InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies,
magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around
the world. This course presents the core features and techniques that
make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. Author
David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage
documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and
print finished documents, explore creating interactive documents, and
much more. He also covers popular topics such as EPUBs and long
documents and includes advice on working with overset text, unnamed
colors, and other troublesome issues that may arise for first-time
designers.
Topics include:
- Getting started in just 30 minutes: the quick start guide to InDesign
- Understanding your workspace
- Creating and setting up new documents
- Creating and applying master pages
- Entering and editing text
- Placing graphics
- Working with color and gradients
- Editing frame and path shapes
- Working with layers, objects, and groups
- Rotating and scaling objects
- Applying character and paragraph formatting
- Using styles
- Creating and formatting tables
- Exporting to EPUB and interactive PDF
- Packaging, printing, and exporting your final document
Table of content
- Adobe InDesign
- What is InDesign?
- Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Learn InDesign in Thirty Minutes
- Getting started
- Adding or editing text
- Adding or replacing graphics
- Moving objects around
- Printing and creating a PDF
- Understanding Your Workspace
- Exploring the application window
- Navigating and magnifying pages and objects
- Setting rulers and measurements
- Working with panels
- Setting the view quality of artwork
- Adjusting view and preview settings
- Creating a Document
- Creating new documents
- Saving and reverting documents
- Saving for CS4 and CS5 with IDML
- Setting the margin and column guides
- Putting ruler guides on the page
- Bleeding colors or images off the side of the page
- Managing Pages
- Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
- Changing page size
- Creating and applying master pages
- Overriding master page items
- Adding page numbering
- Changing page numbering with sections
- Text
- Understanding text frames
- Typing and editing text
- Inserting special characters
- Importing text
- Threading text frames
- Setting text frame columns
- Setting text inset and vertical justification options
- Allowing text frames to grow and shrink
- Putting text on a path
- Using the Story Editor
- Checking spelling
- Using Find/Change
- Graphics
- Importing graphics
- Using the Links panel
- Editing graphics in their original app
- Fitting graphics to the frame
- Taking advantage of image transparency and clipping paths
- Formatting Objects
- Selecting objects
- Applying basic strokes and fills
- Colorizing images
- Adjusting transparency
- Adding drop shadows
- Using other transparency effects
- Copying and formatting with the Eyedropper tool
- Finding and changing object formatting
- Color
- Creating color swatches
- Understanding the danger and power of unnamed colors
- Creating gradient swatches
- Applying gradients
- Frames and Paths
- Editing frame and path shapes
- Adding rounded corners and other corner options
- Making polygons and starbursts
- Creating text outlines
- Managing Objects
- Positioning objects with the Gap tool
- Stacking objects
- Creating and controlling layers
- Managing objects in the Layers panel
- Grouping and locking objects
- Nesting objects
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Understanding text wrap
- Using anchored objects
- Transforming Objects
- Duplicating objects
- Collecting, conveying, and placing content
- Rotating objects
- Scaling objects
- Skewing objects
- Mirroring objects
- Character Formatting
- Applying basic character styling
- Applying advanced character formatting
- Changing case
- Using Find/Change for text formatting
- Using Find Font
- Paragraph Formatting
- Applying formatting to a paragraph
- Spanning a paragraph across multiple columns
- Splitting a paragraph into multiple columns
- Using drop caps
- Setting tabs
- Adding rules (lines) above or below a paragraph
- Adding automatic bullets
- Numbering paragraphs
- Styles
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Using character styles
- Editing and redefining styles
- Using object styles
- Applying styles with Quick Apply
- Tables
- Creating a table
- Adjusting rows and columns
- Adding and deleting rows and columns
- Formatting a table
- Formatting cells
- Applying table styles
- Placing graphics in cells
- Importing Microsoft Word and Excel tables
- Long Documents
- Building a multi-document book
- Creating “continued on…” jump lines
- Constructing a table of contents (TOC)
- Interactive Documents
- Exporting EPUBs
- Creating an interactive PDF
- Building a Flash SWF
- Packaging, Printing, and Exporting
- Checking a document with the Preflight panel
- Packaging for output
- Using the Print dialog box
- Printing a small booklet
- Exporting a PDF
- Exporting text
- Conclusion
- Next steps
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