Let’s get started with InDesign
- What you can do with InDesign?
- The Adobe InDesign environment
- Knowing and customizing the workspace
- InDesign preferences
- Navigation and zoom shortcuts
- Navigation tools
- Opening, creating and saving documents
Setting Up Your Document
- Working with Rulers and Guides
- Setting a Baseline Grid
- Add, move and shuffle Pages in your Document
- Creating Master Pages
- Formatting Master Pages
- Applying Master pages
- Adding Automatic Page Numbering
Working with Frames
- Place Text and Graphics on the Document Pages
- Applying Colours
- Tints and Gradients
- Creating and applying a Stroke
- Shapes and Corner options inside of InDesign
- Transforming Frames Content
- Adjusting Transparency
- Applying Effects
- Text Frame Options
Using Color in Your Documents
- Creating and Saving a New Swatch
- Managing the swatch panel
- Working with gradients
- Using the Eyedropper Tool to Copy colour and Frame Attributes
- Updating and Editing colours
- Using and Saving Spot colours
- Working with blending modes
Working with text
- Flowing Text and multiple Columns design
- Using a Baseline Shift
- Changing Character Attributes (Font and Size)
- Changing Character Attributes (Leading, Spacing, Tracking and Kerning)
- Changing Paragraph Attributes
- Create Bulleted and Numbered lists
- Explore decorative Fonts and special Characters with Glyphs panel
- Adding Rules above or below Paragraphs
- Using Tabs
- Creating Drop Caps
- Checking and Correcting Spelling
- Special Characters and Glyphs
- Editing Text Using the Story Editor
- Placing Text on a Path
- Importing Text from Microsoft Word
- Missing Fonts
Working with Graphics
- Placing Graphics
- Image quality and Display options
- Fitting or Clipping graphics with Frames
- Applying Text Wrap
- Manage linked files and automate updating of your content
- Vector artworks inside of InDesign
- Using Graphics with Clipping Paths and Alpha Channels
- Using Anchored Objects
- Advanced Importing
- Working with Layered Photoshop Files
Working with styles
- Using Styles
- Applying Character Styles
- Applying Paragraph Styles
- Using Nested Styles
- Applying Object Styles
- Using GREP Styles
- Apply Styles Using Find/Change
- Finding and Changing Text Using GREP
- Updating Styles
- Loading Styles from Another inDesign Document
- Organizing Styles into Groups
Creating and Using Tables
- Creating a Table
- Copying and Pasting Table Information
- Converting Text to Table and Table to Text
- Importing a Table
- Editing Tables and Table Options
- Merging Cells
- Formatting a table, working with text, rows and columns
- Formatting Text within a Cell and Saving Paragraph Styles
- Working with styles (table styles and cell styles)
- Defining a Header Cell
- Setting Column and Row Dimensions
- Placing Graphics in Cells
Page Layout tools
- Using Placeholders, Eyedropper and Master Pages for different workflow
- Aligning multiple Objects and working with Object Groups
- Wrap text around inline Objects while making use of Alpha Channels
Outputting and PDF Export
- Understanding Bleed and Slug
- Preflighting, Printing, and Creating PDFs from InDesign
- Packaging Your Document
- Creating an Adobe PDF
- Separation Preview
- Printing a Proof
- Exporting Your Document
- Creating an Interactive PDF
Advanced Document Features
- Adding and Using Text Variables
- Creating a Book from Multiple Files
- Synchronizing Attributes Across a Book File
- Defining Pagination and Document Order
- Synchronizing Attributes Across a Book File
- Creating Captions
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Building an Index
- Adding Topics
- Adding Cross-references
- Generating the Index
- Adding Interactive Links
- Understanding Layers