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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

You're reading from   Designing the Adobe InDesign Way Explore 100+ recipes for creating stunning layouts with the leading desktop publishing software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074438
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andy Gardiner Andy Gardiner
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings 2. Chapter 2: Working with Text in InDesign FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using Tables 4. Chapter 4: Using the InDesign Frame Tools 5. Chapter 5: Adding Images to Your Documents 6. Chapter 6: Taking Images Further 7. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Parent Pages 8. Chapter 8: Working with Colors and Gradients 9. Chapter 9: Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles 10. Chapter 10: Generating and Updating a Table of Contents 11. Chapter 11: Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms 12. Chapter 12: Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries 13. Chapter 13: Preflighting and Outputting 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

Changing the interface preferences

The InDesign preferences allow you to adjust a wide range of settings that affect InDesign, ranging from what language is used for spell-checking to what units of measurement InDesign works with. In this recipe, though, we will focus on the preferences settings that can affect the InDesign interface. We will look at how to permanently disable the home screen, adjust the intensity of the interface, change interface scaling, and alter the default grid and guide colors.

You often spend many hours staring at the InDesign interface, so being able to customize it to your personal preferences can be helpful for both your eyes and your stress levels. The skills covered here will ensure you find working with InDesign for long periods of time to be a more enjoyable and less frustrating experience.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system. There is no need to create a document at this stage; we will be run through that...

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