Into to indesign

INTRO TO INDESIGN

Created by Rob Roach

2019

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ALT SPACE SHIFT

CMD

Universal Short Cuts

Core InDesign Short cuts

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V F A W Standard Selection Tool Rectangle Frame Tool Direct Selection Tool Quick preview toggle = = = = SPACE ALT ALT ALT CMD CMD CMD CMD Click and drag SHIFT CMD CMD CMD SHIFT SHIFT +1 0 3 C X V V 4 Zoom In Zoom Out Zoom to 100% Zoom to show full page Move around document Screen shoot Copy Cut Past Past in Place Screen shoot selection (Drag to select) CMD CMD CMD + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + = = = = = = = = = = =

When creating a new document, you can choose from a range of sizes or you could add in custom.

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Page Size, default input in millimetres.

Unit of measurements you want to work in.

Portrait or landscape document / book.

Tick this box if you are making a book, if you are designing poster or single sheet document untick this box.

How many pages do you want to start with, you can add more pages whist you are designing.

Add columns to give you a grid to assist you with laying out your elements.

This controls the margin you have around each page.

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Both images/graphics and text are put into frames, these can be simple shapes, as well as using the pen tool to create custom shapes.

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Draw out a rectangle frame to start laying out where you are planning on adding images.

Now drag an image into the frame you have just made.

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The blue outlined frame is what will be exported. You can use this to crop your image into new shapes to get more interesting layouts.

If you click in the double circle on the centre of the blue frame or Double click on the image within the frame. The orange frame is your images within the blue frame. Remember things can be bigger or smaller than your blue frame.

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Remember things can be bigger or smaller

Than your blue frame.

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Fill Frame Proportionally

This will make the image the size of the frame but will crop the image.

Fill content Proportionally

This will make the image the size of The blue frame without cropping the image, but will leave empty space within the blue frame

Fit content to Frame

Expand Blue frame to the size of the image within the orange frame

Fit frame to content

Expand Blue frame to the size of the image within the orange frame

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Use the

Key to toggle between edit and preview mode

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for how to save and export

Continue

When saving it is good practice to also do a ‘save as’ and change the format to IDML. This file is backwards compatible and can be opened in all versions of indesign.

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When exporting a PDF for printing on the photocopier, always export as Pages. Then when opening it in Adobe Acrobat you can print as a booklet.

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Type tools are found under the “T” tool on the left tool bar. Remember you will need to use the frame tool to make a frame you can turn into a text box.

Once you have turned the frame into a text box, you can type into it. Remember, in the same way images can be bigger than the frame they are in text can be the same, there can be too much text within the frame or the font can be to bigger to fit as well.

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W hen the text frame is activated on the top bar there are two panels of tool for formation text.

Character formatting Controls

This panel give you all the formation options to work with individual characters within a frame

Paragraph formatting Controls

This panel give you all the formation options to work with the multiple Paragraphs within a frame.

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Quick Formatting

Drop Caps number of lines and number of characters

All caps

Character formatting and dictionary

Paragraph indentations

pg. 15 pg. 15

Paragraph Spacing

Bullet points Numbering

Small Caps

SuperscriptSubscriptUnderline

Strike throw

Character / paragraph option

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Stretching textRise up selectedSkew (Italics)

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Font Justifications

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ColourFill (Shape)Stroke

Fonts and wattages

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Font size and line spacing

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Kerning Adjusting the spacing between

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Fonts and wattages Sizes and line spacing

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Quick FormattingAll capsSmall CapsSuperscriptSubscriptUnderlineStrike throw

Columns formatting

Character formatting and dictionary pg. 14

Drop Caps number of lines and number of characters

Borders and Shading

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Removing Hyphenate

Align to base line grid

Font Justifications

Paragraph indentations

pg. 15

Paragraph Spacing

Bullet points Numbering

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Examples of what the tool

Defining the style/ formate for a paragraph, this can be done by going to “Type” at the top in InDesign then down to paragraph styles.

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You can define the basic paragraph along with creating paragraph styles that you can apply to different text boxes.

