Indesign Parts 1 & 2

Intro

This session is designed to introduce Adobe Indesign and the basic commands to start using the programme.
‘Create compelling print layouts and interactive PDF documents.’
With its sophisticated design features and enhanced productivity tools for streamlining repetitive tasks, InDesign lets you work faster and better than ever.

Tips

Apply common concepts - Edit > Copy
Have a play - Use the application
Read a Book (no really)
Complete ANY tutorials the skills will come in handy!

Alternatives

Scribus - http://www.scribus.net/

Sessions

Indesign 1:

- what is indesign
- basic folder structure (mac os x)
- spotlight
- help
- create document
- save
- basic frames
- basic pages panel
- wiki
- lynda.com
- adobe tv

Indesign 2 :

- prefs - units and increments
- Font Selection
- cmd 6
- cmd shift < >
- cmd shift C - fit frame to content
- Scale text
- italic/condensed/small caps
- All caps, small caps - Open type better
- underline - prefs from right side
- leading - auto is bad - change to fxed
- option up and down arrow
- type - pref - apply leading to paragraph
- kerning (between character)
- option left and right
- Select more than 1 character = tracking

- text area
- File > Place
- snap to guides
- manual flow
- auto flow (hold shift when placing) - auto adds pages
- semi auto (alt when placing)
- auto flow without adding pages - alt + shift

- info panel
- glyphs
- character and paragraph styles

Indesign 2/3 :

1. Typeface categorization / bring type into inDesign (2)
2. kerning, leading and placement (2)
3. Character Styles (3)
4. Path tool and using type (3)
5. Pen tool (3)
- option page down or page up
- text frames
- text frame options
- cmd option C - fit frame to content
- manual textflow
- info panel has word count etc.
- auto textflow (adds pages) into columns
- text.rtf
- hold shift for autoflow
- semi auto textflow
- semi auto file
- CMD + D = place
- option click
- auto flow without adding pages
- create 8 page doc
- text.rtf (10 pages long)
- option + shift click
- Place multple text files
- already set up text threads - just click outport and click next box
- select mulitple text files - () shows number loaded into cursor
- press down arrow to select next arrow
- Place holder text
- Zoom - CTRL + Spacebar
- stretch text frame
- keep header as part of text thread
- load text from inport
- click and drag text box
- character formating
- CMD + 6 - jump to font selection
- size type CMD + Shift + > or <
- fit to frame
- italics
- condensed type
- all caps
- small caps
- underline - option via menu in character panel
- baseline shift
- leading - option up arrow and down arrow
- 10/10 set solid 10/12 good for body 2pt
- fixed leading - sort it out
- apply leading to entire paragraphs - fyi dont turn it on by default
- tracking is across a range of characters (a word)
- kerning - option left and right arrow
- metric is font designers kerning - probably best
- glyph pallette
- quotes, fractions, apostrophies
- open type
above was pretty much indesign 2
- Alignment (justfication etc)
- indents
- break characters
- tabs
- hypenation
- dropcaps
- Paragraph Styles
- cmd + control + 7
- Story editor
- Character Styles

- nested styles
- nested style in paragraph style options - delmiter :

- pen tool
- type on a path
- type a letter
- cmd+ option + c fit content to frame
- convert type to outline
- cmd + shift + N - create en spaces
- gradient type - new grad swatch add
- swatches - format Type
- making your own ligatures (futura media)
- create outlines - pathfinder add
- pathfinder subtract - eat into text
- outlines - make compound path - paste into
- object effects (text frame - text frame option
- object > convert shape > use pen tool

Links

http://indesignsecrets.com/indesign-tutorials-for-beginners.php http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/ http://tv.adobe.com/ http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/tutorials/indesign http://thegraphicmac.com/category/articles/indesign http://www.instantindesign.com/ http://www.theindesigner.com/blog/ http://blogs.adobe.com/indesignchannel/

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