Real World Adobe InDesign CS

Real World Adobe InDesign CS

by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner
Released May 2004
Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
ISBN: 9780321219213

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Book description

The decision was an easy one: With a feature set that equals or exceeds its competitors and an increasingly tight integration with the other Adobe tools that are key to your workflow, InDesign cs was a no-brainer when it came time to update your page layout capabilities. Problem is, you've still got to learn the thing, and learn it well: Your job, after all, depends on it. No one understands that better than the authors of this book, who draw on their own real-world professional knowledge to deliver all the industrial-strength production techniques and timesaving tips you need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign cs in record time. You'll find everything you need here to successfully master InDesign's advanced page-layout tools; manage color; create, link, and unlink text frames; and run your own custom InDesign scripts. You'll also find complete coverage of all of InDesign cs' new features: an updated Story Editor, nested styles, separation previews, the Package for GoLive command, and more.

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
    1. Dedication
  2. Introduction
    1. How This Book Was Produced
    2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Workspace
    1. Layout and Story Windows
      1. Title Bar
      2. Page and Pasteboard
      3. Scroll Bars
      4. Page Field and Page Buttons
      5. Magnification Field
      6. Rulers
      7. Zero Point
    2. Managing Multiple Windows
    3. InDesign’s Palettes
      1. All About Focus
      2. Displaying and Hiding Palettes
      3. A Quick Tour of the Palettes
    4. Saving and Loading Workspaces
    5. Using the Tools Palette
      1. InDesign Home Page
      2. Selection Tool
      3. Direct Selection Tool
      4. Pen Tool
      5. Text Tool
      6. Path Text Tool
      7. Pencil Tool
      8. Smooth Tool
      9. Eraser Tool
      10. Line Tool
      11. Ellipse Tool
      12. Rectangle Tool
      13. Polygon Tool
      14. Note Tool
      15. Rotate Tool
      16. Scale Tool
      17. Shear Tool
      18. Free Transform Tool
      19. Eyedropper Tool
      20. Measure Tool
      21. Gradient Tool
      22. Button Tool
      23. Scissors Tool
      24. Hand Tool
      25. Zoom Tool
      26. Fill and Stroke
    6. Context Menus
    7. Keyboard Shortcuts
    8. Setting Preferences
      1. General Preferences
      2. Text Preferences
      3. Composition Preferences
      4. Units & Increments Preferences
      5. Grids Preferences
      6. Guides and Pasteboard Preferences
      7. Dictionary Preferences
      8. Spelling Preferences
      9. Notes Preferences
      10. Story Editor Display Preferences
      11. Display Performance Preferences
      12. File Handling
      13. Updates
    9. Setting Defaults
      1. Reverting to InDesign’s Original Defaults
    10. Publication Navigation
      1. Zooming
      2. Scrolling
      3. Jump to Page
    11. Place Icons
    12. Managing InDesign’s Plug-Ins
    13. Getting Help
    14. On with the Tour
  4. 2. Page Layout
    1. Creating a New Publication
      1. Document Presets
      2. Changing Default Page Sizes
      3. Setting New Document Defaults
    2. Opening Publications
      1. QuarkXPress Files
      2. PageMaker Files
    3. Saving Publications
      1. Saving As a Template
    4. Crash Recovery
    5. Setting Basic Layout Options
      1. Changing Page Size and Orientation
      2. Specifying Margins and Columns
    6. Guides
      1. Hiding and Displaying Guides
      2. Adjusting Column Guides
      3. Creating a New Ruler Guide
