in the book doing each lesson - building Adobe's imaginary projects. I spend enough time building my own projects, I really didn't want to build theirs. For me, this set was an incredible waste of time and money - I don't use it at all.

While I'm complaining: For $200 bucks, Adobe should also have included a real manual with their product. You know, something you can flip through the pages and find what you're looking for fairly fast. I was pretty unhappy when I called to ask for one because it wasn't in the box, and their rep started singing a song and dance routine about how they are "Going Green" and saving the planet by just having the help files online. I guess they haven't figured out paper is from a renewable source: trees. Save your $50 (which I also thought is a real lot for a book or a book and a disk). Bottom line: after about 2 hours with this, I haven't picked it up since.