Overview
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Find out how to use InDesign to create smart templates that will save time and keep your designs consistent.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files and loading fonts
- Installing InDesign scripts
- Saving time with a great template
- Making a simple template
- Understanding what makes a template smart
- Finding and evaluating free and commercial InDesign templates
- Creating a template from an existing publication
- Creating a template from a PDF
- Setting up document intent, page size, bleeds, and slug
- Adding margin and column guides
- Creating a simple master page strategy
- In Practice: Master pages
- Adding and organizing color swatches
- Setting up layers to streamline production
- In Practice: Layers
- Creating grids and guidelines for accurate layout
- Adding text and image placeholders
- Creating library items and snippets for reusable elements
- In Practice: Library and snippets
- Including other special items for your publication
- Making smart paragraph and character styles
- Creating paragraph and character styles where none exist
- Fixing style overrides with Redefine Style
- In Practice: Cleaning up broken styles
- Automating your text formatting with nested styles
- Including GREP styles to speed formatting
- Setting up a "style cascade" with the Next Style feature
- In Practice: Automating your styles
- Creating new object styles for common image and text frame issues
- Creating object styles for callout lines and anchored objects
- Updating preexisting layouts with template elements
- Using Creative Cloud Libraries
- Embedding a custom preflight check
- Helping template users with a style guide
- Reviewing a template for a reflowable ebook
- Evaluating a trade book template and InDesign book files
- Creating a Word template for your publication's contributors
- Setting up a template for an interactive layout
- Next steps