      4. Adding Ruler Guides Around an Object
      5. Selecting Ruler Guides
      6. Editing Ruler Guides
      7. Moving a Ruler Guide to a Specific Layer
      8. Setting Guide Options
      9. Locking Ruler Guides
      10. Deleting Ruler Guides
      11. Copying Ruler Guides
    7. Grids
    8. Pages and Spreads
      1. Selecting Pages and Spreads
    9. Adding Pages
    10. Arranging Pages
      1. Shuffling Pages
    11. Defining Sections
    12. Numbering Pages
    13. Adding Section Marker Text
    14. Working with Master Spreads
      1. Creating Master Spreads
      2. Basing One Master Spread on Another
    15. Applying Master Pages and Master Spreads
      1. Editing Master Spreads
      2. Deleting Master Spreads
      3. Hiding Master Items
      4. Copying Master Spreads Between Documents
    16. Overriding Master Items
    17. Layers and Master Pages
    18. Adjusting Layouts
    19. Selecting and Deselecting
      1. Selecting Through Objects
      2. Keyboard Selections
      3. Selecting Inside Objects
    20. Stacking Objects
      1. Text Wrap and Stacking Order
    21. Layers
      1. Layers Basics
      2. The Layers Palette
      3. Layer Options
      4. Deleting Layers
      5. Changing Layer Stacking Order
      6. Merging Layers
      7. Moving Layers from One Publication to Another
    22. Grouping Objects
    23. Locking Object Positions
    24. Deleting Objects
    25. A Good Foundation
  5. 3. Text
    1. Creating Text Frames
    2. Setting Text Frame Options
      1. The Measure of Columns
      2. Setting Text Frame Insets
      3. Setting First Baseline Position
      4. Ignoring Text Wrap
      5. Vertical Justification
    3. Linking and Unlinking Text Frames
      1. Linking Text Frames
      2. Unlinking Text Frames
      3. Cutting and Pasting Text Frames
      4. Adding a New Frame to a Story
    4. Flowing Text
    5. Entering Text
      1. Inserting Special Characters
      2. Inserting Glyphs
      3. Dummy Text
    6. Importing Text
      1. Word and RTF Import Options
      2. Text-Only Import Options
      3. Excel Import Options
      4. Tagged Text Import Options
    7. Text Files and File Linking
    8. Exporting Text
    9. Editing Text
      1. Moving the Cursor Through Text
      2. Showing and Hiding “Invisibles”
    10. Story Editor
      1. Multiple Windows
      2. Story Editor Options
    11. Using Adobe InCopy
    12. Checking Spelling
      1. Adding Words to the User Dictionary
      2. Removing Words From the User Dictionary
    13. Find and Change
      1. Finding Text
      2. Wildcard Metacharacters
      3. Replacing Text
      4. Find/Change Keyboard Shortcuts
      5. Finding and Changing Formatting Attributes
      6. Automating Run-in Headings
      7. Goodbye, Paragraph!
    14. Working with InDesign Tagged Text
      1. The Land That WYSIWYG Forgot
      2. Why Bother with Tags?
      3. Getting Started with Tagged Text
      4. What Tags Can Contain
      5. Tag Structure
      6. Paragraph Style Tags
      7. What About XPress Tags?
    15. After Words
  6. 4. Type
    1. Selecting and Formatting Text
    2. Character Formatting
      1. Character Formatting Controls
      2. Font Family and Font
      3. Size
      4. Leading
      5. Kerning
      6. Manual Kerning
      7. Automatic Kerning
      8. Tracking
      9. Horizontal and Vertical Scaling
      10. Baseline Shift
      11. Skewing
      12. Language
      13. Case Options
      14. Changing Case
      15. Underline
      16. Strikethrough
      17. Ligatures
      18. Superscript and Subscript
      19. No Break
    3. OpenType Fonts
      1. Alternate Characters
      2. Raised and Lowered Characters
      3. Formatting Numerals
    4. Filling and Stroking Characters
    5. Paragraph Formatting
      1. Alignment
      2. Indents
