Overview
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InDesign expert David Blatner provides comprehensive coverage of the world’s premiere page layout application, Adobe InDesign.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- InDesign: Learn the fundamentals
- Using the exercise files
- Getting started
- Adding or editing text
- Adding or replacing graphics
- Moving objects around
- Printing and exporting a PDF
- New documents
- Guides and measurements
- Adding text frames
- Typing and editing text
- Choose a better workspace for editing
- Applying basic text formatting
- Importing graphics
- Saving and reverting documents
- Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
- Creating and applying parent pages
- Overriding parent page items
- Changing page size and margins
- Setting bleed and slug guides
- Adding page numbering
- Importing text
- Threading text frames
- Setting text frame attributes
- Inserting special characters
- Using the Story Editor
- Checking spelling
- Using Find/Change
- Putting text on a path
- Options when placing images
- Using the Links panel
- Editing graphics in their original app
- Cropping and fitting graphics
- Stroking and filling frames and paths
- Transparency, drop shadows, and effects
- Creating color swatches
- The danger (and power) of unnamed colors
- Creating and applying gradient swatches
- Drawing path and frame shapes
- Adjusting corner options
- Creating text outlines
- Resizing and rotating objects
- Duplicating objects and making grids
- Moving objects above or below each other
- Creating and controlling layers
- Aligning and distributing
- Understanding text wrap
- Using anchored objects
- Applying advanced character formatting
- Using Find Font
- Applying formatting to a paragraph
- Using drop caps
- Adding rules (lines) above or below
- Setting tabs and tab stops
- Spanning and splitting paragraphs
- Adding automatic bullets and numbers
- Using Find/Change for text formatting
- Highlighting paragraphs with boxes
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Using character styles
- Editing, clearing, and redefining styles
- Using object styles
- Creating a table
- Adjusting rows and columns
- Formatting a table
- Formatting cells
- Adding hyperlinks
- Creating an interactive PDF
- Exporting to the web with Publish Online
- Packaging and preflight for output
- Using the Print dialog box
- Exporting a PDF
- Next steps
