Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS
Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS InDesign is one of the world’s most powerful and flexible desktop publishing programs. This book will have you using InDesign CS (version 3) like a professional--and you'll be able to finish in just a few short days. Once you have finished with this book, you will be able to produce a variety of projects including: newsletters, brochures, flyers, magazines, PDF documents and more. Here is a sampling of what you will learn: The InDesign Environment Start InDesign and Open a Document | Change Views by Zooming | Scroll by Dragging the Page | Show and Hide Palettes | View Multiple InDesign Documents | Create and Use Custom Workspaces | Create a New Document | Change Document Setup | Create a Text Frame | Create Graphics Frames | Resize and Move Page Elements | Customize Preferences Text Basics Create a Text Frame | Type Text Into a Text Frame | Work with Overset Text | Modify a Text Frame | Make Simple Edits | Select Text | Cut, Copy and Paste Text | Change Character Attributes Placing Text and Formatting Paragraphs Create a Document Preset | Place Text | Drag and Drop Text into a Layout | Align Paragraphs | Create Multiple Columns | Set a First Line Indent | Add Paragraph Space | Set Leading | Set Paragraph Rules Text Frames and Threads Flow Text onto Multiple Pages | Navigate a Multi-Page Document | Insert and Delete Pages | Work with a Master Text Frame | Modify a Master Text Frame | Use Step and Repeat | Add Ruler Guides to the Page | Thread Text Tab Stops Set and Move a Tab Stop | Add a Fill Character | Set a Decimal Tab Stop | Use the "Align to Other" Tab | Create a Hanging Indent | Apply Text Formatting Using the Eyedropper Tool Graphics Place an Image | Move and Resize an Image | Change the Scale of an Image | Rotate and Skew an Image | Create a Clipping Path Create a One-Page Flyer Create a Page Border | Create a Multiple Column Text Frame | Use Find/Change | Format Text and Paragraphs | Add Ruler Guides | Place a Graphic onto the Page | Create a Text Wrap around an Object | Spell Check | Preflight and Package a File | Create a PDF CMYK Colors, Master Pages and Libraries Work with Process Colors | Create and Use a Libraries | Create Master Pages | Add an Automatic Page Number | Duplicate and Rename Master Pages | Enable Layout Adjustment | Assign a Master Page | Wrap Text Around an Image | Edit a Text Wrap Styles Create Paragraph Styles | Use the Story Editor | Set Keep Options | Apply | Create a New Style Based on a Selection | Lock Text to a Paragraph Grid | Insert Drop Caps | Create and Nest a Character Style Tracking, Kerning, and Hyphenation Track Text | Kern Letter Pairs | Use Tracking as a Layout Tool | Adjust Hyphenation | Create User Dictionary Hyphenation Exceptions | Work with Discretionary Hyphens | Prevent Selected Text from Breaking | Outdent Punctuation Tables Draw a Table | Add Table Data, Columns and Rows | Combine Cells and Format Text | Format a Table | Change Text Rotation and Cell Stroke Weight | Place Graphics In Table Cells | Convert Text To a Table | Scale a Table and its Content Fonts, Links and Templates Use Find Font to Replace a Font | Use the Links Palette to Update a Graphic | Create and Use a Template Layers Create and Modify Layers | Move Objects to Layers | Hide and Show Layers | Reorder Layers Long Documents Create a Book File | Add Documents to a Book File | Reorder and Remove Book Documents | Synchronize Selected Documents | Create a Table of Contents Style | Create a Table of Contents | Add Index Entries | Generate an Index | Change the Index Punctuation | Create Index Paragraph Styles | Create Second-Level Index Entries | Create a Cross-Reference