      3. Creating a Hanging Indent
      4. Tabs
      5. Tabs, Mice, and History
      6. A Little Tab Dogma
      7. Types of Tab Stops
      8. Setting Tab Stops
      9. Adding Space Before and After Paragraphs
      10. Align to Grid
      11. Drop Caps
      12. Nested Styles
      13. Multi-Line Composition
      14. Hyphenation Controls
      15. Controlling Word and Letter Spacing
      16. Balance Ragged Lines
      17. Highlighting Typographic Problems
      18. Paragraph Keep Options
    6. Styles
      1. Character Styles
      2. Paragraph Styles
      3. Paragraph Styles and Nested Styles
      4. Creating Parent-Child Style Relationships
    7. Copying Styles from Other Publications
    8. Optical Margin Alignment
    9. An Old Typesetter Never...
  7. 5. Drawing
    1. Drawing Basic Shapes
    2. Points and Paths
      1. Thinking Like a Line
      2. Point Types
      3. Winding
      4. Control Handles
    3. Drawing Paths with the Pencil Tool
    4. Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool
    5. Drawing Techniques
      1. Path Drawing Tips
      2. Manipulating Control Handles
      3. Adding Points to a Path
      4. Removing Points from a Path
      5. Selecting and Moving Points
      6. Opening and Closing Paths
      7. Joining Open Paths
    6. Compound Paths
      1. Editing Compound Paths
      2. Splitting Compound Paths
      3. Compound Paths and Even-Odd Fill
    7. Smoothing Paths
    8. Erasing Paths
    9. Path Operations
      1. Applying Path Operations
      2. Add
      3. Subtract
      4. Intersect
      5. Exclude Overlap
      6. Minus Back
    10. Corner Effects
    11. Strokes
      1. Weight
      2. Stroke Alignment
      3. Cap
      4. Join
      5. Miter Limit
      6. Dash
      7. Creating Layered Strokes
      8. Arrowheads
      9. Overprint
      10. Gap Color and Gap Tint
      11. Corner Adjustment
      12. Editing Strokes
      13. Removing Strokes
    12. Stroke Styles
      1. Applying Stroke Styles
      2. Editing Stroke Styles
      3. Deleting Stroke Styles
      4. Saving Stroke Styles
      5. Loading Stroke Styles
    13. Fills
      1. Removing Fills
    14. Gradients
      1. Applying Gradients
      2. Gradient Controls
      3. Creating a Gradient Swatch
      4. Using the Gradient Palette
      5. Editing Gradients
      6. Applying a Gradient to Multiple Paths
    15. Transparency
      1. Applying Transparency
      2. Blending Modes
      3. Transparency Options
      4. Groups and Transparency
    16. Drop Shadows
      1. Drop Shadow Controls
    17. Feathering
      1. Feather Corner Options
    18. Drawing Conclusions
  8. 6. Where Text Meets Graphics
    1. Paragraph Rules
      1. Applying Paragraph Rules
      2. Ground Rules for Paragraph Rules
      3. Tinting Paragraphs
      4. Putting a Box Around a Paragraph Using Paragraph Rules
      5. Hanging Your Head in a Bar
      6. Instant “Bullets”
      7. Vertical Paragraph Rules
      8. Two Rules Above
      9. More Than Two Rules
    2. Tables
      1. Table Anatomy
      2. Understanding InDesign Tables
    3. Creating a Table
      1. Overset Cells
      2. Converting Tables to Text
    4. Editing Tables
      1. Selecting and Editing Table Items
      2. Entering Tab Characters
      3. Placing a Graphic in a Table Cell
      4. Table Controls in the Control Palette
      5. Adding Table Headers and Footers
      6. Editing Header and Footer Rows
      7. Changing the Size of a Table
      8. Changing the Size of Rows and Columns
      9. Adding Rows Or Columns
      10. Deleting Rows, Columns, and Tables
      11. Merging and Unmerging Table Cells
      12. Splitting Table Cells
      13. Rotating Table Cells
    5. Two Table Tricks
      1. Using a Table to Create a Box Around a Paragraph
      2. Using a Table to Create a Hanging Side Head
