Typography and Layout with InDesign®
Humboldt State University Library
A guide to set typefaces and images with InDesign® This guide is for advanced users with InDesign®. The manual is designed to teach advanced typesetting and image placement, including the ability to embed text wrap for quotes and images. Working with InDesign® can be tricky. Therefore, this guide will help you excel in your ability to work faster with InDesign®. InDesign® software is available in designated Mac and PC computers on campus. InDesign® is available in the Digital Media Lab (DML, in Library room 120 - open to everyone during all library hours), Gist Hall 125, and the art department (both restricted use).
Digital Media Lab Quick Guide This short guide will get you started with your project. For more information about this or with other digital media projects, visit http://libguides.humboldt.edu/dml.
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First Step: Open InDesign Open a new file: File > New > Document (⌘N). Next, set the document settings.
Let's insert four pages Begin your work on page number two Number of columns two Margins top and bottom Preview project to see how your document might look when starting the project.
Second Step: Insert grids Grids are guidelines used to structure content.
Click View > Grids and Guides > Show Baseline Grid For more info visit: http://libguides.humboldt.edu/dml or email dml@humboldt.edu
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Third Step: Paragraph Styles
Paragraph Style Examples
Place the cursor on or select the target text to apply a style. After selecting the text click in the window Key > Style > Paragraph Styles, to modified the headline. Then create a new style for text. By clicking “Basic Paragraph” and
Headline: the title of your article
Subhead: a heading for a subsection of a piece of writing.
Byline: the name of the writer
Body Copy: the story content
Next, click “Create New Style.” Name the new style (Headline, Subhead, Byline, Body Copy, etc.) and define the styles, such as font family and style. You can also set “Indents and Spacing” to align the text to “Left Justify.” After justifying the text, align the text to the grid by by clicking “all lines.” Repeat these same steps for the Subhead, Byline, and Body copy.
For more info visit: http://libguides.humboldt.edu/dml or email dml@humboldt.edu
4 Fourth Step: Textwrap To wrap text around an image you will first need to open a cropped image. After pasting the image in InDesign select the image and click Windows > Textwrap then a box will appear. Click the “Wrap around object shape”
Next, change the “Top offset” to “0p7” and then set the “Type” to “Detect Edges.” Once the image has textwrap send it to the back: Object > Arrange > Send to Back. Textwrap Example
Last Step: Export as PDF Select File > Adobe PDF Presets > High Quality Print
Before exporting make sure “all pages are selected” for print, then press the “Export.”
Please use, share, remix and distribute this guide. Created by Robert Perez CC BY, 2017