Book description
Layout multipage documents faster for print and digital output in this part-color guide, with consistent control over typography, color and positioning, all whilst using the latest Adobe InDesign 2023 features to automate repetitive and complex tasks
Key Features
- Create engaging design solutions for print and digital media such as posters, magazines, books, and brochures
- Master the powerful tools InDesign offers to simplify complex tasks and avoid potentially disastrous mistakes
- Discover InDesign best practices to increase productivity and speed up the design process with this illustrated guide
Book Description
Adobe InDesign is the leading desktop publishing and layout software for producing brochures, magazines, flyers, books, posters, and a wide range of digital documents. It allows you to rapidly draft your documents with precise control over typography, images, positioning, alignment, color, and other interactive features. However, InDesign’s interface, tools, and workflows can be a bit challenging to get to grips with. This cookbook will assist you in building unparalleled InDesign workflows with tried and tested recipes.
With Designing the Adobe InDesign Way, you’ll learn how to add and edit content, create color swatches, and use features such as tables, all while applying software best practices and techniques to ensure that your work is fast, efficient, and easily maintained. Additionally, you’ll explore advanced InDesign features such as text styles, parent pages, tables of contents, and pre-flighting. Finally, you’ll take a closer look at the many export options in InDesign and ways to truly maximize its capabilities.
By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to draft and design your own projects while ensuring your work is compatible with industry standards for print and digital documents.
What you will learn
- Navigate and customize the InDesign interface
- Understand how to set up new documents for different types of content
- Explore how to add and adjust content within your documents
- Discover a range of tools to speed up your workflow and make you more efficient
- Check your documents for errors and make the required corrections
- Share your document output in different formats based on specific requirements
Who this book is for
This book is for marketing and communications professionals, marketing executives, marketing managers, marketing assistants, communications officers, communications managers, graphic designers, publishers, bids and tender teams, PR professionals, and brand managers looking to gain a deep understanding of InDesign. Anyone seeking to learn InDesign to create more professional content and advance their skills will find the book useful.
Table of contents
- Designing the Adobe InDesign Way
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewer
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings
- Technical requirements
- Changing the interface preferences
- Opening and repositioning panels
- Customizing and reordering menus
- Creating, resetting, applying, and deleting workspaces
- Creating a new document
- Navigating the document
- Zooming in InDesign
- Using the baseline and document grids
- Changing the screen mode
- Enabling and changing rulers
- Applying and deleting guides
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Chapter 2: Working with Text in InDesign
- Technical requirements
- Creating text frames and adding placeholder text
- Inserting special characters
- Working with glyphs
- Adjusting character formatting
- Applying superscript and subscript
- Using and formatting underlines and strikethroughs
- Applying a baseline shift
- Making paragraph formatting changes
- Applying shading and borders to paragraphs
- Working with bullets and numbering
- Threading text frames
- Using text frame options
- See also
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Chapter 3: Creating and Using Tables
- Technical requirements
- Inserting and creating tables
- Converting text into tables
- Adjusting Table Setup
- Selecting and moving rows and columns
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Creating alternating strokes and fills
- Merging, unmerging, and splitting cells
- Converting a row into a header or footer and setting repeating options
- Including images in tables
- Adjusting cell options
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Chapter 4: Using the InDesign Frame Tools
- Technical requirements
- Creating rectangle and elliptical frames
- Creating polygon frames
- Rotating and skewing rectangle frames
- Resizing frames
- Aligning frames with the Align panel
- Using smart guides with frames
- Customizing corners on frames
- Merging frames with the Pathfinder tool
- Generating a QR code in a frame
- Chapter 5: Adding Images to Your Documents
- Chapter 6: Taking Images Further
- Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Parent Pages
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Chapter 8: Working with Colors and Gradients
- Technical requirements
- Creating new color swatches
- Organizing and editing your swatches
- Creating new swatches from an image
- Saving and loading swatches
- Applying colors within your document
- Creating gradients and saving them as swatches
- Merging colors
- Finding colors within your document
- Customizing strokes
- Setting color management settings
- Chapter 9: Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles
- Chapter 10: Generating and Updating a Table of Contents
- Chapter 11: Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms
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Chapter 12: Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries
- Technical requirements
- Creating, deleting, and renaming libraries
- Adding and reusing colors via CC Libraries
- Adding and reusing text styles via CC Libraries
- Adding and reusing graphics via CC Libraries
- Adding and reusing text via CC Libraries
- Managing CC Libraries items
- Collaborating with other users
- Backing up and restoring a library
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Chapter 13: Preflighting and Outputting
- Technical requirements
- Creating a custom preflight profile
- Exporting and importing preflight profiles
- Switching preflight profiles and embedding a profile
- Reviewing and identifying preflight warnings
- Saving your InDesign file
- Creating a package
- Outputting to a print-ready PDF
- Outputting a digital PDF
- Outputting an interactive PDF
- Outputting with Publish Online
- Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance
- Index
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Designing the Adobe InDesign Way
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2023
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781801074438
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