    6. Table Shortcuts
    7. Formatting Tables
      1. Table Cell Strokes and Fills
    8. Text Wrap
      1. Contour Options
      2. Ignoring Text Wrap
      3. Inverted Text Wrap
      4. Editing a Text Wrap
    9. Converting Text to Outlines
      1. If Your Characters Won’t Convert
      2. Making Type Glow
    10. Inline Frames
      1. Creating an Inline Frame
      2. Inline Frames and Leading
      3. What Can’t You Do with Inline Frames?
      4. Creating Hanging Side Heads
      5. Putting a Box Around Text
    11. Placing Text on a Path
      1. Path Text Options
      2. Removing Type from a Path
    12. Alternate Reality
  9. 7. Importing and Exporting
    1. Importing
    2. Placing Anything
      1. The Place Icon
    3. About Graphic File Formats
      1. A Philosophical Note
      2. EPS and PDF Files
      3. Which File Format to Use?
    4. Creating Your Own EPS Graphics
    5. Graphic Display Properties
      1. Local Display Overrides
    6. Image Import Options
      1. Bitmapped Images
      2. EPS Files
      3. PDF Files
    7. Linking and Embedding
      1. The Links Palette
      2. Getting Link Information
      3. Updating a Link
      4. Linking to Another File
      5. Edit Original
      6. Embedding a Graphic
      7. Unembedding a Graphic
      8. Navigating with the Links Palette
    8. Working with Images
      1. Images and Halftoning
      2. About Gray Levels
      3. Halftone Screen Frequency and Resolution
      4. Line Art
      5. Scaling in InDesign
    9. Working with Graphic Frames
      1. Selecting Frames and Graphics
      2. Resizing Imported Graphics
      3. Panning a Graphic
    10. File Info and Metadata
      1. Adding Metadata to InDesign Files
      2. Reading Metadata in Imported Images
      3. Searching for Metadata
    11. Working with Clipping Paths
      1. Why Use Clipping Paths?
      2. Selecting an Existing Clipping Path
      3. Creating a Clipping Path
      4. Removing a Clipping Path
      5. Convert Clipping Path to Frame
    12. Applying Color to an Imported Graphic
    13. Exporting Documents
    14. Exporting JPEG
    15. Exporting EPS
      1. An EPS-Related Rant
    16. Exporting PDF
      1. General
      2. Compression
      3. Marks & Bleeds
      4. Advanced
      5. Security
      6. Summary
      7. Defining a PDF Export Preset
      8. Managing PDF Export Presets
    17. Package for GoLive (Exporting HTML)
      1. What Gets Packaged
      2. What’s Not Packaged
      3. What to Do in GoLive
      4. Updating the File
      5. Other Techniques
    18. Exporting SVG
      1. Basic SVG Export Options
      2. More Options
    19. Form and Function: XML
      1. XML Vocabulary
      2. Where Should You Work with XML?
      3. About XML Workflow
    20. Inside the Structure View
      1. Adding XML Elements
      2. Changing XML Element Data
      3. Duplicating XML Elements
      4. Moving XML Elements
      5. Deleting XML Elements
      6. Working with XML Attributes
    21. XML Tags and the Tags Palette
      1. Creating an XML Tag
      2. Loading XML Tags
      3. Exporting XML Tags
    22. Tagging Objects
      1. Mapping XML Tags to Paragraph Styles
      2. Mapping Styles to XML Tags
    23. Importing XML
      1. Replacing XML
      2. Exporting XML
      3. Exporting Structure Tags to PDF
    24. Working with DTDs
      1. DTD Basics
      2. A (Very Brief) DTD Primer
      3. An Example DTD
      4. Importing DTDs
      5. “Off the Shelf” DTDs
      6. Validating XML
      7. Real World DTDs
    25. InDesign Interchange Format (INX)
    26. Transforming XML with XSL
    27. The Best of All Possible Worlds
  10. 8. Long Documents
    1. Books
      1. Building a Book
      2. Adding and Removing Book Documents
      3. Converting Books from InDesign 2
      4. Using a Book As a Navigational Tool
