Overview
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Walks you through the ins and outs of working with multiple languages in InDesign, from choosing a font for a specific language to exporting multilingual EPUBs.
Syllabus
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Welcome
- Introduction
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Exploring the world's language groups
- Exploring fonts and character sets
- Working with language dictionaries
- Using composers and composition rules
- Changing language direction
- Typesetting Western European languages
- Typesetting Central European, Cyrillic, and Greek languages
- Typesetting Indic languages
- Typesetting Middle Eastern (ME) languages
- Typesetting Chinese
- Typesetting Japanese
- Typesetting Korean
- Language versions of InDesign
- Scripts and templates for ME languages
- Templates for Chinese and Japanese
- Using the ScribeDOOR plugin for ME languages
- Using the World Tools plugin for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and ME languages
- Using Illustrator and Photoshop
- Understanding the importance of translation
- Getting text on the page
- Choosing fonts and examining other design considerations
- Choosing the right workflow
- Working with one language per file
- Working with multiple languages running in one file
- Working with multiple languages in one file using layers
- Working with multiple languages in one file using conditional text
- Working with XML workflows
- Creating PDFs
- Outlining text as a last resort
- Multilingual EPUBs
- Multilingual DPS apps
- HTML export
- The next steps
