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Adobe Indesign 2023

(INDESIGN.AP1) / ISBN : 978-1-64459-437-7
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1

Getting Started

  • About Classroom in a Book
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing the software
  • Online content
  • Saving and restoring the InDesign Defaults file
  • Training resources
2

Introducing the Workspace

  • Getting started
  • Looking at the workspace
  • Working with panels
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Changing the magnification of a document
  • Navigating through a document
  • Using context menus
  • Using panel menus
  • Modifying Interface preferences
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
3

Getting to Know InDesign

  • Getting started
  • Viewing guides
  • Adding text
  • Working with styles
  • Working with graphics
  • Working with objects
  • Working with object styles
  • Preflighting as you work
  • Viewing the document in Presentation mode
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
4

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

  • Getting started
  • Creating a new document
  • Creating and saving custom document settings
  • Creating a new document from a preset
  • Working with parent pages
  • Applying parent pages to document pages
  • Adding new document pages
  • Rearranging and deleting document pages
  • Changing the size of pages within one InDesign document
  • Adding sections to change page numbering
  • Overriding parent page items and placing text and graphics
  • Printing to the edge of the paper: Using the bleed guides
  • Viewing the completed spread
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
5

Working with Objects

  • Getting started
  • Introducing layers
  • Working with layers
  • Creating and modifying text frames
  • Creating and modifying graphics frames
  • Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
  • Wrapping text around a graphic
  • Transforming the shape of frames
  • Transforming and aligning objects
  • Selecting and modifying grouped objects
  • Flowing type along a path
  • Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
6

Working with Color

  • Getting started
  • Managing color
  • Defining printing requirements
  • Creating colors
  • Applying colors
  • Finding and changing color swatches
  • Working with tint swatches
  • Working with gradients
  • Working with color groups
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
7

Flowing Text

  • Getting started
  • Flowing text into an existing frame
  • Flowing text manually
  • Creating text frames while flowing text
  • Creating threaded frames automatically
  • Flowing text automatically
  • Using Find/Change to delete extra paragraph returns
  • Applying paragraph styles to text
  • Adjusting columns
  • Using the baseline grid to align text
  • Adding a jump line page number
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
8

Editing Text

  • Getting started
  • Entering and importing text
  • Finding and changing text and formatting
  • Checking spelling
  • Editing text by dragging and dropping
  • Using the Story Editor
  • Tracking changes
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
9

Working with Typography

  • Getting started
  • Adjusting vertical spacing
  • Working with fonts, type styles, and glyphs
  • Working with columns
  • Changing paragraph alignment
  • Creating a drop cap
  • Adjusting letter and word spacing
  • Adjusting line breaks
  • Setting tabs
  • Working with paragraph shading and rules
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
10

Working with Styles

  • Getting started
  • Creating and applying paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying character styles
  • Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying object styles
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles
  • Globally updating styles
  • Loading styles from another document
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
11

Creating Tables

  • Getting started
  • Working with tables
  • Converting text to a table
  • Changing rows and columns
  • Formatting a table
  • Adding graphics to table cells
  • Creating a header row
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
12

Importing and Modifying Graphics

  • Getting started
  • Adding graphics from other programs
  • Comparing vector and pixel-based graphics
  • Managing links to imported files
  • Updating revised graphics
  • Adjusting display quality
  • Importing and sizing graphics
  • Editing placed pictures
  • Working with dropped backgrounds
  • Importing native Adobe graphic files
  • Using Subject-Aware Text Wrap
  • Filling type with a graphic
  • Using an InDesign library to manage objects
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
13

Working with Transparency

  • Getting started
  • Creating a background graphic
  • Applying transparency settings
  • Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
  • Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
  • Applying transparency settings to text
  • Working with effects
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
14

Printing and Exporting

  • Getting started
  • Preflighting files
  • Previewing separations
  • Managing colors
  • Previewing transparency effects
  • Previewing the pages
  • Creating an Adobe PDF proof
  • Creating a press-ready PDF and saving a PDF preset
  • Printing a proof and saving a print preset
  • Packaging files
  • Exporting graphics for the web and other digital destinations
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
15

Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields

  • Getting started
  • Setting up a workspace for forms
  • Adding form fields
  • Setting the tab order of the fields
  • Adding a button to submit the form
  • Exporting an interactive PDF file
  • Testing your form in Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
16

Creating a Fixed-Layout Epub and Publishing Online

  • Getting started
  • Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
  • EPUB: Fixed-layout versus reflowable
  • Adding animation
  • Buttons
  • Adding multimedia and interactive elements
  • Exporting a fixed-layout EPUB file
  • InDesign Publish Online
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions

1

Introducing the Workspace

  • Reviewing the Control Panel
  • Working with Multiple Document Windows
  • Moving the Tools Panel and Control Panel
  • Rearranging and Customizing Panels
2

Getting to Know InDesign

  • Viewing Guides
  • Typing and Styling Text
  • Applying Paragraph Styles
  • Creating and Applying a Character Style
3

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

  • Creating a New Document
  • Creating and Saving Custom Document Settings
  • Creating a New Document from a Preset
  • Adding New Document Pages
  • Adding Sections to Change Page Numbering
4

Working with Objects

  • Working with Layers
5

Working with Color

  • Creating a Tint Swatch
  • Creating a Gradient Swatch
6

Flowing Text

  • Resizing Text Frames Automatically
  • Applying a Paragraph Style
  • Importing Text into an Existing Text Frame
  • Flowing Text Manually
  • Using the Story Editor
  • Creating Text Frames While Flowing Text
  • Working with Tables
7

Editing Text

  • Entering and Importing Text
  • Finding and Changing Formatting
  • Automatically Correcting Misspelled Words
  • Adding Words to a Document-Specific Dictionary
  • Checking Spelling in the Document
  • Tracking Changes
8

Working with Typography

  • Changing the Spacing Between Paragraphs
  • Applying a Stroke and Fill to Text
  • Adding a Special Character
  • Applying a Font, Style, Size, and Leading
  • Adding a Font from Adobe Fonts
  • Inserting Fraction Characters
  • Specifying Columns for a Text Frame
  • Hanging Punctuation Outside the Margin
  • Changing Paragraph Alignment
  • Adjusting the Tracking and Kerning
  • Inserting Manual Line Breaks
  • Applying a Rule to a Paragraph
  • Applying Shading to a Paragraph
9

Working with Styles

  • Converting Text to a Table
  • Formatting an Object for a Style
10

Creating Tables

  • Rearranging Rows and Columns
  • Adding and Deleting Rows
  • Adding Table Borders
  • Applying a Fill Color to Cells
  • Adding a Fill Pattern
11

Importing and Modifying Graphics

  • Adding Graphics from Other Programs
  • Working with Clipping Paths from Photoshop in InDesign
12

Working with Transparency

  • Applying Transparency Settings
13

Printing and Exporting

  • Creating Print Presets
14

Creating a Fixed-Layout Epub and Publishing Online

  • Creating a Hyperlink

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