      5. Editing Your Book
      6. File Status
      7. Books and Networks
      8. Synchronizing Your Book Documents
      9. The Master Document
      10. Synchronize
      11. Page Numbering and Sections
      12. Odd Versus Even Page Numbers
      13. Printing and Exporting Books
    2. Table of Contents
      1. Making a Table of Contents
      2. More Table of Contents Options
      3. Using Dummy Text for Lists
      4. Building and Rebuilding Tables of Contents
      5. Table of Contents Styles
    3. Indexes (Or Indices)
      1. Adding a New First-Level Index Entry
      2. Add and Add All
      3. Cross-References (X-Refs)
      4. Adding a New Reference to an Entry
      5. Adding a New Second-Level Index Entry
      6. Importing Topics
      7. Deleting Entries
      8. Editing Entries
      9. Editing References
      10. Finding Entries
      11. Building the Index
    4. Putting It Together
  11. 9. Transforming
    1. Transformation Basics
      1. Setting the Center of Transformation
      2. Transforming Line Segments and Points
      3. Transforming Path Contents
    2. Numbers Are Your Friends
      1. The Proxy
      2. Understanding Page Coordinates
      3. Duplicating As You Transform
      4. Palette Menu Options
    3. Moving Objects
      1. Moving Objects by Dragging
      2. Moving Objects with the Transform Palette or Control Palette
      3. Moving Objects with the Move Dialog Box
      4. Using the Free Transform Tool
      5. Moving Objects by Pressing Arrow Keys
    4. Scaling
      1. Scaling with the Scale Tool
      2. Scaling with the Selection Tool
      3. Scaling with the Free Transform Tool
      4. Scaling with the Transform Palette or Control Palette
      5. Scaling with the Scale Dialog Box
      6. Scaling with Keyboard Shortcuts
      7. Scaling Strokes
      8. Resetting Stroke Scaling
    5. Rotating Objects
      1. Rotating with the Rotate Tool
      2. Rotating with the Free Transform Tool
      3. Rotating with the Transform Palette
      4. Rotating with the Rotate Dialog Box
      5. Rotating Multiple Selected Objects
    6. Reflecting Objects
    7. Shearing Objects
      1. Shearing with the Shear Tool
      2. Shearing with the Transform Palette
      3. Shearing with the Shear Dialog Box
    8. Locking Object Positions
    9. Aligning and Distributing Objects
      1. Aligning Objects
      2. Distributing Objects
    10. Transform Your Life!
  12. 10. Color
    1. Seeing Color, Printing Color
      1. The Color Spectrum and Color Gamuts
      2. The Printing Process
      3. Spot and Process Inks
    2. Color in InDesign
      1. Named and Unnamed Colors
      2. Colors and Inks
      3. Spot Color or Process Color or Both?
      4. Color Models
      5. Swatch Libraries
    3. InDesign’s Color Controls
      1. Fill and Stroke Selectors
      2. Swatches Palette
      3. Creating a Tint Swatch
      4. Creating a Gradient Swatch
      5. Mixed Ink Swatches
      6. Managing Swatches
    4. The Color Palette
      1. Color Palette Shortcuts
    5. Applying Colors and Gradients
      1. Applying Colors to Text
      2. Applying Colors to Imported Graphics
    6. Ink Manager
      1. Converting Spot Colors
      2. Aliasing Spot Colors
    7. Trapping
      1. Manual Trapping
      2. Automatic Trapping
      3. Trapping Ranges
      4. Editing Ink Neutral Densities
    8. Color Management
      1. For More Information
      2. Do You Need Color Management?
      3. Controlling Your Color-Viewing Environment
      4. Is What You See Anything Like What You’ll Get?
      5. When Color Management Is Turned Off
    9. InDesign’s Color Management Controls
      1. Application Color Settings
      2. Advanced Color Settings
      3. Changing Document Spaces
      4. Applying Device Profiles to Images
