Book description
Build a strong foundation of typographic, page layout, and document-construction skills through the step-by-step lessons in this book. The real-world projectsranging from a printed postcard with a QR code to an interactive Adobe PDF with form fieldsare designed to guide novice Adobe InDesign users through the most fundamental features to the most powerful. Experienced InDesign users learn best practices and explore features that will rapidly become a designer's best friend, such as intelligent image placement and access to the Adobe Fonts library.
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe InDesign
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program doesan official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (2022 release) contains 15 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to:
Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step
What you need to use this book: Adobe InDesign (2022 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe InDesign software.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Where are the Lesson Files?
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Getting Started
- 1. Introducing the Workspace
- 2. Getting to Know InDesign
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3. 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
- Review answers
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4. 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
- Review answers
- 5. Working with Color
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6. 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
- Review answers
- 7. Editing Text
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8. 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
- Review answers
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9. 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
- Review answers
- 10. Creating Tables
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11. Importing and Modifying Graphics
- Getting started
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap 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
- Review answers
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12. 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
- Review answers
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13. 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
- Review answers
- 14. Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields
- 15. Creating a fixed-Layout epub and publishing online
- Index
- Credits
Product information
- Title: Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (2022 release)
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2021
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780137622917
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