A very new user needs some help and advice....

Hi,
I have just taken the bold leap into Indesign and this is the first day of my 30 day trial.
I need help and advice from you good poeple...please.
I have been successfully creating A5 booklets (folded A4) using MS Word and printing to a desktop printer. MS Word sorted out my page order for me at printing time so the correct pages were put together.
I have been reading as much information as I could find but I am still unable to do the same in Indesign.
I'm looking forward to using the advanced layout features and having control over what I do but, I need to work out this basic step before I go any further.
I hope what I have explained makes sense.
Regards
John

So presumably you create a new document, A5 portrait, facing pages. Make sure your ducument page count is a multiple of 4.
Create, type, tweak, ponder, edit, smile, save.
To create you booklet using InDesign, from the file menu select Print Booklet.
You will probably need to jump back and forth from the Print Settings button adjusting Paper Size, Orientation, Color, and from the Print Booklet tab set for 2-up Saddle Stitch.
Much has been posted on this topic, these are the basics, Print Booklet is not the best module Adobe ever wrote, IMO

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I have been using iMovie for years and love the product. I have done 3 documentary style films (60 - 90 minute range) using it. Call me crazy, but I did everything I needed to do in it quickly and easily.
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Steve,
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Is there any parts of the forums here that are
specifically for games and applets? I could not find
any, but read in another post that there was one. He
did not provide a link.http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=406
It's on the main forums list.
I was searching the Internet on Graphics2D to see how
I can make only a part of my images appear and how to
repeat tiles I make for games. When I make a game, I
put the map together in MS Paint by copying and
pasting tiles. I was told that I could actually
repeat it in a way where I could arrange the tiles by
code without having to put it together in MS Paint. Yes you can, but AFAIK there's no API given in core Java to do this for you. I'll bet someone has written one though -- try Google. Also MIDP 2.0 (for J2ME) has an API to do stuff like that. I've used it; it's pretty good.
I also learned that it is better to load one image
instead of a bunch so I want to put my animation as
one image and only have a clip of it show. Yeah, you can load an image and then use a Graphics.drawImage method to select only a subset of that image.
I imagine that there may also be images that create image objects out of clips of larger images, but if so I don't know what they'd be. Check the docs.
I was curious if it possible to make things
transparent, too? like if I wanted a ghost in my
game.Yeah. Create an image with an alpha channel. MS Paint probably can't do that, but Photoshop can easily, and so can GIMP, which is a free, open-source, Photoshop-like image editor.
So you can create a PNG image with certain parts either fully or partially transparent, then you could load that image into Java easily, and use it (or subsections of it) as sprites in a game.
Try the games forum. There's also stuff like this: http://community.java.net/projects/topic/Games

Really really need some help and guidance here as I am going nuts!!

I had a laptop with itunes on it and when I connected my iphone it automatically synced and I could move and transfer music from my library to my iphone and vice versa, so all good.
Anyway, one evening I turned on my laptop to see that my itunes icon had just disappeared - literally! No idea why. When looking in the start menu , I found my itunes music in a folder but no icon/itunes facility - all gone.
I looked up this problem on the apple troubleshooting site, and they showed a series of steps to complete to get the icon back, but this failed.
Since then, I have bought a new laptop, so I thought I would just reinstall itunes again which is what I have just done. However, my iphone will not sync to this itunes and I cannot transfer files from itunes to the iphone and vice versa. It's like they will not connect together and I am so frustrated.
Can anyone help me? Please!!!

Installing iTunes does not cause your media to magically appear.
If you want your media on your new computer, then you must put it there.

A very new user needs some help and advice....

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