Contents

GETTING STARTED

About Classroom in a Book

Prerequisites

Installing the software

Online content

Saving and restoring the InDesign Defaults file

Training resources

1       INTRODUCING THE WORKSPACE

Getting started

Looking at the workspace

Working with panels

Customizing the workspace

Navigating through a document

Using context menus

Using panel menus

Modifying interface preferences

Exploring on your own

2       GETTING TO KNOW INDESIGN

Getting started

Viewing guides

Preflighting as you work

Adding text

Working with styles

Working with graphics

Working with objects

Working with object styles

Viewing the document in Presentation mode

Exploring on your own

3       SETTING UP A DOCUMENT AND WORKING WITH PAGES

Getting started

Creating and saving custom document settings

Creating a new document

Switching between open InDesign documents

Working with master pages

Applying master pages to document pages

Adding new document pages

Rearranging and deleting document pages

Changing the size of pages

Adding sections to change page numbering

Overriding master 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

4       WORKING WITH OBJECTS

Getting started

Working with layers

Creating and modifying text frames

Creating and modifying graphics frames

Adding metadata captions to graphics frames

Placing and linking graphics frames

Changing the shape of a frame

Wrapping text around a graphic

Modifying the shape of frames

Transforming and aligning objects

Selecting and modifying grouped objects

Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads

Creating a QR code

Finishing up

Exploring on your own

5       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

Applying paragraph styles to text

Adjusting columns

Adding a jump line page number

Exploring on your own

6       EDITING TEXT

Getting started

Finding and changing a missing font

Entering and importing text

Finding and changing text and formatting

Checking spelling

Editing text by dragging and dropping

Using the Story Editor

Tracking changes

Exploring on your own

7       WORKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY

Getting started

Adjusting vertical spacing

Working with fonts, type styles, and glyphs

Fine-tuning columns

Changing paragraph alignment

Creating a drop cap

Adjusting letter and word spacing

Adjusting line breaks

Setting tabs

Adding a rule above a paragraph

Working with paragraph shading

Exploring on your own

8       WORKING WITH COLOR

Getting started

Managing color

Defining printing requirements

Creating colors

Applying colors

Working with tint swatches

Working with gradients

Working with color groups

Exploring on your own

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

10     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

Working with dropped backgrounds

Working with alpha channels

Importing native Adobe graphic files

Using an InDesign library to manage objects

Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Exploring on your own

11     CREATING TABLES

Getting started

Creating a table

Converting text to a table

Changing rows and columns

Formatting a table

Adding graphics to table cells

Creating a header row

Creating and applying table and cell styles

Exploring on your own

12     WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY

Getting started

Importing and colorizing a grayscale image

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

13     PRINTING AND EXPORTING

Getting started

Managing colors

Previewing transparency effects

Previewing the page

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

Exploring on your own

14     CREATING ADOBE PDF FILES WITH FORM FIELDS

Getting started

Set up a workspace for forms

Adding form fields

Setting the tab order of the fields

Adding a button to submit the form

Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file

Testing your form in Adobe Acrobat Reader

Exploring on your own

15     CREATING A FIXED-LAYOUT EPUB

Getting started

Creating a new document for fixed-layout export

EPUB: reflowable versus fixed-layout

Adding animation

Buttons

Adding multimedia and interactive elements

Exporting an EPUB file

Exploring on your own

INDEX