What this book covers
In Chapter 1, Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings, we will learn how to customize the InDesign interface, create new documents, and navigate within them. Additionally, we will learn how to use features such as grids, guides, and rulers to ensure consistency in your documents.
In Chapter 2, Working with Text in InDesign, we will look at adding text to your document and formatting it using a wide range of typography features. We will also look at using bullets, working with glyphs, and threading text frames together into a story.
In Chapter 3, Creating and Using Tables, we will work with tables, learning to insert, remove, and reorder rows and columns. We will learn how to format tables in a variety of different ways, place images into a table, and work with header and footer rows.
In Chapter 4, Using the InDesign Frame Tools, we will learn how to create different types of frames as well as how to combine frames together and adjust and align frames. Additionally, we will also look at how to generate a QR code within a frame.
In Chapter 5, Adding Images to Your Documents, we are going to learn how to work with images in your documents, addressing areas such as image resolution and broken links, as well as using fitting and text wrap tools.
In Chapter 6, Taking Images Further, we will learn some of the more advanced techniques for working with images in InDesign, including advanced text wrap techniques, hiding and showing PSD layers in InDesign, generating captions from metadata, and even anchoring image position within your text.
In Chapter 7, Creating and Applying Parent Pages, we will learn how to create and apply parent pages, detach objects from a parent page, base parent pages on other parent pages, and arrange parent page items in front of local page items.
In Chapter 8, Working with Colors and Gradients, we will gain a better understanding of color modes, learn how to create color swatches, work with gradients, merge colors together, organize color swatches, find colors in your document, customize strokes, and even set up color management settings in InDesign.
In Chapter 9, Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles, we will learn how to work with paragraph and character styles, create and apply styles, redefine styles, work with overrides, and import styles. In addition, we will learn how to group styles and use features such as nested styles and next style.
In Chapter 10, Generating and Updating a Table of Contents, we will learn how to generate a Table of Contents from paragraph styles, format the table of contents, work with Table of Contents styles, update and edit existing tables of contents, and create story jumps.
In Chapter 11, Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms, we will explore the interactive capabilities of InDesign by learning how to use hyperlinks, create PDF bookmarks, include video, and use page transitions. We will also learn a number of different uses for the Buttons and Forms panel in InDesign.
In Chapter 12, Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries, we will learn how to work with CC Libraries in InDesign. We will add and reuse different types of content in CC Libraries, manage and rename libraries, collaborate with other users on a library, and backup and restore libraries.
In Chapter 13, Preflighting and Outputting, we will learn how to preflight your document to check for errors, before then going on to output your document to a wide range of formats from print-ready PDF to interactive PDF. We will then finish off with packaging and using InDesign’s built-in Publish Online feature.
