Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS3

Working with InDesign, the sky, or your imagination, is the limit. You can create newsletters, magazines, posters, flyers, business cards, letterhead, certificates, brochures—anything. This book will teach you how...

During the step-by-step lessons presented in this book, you will use InDesign’s incredible typography commands to set beautiful type. And you will import myriad graphic formats. You will create a flyer from scratch and then package it into a folder with key components such as the layout, images and fonts. And you will export the document in a Portable Document Format (PDF).

Here is what you will learn:

The InDesign Environment

• Start InDesign and Open a Document
• Change Page Views
• Scroll Using the Hand Tool
• Show and Hide Palettes
• View Multiple Documents
• Create and Use Custom Workspaces
• Create a New Document
• Change Document Setup
• Create a Text Frame
• Create Graphics Frames
• Resize and Move Page Elements
• Change the Units & Increments

Text Basics

• Create a Text Frame
• Type Text Into a Text Frame
• Work with Overset Text
• Format a Text Frame
• Make Simple Edits
• Select Text
• Cut, Copy and Paste Text
• Change Character Attributes

Placing Text and Formatting Paragraphs

• Create a Document Preset
• Place Text
• Drag and Drop Text into a Layout
• Align Paragraphs
• Create Multiple Columns
• Set a First Line Indent
• Add Paragraph Space
• Set Leading
• Set Paragraph Rules
• Add Bullets to Text
• Set A Hanging Indent as the Bullet Position
• Set A Hanging Indent Using the Tabs Palette
• Add Custom Bullets to Text
• Add Numbers to Text

Text Frames and Threads

• Flow Text onto Multiple Pages
• Navigate a Multi Page Document
• Set Pages Palette Options
• Insert and Delete Pages
• Work with a Master Text Frame
• Modify a Master Text Frame
• Use Step and Repeat
• Add Ruler Guides to the Page
• Use the Selection Tool To Thread Frames
• Use the Selection Tool To Unthread
• Thread Text Across Multiple Pages
• Thread Text into Shapes

Tab Stops

• Set and Move a Tab Stop
• Add a Tab Stop Leader
• Set a Decimal Tab Stop
• Use the "Align to Other" Tab
• Create a Hanging Indent
• Apply Text Formatting Using the Eyedropper Tool
• Add a Stroke to a Frame
• Add Inset Spacing
• Set Vertical Justification

Graphics

• Place an Image
• Place an Image in an Existing Frame
• Move and Resize an Image
• Change the Scale of an Image
• Rotate and Skew an Image
• Resize the Frame and Graphic with the Mouse and Keyboard
• Create a Clipping Path
• Customize a Clipping Path

Working with Objects

• Use Step and Repeat
• Align Objects
• Group Items
• Lock Position
• Resize a Group
• Compound Paths
• Pass Through a Stack
• Change and Edit a Shape
• Add Arrowheads to a Line
• Change Frame Content
• Create a Gradient Swatch
• Create an Object Style

Create a One-Page Flyer

• Create a Page Border
• Create a Multiple Column Text Frame
• Use Find/Change
• Create a Paragraph Style for the Body Text
• Add Ruler Guides
• Place a Graphic onto the Page
• Create a Text Wrap around an Object
• Check Spelling Dynamically
• Spell Check a Document
• Use Autocorrect
• Preflight and Package a File for Handoff
• Create a PDF

Picas, CMYK Color, Libraries and Bridge

• Change the Units and Increments to Picas
• Delete and Load Document Presets
• Create and Modify an Object
• Add and Use Process Color
• Type and Format Text
• Create and Use a Library
• Use Adobe Bridge

Master Pages

• Create a Master Page
• Add Objects to a Master Page
• Add a Spread Guide
• Add an Automatic Page Number
• Duplicate and Rename Master Pages
• Enable Layout Adjustment
• Assign a Master Page
• Wrap Text Around an Image
• Edit a Text Wrap

Styles

• Create a Body Text Paragraph Style
• Create a Headline Paragraph Style
• Use the Story Editor
• Edit a Style
• Set Keep Options
• Apply Direct Formatting to a Paragraph
• Create a New Style Based on a Selection
• Lock Text to a Paragraph Grid
• Insert Drop Caps
• Create and Nest a Character Style

Tracking, Kerning, and Hyphenation

• Track Text
• Kern Letter Pairs
• Use Tracking as a Layout Tool
• Adjust Hyphenation
• Create User Dictionary Hyphenation Exceptions
• Work with Discretionary Hyphens
• Prevent Selected Text from Breaking

Tables

• Draw a Table
• Add Data, Columns and Rows to a Table
• Combine Table Cells and Format Text
• Format a Table
• Change Cell Text Rotation and Cell Stroke Weight
• Place Graphics in Table Cells
• Convert Text to a Table
• Scale a Table and its Content
• Create and Use Table and Cell Styles

Fonts, Links and Templates

• Use Find Font to Replace a Font
• Use the Links Palette to Update a Graphic
• Create and Use a Template

Layers

• Create and Modify Layers
• Move Objects to Layers
• Hide and Show Layers
• Reorder Layers
• Make an Inline Graphic
• Set Anchored Object Options
• Create an Object Style

Books

• Create a Book File
• Add Documents to a Book File
• Reorder and Remove Book Documents
• Synchronize Selected Documents
• Create a Table of Contents Style
• Create a Table of Contents
• Add Index Entries
• Generate an Index
• Change the Index Punctuation
• Create Index Paragraph Styles
• Create Second-Level Index Entries
• Create a Cross-Reference

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