      5. Soft-Proofing Controls
      6. Color Management in Output
    10. The Color “Done”
  13. 11. Printing
    1. The InDesign Print Dialog Box
      1. Printers, PostScript Files, and PPDs
      2. Printer Driver Settings
      3. PostScript vs. Non-PostScript
      4. Print Preview
    2. General
      1. Copies
      2. Collate
      3. Reverse Order
      4. Page Ranges
      5. Sequence
      6. Spreads
      7. Print Master Pages
      8. Print Non-Printing Objects
      9. Print Blank Pages
      10. Print Visible Guides and Baseline Grids
    3. Setup
      1. Paper Size
      2. Offset
      3. Gap
      4. Orientation
      5. Transverse
      6. Scale
      7. Page Position
      8. Thumbnails
      9. Tile
    4. Marks and Bleeds
      1. All Printer’s Marks
      2. Crop Marks
      3. Bleed Marks
      4. Registration Marks
      5. Color Bars
      6. Page Information
      7. Type
      8. Weight
      9. Offset
      10. Bleed
    5. Output
      1. Composite vs. Separations
      2. Text As Black
      3. Trapping
      4. Flip and Negative
      5. Screening
      6. Inks
      7. Simulate Overprint
      8. Ink Manager
    6. Graphics
      1. Send Data
      2. Font Downloading
      3. Postscript Level
      4. Data Format
    7. Color Management
    8. Advanced
      1. OPI Image Replacement
      2. Transparency Flattener
    9. Summary
    10. Print Presets
      1. Creating a Print Preset
      2. Managing Print Presets
    11. Customizing Printers’ Marks
      1. Inside a PMD File
      2. Saving a PMD File
      3. Example PMD Files
    12. Separations Preview
    13. Printing Transparency
      1. The Flattener
      2. Transparency Tricks
      3. Flattener Presets
      4. Applying Flattener Presets
      5. Flattener Preview
    14. Preparing an InDesign File for Imagesetting
      1. Sending Your File
    15. Preflight and Package
      1. Preflight
      2. Package
    16. All the News That Prints to Fit
  14. 12. Scripting
    1. Be Not Afraid
    2. System Requirements
      1. JavaScript
      2. Mac OS
      3. Windows
      4. Other Scripting Languages
    3. Learning About InDesign Scripting
      1. How to Read the Scripting Guide
      2. Example Scripts
    4. Thinking About Scripting
    5. Using the Script Label and Scripts Palettes
      1. Scripts Palette
      2. Script Label Palette
    6. Getting Started
      1. AppleScript
      2. JavaScript
      3. VBScript
      4. Testing the CutContents Script
      5. Developing VBScripts with Visual Basic
    7. More Fun with Scripting
      1. Automatically Creating Style-to-Tag Mappings
      2. Drawing NINAs
      3. AppleScript
      4. JavaScript
      5. Visual Basic
      6. Testing the NINA Drawing Script
      7. Adding a User Interface
      8. AppleScript
      9. JavaScript
      10. VBScript
    8. End Script
  15. 13. Interactive PDF
    1. Acrobat PDF Only
    2. Hyperlinks
      1. Making a New Hyperlink Destination
      2. Editing Hyperlink Destinations
      3. Applying a Hyperlink to a Source
      4. Hyperlinks from URLs in the Text
      5. Deleting and Resetting Hyperlinks
      6. Navigating Hyperlinks
      7. Updating Hyperlinks
    3. Bookmarks
      1. Sorting and Editing Bookmarks
    4. Buttons
      1. The Way of Buttons
      2. Behavioral Modification
      3. Tab Order
    5. Rollovers and States
      1. The States Palette
      2. Two-Position Rollovers
    6. Audio and Video
      1. Importing Sounds and Movies
      2. Sound Options
      3. Movie Options
      4. Movie Limitations
    7. eBooks
  16. Color Pages

Product information

  • Title: Real World Adobe InDesign CS
  • Author(s): Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner
  • Release date: May 2004
  • Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
  • ISBN: 9780321219213