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Fonts and wattages

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Baskerville, Regular, 12pt

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Baskerville, Italic, 12pt

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Baskerville, SemiBold, 12pt

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Baskerville, SemiBold Italic, 12pt

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Baskerville, Bold, 12pt

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Baskerville, Bold Italic, 12pt

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Quick Formatting

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG

The quick brown fox jumps over The lazy dog

All Caps

Small Caps

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Superscript

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Subscript

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Underline

Strike throw

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Kerning set to +100

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Kerning set to +50

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Kerning set to 0

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Kerning set to -50

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Kerning set to -100

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Kerning

The quick brown fox

Bebas Neue, Regular, 56pt, FIll Colour

The quick brown fox

Bebas Neue, Regular, 56pt, FIll (Shape) Colour

The quick brown fox

Bebas Neue, Regular, 56pt, FIll (Shape) & Shape Colour

Fill using colour chart

Stroke using colour chart

Fill (Shape) using swatches

Stroke using swatches

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Colour

Fonts Justification

Font Justifications

Erum nia alique necum inis ut resciuntem quiassunt.

Ebis alicaecaerro del et aut licia dolecer spedis ea volorer spelend ictur?

Font Justifications

Erum nia alique necum inis ut resciuntem quiassunt.

Ebis alicaecaerro del et aut licia dolecer spedis ea volorer spelend ictur?

Font Justifications

Erum nia alique necum inis ut resciuntem quiassunt.

Ebis alicaecaerro del et aut licia dolecer spedis ea volorer spelend ictur?

Font Justifications

Erum nia alique necum inis ut resciuntem quiassunt.

Ebis alicaecaerro del et aut licia dolecer spedis ea volorer spelend ictur?

Font Justifications

Erum nia alique necum inis ut resciuntem quiassunt.

Ebis alicaecaerro del et aut licia dolecer spedis ea volorer spelend ictur?

Font Justifications

Erum nia alique necum inis ut resciuntem quiassunt. Ebis alicaecaerro del et aut licia dolecer spedis ea volorer spelend ictur?

Font Justifications

Erum nia alique necum inis ut resciuntem quiassunt.

Ebis alicaecaerro del et aut licia dolecer spedis ea volorer spelend ictur?

Font Justifications

Erum nia alique necum inis ut resciuntem quiassunt.

Ebis alicaecaerro del et aut licia dolecer spedis ea volorer spelend ictur?

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left

Align Left

Justify

Center Justify to spine

Align Centre

Justify

All Lines Justify away from spine

Align Right

Justify

Paragraph indentations

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogCiur sam nus nonse nim quia volescim quia cor arum excesed mollore strunt quunt a qui ini dolum, si aut ea quiderio dolliat atendae lab ium et, conseris nihilibus platquam reperep erferatur, officiumquam voleseque

Paragraph indentations

Drop Caps

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogCiur sam nus nonse nim quia volescim quia cor arum excesed mollore strunt quunt a qui ini dolum, si aut ea quiderio dolliat atendae lab ium et, conseris nihilibus platquam reperep erferatur, officiumquam voleseque

Drop Caps, 1 Character

Hyphenates

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogCiur sam nus nonse nim quia volescim quia cor arum excesed mollore strunt quunt a qui ini dolum, si aut ea quiderio dolliat atendae lab ium et, conseris nihilibus

With Hyphenates Without Hyphenates

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogCiur sam nus nonse nim quia volescim quia cor arum excesed mollore strunt quunt a qui ini dolum, si aut ea quiderio dolliat atendae lab ium et, conseris nihilibus

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Master Pages

Master pages are where you can place elements that will appear on all pages that they are applied to. This is the place to add page numbers, running heading, boarder and motives.

Master pages can be found in the page window

Master pages can be selected and edited here

This letter relates to the master page that is applied to this page

To apply master pages to the individual pages, drag them to the page you wish it to be applied to

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To edit the master page double click on it on the page window. This will open up a double page spread that you can add your elements too

Everything you add to the master page will be locked to the background of the page you apply the master too.

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Page Numbers

The most useful way to add page numbers it to add them to a master page this way they will be added to all pages that the master page is applied to.

First create a text box

With the text box activated go, Type > Insert Special Character > Makers > Current Page Numbers

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A letter that matches the maker page letter within the master page view

When viewing the page you are designing it will show the page number related to the page design number

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Packaging

Creating a package of your InDesign document will create a folder including

• InDesign Document (as the current version you are designing in)

• IDML Document (backwards Compatible)

• PDF (of you document)

• Link folder (this will take a copy off all linked file in their original format)

• Font folder (This will create a installable font file)

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Chose a place to save and click package

Confirm you have the license to use the font within the document

Let InDesign save your package, depending on the size of your document this could take several minutes

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Table of Contents (TOC)

Creating a table of contents is done by first creating a heading style. All the heading that are formatted with this style are added to the table of contents.