Beginner’s Guide to Adobe InDesign

You can start designing colorful Magazines and Books using Adobe InDesign within an Hour of Reading this Guide.

The InDesign software has been the primary tool designers use to create publishable documents for a long time. If you are thinking of starting a career in Indesign, it is probably much easier than you might have imagined it. Once you know the functions of the various controls, you can create any publishable document you can think of. In this book, you'll not only learn the functions of the various tools in Indesign but how to apply them to create appealing and readable documents that work across all platforms.

A Snippet of what you will be learning in this book include:

How to install Adobe indesign software on Windows Operating System and MacOS

Introducing the Workspace on the inDesign

How to customize the workspaces onm inDesign

Create keyboard shortcuts for your workspaces on inDesign

Navigating through a document on inDesign

Useful keyboard commands on Adobe inDesign

Using context menus on Adobe inDesign

How to create Guides on multiple pages on Adobe inDesign

Adding text on Adobe inDesign

Working with graphics on Adobe inDesign

How to fit your images or objects into frames on Adobe inDesign

How to place your image over texts on Adobe inDesign

Preflighting as you work on Adobe inDesign

Viewing the document in presentation mode on Adobe inDesign

Working with master pages on Adobe inDesign

Changing the size of pages within one InDesign document          

Numbering Page sections in an Indesign document

Overriding master page items and placing text and graphics

Printing to the edge of the paper: Using the bleed guides

Viewing the completed pages or spreads      

Working with objects Adobe inDesign

How to add metadata captions to graphics on  Adobe inDesign

Wrapping text around a graphic on Adobe inDesign

How to create a flowing type along a path on Adobe inDesign

Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads on Adobe inDesign

Working with color on Adobe inDesign

Flowing text on Adobe inDesign

Checking spelling on Adobe inDesign

Creating a drop cap on Adobe inDesign

Working with styles on Adobe inDesign

Working with tables on Adobe inDesign

Importing and Modifying Graphics on Adobe inDesign

Working with Transparency on Adobe inDesign

Creating a background graphics on Adobe inDesign

Printing and Exporting on Adobe inDesign

Packaging files on Adobe inDesign

Creating a Fixed-Layout Web on Adobe inDesign

Adding animation on Adobe inDesign

Adding multimedia and interactive elements

Exporting a fixed-layout EPUB file        

InDesign Publish Online   

and Lots more