Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS3

Working with InDesign, the sky, or your imagination, is the limit. You can create newsletters, magazines, posters, flyers, business cards, letterhead, certificates, brochures—anything. This book will teach you how... During the step-by-step lessons presented in this book, you will use InDesign’s incredible typography commands to set beautiful type. And you will import myriad graphic formats. You will create a flyer from scratch and then package it into a folder with key components such as the layout, images and fonts. And you will export the document in a Portable Document Format (PDF).

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Start InDesign and Open a Document
Change Page Views
Scroll Using the Hand Tool
Show and Hide Palettes
View Multiple Documents
Create and Use Custom Workspaces
Create a New Document
Change Document Setup
Create a Text Frame
Create Graphics Frames
Resize and Move Page Elements
Change the Units & Increments

Create a Text Frame
Type Text Into a Text Frame
Work with Overset Text
Format a Text Frame
Make Simple Edits
Select Text
Cut, Copy and Paste Text
Change Character Attributes

Create a Document Preset
Place Text
Drag and Drop Text into a Layout
Align Paragraphs
Create Multiple Columns
Set a First Line Indent
Add Paragraph Space
Set Leading
Set Paragraph Rules
Add Bullets to Text
Set A Hanging Indent as the Bullet Position
Set A Hanging Indent Using the Tabs Palette
Add Custom Bullets to Text
Add Numbers to Text

Flow Text onto Multiple Pages
Navigate a Multi Page Document
Set Pages Palette Options
Insert and Delete Pages
Work with a Master Text Frame
Modify a Master Text Frame
Use Step and Repeat
Add Ruler Guides to the Page
Use the Selection Tool To Thread Frames
Use the Selection Tool To Unthread
Thread Text Across Multiple Pages
Thread Text into Shapes

Set and Move a Tab Stop
Add a Tab Stop Leader
Set a Decimal Tab Stop
Use the "Align to Other" Tab
Create a Hanging Indent
Apply Text Formatting Using the Eyedropper Tool
Add a Stroke to a Frame
Add Inset Spacing
Set Vertical Justification

Place an Image
Place an Image in an Existing Frame
Move and Resize an Image
Change the Scale of an Image
Rotate and Skew an Image
Resize the Frame and Graphic with the Mouse and Keyboard
Create a Clipping Path
Customize a Clipping Path

Use Step and Repeat
Align Objects
Group Items
Lock Position
Resize a Group
Compound Paths
Pass Through a Stack
Change and Edit a Shape
Add Arrowheads to a Line
Change Frame Content
Create a Gradient Swatch
Create an Object Style

Create a Page Border
Create a Multiple Column Text Frame
Use Find/Change
Create a Paragraph Style for the Body Text
Add Ruler Guides
Place a Graphic onto the Page
Create a Text Wrap around an Object
Check Spelling Dynamically
Spell Check a Document
Use Autocorrect
Preflight and Package a File for Handoff
Create a PDF

Change the Units and Increments to Picas
Delete and Load Document Presets
Create and Modify an Object
Add and Use Process Color
Type and Format Text
Create and Use a Library
Use Adobe Bridge

Create a Master Page
Add Objects to a Master Page
Add a Spread Guide
Add an Automatic Page Number
Duplicate and Rename Master Pages
Enable Layout Adjustment
Assign a Master Page
Wrap Text Around an Image
Edit a Text Wrap

Create a Body Text Paragraph Style
Create a Headline Paragraph Style
Use the Story Editor
Edit a Style
Set Keep Options
Apply Direct Formatting to a Paragraph
Create a New Style Based on a Selection
Lock Text to a Paragraph Grid
Insert Drop Caps
Create and Nest a Character Style

Track Text
Kern Letter Pairs
Use Tracking as a Layout Tool
Adjust Hyphenation
Create User Dictionary Hyphenation Exceptions
Work with Discretionary Hyphens
Prevent Selected Text from Breaking

Draw a Table
Add Data, Columns and Rows to a Table
Combine Table Cells and Format Text
Format a Table
Change Cell Text Rotation and Cell Stroke Weight
Place Graphics in Table Cells
Convert Text to a Table
Scale a Table and its Content
Create and Use Table and Cell Styles

Use Find Font to Replace a Font
Use the Links Palette to Update a Graphic
Create and Use a Template

Create and Modify Layers
Move Objects to Layers
Hide and Show Layers
Reorder Layers
Make an Inline Graphic
Set Anchored Object Options
Create an Object Style

Create a Book File
Add Documents to a Book File
Reorder and Remove Book Documents
Synchronize Selected Documents
Create a Table of Contents Style
Create a Table of Contents
Add Index Entries
Generate an Index
Change the Index Punctuation
Create Index Paragraph Styles
Create Second-Level Index Entries
Create a Cross-Reference