Introducing the Workspace
- Getting started
- Looking at the workspace
- Working with panels
- Customizing the workspace
- Navigating through a document
- Using context menus
- Using Panel Menus
- Modifying interface preferences
- Exploring on your own
Getting to Know InDesign
- Viewing guides
- Preflighting as you work
- Adding text
- Working with styles
- Working with graphics
- Working with objects
- Working with object styles
- Viewing the document in Presentation mode
- Exploring on your own
Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages
- Creating and saving custom document settings
- Creating a new document
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Working with master pages
- Applying master pages to document pages
- Adding new document pages
- Rearranging and deleting document pages
- Changing the size of pages
- Adding sections to change the page numbering
- Overriding master page items on document pages
and placing text and graphics
- Viewing the completed spread
- Exploring on your own
Working with Objects
- Working with layers
- Creating and modifying text frames
- Creating and modifying graphics frames
- Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
- Placing and linking graphics frames
- Changing the shape of a frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Modifying the shape of frames
- Transforming and aligning objects
- Selecting and modifying grouped objects
- Creating a QR code
- Finishing up
- Exploring on your own
Flowing Text
- Flowing text into an existing frame
- Flowing text manually
- Creating text frames while flowing text
- Flowing text automatically
- Creating threaded frames automatically
- Resizing text frames automatically
- Adding a jump line page number
- Exploring on your own
Editing Text
- Finding and changing a missing font
- Entering and importing text
- Finding and changing text and formatting
- Checking to spell
- Editing text by dragging and dropping
Working with Typography
- Using the Story Editor
- Tracking changes
- Exploring on your own
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Changing fonts and typestyles
- Fine-tuning columns
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Creating a drop cap
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Adjusting line breaks
- Setting tabs
- Adding a rule above a paragraph
- Working with paragraph shading
- Exploring on your own
Working with Color
- Managing color
- Defining printing requirements
- Creating color
- Applying colors
- Working with tint swatches
- Working with gradients
- Working with color groups
- Exploring on your own
Working with Styles
- 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
Importing and Modifying Graphics
Adding graphics from other programs
Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
Managing links to imported files
Updating revised graphics
Adjusting display quality
Working with clipping paths
Working with alpha channels
Importing native Adobe graphics files
Using a library to manage objects
Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
Exploring on your own
Creating Tables
- Creating a table
- Converting text to a table
- Changing rows and columns
- Formatting a table
- Creating a header row
- Adding graphics to table cells
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
- Exploring on your own
Working with Transparency
- Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
- Applying transparency settings
- Adding transparency effects to imported vector
and bitmap graphics
- Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that
use transparency
- Applying transparency settings to the text
- Working with effects
- Exploring on your own
Printing and Exporting
- Packaging files
- Creating an Adobe PDF proof
Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields
- Previewing separations
- Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
- Previewing the page
- Printing a proof and saving a print preset
- Using the Ink Manager
- Exploring on your own
- Adding form fields
- Adding a description to a form field
- Setting the tab order of the fields
- Adding a button to submit the form
- Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file
- Exploring on your own
Creating and Exporting an ebook
- Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
- Adding Animation
- Adding multimedia and interactive elements
- Exporting an EPUB file
- Exploring on your own
Working with Long Documents
- Completing the booklet before export
- Choosing the content of a book
- Adding metadata
- Exporting an EPUB file
- Exploring on your own